David W

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  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Don't Look Now
  • Midnight Cowboy

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  • Wait Until Dark

    ★★★½

  • My Favorite Year

    ★★★

  • Foul Play

    ★★★★

  • Rear Window

    ★★★★★

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  • Wait Until Dark

    Wait Until Dark 1967

    ★★★½ Watched 03 Mar 2025

    Whenever I watch Wait Until Dark, I experience two kinds of dread. There’s the dread that I feel as Susy (Audrey Hepburn), the film’s blind protagonist, is toyed with and elaborately deceived by three criminals/con men—Mike (Richard Crenna), Carlino (Jack Weston), and Roat (Alan Arkin)—in their pursuit of a heroin-stuffed doll. That dread reaches a fevered pitch as Susy comes to recognize their machinations and the deadly threat she faces. And then there’s the dread that I feel before a…

  • My Favorite Year

    My Favorite Year 1982

    ★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025 1

    A film about TV hampered by its too-frequent TV sensibilities but saved, in the end, by the genuine star power of Peter O’Toole. The story is simple and ready-made for nostalgia-wallowing. We’re introduced to a young, up-and-coming talent, Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker), who works in the writer’s room of a “Your Show of Shows” style variety hour. It’s 1954 and the week when a formerly great, increasingly washed-up star of earlier cinema, Alan Swann (O’Toole), is set to host the…

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  • Rear Window

    Rear Window 1954

    ★★★★★ Watched 09 Feb 2025 2

    Has the rite of passage from onanism to formal, romantic union (and reproductive sexuality) ever been more suspensefully and thrillingly captured in the realm of art? Rear Window might just be the best coming of age film ever made—with the “coming of age” being played out not on the usual biological/pubertal level but on a more sinister, psychological level. Our protagonist, Jeff (Jimmy Stewart), an adventurous photojournalist, is impotently hobbled with a full leg and partial hip cast, stuck in…

  • Diabolique

    Diabolique 1955

    ★★★★★ Watched 06 Feb 2025 3

    Way back in 1992, Carol Clover, in her seminal work “Men, Women, and Chainsaws,” offhandedly mused that the “music” of horror films may be more disturbing than their imagery—and acknowledged that sound use in the horror genre is grossly undertheorized. Oh, what a difference 30 years make! Though sound use is still undertheorized, it’s no longer grossly so. And horror aficionados now come out of the woodwork to champion scoring as essential to the construction of horror cinema’s unnerving atmosphere…

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