Tag: cult film
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‘Dementia’: A Feverish, Tortured Night on Skid Row
“Dementia” (1955) has many of film noir’s hallmarks: a dingy hotel room with a well-worn electric sign outside that nervously flashes off and on, shady characters prowling skid row’s streets and a posh-looking fat man who glides around town in the back seat of his limo. And of course tobacco smoke, deep, dark shadows and…
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Driving a Stake through Swinging London’s Heart
Turner (Mick Jagger), left, keeps watch over Chas (James Fox) in ‘Performance’ (1970). Just another a drug-induced, decadent, rock ’n’ roll-tinged noir “Performance” isn’t on many “best neo-noirs” lists — absolutely zero that I could find, honestly. Some might say it shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as the 1960s crime films that pay…