Comments on: Dressed to Kill (1980) http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2008/07/29/dressed-to-kill-1980/ Film reviews and commentary tonight, before I forget tomorrow Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:40:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe Valdez http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2008/07/29/dressed-to-kill-1980/comment-page-1/#comment-5508 Joe Valdez Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:01:54 +0000 http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2008/07/29/dressed-to-kill-1980/#comment-5508 <strong>Chuck</strong>: Thanks! I have many favorite moments from many of DePalma's films, but find <em>Dressed To Kill</em>, <em>Phantom of the Paradise</em>, <em>Carrie</em>, <em>Carlito's Way</em> and <em>Scarface</em> to be the ones that work from start to finish. Many critics went out of their way to defend <em>Mission From Mars</em>, but other than the second act stuff aboard the spaceship, that's a hard one to watch. I do not like to see filmmakers who were great in the '70s or '80s limping around like John Carpenter in the '00s. Chuck: Thanks! I have many favorite moments from many of DePalma’s films, but find Dressed To Kill, Phantom of the Paradise, Carrie, Carlito’s Way and Scarface to be the ones that work from start to finish. Many critics went out of their way to defend Mission From Mars, but other than the second act stuff aboard the spaceship, that’s a hard one to watch. I do not like to see filmmakers who were great in the ’70s or ’80s limping around like John Carpenter in the ’00s.

]]> By: Chuck http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2008/07/29/dressed-to-kill-1980/comment-page-1/#comment-5507 Chuck Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:14:12 +0000 http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2008/07/29/dressed-to-kill-1980/#comment-5507 This is one of my favorite De Palma's too, possibly, like you, THE favorite (though Carrie, Blow-Out and Casualties of War are close too.) I can get over De Palma's frequent nods to Hitch because he did what a true ethuasist of someone else's work should do-took it further. Dressed to Kill very closely resembles a certain super-famous Hitch movie, but De Palma's film is actually more organic, less fettered by the conventions that were always chafing Hitchcock. De Palma, as Kael has said, uses thriller conventions to get as close to the audience id as just about anyone has (and he satirizes without condescending). De Palma is like Lynch in that he can poke fun at our turn-ons without coming off like a prude or an elitist or a killjoy, because these are HIS turn-ons too. Nice review. This is one of my favorite De Palma’s too, possibly, like you, THE favorite (though Carrie, Blow-Out and Casualties of War are close too.) I can get over De Palma’s frequent nods to Hitch because he did what a true ethuasist of someone else’s work should do-took it further.

Dressed to Kill very closely resembles a certain super-famous Hitch movie, but De Palma’s film is actually more organic, less fettered by the conventions that were always chafing Hitchcock. De Palma, as Kael has said, uses thriller conventions to get as close to the audience id as just about anyone has (and he satirizes without condescending). De Palma is like Lynch in that he can poke fun at our turn-ons without coming off like a prude or an elitist or a killjoy, because these are HIS turn-ons too. Nice review.

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