With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for work in the suspense , crime and psychological thriller genres. De Palma was a leading member of the New Hollywood generation. Carrie , his adaptation of Stephen King 's novel of the same name , put him on the map. He enjoyed commercial success with Dressed to Kill , The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible and made cult classics such as Sisters , Phantom of the Paradise and The Fury As a young director, De Palma dreamed of being the "American Godard ".
His work has been criticized for its violence and sexual content but has also been championed by American critics such as Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael. DePalma , an orthopedic surgeon who was the son of immigrants from Alberona , Province of Foggia. He had a poor relationship with his father, and would secretly follow him to record his adulterous behavior; this would eventually inspire the teenage character in De Palma's Dressed to Kill After receiving his undergraduate degree in , De Palma enrolled at the newly coed Sarah Lawrence College as a graduate student in their theater department, [ 11 ] earning an M.
Once there, influences as various as drama teacher Wilford Leach , the Maysles brothers , Michelangelo Antonioni , Andy Warhol and Jean-Luc Godard , impressed upon De Palma the many styles and themes that would shape his work in the coming decades. The film, co-directed with Wilford Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in but remained unreleased until , [ 13 ] when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently in the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene.
De Niro was unknown at the time; the credits mistakenly display his name as "Robert Denero". In an interview with Joseph Gelmis from , De Palma described the film as "very good and very successful. It's distributed by Pathe Contemporary and makes lots of money.
I shot it in four hours, with synched sound. I had two other guys shooting people's reactions to the paintings, and the paintings themselves. Dionysus in '69 was De Palma's other major documentary from this period. The play is noted for breaking traditional barriers between performers and audience.
