While Alfred Hitchcock will forever be known as the "master of suspense", one of his true admirers, the director Brian De Palma, also shares the master's abiding interest and superb execution of the thriller genre. If anything, De Palma was able to be much more explicit in the depiction of violence and sexality than Hitchcock was able to do in the more buttoned-down decades of the 1950s and 1960s. In many ways, De Palma combines the classic elements of less-is-more film sus...

THE BRIAN DE PALMA TRIBUTE SHOW All guests have been confirmed for our special 2 hourBrian De Palma Tribute Show on Sunday, July 22 at 6pm (EST)Eyal Peretz - A Comparative Literature professor at Indiana University, Mr. Peretz's new book, "Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses", will be released in October.  The book examines the philosophical elements in De Palma's work.William Katt- Katt's first feature film, "Carri...