The Night Porter

“We were talking before about Catherine Breillat and danger in cinema and pushing things and this is certainly a film that really pushes things. This is by Liliana Cavani, The Night Porter, and an absolutely fearless performance by Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde. Deeply problematic, probably, and once upon a time you could make these types of movies, and you got to make them because no one would be questioning your sincerity and they would be trusting you.”

“Number 59, Night Porter. This movie, I can't tell you how big an effect it had on me. I'd never seen a movie with the content that this movie had in it. Father Gerarelli was the name of the priest and he took me through Italian Neorealism but he also threw all of it, I mean anything Italian he was showing me. Night Porter was just a special last movie that I got to say with him but it blew me away. I did a thing Dirk Bogarde does in the movie, a head swing, that meant I really liked it.”

“The Night Porter. Charlotte Rampling is a great hero of mine. I’ve always meant to see this, but it was one of those things that never happened.”

“I have to find where will I find The Night Porter? Oh, got it. This—oh, I like the cover. Yeah, it's a beautiful cover. A new one. So I think we have to start with that just because I don't have that on Blu-ray. When was the last time you watched The Night Porter? Very long time ago.”

“The Night Porter. That's,, I can't believe I haven't revisited this since seeing just,, stills from it in Playboy Magazine as a teen., that's going into the bag.”

“Night Porter. A friend of mine messaged me, saying, like, “Hey, do you know that Barney looks a lot like Dirk Bogarde?” I was like, “Who’s Dirk Bogarde?” And so I was like, “Oh, let’s watch some Dirk Bogarde films,” and Night Porter was one of the first ones. Quite the film. I would say that adept language of interiority and subjectivity. There’s a lot of brutality in it. The experience of these two people kind of going into oblivion. Like, they need each other like fish need water to breathe.”