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Livejournal Entry [Oct. 4th, 2005|09:35 am] ( (In queue)

It's interesting to see what I was watching what, almost 20 years ago? Where my tastes lay, my curiosities. I was devouring all sorts of film back in the way back and beyond. I remember finding a torrent site that was all foreign/arthouse/obscure/ type stuff. I think I fell into Gialli that way.

I don’t remember ANY of these films though.  I thought about picking one to watch again but I have so much stuff to watch now. And not enough time. Le sigh.

Love is the Devil (1988)

Director John Maybury explores the life of British painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) in a film that's as disturbing as the artist's own work. The film focuses on Bacon's turbulent affair with George Dyer (Daniel Craig), a burglar who breaks into Bacon's apartment … and stays on to become his lover. Bacon treats Dyer as a sex object, but Dyer falls in love anyway, trying desperately to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bacon. 

Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (1999)

In 1955, Tobias Schneebaum disappeared into the depths of the Peruvian Amazon. A year later, he emerged from the jungle naked and covered in body paint … a modern-day cannibal. Now, follow the stranger-than-fiction tale of Schneebaum's return to the jungle in 1999, 45 years after his original visit, to reunite with the tribesmen he grew to love and who haunted him for nearly half a century.

Quartet (1981)

An aimless girl (Isabelle Adjani) and her shiftless husband (Anthony Higgins) are caught up in the literary social whirl of Paris in the 1920s. Soon, they become the protégés (or are they just an amusing diversion?) of two rich, bored Britons (Maggie Smith and Alan Bates). Amid seedy cafés, colorful hotels and smoky jazz haunts, this quartet of individuals dangerously intertwines.