Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors [1965]
1. M says, “A plant like that could take over the world.”
2. POV shot as Dr. Terror sizes up his fellow passengers. As the camera pans across the compartment, the side of his face and hat brim remain in frame.
3. The burnt, blackened hand seizes his throat.
lukewarm glass of gin
with sad little slice of lime
ain’t no martini
Beyond the Hills [2012]
1. She kneels in front of the priest. He drapes the cassock over her head.
2. He tears off a hunk of bread with his blackened fingers and dips it into the soup.
3. Windshield wipers.
tiny feet and hands
move slowly across the green
hairy leaf, silent
empty theater
his first cup of coffee and
first two cigarettes
El [1953]
1. The priest tenderly kisses the boy’s foot.
2. The valet has his way with the chambermaid, then is told by the master of the house to fire her. To which the valet agrees with pleasure.
3. Laughingstock jumpcuts.
Unfortunate that this movie isn’t more widely available. It’s easily among his greatest, and it points to way to so many of his late-period classics.
scraps of traffic
cone shredded florescent bits
miscalculation
Casually I
leafed through the sheaf of papers
death certificate
a pumpkin glowing
three flights up as I walk through
a darkened alley
The Exam [2011]
1. Code name: Pudovkin.
2. A Christmas Eve dinner of goulash.
3. Each room is another facet of the intelligence apparatus.
