Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s meticulous documentary splices film theory with juicy from-the-set gossip, reviving Brian De Palma’s polarising oeuvre After a passionate explanation of the innovation found in his 1978 film The Fury, Brian De Palma shrugs and laughs. “In France it played for 10 years.” You know you are a special kind of Hollywood failure when they love you in France.There is only one cast member in De Palma, and that’s De Palma, seated in front of a fireplace, talking.