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Nightmare Alley
2021 · Film · 151 min
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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2022 - Kimi, After Yang, Crimes of the Future, White Noise, Official Competition, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tar, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
2021 - Nightmare Alley, The Card Counter, Zola, The French Dispatch, Come True, Don't Look Up, I Care A Lot,
2020 - I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Mank, The Sound of Metal, Possessor, His House
2019 - Climax, Uncut Gems, Parasite, Vivarium, First Cow
2018 - The Clovehitch Killer, Prospect, Mute, Anon, Mandy, The House That Jack Built, Cam, Sorry to Bother You
2018 had a glut of Netflix sci-fi B-movies that I think are very solidly good if not so great. I think they're underrated so I included them. I might have also messed up on the years.
These are all films I've seen. There are many others that I suspect are even better that I haven't seen.
> Copyright also seems to be going fine.
Unless copyright terms get shorter, they are not "fine". Even the status quo is not "fine".
Life+50 years (or more) is ridiculously long:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_lengths
If an artist can't re-coup their costs in, say, thirty years, they are bad at business side of things and should get out of the way to allow other creative people to build on their work.
The novel Nightmare Alley was published in 1946, and the author died in 1962:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Alley_(novel)
There's no reason why it should (AFAICT) still be under copyright such that royalties need to be paid to, e.g., turn it into a movie:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Alley_(2021_film)
Mentalism is a large part of the plot of Nightmare Alley. Personally, I enjoyed the 1947 film a lot more than the recent 2021 film. Both are based on the 1946 novel.