The Forgotten: Loose Talk
David CairnsCan any Alfred Hitchcock film be called truly forgotten? It could certainly be argued (though not by me) that some of the Master's lesser works have received more attention than they deserve. Anthony
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The Forgotten: Gorgeous Lifelike Color By Deluxe
David CairnsGus Van Sant's Psycho remake is always going to divide opinion, those who see it as a conceptual art statement being able to argue, quite reasonably, that its failure to do the things Hitchcock's original
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The Forgotten: Checking Out
David Cairns"The imagination is a muscle, and it must be exercised." This was agreed between screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and director Luis Buñuel when they started to collaborate in the 1960s (six films in
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The Forgotten: Humanoid Rights
David CairnsEND—Point of beginning, Webster. Let's be honest: you're never going to watch Creation of the Humanoids, a 1962 zero-budget sci-fi stiff hand-tooled by loving amateurs, in which inept actors, including
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The Forgotten: Brown's Requiem
David CairnsClarence Brown made a long and successful career, after getting his start taking over The Last of the Mohicans from Maurice Touneur in 1920 (see last Thursday's article), as a director of MGM romantic
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The Forgotten: Shake Hands with the Devil
David CairnsI'm always fascinated by the closing shot of Jacques Tourneur's Berlin Express, a mostly indifferent post-war thriller climaxing in the ruins of the German capital (and featuring the monumental and sinister
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The Forgotten: Put on The Mask!
David CairnsIt's no surprise that the ReSearch Guide to Incredibly Strange Films used an image from Julian Ruffman's 1961 horror flick The Mask on its cover. The low-budget Canadian psycho-thriller embodies all
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The Forgotten: The Mad Hatter
David Cairns"Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!Alas! I am very sorry to sayThat ninety lives have been taken awayOn the last Sabbath day of 1879,Which will be remember'd for a very long time." So wrote
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The Forgotten: Ghostwatch
David CairnsClaude Autant-Lara is not an easy man to like. This mainly stems from his disgraceful old age -- Autant-Lara belonged to that generation of filmmakers rejected by the up-and-coming nouvelle vague, and
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The Forgotten: Adventures in Babysitting
David CairnsThe funniest one-line review I've read recently was by one "Doc Scot" on the IMDb, for Stridulum, AKA The Visitor, an Italian-American supernatural thriller with a surprisingly starry cast. "Did John
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The Forgotten: Jockeys 1, Wagner 0
David Cairns"Filmed on actual historical locations!" It's rare to come across a movie that has simply everything wrong with it. Such movies should be treasured. Magic Fire, directed by William Dieterle, is such
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The Forgotten: Get Your Stinking Paws Off Me, You Damned Dirty Woman!
David CairnsWhen the Lumière brothers started showing their short films in restaurants, George Méliès was in the audience, taking notes. Unable to buy a camera from the secretive brothers, he built his own, then