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Elokuvat 2020 (530 movies items)"Räsynukke sen kun paranee katsomiskerta katsomiskerralta. Ensi kerralla pyöristynee täyteen femma/femma henkilökohtainen suosikki + täydellinen mestariteos -arvosanaan. EDIT Pari päivää pyöriteltyä asiaa päässäni nousee Räsynukke täysiin pisteisiin, toivottavasti Charles Laughtonin varmaankin jo kovin maatuneet jäänteet ilahtuvat siellä jossakin Hollywoodin kukkulain kätköissä."
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“"The Night of the Hunter" is now rightfully considered a bona fide classic of post-war Hollywood, but its evocative cinematography and offbeat touches received a cool response from the critics and audiences of 1955. Its intentionally anomalous rejection of the rigidity and strictures of cinematic visual storytelling were woefully misunderstood, and due to its esoteric unconventionality, it was perceived as melodramatic and stilted. Indefinable and defiant, the film was viewed as a failure of its time, unfairly maligned until a resurgence of new Hollywood auteurs universally recognised it as an influence; the contemporaneous critical analysis was even more positive, further renewing interest in the film as a wrongly scorned masterpiece deserving of veneration. In 1992, the film's reappraisa” read more
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Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)"The Night of the Hunter is so loaded with neurotic symbology that it can accommodate nearly any meaning any generation wishes to assign to it, and that’s the source of its uneasy, primordial power. The film is a nightmare coming-of-age story that concerns a child who learns that adults (and, by extension, their rules) aren’t only fallible, but given to pronounced malevolence. The imagery heightens our impression of John Harper (Billy Chapin) and his little sister Pearl’s (Sally Jane Bruce)"
Films Watched in 2019 (328 movies items)"18.4 "She'll not be back. I reckon I'm safe in promising you that.""
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1950's) (126 movies items)" Notes: Since I kept hearing great things about this flick, I was really eager to check it out. Well, I have to admit it, it is a really odd feature, the only directing effort by Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum’s favorite movies of his one, and, unsurprisingly, it was a critical and financial flop when it was released. Honestly, could you expect such a weird dark tale to reach an audience back in the 50’s? Even myself, 60 years later, I find it difficult to grasp the whole thing. Roger Ebe"
