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I watched Jacques Tati's Playtime for the first time ever last month. I was hypnotised by it and watched it again a couple of days later, something I hadn't done since Mullholland Drive, and which was for very different reasons. The hour or so-long restaurant sequence that makes up most of the second half is one the finest things I've ever seen.
I now really want to see it in 70mm as this time I only watched it on our (admittedly very big) telly. Hope I get the chance someday.
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BFI book on 'M' - https://www.amazon.com/BFI-Film-Clas.../dp/0851703704
My most chilling memories of the film are the balloon that symbolizes the abduction and Lorre's screamed "I can't help it" in the closing sequence. The mob perhaps has parallels with the Nazis, and Lang returned to lynching as a theme in 'Fury' (arguably Sylvia Sidney's best performance).
Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 04-06-2018, 06:20.
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City Streets (1931), adapted from a treatment by Dashiell Hammett
https://immortalephemera.com/47387/city-streets-1931/
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