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Continuing the horror bent: Suspiria, good, 70's, high 70's style, Art Nouveau, vivid colors and imagery. The version I found, a little uneven on sound, and the overdubbing of the language is rather unconvincing, artificial, seems a little unsynced, but overall - definitely not the best, but you can see how it influenced later movies.
Trivia: I'd always wondered what became of Jessica Harper - the lead from "Phantom of the Paradise" - well, this was her next big thing. She turned down Annie Hall for this.
Curious.
LINK(Warning, Spoilers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria
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Watching Horror films, review all the available top ten lists. Some are pretty bad - as a result of one I watched "The Conjuring". Absolutely terrible. But it introduced me to the lead parapsychological investigators of the late 60's and early 70's, "Ed and Lorraine Warren", who's bio on Wiki was rather amusing.
From this to "Let the right one in" - a better quality film by far, an awful lot better thought out, some rather haunting themes, and a film that does a great job of integrating the elements of horror into day to day modern life. A lot to dwell on and consider - not, so much, horrifying, but it's there, it's there. No spoilers here.
So - one dog, one slight masterpiece, a few more to go...
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Which was not the easiest film to watch, but - like a lot of things - the reward is directly proportionate to the effort you put into it.
It loosely follows "Oscar" - the protagonist - through his life and flashbacks, into his hallucinations and death. There is, of course, an awful lot more, but for a film as experimental as it is it still maintains interest and a cohesive narrative (the problem with a lot of these films - as experimental as they are, is that they lose all touchstones of humanity and narrative. This one doesn't). Worth watching - but, fair warning, at 2 hours and 40 minutes it's a bit long. And, for the record, while it requires a fair bit of attention it might benefit from a small dose of the many psychedelics it recommends. And ensure you watch it on a big screen...
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Having rewatched "Being John Malklovich" - and, again, amazed, laughing, both outrageous and fresh - still, 20 years later. Excellent. And followed it with "Adaptation" - which I remembered only slightly, I still didn't enjoy it, appreciation would be more the word, yet a brighter film than most by a long-shot. The scenes where Charlie Kaufman is trying to write but the internal monologue keeps intruding, the screenwriters seminar, absolutely hilarious...and you can see how this attention to detail, the visual games, are leading him towards "Synecdoche, New York".
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About a Mentor who in giving the sum of his life's knowledge and experience to an ungrateful protege, who in turn betrays him.
The Mentor then proceeds to run into him at a concert, forgives and gives him a second chance, which the protege takes to upstage him and steal the show.
I liked it, but anyone who argues "The Mentor" was abusive hasn't had the jobs I've had.
Liked it enough to watch her other movie, "La La Land", which was again - pretty damn good, the Bollywood styled song-and-dance married well with the subject, sort of this centuries "Moulin Rouge". Except a lot better written.
They're both fresh enough that if you want to see either you can search them out yourself and find them...