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 | | 12. Dial M For Murder | | | Starring: Ray Milland Director: Alfred Hitchcock | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/29/2006 |  | Dial M for Murder - DVD Review By: David Bezanson - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/21/2009 2:42 PM | |
M stands for murder and also for mindjob in this, one of Hitchcock's best films. Based on a stage play by Frederick Knott (whose credits also include another great thriller, Wait Until Dark), Dial M For Murder includes one of the most intricate plots of any murder mystery as well as maximum amounts of Hitchcock's trademark suspense. A quietly evil Ray Milland plays a cold fish who plots to kill his wife (Grace Kelly) for her insurance money. As he explains at the beginning of the movie, he also wants to commit the “perfect murder” – i.e. one that is complicated and dangerous, yet foolproof and never suspected. John Williams is the Scotland Yard inspector who may be onto him. read the full review | |
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 | | 13. M Butterfly | | | Starring: Jeremy Irons John Lone Director: David Cronenberg | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/26/2009 | | M. Butterfly - DVD Review By: Paul Brenner - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/17/2009 8:40 PM | |
In Mel Brooks' The Producers, the characters played by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel pay a visit to the Park Avenue home of eccentric theatrical director Roger De Bris, who greets them in a flowing peignoir. "Max," Wilder querulously points out to Mostel, "He's wearing a dress." "No kidding?" Mostel remarks dryly. Mostel may just as well be the audience surrogate for M. Butterfly, particularly for an audience with fond memories of David Henry Hwang's operatic romance and theatrical tragedy in its stage incarnation. David Cronenberg's film adaptation (with a script by Hwang) is a failure for many of the reasons that the stage production was a success, but the film is additionally hampered by Cronenberg's '90s lurch towards conventionality. read the full review | |
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