The Ranking - Brian De Palma

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The latest episode of The Ranking - our show that ties in with the magazine (hashtag brand synergy) and sees four Empire writers argue the toss on a filmmaker's CV - is here. And this time we're delving deep into the work of a man who's orchestrated more tracking shots than you've had hot dinners: Brian 'Bri Bri' De Palma. Discussing his progression from early promise to his virtuoso Hitchcockian phase and then the more commercial fare of the Eighties and Nineties (but without focusing on the not-so-great output of recent years), Chris Hewitt, Ian Freer, Nick de Semlyen and Jonathan Pile discuss the ins and outs, ups and downs of a great, if somewhat erratic career. And, for the first time, you'll be able to hear the top ten being counted down in this podcast. Enough squabbling, let's vote! (Stop trying to make 'enough squabbling, let's vote!' happen, Chris.)

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0:00.0	I'm Chris, you're welcome to the ranking. This is the latest edition of the show that sees
0:19.9	four Empire Riders' Archaeotas about a particular series of films and then put them in
0:24.8	definitive order. Oh well according to us, empirical order if you will. This episode will be
0:33.4	arguing the toss but one of cinema's greatest stylists Brian Dupama for it is he and joining
0:38.4	me around this table dressed to kill for this big blowout celebration of all things Bri-Bri.
0:44.4	Are you in fear shaking this head? Have you never called him Bri-Bri? No, I think he's the world's
0:49.2	greatest Brian. Is he? There's not a great a Brian than Brian Dupama. Brian Adams begs to differ.
0:55.4	I spelled differently though. Brian Dean? Not talking about the musicians. Brian Hansen.
1:01.6	Brian Dean is Shepherd United forward is it? Yeah, Brian Dean of Shepherd and I'm fine. Brian
1:06.5	Mason. Brian Hansen. All right he's the fourth best one. He's rapidly falling down the ladder
1:13.2	of good Brian's. All right so that's Ian Freer and next up we have Johnny Powell. How do I make?
1:17.3	How are you? I'm feeling uh, woefully under-prepared. Why? Well we've seen six different films.
1:25.2	Well I got to ten for my top ten but otherwise I'm really struggling which is my only excuse
1:30.8	of having mission to Mars in a top ten anyway. Yeah I made a lot of films. He's been busy. He has
1:35.2	been busy hasn't he? He's been he's been putting into the the hours over the last few years and
1:39.6	the voice you've heard a couple of times now is Nick DeSemlin who is a big department fan as well.
1:45.2	I Chris. How are you? Yes. Ian's making faces. I'm not as big a brand-of-brand fan as Ian is.
1:51.6	Ian has seen the early non-funny ones. You already know him funny? With Robert DeNiro. Yes.
1:56.4	Back when he was known as Brian. I've only seen the one with Robert DeNiro where he's got baseball
2:00.6	bat. And it's huge yes and it's an infuseous yes and it's but yeah no I like you know I do love what
2:07.1	I've seen. Okay that's good. That's good. And this is a very very small room so if any of you
2:13.3	start walking around behind me with a baseball bat then I know exactly what you were up to.
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