by Jason Adams
It's the 78th birthday of the director slash living legend Brian De Palma today. Did everybody watch Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow's 2015 documentary aka an excuse to listen to Brian De Palma tell movie stories for two hours? I've watched it four times now and I'm still nowhere near sick of it - I wish they'd just release the hundreds of hours of raw footage they took so I can just wade in there and never come back again.
Anyway I decided that the best way to celebrate one of my favorite movie-makers today (as he prepares to maybe make a Harvey Weinstein movie next, a real tighrope of a proposition there) is to celebrate a few of the great roles he's given actresses over the years. Here are five favorites (well technically six but you can't make me choose between the first two) -- feel free to add your own in the comments!
Sissy Spacek & Piper Laurie in Carrie
Nancy Allen in Blow Out
Margot Kidder in Sisters
Angie Dickinson in Dressed to Kill
... and of course Michelle Pfieffer in Scarface
Runners-up: Carla Gugino in Snake Eyes, Amy Irving in The Fury, Rebecca Romijn in Femme Fatale, Melanie Griffith in Body Double, Rachel McAdams in Passion and Fiona Shaw in The Black Dahlia (and I won't hear otherwise)
