Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL | Bootstrap - CNET News
12 hours ago by kevan
"Having spent several months legitimately working in the building, often quite late, Simons had noticed that although there were security guards with nightly rounds, there were at least three couches that seemed outside those patrols."
business
secrets
12 hours ago by kevan
Stephen Walter’s Map Of Subterranean London | Londonist
7 days ago by kevan
"Walter has painstakingly charted the buried rivers, Tube lines, bunkers, sewers, government tunnels and other hypogeal secrets of London."
london
maps
underground
secrets
history
7 days ago by kevan
Crossword writer accused of coded message to kill Chavez's brother - Telegraph
11 days ago by kevan
"Answers to clues included "Adan", "asesinen" (meaning "kill") and "rafaga" (which can mean either a burst of gunfire, or a gust of wind)."
crosswords
secrets
crime
11 days ago by kevan
Resume, references, password: Some employers ask job seekers to share their Facebook logins - The Washington Post
9 weeks ago by kevan
"Companies that don’t ask for passwords have taken other steps — such as asking applicants to friend human resource managers or to log in to a company computer during an interview."
internet
secrets
9 weeks ago by kevan
Underground ghost station explorers spook the security services | UK news | The Guardian
february 2012 by kevan
"The expedition last year was supposed to be the second last stop in a tour of the capital's 18 'ghost' tube stations. Instead it has sparked a legal battle over the human rights of a community of photographers dedicated to visually documenting restricted areas across the world – and pointing out security loopholes."
london
underground
secrets
law
photography
february 2012 by kevan
How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
february 2012 by kevan
"Take a fictional Target shopper named Jenny Ward, who is 23, lives in Atlanta and in March bought cocoa-butter lotion, a purse large enough to double as a diaper bag, zinc and magnesium supplements and a bright blue rug. There’s, say, an 87 percent chance that she’s pregnant and that her delivery date is sometime in late August."
advertising
secrets
camrad
via:blech
february 2012 by kevan
The Millions : The Arcades Project: Martin Amis’ Guide to Classic Video Games
february 2012 by kevan
"He’s technically correct, too, about the fact that, when the aliens descend to the very lowest rung, “you can slide around underneath them, touching them with your nozzle, and survive!” — but I’m not sure he’ll be wanting that sentence to show up in The Quotable Amis, should such a volume ever appear."
games
writing
history
secrets
via:infovore
february 2012 by kevan
FAQ | rhino rescue project
february 2012 by kevan
Poisoning rhino horns. "The horn is treated with special compound of depot ectoparasiticides (specifically, acaricides) and an indelible dye. [...] Ectoparasiticides are not intended for consumption by humans, and are registered as such."
mammals
crime
drugs
secrets
february 2012 by kevan
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Magazine
january 2012 by kevan
"There is no law in France, it turns out, against the improvement of clocks."
secrets
time
paris
hacking
art
via:mugla
january 2012 by kevan
Start 2012 By Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions
january 2012 by kevan
"Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!"
web
secrets
surveillance
january 2012 by kevan
For Your Eyes Only: Polarizing Privacy Monitor Mod | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
november 2011 by kevan
"The theory is simple: Remove the polarized film from the monitor so that you only see a white backlit screen. Then take this film, cut to fit your spare specs and you can see the screen only when you wear them."
technology
secrets
light
via:zarba
november 2011 by kevan
Spoiler Alert: Stories Are Not Spoiled by ‘Spoilers’
august 2011 by kevan
"Contrary to popular wisdom, [spoilers] actually seem to enhance enjoyment. [...] Three types of stories were studied: ironic-twist, mystery and literary. Each story [was] presented as-is (without a spoiler), with a prefatory spoiler paragraph or with that same paragraph incorporated into the story as though it were a part of it."
books
psychology
time
secrets
august 2011 by kevan
Accidental leak of British nuclear submarine secrets | UK news | guardian.co.uk
april 2011 by kevan
"A technical error meant sections of a Ministry of Defence report that appeared to have been blacked out could in fact be read by anyone who copied and pasted them into another document."
