In an era when Hitchcock entertained comedy inside taught thrillers. The chair fight and Clive (Hugh Wakefield)'s whole reason for being - darkly comic stuff. The final confrontation seemed to be taking notes from Hawks' Scarface (1932), yet still exciting and chaotic.
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You Hurt My Feelings 2023
Forgot I watched this on a plane. Holofcener understands the mundane, sometimes petty intricacies of relationships, this is fact.
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The Lady Vanishes 1938
It's fun to see Hitchcock's early works sit in a strange comedic pocket where the central mystery takes a backseat for much of the runtime to let his cast just... do stuff, have business, joke around. Or so it seems. Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder's adaptation of Ethel Lina White's novel constructs interesting motivations for our parade of disparate travelers to participate in the second act gas-lighting scheme, no matter how selfish their intentions. The realization that their decisions have…
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May December 2023
Rooting out interiority from people who may not have taken steps to find it within themselves is difficult and (probably) ill-advised work.
Thorny and complex, prodding dark histories in service of creating a film (within this film) that appears to be no better than the TV movie we glimpse midway through this. (This isn't investigated, really, but worth layering into thinking about Haynes' intentions.) Re-litigating the past is dooming for some, necessary for others.
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