Are Snakes Necessary?

BRIAN DE PALMA is the world-famous director of more than thirty films, including

Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Dressed to Kill, Body Double, Blow Out, and the original

Mission: Impossible. The subject of the 2015 documentary

De Palma, he is considered one of the most accomplished filmmakers of the last fifty years, a peer to directors such as Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese and an inspiration to next-generation directors such as Quentin Tarantino.



SUSAN LEHMAN is a former editor of the New York Times and author whose writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The New Yorker, and Spy magazine. An attorney by training, she also served as communications director at the Brennan Center for Justice.