In which I finally find a movie too weird for me, or perhaps more accurately, a movie that left me wondering what all of its weirdness was actually in service of.
Category Archives: Mystery
THE THIRD MAN (1949)
A movie of black and white paranoia that to me is one of the all-time classics, perfectly capturing a very specific time and place.
LAURA (1944)
Perhaps the most campy and nonsensical of all 1940s murder mysteries, I love it so much.
BLUE VELVET (1986)
An, um, unique take on the dark underbelly of a small town from David Lynch, sort of the proto-Twin Peaks.
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995)
A very well-done neo-noir that deals with issues the original film noirs mostly ignored. Denzel Washington plays the detective in over his head.
CHINATOWN (1974)
The definitive neo-noir, a movie I love, now inextricably linked with the crimes of its director.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
Sidney Poitier has to solve a murder in a small southern town that hates him. A great social movie but kind of a blah procedural.
VERTIGO (1958)
Perhaps Hitchcock’s weirdest, most dream-like film, it makes no sense, but it also might be perfect.
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
A movie that launched legendary careers and an entire classic genre of film, and is also pretty fun in its own right.
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