Word: obsessionals
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11 p.m. - Repulsion, the finest horror-thriller ever made. Roman Polanski directed the lovely and crazed Catherine Deneuve in this gruesome tale of obsession, insanity, and brutality. Although the action will probably be cut badly for television, watch it in a dark room by yourself, and maybe you can get...
Junk. Perhaps it has something to do with an obsession of Leni's that prefigures Au.'s method. As a girl in a convent school, Leni learned to worship the orderly function of her organs, and the instruction had the force of an epiphany. Later she undertook her...
The narrator of this breezy, anecdotal saga is no Portnoy, and it's easy to forget that any complaint was ever made, because the irony is irony with an option -- it is camp in the best sense, convincing enough to let the reader drop the bemused distance at will. The...
The theme is Hitchcockian: a demonstration of the way private sexual obsession has a way of spilling over into public, with murderous consequences (Vertigo). There are innocent bystanders drawn dangerously into a closely woven criminal web (The Man Who Knew Too Much). Even the murder that is the film'...
Viet Nam is a dark, broody obsession at the heart of David Rabe's three dramas. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel turned a man into an infantry cog and spun him off to combat and death. In Sticks and Bones, which CBS refused to air after complaints from...