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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Psychiatrist: Human fish, swimming at the bottom of the great ocean of atmosphere, develop psychic injuries as they collide with one another. Most mortal of all are those gotten from the parent fish.
The great John Frankenheimer was born 95 years ago today.
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The 80s were such a great time for true movie queens, who were suddenly allowed to see this trove of movies that had been withheld from the public for decades. The five "lost" Hitchcocks were some of his best films, yet an entire generation had only read about them like they were mythological. I remember my dad telling me as we sat down to watch "The Manchurian Candidate" on the big screen how far ahead of its time it was, and how its imagery and literate script had made such an impression on him when he'd seen it first twenty-five years earlier.
Yeah that film is a total mind fuck. Angela L is thoroughly evil. Great great classic. I saw it when Criterion put it out on laserdisc in the 90's. The remake was pointless, I think Jonathan Demme was the director.
Question: Is there an official term for a movie such as "The Manchurian Candidate" that blends visual elements of different realities or timelines? I'm thinking also of "Lilies" and "The Fall", both of which I love, that also combine visuals from real and fantasy, and I've always wondered how to describe these films.
Maybe you mean Magical Realism? Although I think MC is more surrealist but it's not a huge difference
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