robert de niro – Perisphere

Hi Mom!: Smile for the Camera

By Finn Odum October 27, 2023 October 29, 2023 Cult Film Collective

Robert De Niro plays Jon Rubin. Standing in a bare-walled room, Rubin, a light-skinned man with medium-long brown hair, is adjusting an analogue camera’s position on a tripod, eyes fixed on the lens.

|Nick Kouhi| It’s easy to label Brian De Palma’s work as an extended exercise in voyeurism. But in a career spanning over half a century, the enfant terrible of the New Hollywood has transcended charges of Hitchockian pastiche with his perspicaciously (and…. Continue reading

Turn Your Gaze Upon This Wretched Thing: The Schismatic Spectacle of Brian DePalma’s Hi, Mom!

By Finn Odum October 27, 2023 October 26, 2023 Cult Film Collective

A white man waving at the camera, with the image cut off horizontally and mirrored at the middle

|Courtney Kowalke| I cannot escape the reach of Ancient Greek theater. The last piece I wrote for Perisphere was about Mai Zetterling’s The Girls and a fictional production of Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata. It turns out a large part of director Brian DePalma’s inspiration for… Continue reading

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Hi Mom!: Smile for the Camera

Turn Your Gaze Upon This Wretched Thing: The Schismatic Spectacle of Brian DePalma’s Hi, Mom!

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