Aldo Ray AND Brian Keith? Talk about yer testosterone overdose! Anne Bancroft manages to navigate her way around the chest thumping with aplomb. And Ray is surprisingly heartfelt as the ad artist who just wanted to have a second cup of coffee. Tourneur followed this up with NIGHT OF THE DEMON (aka CURSE OF THE DEMON), another expertly crafted cat and mouse battle of wills (albeit with incantations and beasts from beyond) that was his final great film. A tight 78 minutes, and clearly a precursor for Sam Raimi's terminally underrated A SIMPLE PLAN.
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Nightmare Alley 1947
2K DCP/Coolidge Corner Theatre
Dispatches from Rube Nation: One of those rare cases where I've seen the remake multiple times before checking out the original. There's an undeniable power here in making much of the carnival setting so bright and wholesome, in stark contrast to the carny hucksterism at the heart of the enterprise. And Tyrone Power's classic good looks and steely charm are also a great counterpoint to the giant hole in his beast-like soul. But I still vastly…
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Before Sunrise 1995
35mm/Coolidge Corner Theatre
Whenever anyone wants to tell me that the movie theatre experience is dead, I'll remind them of watching all three films in Richard Linklater's BEFORE Trilogy on film this afternoon with 400 other people who were equally enthralled by almost five hours of two people talking about life, themselves, and how they navigate all of it. An emotionally exhausting, yet still energizing, experience, especially when Hawke and Delpy really start cutting loose in BEFORE MIDNIGHT. Many will say that BOYHOOD is Linklater's masterpiece, but these three films will always be his crowning achievement to me.
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Hook 1991
35mm/Coolidge Corner Theatre
My Partner: Joe, how haven't you seen this? I used to own it on DVD! It defined so much of my childhood!
Me: I dunno! Maybe it's because I read all the bad press about it when I was young and thought it wasn't worth it. Although I like most of the people involved, so...yeah. But hey, it's on film so we should give it a shot.
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