Tag Archives: Surreal
Dead of Night (1945)
The anthology film Dead of Night (1945) has an insidiously unsettling quality which sinks slowly into you, seemingly out of nowhere, but stretching into your veins like a virus. Quite literally, watching it is to step into a nightmare, one … Continue reading
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Tagged 40's, Basil Dearden, Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Christmas, Comedy, dummy, Ealing, Ghosts, golfing, H.G. Wells, horror, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Robert Hamer, Surreal, ventriloquist
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Suspiria (1977)
My memory of first watching Suspiria (1977) is as vivid as the film’s famous colors. It was in a theater in Salt Lake City, proudly subverting the city’s conservative culture with regular midnight movie screenings, The Rocky Horror Picture Show … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Alida Valli, ballet, Dario Argento, giallo, Goblin, horror, Jessica Harper, Joan Bennett, Psychedelic, Surreal, Three Mothers, Udo Kier, witches
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Stalker (1979)
The Zone, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), is a region affected by a fallen meteorite in ways that are left deliberately undefined. It is an otherworld, a displaced and eerily altered stretch of swamp and forest and derelict buildings and … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian, Science Fiction, Surreal
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