secrets
april 2011 by kevan
New Statesman - The bugger, bugged
april 2011 by kevan
Hugh Grant secretly records a conversation with a NoTW journalist, about phone tapping. "You know, you just . . . sat outside Buckingham Palace with a £59 scanner you bought at Argos and get Prince Charles and everything he said."
phones
surveillance
crime
news
secrets
april 2011 by kevan
“Dead Drops” preview at Aram Bartholl – Blog
november 2010 by kevan
"‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space."
art
computers
secrets
via:waxy
november 2010 by kevan
jonty.co.uk/idiocy
october 2010 by kevan
"While quietly running in the background Idiocy watches for people visiting Twitter insecurely, hijacks the session and posts a tweet warning them that they are vulnerable, with a link to a page explaining what has happened."
twitter
hacking
education
secrets
via:tomscott
october 2010 by kevan
I Can Stalk U - Raising awareness about inadvertent information sharing
august 2010 by kevan
"Most people don't realize that the action of automatic geotagging takes place on [any picture taken with] their smart phones, either because it is enabled by default, not exposed the user as an option, or was asked and then forgotten."
gps
photography
twitter
surveillance
secrets
august 2010 by kevan
1st cell with synthetic genome - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences
may 2010 by kevan
"Within the synthesized genome, Venter and colleagues [added] DNA sequences whose string of bases spell out messages. The first watermark includes a code with which to decipher the others, including the names of the contributing scientists, three famous quotes, and an email address. 'If people can decipher the code, they can send an email to us,' said Venter."
genetics
secrets
via:tassos
may 2010 by kevan
Panopticlick
january 2010 by kevan
"When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. Some companies are already using technology to try to identify individual computers."
web
surveillance
secrets
fonts
via:brendan
january 2010 by kevan
MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team
december 2009 by kevan
Nice tiered approach from the winning DARPA Network Challenge team - $2000 of the prize money for a submitted sighting, $1000 to anyone who referred that person, $500 to the person who referred them, and so on.
emergence
money
secrets
maps
december 2009 by kevan
London's Treasure Hunt Riots | Paul Slade - Journalist
november 2009 by kevan
The rise and fall of proto-ARGs from 1904, with clues hidden in detective fiction. "Before he could secure his prize, Randall had to narrow down the possible cities to Newcastle and Carlisle, [...] find a district of Newcastle that sounded a bit like 'Edward Green' and realise that the serial number Meggs had overheard must be attached to a lamp post."
games
args
pervasive
history
london
secrets
money
news
via:holly
november 2009 by kevan
Join in the murder game at Battersea Arts Centre | Stage | The Guardian
october 2009 by kevan
"Here, the show is both drama and game. Audience members – there are about 30 per performance – play characters in an imaginary French town. There is no script; every audience member plays a part in developing the story, and thus becomes responsible for its outcome."
games
theatre
secrets
lies
october 2009 by kevan
subtlemob 09
october 2009 by kevan
New project from Duncan Speakman. "If you register to take part in this event you'll be invited to download an MP3 and turn up at a secret location to listen to the track at a specified time."
sound
crowds
secrets
october 2009 by kevan
Amateur crimefighters are surging in the US - Times Online
december 2008 by kevan
"The Real rules are simple. They must stand for unambiguous and unsponsored good. They must create their own Spandex and rubber costumes. [...] They must shun guns or knives to avoid being arrested as vigilantes, even if their nemeses may be armed."
crime
society
comics
secrets
via:zarba
december 2008 by kevan
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say
november 2008 by kevan
"In another example, they used a five inch telephoto lens to capture images from the roof of a campus building and duplicate keys sitting on a café table more than 200 feet away. [...] The idea that one's keys are sensitive visual information is not widely appreciated in the general public."
technology
photography
secrets
metal
crime
via:antonia
november 2008 by kevan
Numbers Station Bingo
april 2008 by kevan
A clear, steady voice reading out a stream of numbers and repeating them each time - it's obvious, in retrospect. This is a quick online version of a game that I'll be running at this week's Sandpit.
