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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
A beautiful, perilous journey.
I Know Where I'm Going draws you into what you think is going to be a straightforward city comedy of manners and social climbing. However, you find yourself transported into a wild and warmly ironic drama of understated passion. It tells the story of a seemingly ruthless yet sympathetic heroine who, when striding effortlessly towards her fortune-hunting goal is waylaid by the charm and vivacity of a small community of unpretentious, but colourful group of Scottish Islanders. Inhabiting the same worlds as Whisky Galore and Local Hero,it has surprisingly bleak moments of atmospheric tension combined with a vivacious warmth and humanity seemingly unique to the Scottish scenery it so beautifully evokes.
The Mummy (1932)
A dark, claustrophobic chiller set in a lonely world
The Mummy is a very chilling film. It has a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere and setting: and at its core an unspeakably unpleasant death which from which all these feelings of extreme confinement emanate. The burial alive, and subsequent entombment under the lonely Saharan landscape are echoed in the silences, and dark, cold interiors of this seemingly barely populated world, where a desperate creature seeks a mate to share his eternity of loneliness. Both sinister and pathetic The Mummy continues to resonate with its silences and mumbled curses long after the credits bring the creepy action to an abrupt halt.
The Miller and the Sweep (1897)
two men batter each other with sacks in front of a windmill
A fine ironic visual gag takes place in front of the spectacular backdrop of a twirling windmill. But who are those people who rush across screen at the end: customers? relatives? One of the earliest enigmas in cinematic history perhaps. Well worth a minute of your time.