Next Week
First, let’s get this week’s leftovers out of the way. I wrote in last week’s Next Week that I would supply responses to Election and the original Diabolique. Election is very obviously designed as a two parter, and being that the second part, Triad Election, is sitting on my desk, I figured we’ll just slide that one into next week and look at both of them at the same time.
Diabolique, unless you count the Sharon Stone remake that I haven’t seen, doesn’t have a second part that I know of, unless you also want to try and count a really lame bit of direct to cable Dennis Hopper wannabe erotica that borrows the film’s famous (and chilling) central image of someone who should be dead in a bathtub turning out not to be so dead. Something tells me you don’t want to count either of these, and so I owe you a review. In case I don’t show up to pay, let’s just say that I really enjoyed Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film, particularly the terrifying final forty-five minutes. The picture has a famous twist but, like Psycho, which Diabolique at least partially inspired, the twist has been dulled a bit through numerous ripping off. See it though, Diabolique has a cold, clammy, sexually repressed stuck in the attic vibe that works on you.
Speaking of copping out on the Diabolique review, I am going to start writing full reviews of classic, revered films, hopefully on a once a week basis. Being that I try to pass myself off as someone who knows a little something here, I try to make it a priority to catch up with one classic I haven’t seen a week. I haven’t been writing about these on the site, primarily because I’m a bit of a scaredy cat, and don’t like competing with years of established theory. Time to suck it up and venture out a little bit.
So next week will be:Election/Triad Election, Lust, Caution (for real this time), The Golden Compass (maybe), The Girl Next Door (if I can get it), mystery classic (though I have a pretty good idea of what it will be).
This week is a little more up in the air than usual, but don’t worry, we”ll kill those work hours somehow. Happy Hunting,
Chuck
December 7th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
All I have to add here is that I have a huge crush on Vera Clouzot and I wish she’d been in more movies.
Glad to hear you’re going to tackle some of the biggies Chuck. I look forward to it.