Eyes Without a Face courtesy The Criterion Collection
DVD Tuesday Eyes Without a Face defines the beauty in the darkness and gets under your skin like a fishhook Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks on the Movie Talk vodcastHear Maitland on the weekly podcast TVGuide TalkLong long ago in a world far far away I spent years trying to see French filmmaker Georges Franjus poetic horror film Les Yeux Sans VisageEyes Without a Face 1959 Id seen pictures and read plot synopses Everyone said it was great But this was before consumer VCRs let alone DVD or Tivo It never showed up on TV or at any of my local revival houses and I lived in Manhattan during the golden age of revival houses I finally caught it when a college-age friend who borrowed the 16mm print that had been rented by the film department and projected it on a classroom wall for a select group of friends And it was everything I could have hoped Haunting eerie elegant morbid incredib
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