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The Black Dahlia (Widescreen) (DVD)

Josh Hartnett (actor), Scarlett Johansson (actor) and Brian De Palma (director)
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Review

Total Film, 10/01/2006, 34, 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."

Ultimate DVD, 03/01/2007, p.92, 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] slick, glossy adaptation....Undeniably aesthetically pleasing..."

Entertainment Weekly, 09/22/2006, p.69, "[Johansson] takes to the pulpy period atmosphere as if it were oxygen..."

Title Note

Theatrical Release: September 15, 2006

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - Spanish
Subtitltes - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Featurette - 1. REALITY AND FICTION: THE STORY OF THE BLACK DAHLIA
2. THE CASE FILE
3. THE DE PALMA TOUCH PRESENTED BY VOLKSWAGEN

Product Notes

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.

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