3 things about Mervyn LeRoy’s HOME BEFORE DARK

Posted on March 23, 2025 by robchristopher

Home Before Dark [1958]

1. Compulsive smoking.
2. A bank account to which she does not have access, doesn’t even know what bank holds the account.
3. She insists on the Cornet hairstyle, the one her husband has picked out for her.

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3 things about Martin Campbell’s CAST A DEADLY SPELL

Posted on March 22, 2025 by robchristopher

Cast a Deadly Spell [1991]

1. “Why did you have to walk back into my life?”
“Why did you have to walk out of mine?”
2. Death by papercuts.
3. He explains that zombies are good for about three months, depending on the weather.

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3 things about Samuel Fuller’s THE NAKED KISS

Posted on March 18, 2025 by robchristopher

The Naked Kiss [1964]

1. One of the greatest opening sequences in the history of cinema: a bald prostitute wailing away on her pimp with a giant handbag to the blasts of wild jazz on the soundtrack.
2. “Nobody sticks dirty money in my mouth!”
3. The same “small town residential street” backlot used in multiple episodes of The Twilight Zone.

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3 things about Michael Shannon’s ERIC LaRUE

Posted on March 17, 2025 by robchristopher

Eric LaRue [2023]

1. That “new Bible” smell.
2. A box of Our Family brand cereal.
3. “I saw the inside of those boys.”

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3 things about Charlie Chaplin’s LIMELIGHT

Posted on March 16, 2025 by robchristopher

Limelight [1952]

1. An extra flea.
2. “That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.”
3. Slippery sheet music.

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3 things about DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman’s LOVING VINCENT

Posted on March 15, 2025 by robchristopher

Loving Vincent [2017]

1. Watching the rain through the cafe windows.
2. He takes a few paintings in lieu of a bill.
3. A chair at the edge of a field.

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3 things about Sara Driver’s WHEN PIGS FLY

Posted on March 14, 2025 by robchristopher

When Pigs Fly [1993]

1. Half-eaten sandwich next to him on the bed.
2. Impromptu bop to “A Night in Tunisia.”
3. Pieces of chair tied to their heads.

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3 things about Fernando Ayala’s THE BITTER STEMS

Posted on March 13, 2025 by robchristopher

The Bitter Stems [1956]

1. Looking through the window of the train into the past.
2. A strategically loud orchestra.
3. Shallow planting.

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3 things about Brian Levant’s THE FLINTSTONES

Posted on March 12, 2025 by robchristopher

The Flintstones [1994]

1. Kids playing in Jurassic Park.
2. He ignores his mother-in-law and unties the pet dino.
3. The invention of concrete.

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3 things about Catherine Breillat’s LAST SUMMER

Posted on March 10, 2025 by robchristopher

Last Summer [2023]

1. Disassociated orgasm.
2. “Your son’s a monster. Get that into your head.”
3. Woodshed.

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