In my mind, it’s a wonderful time capsule that just keeps getting better with age.ĭressed to Kill was forced to cut shots in America to get an R rating (which really seems ridiculous now), but the unrated cut was originally released in Europe.Starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis FranzĬriterion (Blu-ray & DVD) (US RA/R1 HD/NTSC), Arrow (Blu-Ray) (UK RB HD), MGM (Blu-Ray & DVD) (US RA/R1 HD/NTSC), Carlotta (Blu-Ray & DVD) (France RB/R2 HD/PAL) / WS (2.35:1) (16:9) The bottom line is this: If you enjoy cinema and you haven’t seen Dressed to Kill, you owe it to yourself to check it out, if nothing else to see a different side of Michael Caine.
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(I look forward to the day when people will be able to re-appraise and appreciate his soaring 2006 film The Black Dahlia, which should happen soon after the doc sees a full release, I imagine.) The screenplay is by turns campy and dead serious, but De Palma’s bold camera moves (courtesy DP Ralf Bode, who also gets an appreciation on this disc) lend everything a heightened sense of both pulp and awe. I agree with De Palma, and always thought he’s taken Hitch’s formal strategies to new heights. So if you’re going to be good, you’re going to use some of his ideas because he’s done them all.” If you’re working in this genre, Hitchcock’s done it all. In the 2015 interview, De Palma says “I’ve always thought that I’ve taken the ideas of Hitchcock and tried develop them further.” In 2001 for an older featurette on the movie, he says:”I was always very open about my use of Hitchcock’s language when I made movies – and the story ideas, they’re the best that exist. So there’s that common Hitchcock accusation. De Palma gives poor Dickinson a sick punchline of a come-uppance and piles on the bad news for her, right up to the shocking end. Then, she embarks on one of the best almost-silent, carefully choreographed sequences in modern movies: A 9-minute stroll through Philadelphia Museum of Art (standing in for New York) full of suggestive looks, red herrings, and darkly comic foreshadowing. She famously had a body double for her opening shower scene (a Penthouse Pet also interviewed in the supplements), which is absurdly overheated due in part to Pino Donaggio‘s string-heavy melodramatic score, which turns sinister in a recurring theme. But as Nigel Tufnel put it in This is Spinal Tap: “What’s wrong with being sexy?”Īngie Dickinson didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. Upon its release, co-star Keith Gordon says in another extra on the Blu-ray, that Dressed to Kill was accused of being “trashy, sexist, and violent.” All true. Put simply, Dressed to Kill is a refreshing joy to watch in this age of ultra-fast editing and homogenized camera angles. At the same time, however, it uses grand cinematic gestures to relay the dread and guilt of its characters to great effect. It’s a lurid film featuring throat-slashing, overheated lust, and a too-simple reduction of transgender and cross-dressing issues for pulpy purposes. There’s so many different angles to take when reviewing Dressed to Kill. Since De Palma is talking to filmmaker Noah Baumbach, it can be assumed that this is either a scene from or an outtake of De Palma, a new documentary by Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
The quote comes from one of many interviews included on this excellent new Criterion disc. That’s director Brian De Palma talking about his strategy of extreme widescreen composition filled with detail, as well as rest of the cinematic bravura on display in his controversial 1980 thriller Dressed to Kill, recently released in a restored uncut version for The Criterion Collection on Blu-ray. We’re not going to see too many David Lean shots on an iPhone 6.”
The close up and the two-shot are going to rule. People don’t think like this anymore and it’s becoming more of a problem because the screens are getting small.
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