Review of Phantom of the Paradise (1974) by Pauline Kael for The New Yorker — 12 Feb 1986
This is De Palma pouring the new wine of his formal inventiveness and anti-authoritarian irreverence into the old bottles of archetypal myths, and it remains a supremely entertaining anomaly within his filmography, yet entirely emblematic of his filmmaking sensibilities.
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This review of Phantom of the Paradise (1974) was written by Pauline Kael and published by The New Yorker on 12 Feb 1986.
Phantom of the Paradise has generally received positive reviews.
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