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Perhaps all anyone needs to know about Amer before they see it is a glimpse at the movie’s poster: a creepy hand reaches forward, out of a vertiginous spiral, grasping at the figure of a nude woman. This evocative fantasia doesn’t reveal much, but grabs attention. Sit down to watch the flick, by French-born, Belgium-based filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, and you’re hooked from the opening title sequence. There’s an intriguing bit of acoustic guitar, suddenly overwhelmedby the menacing gurgle of some weird 1960s Italian electronica that turns out …
Steve Dollar has been thinking about film since his childhood visits to the drive-in theaters of the Florida Panhandle in the early 1960s, where exposure to Mondo Cane and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly irradiated his tender brain, causing permanent after-effects. Later on, he started writing about the stuff for daily newspapers in large American cities. He divides his time between Florida, Los Angeles, and New York – where he writes a weekly column on repertory film for the Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York section, and covers other cinematic matters of a Gotham-istic nature. He also has contributed to such publications as Newsday, the New York Sun, GQ, Playboy.com, Time Out New York, and the GreenCine Daily. 24XPS is a topology of cinematic enthusiasms, an archive of heedless indulgences, and a free-for-all of forsaken, forgotten, and forbidden movies, celebrating anything and everything celluloid and pixel. Please visit often and tell your friends.
