Eureka (1983)
Following the recent death of Director
Nicolas Roeg I thought I'd watch this
Gene Hackman/Rutger Hauer film about a Citizen-Kane-like man with a gold fortune. Unfortunately it tends towards pretentious pondering and unlikable, unfathomable characters. Nonsense pseudo-profound elliptical dialogue like
"I used to have it all, but now I just have everything" and
"You are guilty of innocence" abounds.
The trailer didn't seem to be on youtube in anything approaching watchable quality, so I've uploaded it from the blu-ray:
De Palma (2015)
This fascinating look at the career of
Brian de Palma uses a documentary technique so simple and effective, it's almost revolutionary. They just have De Palma talk about his films to the camera (nobody else's opinion is offered) one by one, in production order. Devoting equal screen-time to his early student films, commercial hits, and misjudged flops proves quite revealing.
Carnival of Souls (1962)
You'd swear this was an Indie black & white
George A.Romero Horror-Mystery if it wasn't made 4-years before his first
'Night of the Living Dead' debut. A disturbed young woman is haunted by a ghost faced figure and the looming spectre of a deserted carnival. The spooky church Organ score and contrast of documentary realism against dream-like sounds and images, squeezes maximum fear out of the obviously tiny budget.