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Night Tide (1961)

Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:36 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1961) suggests what might have happened had Jean Cocteau been hired to direct an episode of The Twilight Zone. Perhaps it lacks Cocteau’s style of experimentation, but there is a romantic and eerie quality to this … Continue reading →

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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:45 am by Jeff Kuykendall

“This piece of music which has gone on for some time, perhaps even since the beginning of the evening, is a kind of cyclically repeated refrain in which the same passages can always be recognized at regular intervals…” – Alain … Continue reading →

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Black Moon (1975)

Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:08 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

“The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.  Peacocks and lilies, for instance.” – The Unicorn, Black Moon I slept through Sunday night until my weather radio blared in the pre-dawn hours, a piercing siren noise. I … Continue reading →

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