The De Palma Dilemma

The De Palma Dilemma: Loving the Director You Love to Hate to Love. A Reviewby Sean NelsonI don't know which clever wag first coined the expression "style over substance," but whoever it was did a great job of defining a kind of aesthetic snobbery that has proved difficult to dislodge, even through the many moon phases of post- and post-post-modernism. That particular binary has been especially vexing when describing the films of Brian De Palma, the visionary director who has spent nearly 50 yea