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Down with Love 2003
I should make a LB list of “Movies I Had Immediately Dismissed And Filed Away For Years Because Schwarzbaum And/Or Gleiberman Didn’t Like It And I Was Weirdly Into Entertainment Weekly As An Impressionable Tween But Upon Recent Chance Viewing Have Proven To Be Excellent,” because they’re starting to add up.
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Vampyr 1932
Vampire Quinceañera - Hoop-Tober Part Deux (4.0)
Among other things, I love how everyone in this movie speaks in such an eerily quiet, vaguely strangled manner, like the sound you make when you're trying to talk in a dream. The use of sound in this movie is genuinely unnerving.
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Diabolique 1955
Vampire Quinceañera - Hoop-Tober Part Deux (4.0)
My roommate insisted that this shouldn't count as a horror movie and then seconds later literally described a certain indelible image from the film's climax as "horrifying." I win.
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs 1997
What this film lacks in Maddin's usual delirious silent film pastiche it more than makes up for in ostrich photobombs.
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City of Pirates 1983
Meshes of the Magic Hour. Heavy shades of Deren in the film's hypnotic recursions and in the disorienting dream logic that governs its spaces. Also got a strong 3 Women vibe from how the film buries the raw psychic trauma at its core under gauzy waves of soft-focus purples and blues.
I dunno, I'm struggling to think of things to say about this besides listing other movies it reminds me of because I found it more or less impenetrable, but…
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Terrorizers 1986
At this point I will be truly shocked if I ever see a Yang film where nobody gets stabbed.
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Written on the Wind 1956
Sometimes an oil derrick is just an oil derrick. This is not one of those times.
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The Music Room 1958
In The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958), we see famous musician Bismillah Khan and his band playing while the camera pans slowly to the right over a flat, desolate landscape to reveal the protagonist riding past him on a horse.
In Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974), we see the protagonist riding on a horse while the camera pans slowly to the left over a flat, desolate landscape to reveal that he is riding past famous musician Count Basie and his band.
Coincidence?......Probably. But still.
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