The Forgotten: Bloody Kids
David CairnsEmile and the Detectives is a children’s adventure story scripted by the young Billy Wilder.
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The Forgotten: The Lodger
David CairnsIn Clouzot’s first film, a detective and his girlfriend go undercover in a lodging house to catch a serial murderer.
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The Forgotten: Furniture Moving
David CairnsA man loses his furniture to his creditors, but, animated by its own will, it returns to him, in this early part-animation by Émile Cohl.
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The Forgotten: Meat is Murder
David CairnsIn a (dis)United Kingdom overwhelmed by greed, a cannibal restaurant becomes the latest craze in Eat the Rich (1987).
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The Forgotten: Tarzan Versus IBM
David CairnsIn the late Jesús Franco’s spy caper Cartes sur table, Eddie Constantine battles brainwashing master-criminals in Alicante.
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The Forgotten: Rome Wasn't Burned in a Day
David CairnsNero fiddles while Rome burns in Nero: or, The Fall of Rome, a mini-epic from 1909.
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The Forgotten: Smash-Up
David CairnsIn H.8…, Nikola Tanhofer shows us a fatal bus crash and then invites us to get to know the passengers in the hours leading up to it…
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The Forgotten: Witness
David CairnsIn Clarence Brown’s The Goose Woman, a faded diva pretends to be a witness to a murder for the sake of publicity, but incriminates her son.
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The Forgotten: Better Loving Through Science
David CairnsL’inhumaine is Marcel L’Herbier’s ultimate triumph of design over narrative, drama, logic, and life and death.
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The Forgotten: The Glove on the Mantelpiece
David CairnsJoan Crawford fights to get her man amid a sleek and glossy art deco world concocted by Cedric Gibbons at MGM, in Our Dancing Daughters.
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The Forgotten: Dark Designs
David CairnsTwo silent classic adaptations benefitting from the spectacular designs of Natacha Rambova: Camille and Salome.
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The Forgotten: Go Ask Alice
David CairnsSébastien Japrisot adapts David Goodis for a late René Clément film starring Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray and Lea Massari.