Dominic Corry

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Favorite films

  • Vertigo
  • Emperor of the North
  • The Hudsucker Proxy
  • The Parallax View

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  • Whistle

  • Glenrothan

  • Toy Story 5

  • The Death of Robin Hood

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Whistle
Watched

The word “whistle” is too inherently silly to centre a horror film around.  You can’t say it out loud and not seem a little bit silly. Makes this all very hard to take seriously.  Whistle. See?

Strangers on a Train
★★★★★ Rewatched

“I certainly admire people who do things.”

“What is a life or two, Guy? Some people are better off dead.”

“No no no no no no no. Just suppose…”

- Bruno Antony (Robert Walker).

Re-watched this for the umpteenth time as I just finished Stephen Rebello‘s delightful new book about the making of this film. Rebello also wrote the Psycho book that they they adapted for the Anthony Hopkins film.

Strangers has always been one of my favourite Hitchcocks, but…

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
★★★★★ Added

This movie utterly destroyed me. I am destroyed. I am in small pieces, scattered on the ground. It is a wonderful feeling.

It seems paradoxical that something can be so subtle and so powerful at the same time.

The way Adèle Haenel can hint at an expression, and convey its emotion without ever actually going there, is simply astonishing.

Noémie Merlant embodies a level of self-awareness here that will inspire me for the rest of my days. Seeing her composure…

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