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"The Medusa Touch" (1978) (Jack Gold)
"In "The Medusa Touch" Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a mysterious series of disasters. The uncanny events begin happening shortly after writer John Morlar (Richard Burton) was hit over the head by an unknown intruder and rendered comatose. Slowly, Brunel begins to connect the strange things that are happening in the world with the deranged dreams of the comatose Morlar. He gets the final clue he needs from Morlar's reluctant psychiatrist, Dr. Zonfield (Lee Remick), who holds the key to Morlar's past. Once it is discovered that Morlar has the ability to think horrible thoughts and make them come true, Brunel and Zonfield must take off with dispatch to a London cathedral, where the Queen is scheduled to make an appearance -- but Morlar is thinking about the cathedral, and it is crumbling fast. Well-liked in Britain, this movie did not do well in the U.S. - From the second shot in Jack Gold's The Medusa Touch -- a close-up of a print of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," in a study where a man is watching a tragedy unfolding on a lunar mission -- this is one eerie and unsettling movie. From what seems to be a murder scene (but proves to be something much more complicated), we shift across twin landscapes, of multiple disasters spread across the past life of the victim, John Morlar (Richard Burton), and see hints of some recent tragedy and destruction in London. The film unfolds in such a way that the two separate layers of death and disaster, and the threat and paranoia that come with them -- one vertical, out of Morlar's past, and the other horizontal, in the here-and-now as the characters move about London..."
1978 / 105mins. / English Language / Color / UK
Picture Quality: A+ (Source: DVD)
"In "The Medusa Touch" Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a mysterious series of disasters. The uncanny events begin happening shortly after writer John Morlar (Richard Burton) was hit over the head by an unknown intruder and rendered comatose. Slowly, Brunel begins to connect the strange things that are happening in the world with the deranged dreams of the comatose Morlar. He gets the final clue he needs from Morlar's reluctant psychiatrist, Dr. Zonfield (Lee Remick), who holds the key to Morlar's past. Once it is discovered that Morlar has the ability to think horrible thoughts and make them come true, Brunel and Zonfield must take off with dispatch to a London cathedral, where the Queen is scheduled to make an appearance -- but Morlar is thinking about the cathedral, and it is crumbling fast. Well-liked in Britain, this movie did not do well in the U.S. - From the second shot in Jack Gold's The Medusa Touch -- a close-up of a print of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," in a study where a man is watching a tragedy unfolding on a lunar mission -- this is one eerie and unsettling movie. From what seems to be a murder scene (but proves to be something much more complicated), we shift across twin landscapes, of multiple disasters spread across the past life of the victim, John Morlar (Richard Burton), and see hints of some recent tragedy and destruction in London. The film unfolds in such a way that the two separate layers of death and disaster, and the threat and paranoia that come with them -- one vertical, out of Morlar's past, and the other horizontal, in the here-and-now as the characters move about London..."
1978 / 105mins. / English Language / Color / UK
Picture Quality: A+ (Source: DVD)