creations
games
radio
secrets
mysteries
april 2008 by kevan
Putting colour back in the Doctor's cheeks | Media | The Guardian
march 2008 by kevan
"Any black and white telerecording of a colour programme is prone to pick up interference from the colour encoded video signal. [...] However, the interference was often deemed so minor that the technicians doing the transfers used no filter."
television
technology
secrets
light
via:currybet
march 2008 by kevan
greg.org: the making of: The Moon Museum
march 2008 by kevan
"The Moon Museum was secretly installed on a hatch on a leg of the Intrepid landing module with the help of an unnamed engineer at the Grumman Corporation after attempts to move the project forward through NASA's official channels were unsuccessful."
art
space
secrets
via:lmg
march 2008 by kevan
cityofsound: The street as platform
february 2008 by kevan
"[In] imagining the scene below, via a kind of narrative, it's still remarkable to even sketchily consider how much data is already around us, and is near-invisible to traditional urban planning perspectives."
cities
design
gps
secrets
surveillance
technology
society
february 2008 by kevan
An Affair To Remember (1957)
february 2008 by kevan
Some oddly dated social rules, that all bets can be off in a relationship that hasn't gone as far as marriage. Fairly pedestrian stuff otherwise, the self-pitying-playboy versus unimpressed-schoolteacher not lasting very long.
filmlog
2stars
love
secrets
travel
february 2008 by kevan
Hitman: Blood Money (Xbox 360)
january 2008 by kevan
Good balance of linear and freeform, with a lot of randomly pursued routes feeling like official, scripted ones, until you try again and go somewhere else. The AI gets a bit dodgy up-close, but works quite chillingly at a distance.
gamelog
4stars
death
money
weapons
secrets
january 2008 by kevan
newspaper Kyiv Weekly - Intellectuals Playing Mafia Games
january 2008 by kevan
"The game is structured on the principle of a tournament with a rating list of the best players. The winners of the intermediate stages receive money prizes and the winner of the final receives the main prize of a trip to Sicily, the home of the Mafiosi."
games
secrets
money
russia
january 2008 by kevan
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier - Alan Moore,Kevin O'Neill
january 2008 by kevan
Disappointing. After setting up the 1950s as a much better context than expected, it sprawls too far into the past, stretching a thin plot and overpopulating it for the sake of it. And the documents are pretty meagre parodies.
booklog
comics
books
secrets
history
january 2008 by kevan
The Overdub Tampering Committee
january 2008 by kevan
"We are a group of musicians who have downloaded newly leaked albums by popular artists, quickly recorded many subtle overdubs over the work, and then re-leaked it to the internet. We have done this for about three years now." Wonderful.
music
mutation
secrets
via:currybet
january 2008 by kevan
Jeremy Clarkson eats his words over ID theft - Telegraph
january 2008 by kevan
"The Top Gear host was so sure that the furore over the lost CDs of data was nothing but 'a storm in a teacup' he printed his own bank details in a newspaper, convinced his money would be safe." Some direct debit forms do not require a signature.
money
secrets
crime
january 2008 by kevan
Gaslight (1944)
december 2007 by kevan
A great study of subtle psychological manipulation, undermining reality through isolation, tiny matter-of-fact lies and sleights of hand. A lot of the villain's reactions are clumsily over-the-top, but it's vivid enough to seep into a wider worldview.
filmlog
4stars
delusions
secrets
crime
love
psychology
light
december 2007 by kevan
Wifi camera
december 2007 by kevan
"Wifi Camera reveals the electromagnetic space of our devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular our wifi networks. [...] We will take real time 'photos' of wifi space."
light
secrets
technology
december 2007 by kevan
and-or.ch : metro_wardive_nds
december 2007 by kevan
"[The homebrew DS game] reads the names of the hotspots in your immediate area and turns them into enemies which try to take over your wardive-cristal. Try to fend them off with your touch pen, put your shields up. And don't just stay in one spot."
games
ds
walking
secrets
via:penguin
december 2007 by kevan
Wings Of Desire (1987)
december 2007 by kevan
A strong and loosely-painted mythology of benevolently bored immortals pacing around Berlin before the wall fell, taking notes. But the good, mundane dialogue gets drowned out by bad, self-conscious poetry, and the love interest is mystifyingly shallow.
