Monthly Archives: December 2016

24 Hours with Ken Russell

There is a Monty Python sketch which only lasts about twenty-five seconds, but that’s all it needs. Stately music plays on the soundtrack. It’s a simple country garden. A businessman enters the scene, pursued by a nude woman. They’re chased by … Continue reading →

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A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

In October 1963, a month before the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, delivered a speech in the city to promote the controversial organization. Eyes were watching. Long before the shooting in Dealey … Continue reading →

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Black Christmas (1974)

The creaking of a rocking chair. A tune hummed very softly. Corpses strewn about an attic. The girl in the chair, with the defaced plastic doll in her arm, has long ago been smothered by a plastic bag, and she … Continue reading →

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