Dressed for Controversy

"I like to watch." Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky celebrate peak De Palma: the controversial 80s, where the provocative director and self-appointed heir to Hitchcock takes on Woman Against Pornography, fragile critics, nervous financiers and the MPAA with a foursome of classic films: Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, and Body Double. The master of the lurid and the extended female walk-and-stalk challenged 80s viewers with his stylized eroticism and hyper-violent set pieces, all while championing the male gaze. In a De Palma film you're never in doubt who is behind the camera, and Wayne and Barry revel in this virtuoso filmmaker's satirical and, often times, cynical vision. The most underrated and misunderstood of the Movie Brats, this three hour ode to sexual identities, political conspiracies, underworld cokeheads and split-diopters is De Palma worship on steroids. Hit the button, as long as it's not the 7th Floor!

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