Recently Watched Films

Start of a partial re-run through Dario Argento's work. Mainly the ones I have on blu-ray but probably also a couple of others providing they haven't been removed from Prime. 

Difference with this one this time around is that before I saw this in English since that's what the disc defaulted to. This time I watched it in Italian. 

Great fairly early noir. 

Very good lesser known noir.

Kubrick's first feature film. And it's crap. Apparently he thought so as well and legend has it he tried to have all copies destroyed. Man, I wish he'd succeeded because then I wouldn't have wasted an hour (that's only about how long it is) on this. 

This is an exceptional noir that could have been top tier but I felt like there was potential for this to get even more twisted and dark than it was. I guess the production code of the day held them back from taking the ideas here too far. Still it's a great movie and so far easily the best of the bunch of noir movies I got on Arrow Video's recent sale. 

Great action sequences, especially the fight scenes, but thin on plot. It's basically a rotation of 'capture guy, lose guy, find guy again, lose guy again', and so forth. 

Second viewing of this noir gem. 

I'm surprised by how little I remembered of this movie, considering it was only about 14 months since I first saw it. Felt like watching it for the first time again, for the most part. 

Hilarious. 

I didn't find part 2 quite as compelling as part 1, but I'm still well invested after about 6.5 hours.