Yes, It’s ‘Déjà Vu‘ All Over Again
Here's a romantic reincarnation thriller whose plot twists and chronology perch it between The Reincarnation of Peter Proud and Dead Again.
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Brush Up on Your Film Studies With ‘Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2’
Scorsese and the World Cinema Project are not only opening up international filmmaking to Western audiences but providing immaculate film quality and history, too.
Truth and Clarity: Antonioni’s ‘Blow-Up’ and the Melancholy of Discovery
Blow-Up taunts its viewers with a significance that never manifests, a Truth that always recedes.
The Ineluctability of Time in Coppola Drama, ‘Rumble Fish’
Rumble Fish suggests that in our complex relationship to time, we become the cartographies of our own misperceptions.
‘Caltiki’: The Creeping Blob!
Even at its most creaky in between the hair-raising scenes of queasy ickiness, this movie appeals to style mavens, auteur watchers, and horror historians.
Spotlight on a Murderer: A Little-seen Mystery Thriller From Three Masters of the Form
Georges Franju and his co-writers create a nice balance of tones and a general air of puzzlement with some clever misdirection for an entertaining light mystery.
On Seeking the Works of Douglas Sirk and Finding Jerry Hopper’s ‘Never Say Goodbye’
Even though he removed himself from the project, Never Say Goodbye has Sirk's theme of the tyranny of children who dominate their parents.
Joan Crawford: The Hollywood Star as Fetish Object
Joan Crawford embodies the universal cipher: a flat, empty surface that reflects anything but reveals nothing. There was never a more perfect actress.
Pilot X Puts a Crimp on the Business in ‘The Mysterious Airman’
Mystery writer Arthur B. Reeve's influence in this film doesn't follow convention -- it follows his invention.
Smudge and Jury: The Punk-Noir Pulp of ‘I, The Jury’
With all the roughneck charm of a '40s-era pulp novel and much style to spare, I, The Jury is a good, popcorn-filling yarn.
Boston Underground Film Festival 2017: ‘Hounds of Love’
The captivity narrative in Hounds of Love explores the depths of a grisly co-dependence.