My Week in Movie: April 12 - April 18
Apr. 19th, 2020 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jetpack_monkeyI spent almost the entire week watching Community. To give you an idea of how hardcore I was bingeing, I watched all of Season 6 yesterday. The whole thing. I ended up watching only one film (largely because it came to be 10PM Saturday night and I knew I had to make this post the next day).
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
This is a neat little thriller with a supernatural angle. Somebody, I forget who, called it an American giallo, and I can see where the comparison might come in, with the violent POV murders and the voyeurism angle. However, it's not stylish in the same way that an Italian giallo might be, although there is plenty of style (the film itself is actually on Criterion Channel as part of their 1970s Style Icons collection). There were only two reasonable suspects for the murders and one was so obvious I discounted it, but the other one didn't make a lot of sense. I won't spoil which one won out, but they did a lot of last minute contortions to make it fit.
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
This is a neat little thriller with a supernatural angle. Somebody, I forget who, called it an American giallo, and I can see where the comparison might come in, with the violent POV murders and the voyeurism angle. However, it's not stylish in the same way that an Italian giallo might be, although there is plenty of style (the film itself is actually on Criterion Channel as part of their 1970s Style Icons collection). There were only two reasonable suspects for the murders and one was so obvious I discounted it, but the other one didn't make a lot of sense. I won't spoil which one won out, but they did a lot of last minute contortions to make it fit.
