The Black Dahlia (Full Screen) R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 26, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart & Hilary Swank | |
Performer: | Mia Kirshner, Rose McGowan, Fiona Shaw, Jemima Rooper & John Kavenagh | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Composition by | Mark Isham | |
Story by | Josh Friedman | |
Produced by | Rudy Cohen, Art Linson & Moshe Diamont | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
You've barely time to soak up one revelation before another one is dumped on you from a great height.
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Eye for Film
[Johansson] takes to the pulpy period atmosphere as if it were oxygen...
Entertainment Weekly
Ellroy's prose crawls into characters' secret hearts and under the reader's skin, but its foetid horrors become kitschy here, the script too streamlined and the lead performances too shallow to dredge the story's depths.
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Time Out
Rating: 1/4 --
This movie isn't more than 10 minutes old when that question pales next to these: How can you make a movie this bad with a double Oscar winner (Swank)? How can you use Scarlett Johansson so stupidly?
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Buffalo News
Visual marvel after visual marvel
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CinePassion
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] slick, glossy adaptation....Undeniably aesthetically pleasing...
Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- DAHLIA has an air of nostalgia for epic, bygone-era movie-making....THE BLACK DAHLIA is a pleasure for the all-over dazzle of its star turns.
Total Film
Product Description:
Based on the novel by James Ellroy, Brian De Palma's THE BLACK DAHLIA stars Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart as a pair of LAPD detectives assigned to the most notorious murder in Hollywood history. De Palma takes things slow, spending a good 20 minutes establishing the relationship between Buddy Bleichert, Lee Blanchard, and their mutual love Kay (Scarlett Johanssen), before introducing the 1947 murder after which the film is named. In the haunting screen-tests left behind after her mysterious death, aspiring actress Elizabeth Short appears to want fame so badly she'll do anything to get it. Her pornographic film appearances, and a rumored affair with narcissist heiress Madeleine Linscott (Hillary Swank), provide just two clues in a sea of confusion.
THE BLACK DAHLIA crams every subplot from Ellroy's novel into two hours, but only connects them towards the end of the movie. The screen-tests featuring a sadly desperate Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner) are captivatingly filmed in gritty black-and-white. These scenes succeed in showing the industry ugliness most likely behind Elizabeth's death, while the rest of the film self-consciously strives to be noir through elaborate set design, dramatic camera angles, and narration taken straight from the book. If De Palma's goal was to make us examine our own voyeuristic fascination with murder, particularly the gruesome murder of a beautiful young woman, then he succeeds, because throughout a film invested in so many different storylines, Short's remains the most interesting one.
THE BLACK DAHLIA crams every subplot from Ellroy's novel into two hours, but only connects them towards the end of the movie. The screen-tests featuring a sadly desperate Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner) are captivatingly filmed in gritty black-and-white. These scenes succeed in showing the industry ugliness most likely behind Elizabeth's death, while the rest of the film self-consciously strives to be noir through elaborate set design, dramatic camera angles, and narration taken straight from the book. If De Palma's goal was to make us examine our own voyeuristic fascination with murder, particularly the gruesome murder of a beautiful young woman, then he succeeds, because throughout a film invested in so many different storylines, Short's remains the most interesting one.
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