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The Skull 1965
Maybe the closest Freddie Francis ever came to directing a bonafide experimental film, albeit less out of design than necessity: a solitary skull doesn't offer much in the way of scares, so Francis and DP John Wilcox work overtime to produce a number of abstract effects around their titular antagonist, including a dream sequence right out of Cocteau and some startling POV shots that wouldn't rear their demonic head again until Evil Dead. Even without the visual pizzazz, though, you…
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The Brides of Dracula 1960
The Hammer equivalent of coming up with a great line and then trying to write an entire paper to justify it. While it features one of Cushing's all-time best cross kills (using the production design itself as a strategic mode of entrapment), everything before this climax is total dullsville, with Fisher's direction noticeably more languid without Lee's commanding presence. It's mostly just people entering rooms and endlessly reiterating pieces of vampiric lore that should be common knowledge by this point; didn't any of these characters see Horror of Dracula?
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Hong Sangsoo – Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay 2021
Letterboxd including "Snail" in the cast list here makes me almost as happy as the video itself. Don't know if Hong is going to start a new career path directing nature documentaries with Kim Min-hee singing French songs in the background, but if so I fully support it. (Maybe a duet with Huppert next time?)
