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.
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The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968) & The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (Peter Pearson, 1968)
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Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973) & Les Escargots (René Laloux, 1966)
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Western Union (Fritz Lang, 1941)
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The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963) & Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski, 1992)
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Miami Vice, Season 5 (1988-1989)
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Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, 1986)
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Nighthawks (Bruce Malmuth, 1981)
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Blue Water, White Death (Peter Gimbel, 1971)
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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
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Golden Years (aka, Stephen King’s Golden Years)/Season One (1991)