"CINEMA HAS NEVER BEEN SO TRASHY AND SO INTELLIGENT ALL AT ONCE"
As part of The Skinny's February 2019 film series at Filmhouse in Edinburgh, Jamie Dunn tonight presented a screening of Brian De Palma's Body Double."Cinema doesn’t get more self-reflexive than this wry thriller about a claustrophobic Z-list actor whose voyeurism gets him in a heap of trouble," reads Dunn's pre-screening description. "With its gleeful perversion and baroque violence, the film was De Palma’s thinly-veiled provocation to the critics who clutch their pearls at his previous films. But it’s also a paean to filmmaking, from its winking film-within-films to De Palma’s feverish set pieces paying homage to Hitchcock. Cinema has never been so trashy and so intelligent all at once."
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Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:05 AM CST
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Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:05 AM CST
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