The Poll, the Votes, Their Results & My Ardor (Patreon)

Bit of a surprising blowout this week—I guess many of the Tenebre fans were even more excited about new suggestion The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, which admittedly doesn't lack for horror. I actually flirted with mentioning this film in response to Zoe Kazan's Twitter query about the five films that had the biggest impact on you at college age. (Didn't end up replying because I was 24 when I started undergrad, having taken a bunch of years off after high school, and wasn't sure whether I should cite my actual college years or "age 18-21," as she parenthetically noted. My other four choices from the latter period, which for me spans 1986–89, would have been Blue Velvet, House of Games, The Thin Blue Line, and Do the Right Thing.) In any event, this film played a key role in my still-burgeoning cinephilia, sending me on a Greenaway binge; as usual, I haven't seen it in decades, and look forward to finding out whether my high opinion holds up.