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Murder a la Mod
Murder a la Mod is a 1968 film directed by Brian De Palma. The film was released in one cinema in New York City. It quickly disappeared not long after and was thought lost. However, the film was released by Criterion on Blu-ray in April 2011 as a bonus feature to "Blow Out".
It was the first film for which Brian De Palma served as both writer and director.
In De Palma's 1981 film "Blow Out", Dennis Franz's
sound recording to uncover a possible murder recall both Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Blowup" and Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation". The film alludes to elements of the Watergate scandal and the JFK assassination. The film also recalls elements of the Chappaquiddick incident, although De Palma intentionally tried to downplay the similarities.
De Palma also explicitly references two of his previous projects. At one point in the film, Dennis Franz watches De Palma's film "Murder a la Mod" on television. Originally, the character was