Terrorism Is Filmmaking In Brian De Palma's 'Domino'
The director who has boomeranged from better-regarded films to ones treated much less kindly barely wants to own this crime thriller. But for fans of his work, there are sequences to admire.
In one of his earliest (and best) films, the 1974 cult musical , director Brian De Palma conjured a self-fulfilling prophecy, telling the story of an artist whose personal vision is co-opted and commercialized by industry star-makers while he's doomed to haunt the rafters. And for most of the four-plus decades since, De Palma has been in and out of favor in Hollywood, squandering the goodwill from hits like , , and with films like , and . Eventually, studios simply stopped making the perverse
