Brian De Palma has created a convoluted black comedy about an unhinged child psychologist, played by John Lithgow.

NEWYORKER: Raising Cain

The most gorgeous reinvention is Herrmann's own Obsession for Brian De Palma's Vertigo homage set in New Orleans.

NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense

Al Pacino and Brian de Palma are teaming up for the first time in 20 years to make a film about a disgraced American football coach.

BBC: Scarface duo Al Pacino and Brian de Palma reunited

The plot, steeped in evil and perversity, pays frequent homage to Hitchcock and Brian De Palma, while the cinematography, by Chung-hoon Chung, summons up visions out of David Lynch.

WSJ: Film Reviews: 'Stoker': Fuel but No Fire

This Brian De Palma movie about the notorious Betty Short murder case, from 1947, which was the basis for a 1987 novel by James Ellroy, suffers from rampant allusiveness to other movies set in Los Angeles.

NEWYORKER: The Black Dahlia

In one of the most celebrated cases of borrowing in recent years, the famous scene in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, when a baby carriage bumps its way down a staircase - itself a nod to Eisenstein's Battle-ship Potemkin - was reproduced in its entirety in N.

CNN: Borrowed by Bollywood