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A Woman's Face 1941
Love a good disfigurement/ugliness narrative and it’s nice to see one from a female perspective for once, even though unlike her male counterparts she doesn’t keep her disfigurement. Crawford is amazing and her and Veidt’s chemistry onscreen is kind of insane. I’m obviously biased but Veidt was so earnestly terrifying here despite being so cute and endearing to me in every other role I’ve seen him in. Kind of devolves too much into a standard melodrama by the end but largely…
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The Hands of Orlac 1924
Narratively it’s a mess, at nearly two hours goes on for longer than it really should and it’s difficult to not compare it unfavourably to the much snappier Caligari as another Wiene venture featuring Conrad Veidt as a (suspected) murderer acting at the whims of another. Additionally there’s nothing here thematically that wasn’t improved upon in Leni’s The Man Who Laughs in 1928, another proto-body horror, also with Veidt as the lead, in which the protagonist must learn to accept…
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 1979
Everything is about sex - apart from sex, which is about sick guitar solos
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