It’s a populated mini genre with few quality entries, but better is Crimes of Passion, which arguably does a better job of exposing its universe by leaning into genre rather than away from it. Wonder why that is
He was so groundbreaking in the 60s and as a lad I was wiped out by his BBC docs on Elgar and Isadora. There was nothing else like it at the time and I will always revere him for that despite some later lapses.
It’s a populated mini genre with few quality entries, but better is Crimes of Passion, which arguably does a better job of exposing its universe by leaning into genre rather than away from it. Wonder why that is
He was so groundbreaking in the 60s and as a lad I was wiped out by his BBC docs on Elgar and Isadora. There was nothing else like it at the time and I will always revere him for that despite some later lapses.