The Movie Book

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 239 Are you talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Travis Bickle / Taxi Driver with the cab emerging th ...

240 I LURVE YOU YOU KNOW? I LOAVE YOU. I LUFF YOU. TWO ‘F’S ANNIE HALL / 1977 W oody Allen’s 1977 movie Annie Hall is a New York ...

ANNIE HALL 241 Alvy (Woody Allen) keeps being drawn back to Annie (Diane Keaton), but he is doomed to fail in all his relationsh ...

242 What else to watch: Flash Gordon (1936) ■ The Hidden Fortress (1958) ■ Lawrence of Arabia (1962) ■ The Empire Strikes Back ( ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 243 YOU STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE DEALING WITH DO YOU? ALIEN / 1979 A lien was released two years a ...

244 L ike all great artists, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was often asked where he found the ideas for his movies. Tarkovsk ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 245 What else to watch: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, pp.192–93) ■ The Color of Pomegranates (1969) ■ Solaris ...

246 STALKER mysterious entity called “The Zone.” At this point, nothing is known about its origins, its purpose, or its nature e ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 247 postapocalyptic existential drama, in which its three protagonists discuss their lives and destinies, re ...

248 YOU HAVE TO HAVE GOOD MEN. GOOD MEN ALL OF THEM DAS BOOT / 1981 W olfgang Petersen’s Das Boot (The Boat) is an action movie ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 249 What else to watch: In Which We Serve (1942) ■ The Cruel Sea (1953) ■ Above Us the Waves (1955) ■ The En ...

I’VE SEEN THINGS YOU PEOPLE WOULDN’T BELIEVE BLADE RUNNER / 1982 ...

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252 BLADE RUNNER 00:07 Leon shoots the blade runner Holden, who has been testing him to see if he is a replicant. 00:31 Rachael ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 253 teeming night markets like those of Tokyo in the 1980s; the mean streets of postwar pulp detective ficti ...

254 BLADE RUNNER Batty and his three associates, who have come to Earth in search of answers. Rachael (Sean Young) is a Tyrell e ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 255 The movie was first released with a voice-over by Deckard explaining the plot, and an upbeat ending. In ...

256 I CAN’T FIGURE OUT IF YOU’RE A DETECTIVE OR A PERVERT BLUE VELVET / 1986 R ich, haunting and subversive, Blue Velvet is the ...

ANGELS AND MONSTERS 257 What else to watch: Peeping Tom (1960, p.334) ■ Eraserhead (1977, p.338) ■ Lost Highway (1997) ■ Mulholl ...

258 The angels Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are an invisible presence in people’s lives. WHY AM I ME, AND WHY N ...