Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, De Palma

Director Brian De Palma sits down and talks about every film –and a Bruce Springsteen video – he’s ever made in the biopic De Palma, an enthralling study of the astounding career that began with 1960s student films and includes hits (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Mission: Impossible), flops (Bonfire of the Vanities, Casualties of War) and, often, controversy.

Writer-directors (and friends) Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow conceived this often boisterous look back on the director and tell us the how and why.

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