Thursday, June 28, 2012

Logging

Film:  The Collector by William Wyler

Great example of a small movie.  Terrence Stamp is damn good.  A bit long and slow in pacing, as was the style back then.  Highly recommended as a good old fashioned psychological thriller that doesn't feel cheap.  Maybe one of the first movies like this.  Nods to it in Silence of the Lambs.  Bears similarity to Misery, without the humor.  Based on a book by John Fowles, a writer I'd be interested in checking out.  Also, one of Wyler's last films to direct.  I need to revisit him and John Huston and some of the other great classical era directors.

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