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 Still of the Night 
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Still of the Night is a 1982 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Robert Benton and starring Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Joe Grifasi, and Jessica Tandy. It was written by Benton and David Newman. Scheider plays a psychiatrist who falls in love with a woman (Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients.

The film is considered as an overt homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, emulating scenes from many of his movies: a bird attacks one character (as in The Birds), a scene takes place in an auction (as in North by Northwest), someone falls from a height (as in Vertigo and a number of other films), stuffed birds occupy a room (as in Psycho), and an important plot point is the interpretation of a dream (as in Spellbound). Meryl Streep's hair is styled much like Eva Marie Saint's was in North by Northwest, and the town of Glen Cove features in both films. Jessica Tandy also features both in this film, and in The Birds (1963) as the mother of the protagonist.

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I rather enjoyed this as the old fuddy-duddy I am or am slowly becoming. It's very much a The Streets of San Francisco or Columbo-esque tweed jacket mystery whodunnit, both of which I am very much a fan. Scheider and Streep are both enigmatic. It's slow-paced but engrossing like only an old fashioned suspense puzzler can be. It's probably also no surprise that it was an homage to Hitchcock and I enjoyed it so much - I consider him a master. It was adeptly plotted and photographed in his style, including, which by 1982 would have been considered outdated, that sort of fast-cut ending where someone falls of a cliff but you don't actually see what happens. That reminded me very much of a 50s chase thriller or something.

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