Maybe the most compelling and fascinating story I've heard on the subject of Area 51, here presented by a documentarian seemingly intent on discrediting it by attaching gratuitious bells and whilstles. When Bob is speaking, I do get the impression that he is saying what he believes, and that his story has remained essentially unchanged for over thirty years is certainly a testament to something. But then Corbell shatters your engrossment with intermittent psychelic interludes featuring CGI UFOs and little…
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Johnny Handsome 1989
Not quite top-tier Hill material, but there's certainly something to this lean, southern-fried genre reworking of Seconds that has kept me coming back to it for years. More people should recognise Ry Cooder's bluesy, melancholic score as his best work, too; I think I've listened to it in its entirety about 10,000 times.
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The Ninth Configuration 1980
Still one of the most utterly indefinable, compellingly frustrating and infinitely intriguing films I've ever seen. And even as someone who is completely detached from religion, I find that The Ninth Configuration has much more to say about theological grappling than all 161 minutes of Scorsese's Silence.
Plus it includes a character who is adapting Shakespeare plays for dogs ("It's a labour of love, but damn it, someone has to do it!").
R.I.P. William Peter Blatty.
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