Buck A Review
(Not as frequent as he’d like) filmmaker Douglas Buck spends a lot of time at the cinema rep house and at home watching old movies. In a new-fangled modern approach to the old index card cataloguing system he used to compulsively follow as a teen, about 4 years ago, Buck started posting a photo or film poster on Facebook for every one of the films he saw. Soon enough, this led to him including the occasional single sentence or brief paragraph write-up. Helped along by the surprise appearance of a small number of seemingly interested thread commenters as well as his own obsessive-compulsive traits, this then (perhaps inevitably) developed into longer form reviews and discussions for each and every one of the films. And here we are. Below will be a mishmash of older entries and current. Feel free to chime in.
The views and opinions expressed in the “Buck a Review” column (and in the comments field) are those of the individual author (or commenter) and not those of Offscreen or any of its partners.
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Band of the Hand (Paul Michael-Glazer, 1986)
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A Matter of Life and Death (aka, Stairway to Heaven) (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
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The House on Telegraph Hill (Robert Wise, 1951) & The Rats (aka, Die Ratten) (Robert Siodmak, 1955)
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Deadly Illusion (Larry Cohen/William Tannen, 1987)
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The Song Remains the Same (Peter Clifton/Joe Massot, 1976)
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Seeds (Andy Milligan, 1968)
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Haven/Season Five, Part Two (2015)
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Shield for Murder (Edmond O’Brien/Howard W. Koch, 1954) and A Cry in the Night (Frank Tuttle, 1956)
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Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962)/ Mrs Amworth (Alvin Rackoff, 1978)
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The Super Cops (Gordon Parks, 1974)