After having been thoroughly turned on by the experience of
revisiting Dressed to Kill on
Blu-ray, I decided to go screen grab-happy and isolate some of the images,
visual constructs and stylistic flourishes that have haunted and teased my
imagination over the years that this movie has cemented itself in my pantheon
of all-time favorites. These are some of the moments that can be preserved
purely visually—the movie cannot be truly experienced without the participation
of Pino Donaggio and the contributions of its sound editor and mixer, Dan Sable
and John Bolz. What I ended up with reminded me of a certain very popular education
tool from my childhood that may go completely lost on the digital generation,
but that’s okay. Without consideration for spoilers—if you haven’t yet seen Dressed to Kill, you should be watching
the Criterion Blu-ray instead of perusing this blog post— I hope you enjoy the
many split diopter, multiple frame-within-frame, perspective jumbling treats
offered by my Dressed to Kill
filmstrip.
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