![]() Given the quality of Armstrong's script for Mark of the Devil, though, that's probably a very good thing. It's not silent, though, as it has sound effects and some excellent bongo music - the characters simply don't say anything over the course of the story. The film is shot in black and white, and has no spoken dialogue. Sure you did, chum - just like everyone else claims in retrospect. The director, of course, claimed that he could see Bowie was going to be a great star in the future, even though no-one else believed him at the time. Still, then again, it just happens to be David Bowie's first ever screen appearance, so has to be worth watching just for that, really. Since he was around as part of the weekend anyway, he introduced the screening - and although he again showed the same capacity to say intelligent, plausible things about his work, my expectations sank even lower as he described how they hadn't had time to film all the footage they'd wanted for it in the three days which had been budgeted for, and had had to re-edit what they did have afterwards in the studio to cobble together a coherent piece of film. This was by the same director as Mark of the Devil, which meant that I didn't have very high hopes for it. So technically I saw 6 films in a 90-minute session, but I'm numbering them as a group from the point of view of my annual film-count.ฤก5a. Most of these were about 10-15 minutes long, and all were shown continuously as part of a single screening. ![]() But I've managed it now! It's up to you to decide if you are brave enough to read it all. Strange_complexWhew! It's taken me a couple of days to type this lot up, as I saw a lot of films on the final day of the festival, and I think we all know I am a bit prone to tl dr reviews, even when I think the thing I'm writing about was rubbish.
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