Chris Hormann

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Favorite films

  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • The Last Metro
  • The Truth
  • 8 Women

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  • House

    ★★★★★

  • The Naked City

    ★★★★½

  • The Killer

    ★★★½

  • Doctor Who Am I

    ★★★½

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  • The Young Girls of Rochefort

    The Young Girls of Rochefort

    ★★★★★

    "In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens."

    So says Selma in Dancer in the Dark, a darkly ironic line, given that film's subject. So I had to follow it up with a film that lived up to that line, and gosh darn it, Jacques Demy's joyous musical does that in spades. And hearts.

    A celebration of the Hollywood musical yet an outstanding film in its own right, with delightful music from Michel Legrand (he even cheekily namechecks himself in one…

  • Dancer in the Dark

    Dancer in the Dark

    ★★★★★

    A movie to watch to mark Catherine Deneuve's 80th birthday and this was available on Kanopy. I saw this at the cinema when it came out and I was a blubbering mess by the end. 23 years later, and guess what? Yep, a blubbering mess again. The dehumanising and utterly abhorrent practice of capital punishment is clearly shown with a performance by Björk that is raw and untethered, and it is only made bearable by the musical interludes, which I…

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  • House

    House

    ★★★★★

    Imagine my surprise and delight when I arrived in San Francisco, and discovered they were screening Hausu, and projected on 35mm no less.

    There is no film experience quite like it, ostensibly a horror film but so much more than that. Obayashi is a director not restrained by any technique in this film and boy, does he throw everything in there, yet still retains a cohesive feel. I mean it's totally bonkers but hell, watching it in a nearly full…

  • The Naked City

    The Naked City

    ★★★★½

    7,999,999 to go.

    Loved it, on location New York looked stunning, and maybe, just maybe, a young William Friedkin was watching.

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  • Border

    Border

    ★★★½

    That sex scene will haunt me for years. I've got nothing else sorry.

  • What Keeps You Alive

    What Keeps You Alive

    ★★

    Imagine the most brainless characters and then make them more stupid, just for cheap thrills. To a certain extent, the filmmaker takes his audience to be just as brainless. On the plus side, it's nicely shot and definitely passes the Bechdel test. So there's that.