filmlog
4stars
secrets
germany
society
love
memory
december 2007 by kevan
Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
november 2007 by kevan
"[They] set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building's famous dome. Under the supervision of [a] professional clockmaker, they pieced apart and repaired the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s."
secrets
paris
time
crime
via:waxy
november 2007 by kevan
Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360)
november 2007 by kevan
A clean hybrid of Prince of Persia and GTA, with a great, flowing sense of parkour across the 12th century rooftops of Damascus and Jerusalem. Slightly thin missions so far, and the meta-plot seems unwisely bolted on, but it's still exhilarating to play.
gamelog
4stars
death
secrets
history
weapons
war
cities
architecture
november 2007 by kevan
Roman Holiday (1953)
november 2007 by kevan
The slumming royalty of a non-specified English-speaking country, being led around Rome by a cynical journalist and his shin-kicked photographer who's lucky to get a quarter of the pre-paparazzi story fees.
filmlog
3stars
society
secrets
lies
news
photos
italy
november 2007 by kevan
1 room, no view | Rhode Island news | The Providence Journal
october 2007 by kevan
"Eight artists snuck into the depths of Providence Place mall and built a secret studio apartment in which they stayed, on and off, for nearly four years until mall security finally caught their leader last week."
art
architecture
secrets
shops
zombies
via:penguin
october 2007 by kevan
The Ipcress File (1965)
october 2007 by kevan
Decently underfunded and matter-of-fact sixties espionage, desk jobs in drab government offices against a mundanely historical London backdrop. But Caine's character is utterly charmless and unconvincing, and it's a dull ending for its genre.
filmlog
2stars
surveillance
politics
science
secrets
delusions
october 2007 by kevan
All About Eve (1950)
october 2007 by kevan
The endless natural cycle of bitter, manipulative actresses being superceded by younger replacements who can hide it better, at least for a while. Also broadcast media.
filmlog
3stars
theatre
secrets
writing
october 2007 by kevan
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
october 2007 by kevan
Fast-paced coincidence-driven amnesiac-assassin action nonsense. Fun for running straight through a lot of tropes and cliches, and dropping them completely before they can get boring, as if they'd just forgotten about them.
filmlog
2stars
memory
terrorism
secrets
delusions
october 2007 by kevan
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
september 2007 by kevan
Great, no-nonsense Bogart, cutting short any deception subplots by tersely admitting things and walking out of the room to do something else.
filmlog
3stars
mysteries
crime
secrets
birds
death
september 2007 by kevan
Casablanca (1942)
september 2007 by kevan
Hadn't seen this before. Good, sharp, non-stop, dialogue-driven stuff, everything in the foreground, with a great, clipped subtlety to all of the characters.
filmlog
5stars
war
love
secrets
depression
police
crime
paris
september 2007 by kevan
RevolutionSF - Back Lots of the Lost: The Implausibility of the Cliched "Lost World"
august 2007 by kevan
"If dinosaurs live in the Congo today, they had to have migrated there from somewhere else, and again, no definitive dinosaur bones or other remains have been discovered past the K-T boundary."
dinosaurs
history
secrets
evolution
world
via:leonard
august 2007 by kevan
kameraflage(tm)
august 2007 by kevan
"Kameraflage is possible because digital cameras see a broader spectrum of light than human eyes. By rendering content in these wavelengths we are able to create displays that are invisible to the naked eye, yet can be seen [through] a digital camera."
light
illusions
technology
design
advertising
secrets
august 2007 by kevan
Three Colours Red (1994)
august 2007 by kevan
Quite well pitched, in retrospect - it felt slightly too slow and vague to watch, but if had been any faster or sharper, the reveal would have been ridiculous. The actual ending was still quite ridiculous, though.
filmlog
3stars
surveillance
secrets
coincidences
phones
crime
august 2007 by kevan
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
july 2007 by kevan
Rescuing the rural working classes from their own ignorance, using casually implausible urban superpowers. A good first half, but Flora's writing is forgotten and the parody thins out into a generic countryside drama, as it begins to tie up.
