Purple Noon (1960; dir. René Clément)—After finishing Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley last week, I watched Clément’s take on Highsmith’s most famous creation, a handsome young psychopath on a murder-filled European vacation. My most vivid memory of Anthony Minghella’s 1999 adaptation — a brief scene on a boat when Philip Seymour Hoffman started […]