It occurred to me that it was kind of stupid of me (stupid! stupid! stupid!) to take the trouble to make all of those lovely screen caps from Chor Yuen's Murder Plot only to render them postage-stamp size when I posted them with my review of the film on Teleport City. To mitigate that I'm posting a few of my favorite images below in a somewhat larger size. These serve nicely to provide examples of Chor's distinctive use of color (which Liz over at And You Call Yourself A Scientist! noted as being very Bava-esque) and the surreal artificiality of his sets.
Schalcken the Painter (1979)
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Leiden, in the Dutch Republic, during the 17th Century. Budding painter
Godfried Schalcken (Jeremy Clyde) is studying under the renowned master
Gerrit Do...
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1 comment:
Yes, that's much better. Many thanks! Those are gorgeous shots.
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