Brian Depalma Merch
Description: A digital illustration of John Leguizamo's Benny Blanco (from The Bronx!) from the 1993 Brian De Palma American crime drama, Carlito's Way. Done on Procreate, on an iPad with an Apple pen.
Carlito's Way "Benny Blanco From The Bronx" portrait (digital) Card
by StagArtStudios
$5.00 $6.00
Description: Prior to its release, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise had to go under extensive edits removing the Antagonist's company from the film (mostly replaced with Death Records). This was due to Led Zeppelins record label also being named "Swan Song". Fan edits of the movie have used this footage left on the cutting room floor to try and recreate the original vision of the film. I have recreated the company logo and created a little tribute to this easter egg.
Description: Death Records is a San Francisco-based Lo-Fi/Outsider Pop record label. Founded by Brian Wakefield & Colin Arlen in 2014, the label was created to "Represent the 'misfits of this city' who have been left behind to fend for themselves". The label has started an annual festival, Deathstock, to celebrate the labels "birthday". Acts such as Gary Wilson, Tomorrow's Tulips & The Memories played the inaugural year.
Description: Print #5 in my series on gialli films comes from an American film that many people do not even realize is squarely in the giallo genre, Brian DePalma's "Dressed to Kill" (1980) aka "Vestito per uccidere." While the vast, vast majority of gialli come from Italy, here is one from one of the great masters of suspense in the US.
