From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9360 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, July 21 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9360 Today's Subjects: ----------------- It is time for a solution and to drive safer at night time ["Clear Vision] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 10:12:11 -0400 From: "Clear Vision" Subject: It is time for a solution and to drive safer at night time It is time for a solution and to drive safer at night time http://healthmemory.us/7iFxP1JZo8Gzf2EnC33eYIHcmZI4GoyrYXiyatE9hTDWQowTSw http://healthmemory.us/DGLzDunzhg8cIZNfDEqIAin3u12tbrbIB2rd--bjNbWhJcnPVQ dern critics address the film's impact and influence. Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice remarks, " adroitly atmospheric film is virtually an ideogram of narrative suspension and impact"; Chris Dashiell states that "verything is so exaggerated, so lacking in subtlety, that we soon stop caring what happens, despite a few mildly scary effects", although he admits that the film "had a great effect on the horror genre, and even Hitchcock cited it as an influence." Tony Rayns has called the film "the definitive 'haunted house' movie .... Leni wisely plays it mainly for laughs, but his prowling, Murnau-like camera work generates a frisson or two along the way. It is, in fact, hugely entertaining ...." John Calhoun feels that what makes the film both "important and influential" was "Leni's uncanny ability to bring out the period's slapstick elements in the story's hackneyed conventions: the sliding panels and disappearing acts are so fast paced and expertly timed that the picture looks like a first-rate door-slamming farce .... At the same time, Leni didn't short-circuit the horrific aspects ...." Although not the first film set in a supposed haunted house, The Cat and the Canary started the pattern for the "old dark house" genre. The term is derived from English director James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932), which was heavily influenced by Leni's fil ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9360 **********************************************