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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

The Ten Best Movies Ever Made...

...if Brian De Palma made all the movies:

Sisters (1973)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Carrie (1976)
Obsession (1976)
The Fury (1978)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Blow Out (1981)
Scarface (1983)
Body Double (1984)
The Untouchables (1987)

Typically when someone isn't openly hostile about De Palma, they are at least energetically dismissive of his abilities as a filmmaker. But how many American directors, their failures aside, have made ten great movies? I'd have a hard time making a list like this for a number of directors who by most are unflinchingly regarded as brilliant, where there's simply no debate about their greatness. Yet it's De Palma who's regularly relegated to footnotes.

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