Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma 1980) w/ Eugina Gelbelman
Felicia is joined by Eugina Gelbelman to discuss Brian De Palma’s iconic and shocking Dressed To Kill (1980).
They chat about De Palma’s ability to elevate a B-Grade thriller to A-Grade material through his master craftmanship. His use of split screen and split diopter, and dialogue free scenes to show and not tell the audience the characters movements.
They gush about De Palma being one of their all time favourite directors (Felicia’s top favourite director? Maybe, probably!), and how deliberately frames each scene, and how no one is able to pace a story like him.
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Sources:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-brian-de-palma-conundrum
https://www.cultprojections.com/directorschair/2013/3/27/brian-de-palma
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/movies/brian-de-palma-deconstructs-sequences-in-his-films.html
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3691-dressed-to-kill-the-power-of-two
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3696-de-palma-and-baumbach-dream-team
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dressed-to-kill-1980
https://bandsaboutmovies.com/2023/06/22/the-films-of-brian-de-palma-dressed-to-kill-1980/
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews54/dressed_to_kill_blu-ray.htm
https://film-grab.com/2013/10/18/dressed-to-kill/
OUTRO SONG:
FILMS MENTIONED:
Dangerous Games (Abel Ferrara 1993)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn 1975)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino 2019)
Cruising (William Friedkin 1980)
Body Double (Brian De Palma 1984)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock 1960)
Belle du jour (Luis Buñuel 1967)
Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan 2005)
Irreversible (Gaspar Noé 2002)
Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen 19860
Carrie (Brian De Palma 1976)
Scarface (Brian De Palma 1983)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski 1965)
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller 1964)
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