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I often watch film performances and think about what the text looked like on the page and how the actor saw those words and came up with their choices…

… and the one I think about a lot is how Robert Duvall decided to put across “it’s a big, fat, big-titted hit” in NETWORK.

Singular perfection.

Cassavetes' camera style is to move in for the kill, like those TV newsmen who ask people in distress the questions that push them to break down while the camera moves in on the suffering eyes and choking mouth. (1971)

Discovered this a couple years back and fell in love with it.

It’s sassy, it’s silly, it’s scary—and that’s just Gale’s fringe! My personal favourite ‘Scream’, pt.3 stands out from the splat by virtue of its weird ambience, boisterous set pieces, left-field cameos, and droll, ‘Scooby-Doo’-ish skewering of the Hollywood studio system. Released #OTD Feb 4, 2000.

Conflict (1945) Hoping to get with her sister, Humphrey Bogart kills his wife. Sister doesn't feel the same. Then on top of that, someone's I-know-what-you-did-last-summering him. Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart #noir

Masterpiece!

A girl in thick underbrush and lush greenery

Roses wilting in a table

A forest ceiling in surreal red pinks

A car balanced vertically, perfectly and impossibly, on the edge of a gorge The Appointment (1982), Lindsey C. Vickers

I’ve never seen anything quite like Lindsey C. Vickers’ The Appointment (1982) before? The laced arsenic of implication that almost, ALMOST, codes this as a folk horror Fire Walk With Me is so subtle in the nearly unbearable slow burn. Whole thing is a pretty gruesome trance.

"NORTH BY NORTHWEST" (1959) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll

🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Pleasure. Big fan of your work.

Seriously, one of my favourite bits of writing on one of my absolute favourite films. Love perusing it whenever you repost. 😊

Watched this twice at the cinema. Hadn’t heard/seen anything about it beforehand except a review in The Guardian. Gripping little thriller overall. It was the unforeseen poignancy, though, that really struck me.

I hear ya! 😆

Generally I devour this type of movie but, sadly, this wasn’t anywhere near as entertaining as I’d remembered on a recent revisit. It does pick up towards the end but, on the whole, a bit of a wet fish. There are much, much better examples of the subgenre.

Rose Byrne’s so great in this.

Psycho III (1986) Director Anthony Perkins

It's not April Fools Day, but here are a few reviews that celebrated (or otherwise) Paramount's tricksy 1986 quasi slasher!

And just like that, your Letterboxd became my new favourite thing.

Sie tötete in Ekstase (She Killed in Ecstasy), Jess Franco (1971)

LORNA
(1964, Russ Meyer)

Russ Meyer movies had the best openers

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Now *this* I have to see!

With viscid tongue lodged firmly in reptilian cheek, ‘The Relic’ takes a bite at the mid-budget monster flick blueprint, its droll comportment, shadow-swathed setting, and game perfs the backbone of a charmingly boisterous, scientifically preposterous beast.

Released on this day, January 10, 1997.

INLAND EMPIRE (2006) - Projected Figures David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE a self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness, mesmerising in its overlapping Tinseltown stories

Magic, madness, metempsychosis: David Lynch’s self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness INLAND EMPIRE (2006) "mesmerises the viewer with its overlapping tales of toxic Tinseltown". Screens 2pm today at NFT4, BFI Southbank. projectedfigures.com/2023/04/26/i...

Brian De Palma Does Hollywood | Body Double (1984) | BW/DR Body Double is peak De Palma, the endorphin-flooded, muscle-tightened climax of the period that has come to define his career. It’s also an angry, gnashing rebuke to the critics who labeled his prior ...

De Palma Does Hollywood: Fleshing Out the Split-Screened Study of Voyeurism & Illusion in BODY DOUBLE
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Palindromes (2004) - Projected Figures Todd Solondz's PALINDROMES blends suburban hyperreality with mythic journey to show that the more you change, the more you stay the same

"blends suburban hyperreality with mythic journey to show that the more you change, the more you stay the same": Todd Solondz’s dark American dream PALINDROMES (2004). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/10/p...

SUPERNATURAL 1933◾️Director Victor Halperin◽️ Cinematographer Arthur Martinelli◾️

1st edition paperback book for In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

Hope everyone is staying safe and warm and kicking off the new year with a refreshing glass of beef fizz.

‘Nile’ being the splendid ’78 adapt. by John Guillermin, of course. Not the insipid redo by Branagh.

Well that’s me sorted for the next few hours