3 things about John Parker’s DEMENTIA

Posted on October 24, 2024 by robchristopher

Dementia [1955]

1. Hand in the flower basket.
2. Shorty Rogers and the band briefly jam before taking the stage.
3. Opening endorsement by Preston Sturges (!)

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3 things about John Carpenter’s SOMEONE’S WATCHING ME!

Posted on October 23, 2024 by robchristopher

Someone’s Watching Me! [1978]

1. Comped wine.
2. A grate in the laundry room floor.
3. She never does make it down to Houston.

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3 things about Mario Bava’s BLOOD AND BLACK LACE

Posted on October 21, 2024 by robchristopher

Blood and Black Lace [1964]

1. Carlo Rustichelli’s extremely catchy theme music briefly becomes music from the club next door.
2. Tracking shot along a line of cubicles for the models.
3. Wrestling the corpse out of the tub by grabbing its breasts.

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3 things about Quentin Dupieux’s DAAAAAALI!

Posted on October 15, 2024 by robchristopher

Daaaaaalí! [2023]

1. A very long hotel corridor.
2. Vile stew.
3. She brings him the telephone. Which is unplugged—the cord isn’t long enough.

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3 things about René Clair’s I MARRIED A WITCH

Posted on October 14, 2024 by robchristopher

I Married a Witch [1942]

1. Fireplace lip-sync.
2. Susan Hayward’s resting bitch face.
3. “I Love You Truly” stuck on repeat.

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3 things about Slava Tsukerman’s LIQUID SKY

Posted on October 13, 2024 by robchristopher

Liquid Sky [1982]

1. “Cocteau was Cocteau before he did drugs.”
2. Shrimp everything.
3. Blacklight facepaint.

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3 things about Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz’s MESSIAH OF EVIL

Posted on October 11, 2024 by robchristopher

Messiah of Evil [1974]

1. Green bathroom. A mural of faces receding into perspective.
2. Conclave in the Meat Department.
3. She describes her father’s hands.

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3 things about Dario Argento’s DEEP RED

Posted on October 10, 2024 by robchristopher

Deep Red [1975]

1. An engineer who plays the piano.
2. Stabbing a bird with a knitting needle.
3. Behind the wall, a desiccated corpse.

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3 things about Stéphane Lafleur’s VIKING

Posted on October 6, 2024 by robchristopher

Viking [2022]

1. Every night she plays a recording of Steven snoring.
2. The waitress brings him a cup of coffee with two sugar cubes.
3. A replica of the Mars lander made out of a metal garage can.

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3 things about Josh Greenbaum’s WILL & HARPER

Posted on October 3, 2024 by robchristopher

Will & Harper [2024]

1. “Can we call this a blizzard now?”
2. Jazzy but also country. Upbeat but it should also make you shed a tear.
3. A former manager for Bette Midler and Air Supply.

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