A Talent for Murder was one of my most anticipated films at TCFF this year, and it wound up among my top three favorites. It stars the esteemed Dame Helen Mirren as American thriller writer Patricia Highsmith in her later years. Best known for Strangers on a Train and the Tom Ripley series, the 74-year-old …
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July 2014 Blind Spot Film: Purple Noon / Plein Soleil (1960)
It's been over three years since I saw an Alain Delon film, that was Le Samouraï where he played a silent-but-deadly assassin. Well as Tom Ripley, he isn't quite as taciturn but he's just as deadly. Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, I was familiar with the story from the 1996 film version. I …
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