Kitty: You wouldn't know love if it hit you in the face.
Millie: If that's where it hits you, you ought to know!
"If not my favorite of that year - and it may be - it's at a minimum in the top 3 or so. And Jake should absolutely have been up for the Oscar that year, and maybe won (although I'd have been good with Keaton). While it has a look or style that relates to an older Los Angeles, the heart of it is as timely as can be, sadly."--- For its 5th anniversary I gave some love to Dan Gilroy's film Nightcrawler for besides being awesome also seeing our awful present in advance, and here reader Scott agrees.
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A great film masterfully directed and acted and with one of the queens of Langian interpretation-Joan Bennett-at the very top of her game.
She was always an enjoyable performer but Lang brought out certain hitherto dormant qualities-a venality and a carnality beneath the placid surface-that other directors missed and she ran with it. Gloria Grahame was the other though her sexuality was more overt.
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