Last night I, too, put in BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, to listen to the commentary by Nick Redman, Julie Kirgo, and Lem Dobbs. It is, not surprisingly, enlightening and entertaining from first word to last, and I was truly blown away by the film this time, even as it ran silently over the conversation.
I can echo everything BK said about it, while adding that in addition to the stunning black and white scope, the composition of each shot is perfection. Each and every shot. In long held shots in which a character might be moving across the screen, or different characters might be coming or going, or even when the camera pans a little bit ... every segment of that shot is a thing of beauty. While your eye is never distracted from what's important, the complexity of each frame is something to marvel over.
In addition to the DAVID AND LISA "type" casting of Keir Dullea, audiences also knew from the likes of Anthony Perkins that that "sensitive looking young man" might be trouble.
Paul Glass had just scored LADY IN A CAGE, so there you have two wildly differing but genius black and white thrillers of the golden age, with two wildly differing but genius scores from the same composer.
I thrilled to these kinds of movies like no others in those days. This is a prized Blu-ray.
