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Point Blank by John Boorman is my fav even as a Polanskifag. It's really like an art film. Unlike some of Boorman's other schizokinos it does function on the entertainment wavelength as well as the experimental one. Some people say it's like a Nouvelle Vague movie but dare I say it's almost Bressonian... Much too stripped down and skeletal to be a Truffaut (mawkish, sentimental, the proto-Spielberg) type joint. It's maybe my favourite editing in a movie ever... Lee Marvin, the original Starvin Marvin, made two great movies in 67. That and The Dirty Dozen.
I like Cape Queer too but it's not really a neo-noir, more like an outlier late-stage noir. I go back and forth on which version I like better, that one or Martypoo's, which is a 'Cock style movie. Both are kino. Breedy Marty aged up the daughter to make it an erotic age gap attraction storyline rather than a depraved pedo storyline. That's one part that was better for me, because it turned it into a *hits pipe* type story. The dad was in danger of being cucked, essentially. And he has to hulk up and become a berserker as well to face the guy in mortal combat, to stop his family from being stolen. Hm. Maybe I do like the Marty one better... I talked myself into it.
I actually watched Dreyer's version and hated it before I ever watched a Bobby movie. I watched Vampyr too and I didn't care for it. Maybe I will go back to Carlie one day but I'm not sure. If those movies are his gold standard then I will not like anything from him, i guessu.
