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Candy from "Strangers"

By January 13, 2009No Comments

Comfort SCR

Paul Schrader’s 1990 The Comfort of Strangers is, as it hap­pens, pretty spare on very pecu­li­arly angled shots; the above screen grab just hap­pens to be of one of them, one I par­tic­u­larly admire because you need a little time just to fig­ure out how many people, or even just carbon-based life forms, are in the shot, and just what the hell they’re doing any­way. Inspired by the death of its screen­writer Harold Pinter, or per­haps just by feel­ing a little, erm, strange, I was com­pelled to give the pic­ture anoth­er look recently. It’s the sub­ject of this week’s Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report,over at The Auteurs’.

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  • Tony Dayoub says:
    January 13, 2009 at 8:39 am

    Didn’t know wheth­er to post at the Auteurs or here, so I decided to do both:
    What a fant­ast­ic Pinter (and Schrader) movie to revis­it. The fact that it was based on a McEwan nov­el not­with­stand­ing (I’m hon­estly not famil­i­ar with the nov­el enough to have an opin­ion), I find that the film seems to have been extremely influ­enced by Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now” not just in terms of its set­ting. There is the hor­rif­ic cli­max, as well as the thick atmo­sphere of dread and inev­it­ab­il­ity that hangs over the film.

  • DVA118 says:
    January 13, 2009 at 9:03 am

    Funny you should say that, Tony, I told my wife it would make a great double fea­ture with “Don’t Look Now”. Actually, couple it with “Belly of an Architect”, and you’ve got the start of a mara­thon about… some­thing slightly sinister.

  • mark ehrenkranz says:
    January 13, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    glenn – pls call me i need to speak with you
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