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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Like Tod Browning’s circus nightmare, this silent melodrama turns a physically marked performer into the center of a darkly romantic, expressionistic world of exploitation and longing.
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Why this pick
Its grotesque, isolated protagonist and feverish romantic fixation share the tragic intensity and stylized silent-era horror sensibility of The Unknown.
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Why this pick
This German Expressionist horror centers bodily dread and a man terrified by what his altered body might make him capable of, matching The Unknown’s macabre psychological fixation.
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Why this pick
Browning returns to carnival life with an unusually intimate, unsettling view of its community, balancing tenderness, spectacle, and menace in a way that strongly echoes The Unknown.
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Why this pick
Its painted shadows, unstable psychology, and tale of manipulation offer the same claustrophobic silent-horror mood, with visual stylization doing as much work as plot.
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01 / THE STORY
Alonzo the Armless is a circus freak who uses his feet to knife throwing and fire a rifle at his partner, Nanon. However, he is an impostor and fugitive. He has arms, but keeps them tightly bound to his torso, a secret known only to his friend Cojo, a midget. Alonzo's left hand has a polydactyly, which would identify him as the perpetrator of various crimes.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Alonzo the Armless
Cojo
Nanon Zanzi