filmlog
3stars
society
education
writing
secrets
via:holly
july 2007 by kevan
Serenity (2005)
july 2007 by kevan
Less of the smugly retort-crammed dialogue than what I saw of the series; some good, casual moral ambiguity, but a lot of stock-issue monochrome cliche as well. Some lazy resolutions, some nice lines about how we build the future.
filmlog
3stars
space
future
pestilence
secrets
weapons
via:brendan
july 2007 by kevan
The catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell
july 2007 by kevan
Still around. "If you put your ear against Entooble and listen hard you may detect the distant calling of a parasympathetic choir who are coming very slowly toward the Upper Mantle bearing gifts of badness and false reason."
cities
secrets
magic
religion
july 2007 by kevan
Sneakers (1992)
july 2007 by kevan
Arbitrary gadget-heist with an odd mix of realistic and ridiculous pitfalls.
filmlog
2stars
technology
computers
hacking
secrets
crime
via:brendan
july 2007 by kevan
Go to Australia or use your own judgment | Guardian Unlimited Politics
june 2007 by kevan
"As prime minister, [Brown] has to write a letter, in his own hand, giving instructions detailing what the UK's response should be in the event of a pre-emptive nuclear attack. [It] will be opened only by the commander of a British Trident submarine."
politics
war
australia
paper
secrets
via:lmg
june 2007 by kevan
Le Corbeau (1943)
june 2007 by kevan
The film that the Small Town Anywhere social game was based on; the power and freedom of anonymous letters, and how cheaply you can fake omniscience. Fun to see how well and how quickly the Small Town organisers had cast the players.
filmlog
3stars
secrets
society
france
paper
june 2007 by kevan
Tim Knowles - Postal Works - Spy Box
june 2007 by kevan
"A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The Spy Box was sent from my studio to the gallery taking an image every 10 seconds recording a total of 6994 images."
art
secrets
surveillance
travel
june 2007 by kevan
The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel
june 2007 by kevan
Disappointing: a minimally expanded list of the one-sentence tourism ideas from the Latourex website, padded out with flat and patronisingly overexplanatory summaries, and random-weblog-standard "laboratory results" from people who've taken the journeys.
booklog
tourism
travel
random
dice
secrets
mysteries
june 2007 by kevan
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
june 2007 by kevan
A refreshingly quick cut to the chase, but it loses its way for the middle third of the film, only touching on the interesting logistics of invading a planet with clones, and undermining its own quiet malevolence with silly noises at the end.
filmlog
3stars
aliens
secrets
plants
june 2007 by kevan
Last Tango in Aberystwyth - Malcolm Pryce
may 2007 by kevan
Good, deadpan, Welsh-seaside noir parody, with nuggets of well-written genre in there. The silliness has a better edge of coherency to it, this time, but the plot's a sprawling mess of afterthoughts and needless cameos.
booklog
mysteries
death
secrets
police
tourism
may 2007 by kevan
Villagers find mobile phone signal after 10 years | Guardian Unlimited
may 2007 by kevan
"It was a holiday maker who eventually discovered that if you stood on the bench and faced west you could make a call. Soon afterwards, queues began to snake back from the bench at peak times."
phones
secrets
may 2007 by kevan
The Lives of Others (2006)
may 2007 by kevan
The counteraction of human weak points in the omniscient surveillance system of the GDR. Slow, strong character development; occasionally heavy-handed, but most of it perfectly underplayed.
filmlog
4stars
surveillance
germany
secrets
lies
writing
may 2007 by kevan
Clue (1985)
april 2007 by kevan
Cheerfully nonsensical vagueness that only really works if you know the three endings are coming, and doesn't really work that well anyway. The isolated-house murder-mystery trope is always fun, though.
filmlog
2stars
mysteries
death
board
games
meta
crime
secrets
weapons
april 2007 by kevan
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
march 2007 by kevan
The Count of Monte Cristo in Space, with a straightforwardly amoral protagonist; driven and ruthless, with no attempts to be arrogant or likeable. The good, undated writing style makes it easy to forget how groundbreaking the random sci-fi tropes were.
