Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock
1945 US (1st time; DVD)
The new head of a psychiatry asylum turns out to be an amnesiac imposter.
Amusing in the wrong ways now: the jargon is meant to impress, and it may have done at the time, but today it's an obvious attempt to sound serious and grown-up. What may have had potential as a clever, visual film is marred by the talky narrative, which acts as a kind of running commentary to DalĂ­'s dream sequence, which forms the basis of Peck's character arc.

Scratch
Doug Pray
2001 US (2nd time; DVD)
More or less, the history of the DJ and his/her role in hip hop music.
A comprehensive list of notable hip-hop DJs - Q-Bert, Mixmaster Mike, Jazzy Jay, Z-Trip, Cut Chemist and Nu-Mark and Shadow, among many others - discuss their influences and approaches to their art, and what emerges is a celebration of turntablism as a kind of celebration in itself, a dedication to music in general.


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You go clickety click and get your head split.
'The hell you look like on a message board
Discussing whether or not the Brother is hardcore?