Commodity: Paul Newman as Doug Roberts. Could there be a cooler architect?
2. THE BLACK CAT (1934)
Commodity: Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig, one of those psychopathic Satan-worshipping modernist architects who hangs the preserved corpses of his sacrificed lovers in glass-coffins along the corridors of his pseudo-Bauhaus mansion erected on top of a dynamite-filled former military fortress. You know the type.
3. DEAD OF NIGHT (1945)
Commodity: Mervyn Johns as the workaday architect visiting a country house and assorted guests all of which he recognizes from a recurring nightmare.
4. THE BELLY OF AN ARCHITECT (1987)
Commodity: Brian Dennehy attempting to curate an exhibition in honour of his visionary 18th century predecessor Boulle
5. DON'T LOOK NOW (1973)
Commodity: Grief-ridden Donald Sutherland restoring an old Venetian church.
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