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"After cutting his teeth on experimental cinema and unorthodox political protest films, Brian De Palma turned to the thriller, parlaying his fascination for the mechanics of Alfred Hitchcock’s cinema into a career-long inquiry into movie suspense. The result has been decades of bona fide classics that playfully risk absurdity—and controversy—by pushing horror, suspense, noir, and action movie grammar into realms of self-conscious artifice that might have made Hitch himself blush. From 1973’s gonzo Sisters to 1980’s erotic nightmare Dressed to Kill (both unofficial remakes of Psycho); from his florid eighties and nineties gangster epics Scarface, The Untouchables, and Carlito’s Way to his dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream hallucinations like Raising Cain, De Palma has not been paying homage as much as allowing us to enter his own extreme movie fantasy worlds—all of them created with impeccable craft that pushes genre conventions (and viewers) to the breaking point."–Museum of the Moving Image