This film directed by Richard Lester gets more remarkable each time I watch it. It is really the key film about the American bourgeois class during the swinging sixties. The Bay area locations are perfect. George C. Scott gives what is perhaps his most grounded and understated performance. Shirley Knight gives a remarkable supporting performance as Scott's ex-wife. The cinematography (Nicolas Roeg), the editing (Anthony Gibbs) and the spectacular set decoration and art direction (Tony Walton and Audrey Blasdel) are…
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The Stendhal Syndrome 1996
One of Dario Argento's best films. Asia Argento gives one of her greatest performances as Anna Manni, a young police detective that suffers from a The Stendhal Syndrome a psychological disorder, first theorized by the Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, in which the reception of a work of art overwhelms the patient causing them to experience psychosomatic symptoms, delusions, and even disassociation. Manni is in Florence tracking the whereabouts of a serial rapist who has escalated from sexually assaulting his victims…
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