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Originally Posted by Murmer99
this one I've heard of. Looked very intriguing to me but I never ended up watching it. Isn't there an older black and white version or am I completely off? I think I recall hearing about some sequels to it as well...
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Yeah, there's the original BBC version which is excellent (but incomplete on DVD) and a later remake which isn't so great. Hammer made three Quatermass films: Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass 2 and Quatermass and the Pit. Opinion seems divided as to whether Xperiment is better than Pit (Quatermass 2 is definitely the least interesting of the three). I go for Pit because I prefer the story but Xperiment is perhaps the creepier.
Anyway, just watched:
L'Atalante
I don't fall to my knees in reverence to this as some do but it is undeniably spectacularly beautiful. And I can't think of many films more deserving of the word dreamlike. I'm sure Lynch must've watched it a load of times prior to making Eraserhead.