Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Elizabeth Short was found murdered in a Los Angeles park in 1947. Her nickname, the "Black Dahlia", was coined from The Blue Dahlia, a film released one year before her death.
Murderers. Racketeers. Alcoholics. WWII veterans with PTSD. Wives with nothing to lose. A woman murdered. Such is the case in The Blue Dahlia.
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Such is the case here. The Black Dahlia case remains unsolved.
There’s a deliberate pulpiness present in De Palma films that revel in the lurid sensation found in pulp fiction yet he uses his pastiched auteurism to elevate his films through stylish self-awareness.
De Palma uses his gritty grandiosity to criticize the grotesque such as in Body Double (1984) revealing the seediness of the sex industry surrounding show business, the film itself reflecting the obscured lines of actor/actress and sex work present in Hollywood. Through this contrast De Palma is able to exalt…