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Night Tide (1961) by Curtis Harrington - cranefly - 09-08-2018
This is the featured September movie for nicolas winding refn's site I mentioned here:
http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=4588
Night Tide stars a very young Dennis Hopper as a sailor on shore leave who meets and falls madly in love with a young woman who may or may not be a mermaid.
It's got some quirky bits, but overall is a bit too slow and standard for my tastes. Still, it shows unusual intelligence in the storytelling and details. For instance, Dennis gets a tarot reading at one point, and though it isn't a long scene, still, the whole belief system and meanings of the cards and their positions are presented quite well.
By most accounts, Curtis Harrington was shamefully underrated as a writer and director. But there's probably better introductions than this to his ouvre.
He was a part of the avant-garde crowd back in the day and was involved with filmmaker Maya Dayan -- about whom I'll have more to say later and elsewhere.