I liked Funeral Parade Of Roses, although the interruptions by the director & intermingling of on-set interviews with the actors was a step too far for me, it kept breaking me out of the experience in ways the non-linearity of the rest of it didn't. I'm curious if the filmmaker had seen Night Of The Living Dead prior to making this; I see some similarities in angles / lighting / pacing between Eddie killing his mother and Karen wielding the trowel in the basement.Eighth Pillar wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:44 am Funeral Parade Of Roses is slept on. Fantastic disorienting visuals. What did you think of it? Double Indemnity is a classic, straight down the line. There is a 4K HDR release coming soon via Criterion which I am hella excited for. Have not seen the Oscar Micheaux documentary though! Where did you watch that?
The Micheaux doc was broadcast a week or two ago on Turner Classic Movies (along with the other two - I've been recording a lot of stuff off TCM recently). I think it might be available on demand through their app. It did a solid job given some of the limitations of surviving footage and images of Micheaux. I'd heard his name for years, first came across him mentioned in passing in exploitation filmmaker David Friedman's autobiography "A Youth In Babylon", but had never dug deeper into his story.