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Hand Catching Lead 1968
"A white hand, black with soot, clamps open and shut. It lets pieces of lead fall through its gnawing fingers. Sometimes it catches the pieces, sometimes not. It always allows…
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The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque 1993
Laid back Rohmer with a more prominent comic vein discussing politics. A refreshing film, flows so freely it comes off distinctively pleasurable and truly instigating with its remarks and plural…
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The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque 1993
Echoing Mr. Penalosa: "There are many great conservative novelists, but only one great conservative filmmaker." And even so, you can't really tell, in Rohmer's capital-P Political film, that he's obviously…
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Twins of Evil 1971
Hammer's last entry in their Carmilla series. In some ways it make even more explicit the fear of youth culture subtext from te series, but complicate it by opposing the…
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The Crazies 1973
A cast of wood shop teachers versus the post-Vietnam psychological apocalypse, with a fuzzy line separating viral madness from the regular variety. Looks and sounds distractingly cheap; as always, it’s…
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Black Sunday 1960
Only barely related to its Gogol source, despite original intentions, Black Sunday instead finds Bava & co. interpolating his studio-trained artifice with the sensibility of Poe and suggestions of De Sade.…
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In the Line of Fire 1993
The end of history as a big dumb 90s thriller. Cold war won and what is left is a big bureucracy that keeps going around a presidency that is an…
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