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Back to Back - Double Features for the Cinephile

A.P. Murphy

Reviews and analysis of two films with similar styles or themes - on the principle that banging random things together sometimes gets interesting results

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Viridiana (1961) - director/co-writer Luís Buñuel, co-writer Julio Alejandro
Tristana (1970) - director/co-writer Luís Buñuel, co-writer Julio Alejandro

In Buñuel degradation is conceived less as accelerated entropy than as a precipita...

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Back to Back 99 - What Happens in a Day

Where is the Friend’s House? (1987) - writer/director Abbas Kiarostami
Cosmopolis (2012) - writer/director David Cronenberg

Two steps before the flower,
stop at the eternal fountain of earthly myth.
There a transparent terror w...

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Back to Back 98 - Help They're Snatching My Individualism

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) – director Don Siegel, writer Daniel Mainwaring
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) – director Philip Kaufman, writer W.D. Richter

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You’re reborn into an untroubled world...

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Back to Back 97 - Deepest Darkest Noir

L.A. Confidential (1997) - director Curtis Hanson, writer Brian Helgeland
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009) - director Julian Jarrold, writer Tony Grisoni

The Bible featured sex and wall-to-wall carnage. Ditto the scandal ra...

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Back to Back 96 - 21st Century Fantasia

I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) - writer/director Charlie Kaufman
Beau Is Afraid (2023) - writer/director Ari Aster

Viruses are just one more example of everything

The ‘young woman’ pronounces a verdict on life

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