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Diabolique (1955) (opens the original)
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Sometimes a film's setting can become the driving force behind the narrative and in the case of Diabolique (aka Les Diaboliques, 1955), it becomes a character in its own right. Set in a seedy public school for boys in some unspecified French provincial town, Henri-Georges Clouzot's landmark suspense thriller creates a disturbing environment of decay, stagnation and impending dread that surrounds a menage a trois - Michel, a sadistic headmaster; Christina, his long-suffering wife who has a heart
Point Blank (1967) (opens the original)
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Generally acknowledged by most film critics as director John Boorman's most influential film, Point Blank (1967) is a modern day film noir thriller that employs the techniques and thematic concerns of French New Wave filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais to tell a story about basic human greed and retribution. As Walker, the central character in the film, Lee Marvin moves with the precision of a machine, cold, calculating, relentless; he could be the predecessor to Arnold Schwarzeneg
The Mark of Zorro (1920) (opens the original)
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1920 marked a major turning point in the career of movie matinee idol Douglas Fairbanks. Not only did he tie the matrimony knot with Mary Pickford, the most popular actress in silent film, he also embarked on a new screen career. In the aftermath of World War I, audiences had grown bored with the cheerful, boy-meets-girl romantic comedies that had made Fairbanks a popular leading man so he decided to try a different tactic. A short story by Johnston McCulley, "The Curse of Capistrano," had appea
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