The Brothers Quay - Tony Rayns (review date June 1986)
Tony Rayns (review date June 1986)
SOURCE: A review of Street of Crocodiles, in Monthly Film Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 629, June, 1986, p. 163.
[In the following positive review of Street of Crocodiles, Rayns examines various literary and cinematic influences on the film and on the Quays' general aesthetic approach, including the writings of Bruno Schulz and the avant-garde film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, Un chien andalou (1928).]
A somewhat decrepit caretaker enters an equally decrepit museum and (by accident or design) lets a gobbet of his saliva fall into a Kinetoscope machine. Inside the machine, mechanisms begin to turn over, wires run around pulleys, and flaps and hatches open. The puppet figure of a man is conjured into motion. The man severs the wires from which he hangs and begins an exploration of the "Street of Crocodiles", a suite of near-derelict rooms in which screws turn of their own volition at...
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