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Behold the Man

Michael Moorcock

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Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the...

Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Washington Irving

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There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long...

The Sixth Sense (1999)

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Young Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is...

Jason Bourne (2016)

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It's been 10 years since Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) walked away from the agency that trained him to...

Keegan McHargue recommended The Scarlet Empress (1934) in Movies (curated)

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

1934 | Classics, Drama

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"I sometimes hear films described as “Lynchian,” which, I take it, means that they deal with a certain space between light and darkness (or perhaps it’s just a more sophisticated way of saying that something is flat-out creepy). The Scarlet Empress is David Lynch for 1934 . . . and by that I mean that the lighting design is crucial. I love the scene where the freaky Grand Duke Peter (whom I recognized as the crotchety book salesman from my childhood favorite—the ever-so-slightly psychedelically tinged—Bedknobs and Broomsticks) emerges from the shadows to meet his new bride, the Princess Sophia Frederica (played by Marlene Dietrich) for the first time"

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