booklog
space
mysteries
secrets
technology
science
prison
future
lies
business
skin
via:alex
march 2007 by kevan
Steganography - EURion Constellation
march 2007 by kevan
"The EURion Constellation is intended to prevent color copiers from reproducing images of contemporary currency. [...] Currency designers have made special efforts to 'hide' the pattern in the 'look' of the banknote."
money
secrets
march 2007 by kevan
Life Style Extra - Farmer Built House Inside Barn To Avoid Planning Permission
march 2007 by kevan
"[Farmer Graham Head] built the bungalow, complete with bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, central heating and wall-to-wall carpets, inside the barn and used bales of hay to camouflage it."
architecture
law
cheating
secrets
via:hoaxes
march 2007 by kevan
EXCLUSIVE - Waffle House grill cook cheat sheet on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
march 2007 by kevan
"The photographs indicate the way in which a cook marks his orders. These secret plate markers allow a Waffle House cook to simultaneously prepare multiple customer orders at once."
food
language
secrets
via:infosthetics
march 2007 by kevan
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2003)
march 2007 by kevan
Nice parallels of love and death, both being dreamlike in a deadpan way. A bit slow at two hours, even for a twenty year biography, but Rockwell remains engagingly half-likeable throughout the whole thing.
filmlog
4stars
television
surveillance
death
secrets
love
march 2007 by kevan
To Catch A Thief (1955)
february 2007 by kevan
A Hitchcock, but not really having any of his style to it; Cary Grant being an irked ex-jewel-thief trying half-heartedly to clear his name from recent crimes, whilst wearing an alarming mahogany-varnish suntan.
filmlog
2stars
crime
secrets
france
february 2007 by kevan
Endangered languages encode plant and animal knowledge - New Scientist Environment
february 2007 by kevan
"Two [fish], called steelhead trout and cutthroat trout in English, are labelled as being types of salmon in the language of the Halkomelem Musqueam tribe of British Columbia. Genetic analysis has shown that they are in fact of the salmon genus."
language
history
society
secrets
february 2007 by kevan
The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
february 2007 by kevan
Men are evil and women are stupid, but children endure. Overrated, apart from a few stand-out scenes - there's a good and genuinely sinister, unstoppable villain in there somewhere, but the slapstick and weird editing undermines him almost completely.
filmlog
2stars
religion
children
death
crime
prison
money
secrets
february 2007 by kevan
Good Bye Lenin! (2002)
february 2007 by kevan
The value and cost of selfish, idealised delusions; the timeline and scenery of the film feeling a bit like one itself. Great snapshots of a society in quiet, half-mourned collapse, a lot of good dereliction, and the premise never overplays itself.
filmlog
4stars
germany
delusions
illusions
secrets
politics
television
history
february 2007 by kevan
Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure (2004)
january 2007 by kevan
Odd mix of harrowing self-awareness and vague glossing, of scientific enthusiasm and knowingly theatrical non-logic, that doesn't quite ring true, and a good, surprising ending that turns predictably bad. A great sense of random online networks, though.
filmlog
3stars
web
coincidences
money
writing
secrets
random
travel
january 2007 by kevan
Notorious (1946)
january 2007 by kevan
The perils of office romances in the intelligence industry, a powerfully slow death and some fun heavy-handed this-is-important zooms of things containing other things.
filmlog
4stars
surveillance
secrets
love
poison
police
january 2007 by kevan
Nothing Sacred (1937)
december 2006 by kevan
Weak screwball comedy that never really gets going, with an uncomfortable attempt at comedy domestic violence, and a generally weird and morbid attitude throughout, with a radium-poisoned girl being the toast of New York for being so "doomed".
filmlog
2stars
news
pestilence
secrets
lies
love
death
december 2006 by kevan
Les Diaboliques (1954)
december 2006 by kevan
A slow and dark Hitchcockian murder mystery, with the mystery in unexpected places. A good strong twist at the end, and an even better title card telling the audience not to give away spoilers when talking to their friends about it.
filmlog
4stars
death
mysteries
crime
france
secrets
education
december 2006 by kevan
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