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.
The Forgotten
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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.
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The Forgotten: I Never Play Over Twenty-Eight
David CairnsKen Hughes directs octogenarian sex goddess Mae West in this attempt to transplant pre-Code spiciness to the seventies. Beware.
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The Forgotten: Do the Twist
David CairnsRichard Lester’s early jazz film It’s Trad Dad! combines music and surreal humor, foreshadowing his later Beatles movies.
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The Forgotten: The Last Trick
David CairnsThe Devil appears to torment Méliès in his sleep: by showing him the future of cinema, in Pierre Etaix’s The Nightmare of Méliès.
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The Forgotten: Who Am I?
David CairnsDelbert Mann’s amnesia drama Mister Buddwing sees James Garner in search of his true identity in New York City.
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The Forgotten: Body Snatchers
David CairnsIn Liliana Cavani’s I cannibali, a young woman and a mysterious foreigner take to illegally disposing of the bodies of executed rebels.
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The Forgotten: Folie a Deux
David CairnsTwo privileged teenage girls form an obsession with a lounge lizard concert pianist and practically invent stalking.
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The Forgotten: It's All Part of the Process, Gregory
David CairnsAn indescribable collage of unconnected bits, by Robert Downey (a prince).
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The Forgotten: Dashing Through the Snow
David CairnsVictor Sjöström’s supernatural drama gets an extravagant make-over from Julien Duvivier.