Kitten in Agitated Repose...

Reckon it's no secret my three favorite films are Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar, Welles' Touch of Evil, and Meyer's Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens. Each so thoroughly plumbs the elemental that only dark matter remains.

Below, a grab from UV's absurdly brilliant second set-piece:



(The great Francesca Natividad as "Lavonia Shedd" in Meyer's flawless 1979 exegesis. As Roger Ebert noted in his script for the film, she was a "pulverizing crucible of fulfillment." Now there's an epitaph!)

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