Fade to Black
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^^^ i would but i don't feel inspired to watch that movie
started watching Mean Streets yesterday but was too damn tired so i stopped halfway through.
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any of you seen the 1950s film SECONDS by John Frankenheimer? it's the most unusual film of the period in my view and watches like a master episode of the twilight zone. Stars style icon Rock Hudson, too!
Last night I watched the legendary French horror movie Eyes Without a Face, which lives up to its amazing reputation. I don't want to put in spoilers for those of you who haven't seen it, so I'll speak very generally. Stephen King in his excellent book on the horror genre, Danse Macabre (you should read this!), theorizes the "gross-out" as a key component of modern horror. I think he's spot on about that, although I will admit that in the era of Takashi Miike and Eli Roth, the gross-outs have gotten harder and harder for me to stomach -- and maybe, just maybe, less stategically employed: wall-to-wall gross-out runs the risk of becoming ho-hum ("Look, there's another intestine!"). Georges Franju, the director of Eyes Without a Face, clearly knew how to stage gross-outs for maximum effect, and all within the context of poetic art-house horror, which makes those moments all the more startling. John Waters, another accomplished theorist of these matters, stipulates that the line between art and exploitation is an exceedingly fine one; this is one movie that rides that line with unerring precision. And, unlike many horror films that deflate in the third act, it has a great and surprising ending.
Watched Romance & Cigarettes last night. Found it bizarre.
Love seeing the Western Pennsylvania industrial town and the blue collar/outdoorsman steez. And Walken always seems to justify price of admission, IMO.
I found it delitfull, witty and overall very special film.
It's funny; my main beef with it was that it wasn't bizarre enough. If a film is going to be strange, I think it needs to crank it up to the next level. R&C ended up staying at the same level of bizarreness throughout.
I love Eyes Without A Face. I get a funny feeling everytime I listen to that Billy Idol song now.