Tag Archives: Mark Cousins
Look Now
Trying to stick to all spooky posts this month, here’s a look at one of my favorite scary films. For me, Halloween means watching chilling movies and this one is a must-see classic of visionary, supernatural horror. Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now explores the otherworldly experiences of a mother and a father grieving the loss [...]
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Tagged Criterion Collection, Don't Look Now, Donald Sutherland, Halloween, horror film, Julie Christy, Mark Cousins, Nicolas Roeg
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The Horror of Roman Polanski
One of my favorite movie-going experiences of 2012 was spending four Saturday and Sunday afternoons watching Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: A 15-hour history of cinema that A.O. Scott of The New York Times called “a semester-long film studies survey course compressed into 15 brisk, sometimes contentious hours…stands as an invigorated compendium of conventional wisdom.” Before [...]
Posted in Cinema, Occult
Tagged cinema, film, horror, Mark Cousins, movie, Occult, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Scene by Scene, terror, The 9th Gate, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Story of Film, The Tenant
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