SUMMER SPECIAL - 'BLOW OUT' & SLASHER GENRE
Over the past few months, some terrific writing about the films of
Brian De Palma have popped up on blogs and elsewhere, and, well, I'd gotten busy and found it difficult to keep up with it all. So here we are in the middle of summer, and my plan is to go movie-by-movie and post links to these pieces, covering the ones that have slipped through the cracks. But before we begin the movie-by-movie bit, I wanted to kick it off with this great piece on
Blow Out by
Jesse Clark Tucker, which he posted to his
Beyond The Pale blog last March. In the piece, Tucker riffs on Criterion's recent
Blow Out package, moving from the significance of the cover art before delving into the film's links with the "slasher" genre. "Look inside the exhaustive booklet, however," Tucker writes, "and you’ll find another representation of
Blow Out, linking the film to a more subterranean film culture." Tucker's piece is full of insights into
Blow Out, as well as other De Palma films. Enjoy it!
