Everybody on here seems to be watching much classier movies than I am.
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Crimes of the Future 2022
The other day I was talking about Akira Kurosawa's DERSU UZALA, a brilliant film that was dismissed by even some of the great man's biggest fans and scholars upon release. One of the lessons I took from watching it is to not be so easily dismissive of the late works of master filmmakers - I specifically cited David Cronenberg, a director I love whose filmography of the last 17 years has been more than a little shaky.
Well, like the…
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Torn Curtain 1966
My favorite part of this incredibly dumb film is when Paul Newman shouts "FIRE!" in a theater in Germany and everybody instantly screams and runs for the exits.
I think this is what writer Brian Moore was talking about when he said Hitchcock displayed "a profound ignorance of human motivation."
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Total Recall 1990
In his science fiction films, Verhoeven is on a perpetual search for the human soul. In ROBOCOP, he went about unearthing the humanity encased inside machine; in HOLLOW MAN, he divorced body and mind to see if consciousness remained (it didn't.) With TOTAL RECALL he presented himself with a real challenge: to discover the soul of Arnold Schwarzenegger. A typically distracted blue collar bloke, driven by the obscure desire to escape his earthly confines and unfulfilled existence to become somebody…