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The Great Silence 1968
Just because it's lawful, does that make it right? A pitch black Western from director Sergio Corbucci about a lone, mute bounty hunter named Silence. Set across a blizzard-swept Utah, the year is 1898, a time in which justice is doled out largely through bounties.
It's a cold backdrop to pit even colder characters against each other - but despite that, there is room for hope. Our leading man, Silence, falls in love with a girl. Out of desperation she…
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain 1983
Director Tsui Hark made a name for himself in the West with Zu Warriors, and frankly it's a baffling film, but also an entertaining one. The pacing is breakneck, and the editing takes a machine gun approach to showing the action - with all manner of wire work and early 80s CG rapidly spliced together to create the end result. It's a shounen anime, a manga strip, realised as a live action fantasy with the best talent Hong Kong had…
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Cape Fear 1962
I didn't realise I'd bought the 1962 original, but it turned into a blessing in disguise. The sheer menace of Robert Mitchum's character carries it to the bitter end, plus it has a suitably tense Bernard Hermann soundtrack.
Eventually I'll get to seeing the Scorsese/Deniro 1991 remake, but I'll sit with my thoughts on this one for a while first. They essentially nailed the story - based on John D. MacDonald's "The Executioners" - the first time around here, and it's hard to see where it can improve outside of pushing the violence past what 60s censors allowed.
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Dolls 1986
Totally predictable but great entertainment for what it is. You get the works here in special effects for the dolls: puppetry, stop motion and even very basic optical effects. At one hour 15 minutes long the concept really doesn't outstay its welcome either. Extra points for the gleefully hammy acting from the two cockney goth girls.
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