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The Black Dahlia

Cast

Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank View All


Crew

Josh Friedman (Screenplay), Brian De Palma (Director) View All

Release: Sep. 15th, 2006
Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
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2 The Black Dahlia
Brian De Palma is working on an adaptation of James Ellroy's classic (in my opinion) novel, "The Black Dahlia". I don't have much faith that this will turn out well... I mean, come on, Josh ...
6 The Black Dahlia
Ok, so it comes out tomorrow, any pre-movie predictions!? Looks good, but looks can be deceiving....
5 Did Natasha (from Dark Water) claim Dahlia's soul in the end? How?
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TheUsualSuspect
Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and Brian De Palma have the noir style down perfect in Dahlia and whenever I got bored, which was 90 percent of the film, I would try to get lost in the atmosphere this film creates.
Takoma11
There's also something a bit ham-fisted about the way that the film tries to walk the line between the more exploitative elements of the Dahlia's story and the way that it also tries to garner sympathy for her.
Holden Pike
DePalma, while a competent enough technician if you're making a television commercial or music video that's mostly about image and doesn't need to worry too much about narrative, has no idea how to stage and then pace a film properly.


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