Mark Hewitt

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Favorite films

  • The Hudsucker Proxy
  • The Swimmer
  • Birth
  • Isle of the Dead

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  • The Buddha

    ★★★

  • Martin

  • Only Lovers Left Alive

    ★★★★★

  • The Ghoul

    ★★½

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  • Near Dark

    Near Dark

    ★★★★

    I wonder how the sequel plays, when Mae re-enroles in high school with the experiential knowledge that she's murdered four years worth of innocent people but still has to sit the SATs.

  • Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

    Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

    ★★★★

    Zucker Brothers en français

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    A few thoughts.
    Too much repressed Victorian anger not to star Richard E Grant.
    Is it possible for an actor to play Renfield and not come off like Terry Jones on drag?
    Dracula as gaslighing rotting corpse, was foreboding and did carry the magnetism of a black hole, but made me nostalgic for Gary Olman's silk robes and bufont hair.
    The real-estate game is real.

  • Le Samouraï

    Le Samouraï

    ★★★★½

    While the likes of Goddard and Truffaut are often cited for their similarities to noir, Melville is the very embodiment of everything stylish about the format. If traditional American noir is a whiskey soda, then the work of Jean Pierre Melville is an 18-year-old Scotch, lined with cigarette residue drank from the glass of a dead lover.

    Melville’s cinema is one of unabashed style, hypnotic storytelling and above all else, impeccable tailoring.

    An elegantly designed masterpiece of cool, this is…