Happy Thursday everyone! Hot and steamy here in Richmond but at least the wildfire smoke has cleared a bit. I'm calling an audible on I Feel (Un)Seen this week, since I simply didn't have time to watch The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly (we'll get to that next week), we're just gonna look at some recent thrift store finds.
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I kind of dip in and out of American Horror Story seasons. The last one I watched in full was Apocalypse, a great use of some of the previous seasons; this one was the season before and I don't think ties into Apocalypse at all, though of course it has a lot of the same actors like Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters. (How AHS re-uses actors is really a lot of fun as they get to play in different modes across different stories.) So this is a new season to me and outside of it being about a cult, I don't think I even know what it's about, which is nice.
All seasons of American Horror Story are streaming on Hulu.
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Part of my decision that I really need to watch more of the Czech New Wave, this is apparently one of the better-regarded ones. And frankly, Closely Watched Trains is a great title (Ostře sledované vlaky in the original Czech); it's about someone dealing with being in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during WWII. A winner of the 1968 Foreign Language Oscar, it feels like well-worn territory now but I'm sure in 1966 hit pretty well.
Closely Watched Trains is streaming on the Criterion Channel.
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And my big find of the week was Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1932), Dreyer's first sound film which was a disappointment at the time but has apparently come to be quite well regarded by horror fans and historians for it's moodiness and visuals. I'm quite pleased to see the booklet includes the original script and also an essay by Kim Newman, excellent horror novelist and horror historian (his Anno Dracula series, about a world where Van Helsing and his crew failed and Dracula took over Britain as the consort of Queen Victoria, is both chilling and also has a lot of delights as Newman packs the book with cameos, like an underground rebel who disguises himself with his deerstalker hat and tries to undermine the regime with the help of his doctor companion). This is one I'm looking forward to making a deep dive into.
Vampyr is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel and HBO Max and a bunch of other random places (I've never even heard of Screambox).
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That's it for this week! Hopefully next week things will be a little more normal and we can get back to I Feel (Un)Seen.
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