Brian De Palma Conversations with Samuel Blumenfeld and Laurent Vachaud. Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Mission: Impossible and Carlito’s Way. Brian De Palma might have directed some of the most potent and stylish movie dramas of the last half century, but his lack of diplomacy and constant challenging of conventions have forever condemned…
Brian De Palma Buried for decades. Now, Brian De Palma’s wildest vision comes to life. Written in the 1990s between Carlito’s Way and Mission:Impossible, visionary filmmaker Brian De Palma’s Ambrose Chapel is his most overtly comic thriller — a wild, unproduced “screwball noir” that spins through kidnapping, virtual reality, mind control, murder, terrorists, romance, dream…
Nathan Réra Expertly steered by Nathan Réra, these conversations showcase Chazelle’s deep and wide-ranging knowledge of cinema history and his mastery of film-making technique. They guide the reader from Chazelle’s little-seen debut, the student feature film Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (featuring music by his Harvard roommate-turned regular composer, Justin Hurwitz), through his…
Nathan Réra Translated by Paul Cronin Casualties of War, Brian De Palma’s devastating and brilliant 1989 feature film starring Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox, tells the true story of the rape and murder of a young Vietnamese woman by a patrol of American soldiers. “When you leave the theatre,” wrote Pauline Kael in her…
Sticking Place Books is a New York-based publisher specialising in cinema, offering interview books, memoirs, critical and historical studies, and essay collections. Our catalogue includes books by and about Guillermo Arriaga, Damien Chazelle, Brian De Palma, Werner Herzog, Jonathan Glazer, Abbas Kiarostami, Stanley Kubrick, David Mamet, Pierre Rissient, Larry Cohen, Bruce Joel Rubin, Carlos Saura,…