Chrushank learns that the arm belonged to that of a serial killer, and that two other men (Brad Dourif and Peter Murnik) received other parts (the left arm and both legs, respectively) from the same body. A doctor (Lindsay Duncan) known for cutting-edge surgery replaces the appendage with one from an unknown donor all seems well until the arm begins acting violently of its own accord. Terror’s House of Horrors with Michael Gough, The Hand with Michael Caine, etc.), this one stars Jeff Fahey as Bill Chrushank, a criminal psychologist who loses his right arm in an automobile accident. Continuing the cinematic tradition involving human limbs running amok ( Mad Love with Peter Lorre, Dr. Take Body Parts, a horror yarn that was adapted from their 1965 novel Choice Cuts. Still, not all of their achievements resulted in cinematic gold.
And as screenwriters, they paired with author Jean Redon to bring his novel Eyes without a Face to the screen in Georges Franju’s impressive 1960 movie of the same name. Their book The Living and the Dead was transformed into Alfred Hitchcock’s immortal 1958 offering Vertigo. Their novel She Who Was No More became Henri-Georges Clouzet’s 1955 classic Diabolique. Whenever the writing team of Frenchmen Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (who published under the combined name Boileau-Narcejac) got mixed up with the movies, the results were often something special.
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An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, this finds Almodóvar neatly sidestepping easy sentimentality and crafting a bracingly tender-tough picture that resonates with the inner beauty of its colorful characters.īlu-ray extras consist of a 2012 making-of documentary a 2019 post-screening Q&A with Almodóvar, actor-producer (and Pedro’s brother) Agustin Almodóvar, and Paredes and a 1999 TV program featuring Roth, Paredes, Cruz, San Juan, and Almodóvar and his mother Francisca Caballero.īrad Dourif in Body Parts (Photo: Shout! Factory)īODY PARTS (1991). Although Manuela hasn’t seen the boy’s father in nearly two decades - he split shortly after becoming a lascivious transsexual junkie - she leaves Madrid and returns to Barcelona to find him there, she ends up serving as a den mother of sorts to various women, including a pregnant nun (Cruz), a wise-cracking transsexual (Antonia San Juan), the aforementioned Huma, and Huma’s drug-addled lover (Candela Peña). Cecilia Roth (in a knockout performance) stars as Manuela, a single mom who is devastated when her teenage son (Eloy Azorin) is struck and killed by a car while trying to get the autograph of local stage star Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes). Yet the writer-director arguably reached his humanistic peak with All About My Mother, a deeply satisfying comedy-drama that works elements from All About Eve and A Streetcar Named Desire into its profuse plotline. In such films as Volver, Kika, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Almodóvar has managed to create scores of meaty roles for accomplished actresses like Penélope Cruz, Victoria Abril and Carmen Maura. George Cukor ( The Philadelphia Story, the Judy Garland version of A Star Is Born) had a reputation as a “woman’s director,” a designation that in the modern era could easily apply to Pedro Almodóvar. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) Cecilia Roth and Marisa Paredes (background) in All About My Mother (Photo: Criterion)ĪLL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999). (View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD. Song Kang Ho in Parasite (Photo: Universal & NEON)
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