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Watching The Quiet Earth again for what seems like the 10th time. I rewatch it in every few years. A favorite movie for sure.

Bruno Lawrence plays Zac, a man who wakes to find he is the last man on Earth. One of the great unsung performances. What makes it so endlessly rewatchable is that brutal tonal whiplash. The first act is almost a dark comedy of liberation, but by the time Zac is screaming at the sky and trying to blow himself up, it hits you right in the existential gut.

One of my favorite movies. That final closeup of Kathleen Byron as sister Ruth has been with me ever since.

Michael Powell's own view, this was the most erotic film he ever made. "It is all done by suggestion, but eroticism is in every frame and image from beginning to end. It is a film full of wonderful performances and passion just below the surface, which finally, at the end of the film, erupts." The English film critic Peter Bradshaw, who put it on his list of the ten best films ever made, took Powell's statement further, and said that it was the most erotic film he had ever seen.

The correct playback speed for Fritz Lang's Metropolis is a long-standing controversy among film scholars and enthusiasts. Should the film be projected at the speed it was shot to preserve natural movement, or at the speed it was intended to be shown to match its musical score?

18-20 fps produces more natural-looking movement and a "heavier" dramatic tone. Some experts claim the film was shot at 20 fps and one 147-minute museum restoration was shown at this speed to critical acclaim. Critics argue that 24 fps makes action scenes look comically fast, like a "Keystone Kops comedy".

24-28 fps is the standard modern sound speed and is necessary to sync with Gottfried Huppertz's original orchestral score, which has notations indicating 25-28 fps. The 1927 Berlin premiere was reportedly projected at this faster rate, possibly to shorten the film's runtime. This has been the standard for most home video releases.

I made my own version. Slowing it down from 24 fps to 18 while maintaining the pitch so it doesn't sound distorted. Similarly I stretched the subtitles. The movement really does look more natural. And the audio doesn't sound wrong.

Woody Allen ripping off Fellini's 8 1/2. He admitted: "I am not even half of the Fellini of 8½". But it _was_ funnier.

Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Harper are both terrific actresses that are fun to look at. Look for Sharon Stone as the girl on the train blowing a kiss.

Cute sex comedy kind of like Fleabag.

From experiments just over a year ago.

Agnes Martin's grids and pale lines look almost absurdly simple. Like a child could have done them. The gulf between the painting's minimal means and the enormous, quiet feeling it generates makes me smile.

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931 in Norwood, London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of Op art, which exploits the fallibility of the human eye.

You can go in if you don’t encounter anything. A world without objects, without interruption, making a work without interruption or obstacle. It is to accept the necessity of this simple, direct going into a field of vision as you could cross an empty beach to look at the ocean. Agnes Martin (1966)