Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Inside might have been a horror classic if it didn’t, at key intervals, diffuse some of its tension through easy-shortcut storytelling that calls undue attention to the director’s manipulative hand. Four months after she (but not her baby’s daddy) survived...
MySpace.com (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Ah, "foreign" films. Foreign to what', one may ask. I deal in words, they're the toys in my sandbox, and I've gotta say that I don't really dig the "foreign films" moniker. You mean films from countri...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
For a long time I was of the opinion I'd see anything with French actress Beatrice Dalle in it. My obsession dated back to 1986's "Betty Blue," which featured a performance by Dalle of such typhoon-like passion and intensity that nothing she's done since even comes close. Still, I indulged her, out of gratitude or infatuation, catching every film I found that had her name in the credits. This was no...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
ShockTillYouDrop.com says that French Inside duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are in discussions with Dimension Films about directing the follow-up to Rob Zombie's Halloween . Zombie's film made $78 million worldwide.
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Thanks to Gala.fr , I discovered some quotes by the incomparable Miss Béatrice Dalle. She mentioned her admiration for Isabelle Huppert as an actress (of course; the two starred together in Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup [ Time of the Wolf ]). And did you ever wonder what makes Mlle Dalle shiver? Pasolini's films. Above is a photo that I accidentally, and amiably, stumbled upon using the Google...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
News: Momentum Pictures have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Paris Lockdown on 23rd June 2008 priced at £15.99. Produced by Eric Névé (Dobermann) and directed by Frederic Schoendoerffer (director of the Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassell thriller...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The uncertain status of the image in Claire Denis's cinema, its immeasurable limits, whether forward into the spectator’s perceptual space, backward into the abstract terrain of signification, or sideways within its own narrative space – Laura McMahon discusses the crucial use of off-screen space in Beau travail – tends to create a distinct sense of unease in the spectator, or what Beugnet identifies...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Why are we so ashamed of the Eighties? Don't believe us? OK, why then do we always associate it with greed and excess? Why do we laugh at the fashion mistakes? Why do we find ourselves hiding the 80s tracks we've downloaded into ouriPods? It's true. In the Decades family, the 1980s is like the brash middle brother no one talks to at functions because he's obsessed with money, carries a phone the size...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
James Sherwood: Orsolya, you're at that tipping point of a young fashionista's career when work experience at the glossies is turning into your first commissions as a stylist and designer.
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
With the introduction of the Saw franchise into the mainstream film mentality a few years ago, along with Eli Roth’s Hostel movies, a new type of horror, commonly referred to as torture porn, has been introduced. Constantly one-upping each other in terms of gore and violence, these films seek to disturb the viewer not with [...]
IGN (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Former Hellraiser directors raise hell in their horrific first film.
Chip Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
When Gabby poked me with the end of a broom this morning, I knew it was time for my triumphant return to the world of blogging. There were too many things that needed to be said. 'Chip, you get out of bed right now!' she scolded as she pressed the handle into my right buttock. 'You dirty dirty man! Dirty!' I could see the reasons for Romanian disgust. I'd gone to sleep a little too quickly last
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The Daily Mail is wondering Why are French politicians so much more glamorous than ours? Good question:
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Inside [ À l'interieur ] – dir. Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury – 2007 – France I’ve certainly been wrong in my championing of certain horror films. By wrong of course, I mean “unpopular,” as I seemed considerably more enthusiastic about George Ratliff’s Joshua than just about everyone else. However, I like to think my passion for Inside will not be singular. Inside is, well, an absolutely uncompromising...
