Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
So, as we saw in part 1 of this brief series of trailers inspired by this week’s box office rivalry between “Paranormal Activity” and “Saw VI,” in England in 1960 director Michael Powell made an artful but, at least by today’s standards, gently disturbing film — without a speck of blood or gore — about [...]
Another trailer from the year when, all of a sudden, major filmmakers around the world started to go where almost no one had gone before cinematically. Georges Franju’s haunting “Eyes Without a Face” certainly doesn’t rely on graphic horror. However, it’s highly clinical skin grafting scene reportedly terrified audiences and — full disclosure — caused me [...]...
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex (Channing Pollock) whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux (Michel Vitold) unleashes a complicated series of schemes. The film is defined by its complex twists...
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name,...
If you (presuming you are a heterosexual male, or a lesbian) had Anouk Aimee as a girlfriend, wouldn't you be on your best behavior, so as to get the hell out of the insane asylum? Alas, since you ask, it...
DVD Video Review: In a French village, a schoolteacher's infatuation has explosive consequences in Mademoiselle, a 1966 drama scripted by Jean Genet, starring Jeanne Moreau and directed by Tony Richardson. Gary Couzens reviews the UK release from Optimum, which is par...
Renaissance man of the Fantastique, Tim Lucas is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, critic, and blogger. A select few of his most recent achievements include the completion of the acclaimed biography Mario Bava: All The Colors Of The Dark and shepherding Video Watchdog to its 150th issue. He’s forgotten more about strange cinema than [...]
DVD Video Review: The debut feature of director Georges Franju is a compelling look into the treatment of mental illness. The film comes to DVD in the UK via the Masters of Cinema series.
Tuesday Sep 1 (noon) @ Phyllis Wattis Theater Experimental filmmaker and SFMOMA projectionist Paul Clipson presents three short documentaries that slyly subvert the genre's supposed claim to factual objectivity. Land Without Bread (1933) is Luis Buñuel's sardonic ethnographic study on the savage destitution in Spain's Las Hurdes region. Georges Franju's Hotel des Invalides (1952) transforms...
Instead of picking through which titles I listed last time around , I've simply narrowed this list of upcoming DVDs in the UK to the titles released after 1 July 09. Keep in mind that the release dates may change without notice (or be canceled), and the DVDs that begin with an asterisk are ones that have rolled over from the last update; the ones in bold are still unavailable in the US (or haven't...
News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Georges Franju's La Tête contre les murs as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 21st September 2009 priced at £19.99. An intense study of the clash between medical ideals, the first full...
Eyes without a Face mixes horror with eerie visual artistry-a true masterpiece of the genre. A simple plot consisting of a mad plastic surgeon kidnapping young women for 'donors' to save his daughter's mutilated face, is transformed into a disturbing fairy tale of guilt and obsession. My Ten Favourite Horror Films: 1: The Shining 2: Eraserhead 3: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955) 4: Eyes without...
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