Don't Look Now
First screened in May 2000 / Most recently screened in August 2008
Director: Nicolas Roeg. Cast: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Sharon Williams, Nicholas Salter, David Tree, Ann Rye, Giorgio Trestini, Leopoldo Trieste, Bruno Cattaneo, Adelina Poerio. Screenplay: Allan Scott and Chris Bryant (based on the story by Daphne Du Maurier). Twitter Capsule:
Graphic matches, color motifs, cryptic crosscuts, abstract gestalts: such ghostly tricks, tethered to human wounds.
VOR:⑤
A landmark of editing, diabolically rich in atmosphere. Some of its tropes are stale but as an exercise in mood and craft its legacy is towering.
