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1967

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I'm always like this when I haven't had enough television.

Henri-Georges Clouzot is often called the French Hitchcock, but with The Champagne Murders Claude Chabrol shows that he too is capable of following in the footsteps of the Master of Suspense. With its neon nights and stylistic shots perhaps the film is better described as French New Wave Hitchcock, but unlike many of the other films of the 1960s following in Hitchcock's wake, it is never derivative.

The film stars…

1970

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I'm always creating monsters in my mind.

Your paranoid fantasies may be wrong, but that does not mean that someone isn't out to get you. In How Awful About Allan Anthony Perkins plays against type with a character who has daddy issues instead of mommy issues. After accidentally setting a fire that kills his father and burns his sister, Allan Colleigh is left unharmed - except for a blindness doctors say is psychosomatic. After an extended stay in hospital, Allan…

1983

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What have you done to me?
I've given you something you never dared to dream of.
What?
Everlasting life.

The Hunger is a truly fascinating work of art, a film unlike much else made before or since. Wonderfully atmospheric, it stars Catherine Deneuve (Miriam Blylock), David Bowie (John Blylock), and Susan Sarandon (Sarah Roberts), who all bring their best, and the opening sequence (complete with Peter Murphey cameo) is one of the best I have seen.

The Hunger is a…

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched 22 Jul 2023

They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it.

Oppenheimer is a tour de force in many senses, aesthetically, thematically, and technically. Christopher Nolan takes the story of Robert Oppenheimer (himself almost the platonic ideal of a Nolan protagonist, a real-life troubled genius with a life marred by tragedy in the manner of Robert Angier, Dom Cobb, or Alfred Bordon) and elevates it to the level of mythology.

Christopher Nolan's directing was…

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