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Post by imayne on Nov 27, 2005 21:29:55 GMT -5
Years ahead of its time, this lurid serial killer thriller had Michael Powell sentenced to an early career death. Carl Boehm plays Mark Lewis, a psychopathic cameraman who murders women and captures their deaths on camera. Other than a study of voyeurism, it is also a satire of the British film industry by the 60s...the scene that builds up to the slaying of Moira Shearer (the leading lady from "The Red Shoes") is pure, watertight suspense.
After I have seen this (therefore completing nearly all the Michael Powell films released on Criterion DVD so far) all I wish to say to the late Mr Powell, wherever he may be, is this: Thank you. Thank you for being the man to give us such film treasures as "I Know Where I'm Going!", "Black Narcissus", "The Red Shoes", "The Edge of the World", "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" and this. Your sheer prowess with all the cinematic arts has left me speechless.
Michael Powell, you are one of the Greats.
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Post by bigdaddy on Nov 28, 2005 10:03:28 GMT -5
One of the bravest damn film makers, that's for sure. It really lit a fire under a lot of seats.This flick single handedly ENDED his career. Then the film was tucked away and forgotten. Only the efforts of some very big film historians got it back out of the closet. Of course, by then, popular culture has passed it, and more then a few people I have had watch it turn to me and tell me it's BORING..but when it came out, it packed a huge wallop. It got folks MAD. Remember that when you rent it. And you should.
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Post by phil on May 27, 2017 20:42:01 GMT -5
Moira Shearer's dance sequence in this film is so incredibly sexy. I wasn't prepared for it, and glad. She dances in plain slacks and blouse of the era, yet she oozes so much sensuously the sequence has got to be her best moment, even topping her dancing in 'The Red Shoes' and 'The Tales of Hoffman'.
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Post by phil on Oct 20, 2017 22:21:39 GMT -5
Finally edited this clip. Moira sizzles...
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