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Georges Franju's last film needs to be understood in relation to the trying circumstances in which it was made, as outlined by writer and actor Jacques Champreux in the interview included as an extra on the Eureka 'Masters of Cinema' series DVD, where the film is double billed with Judex . The original plan was for a contemporary remake of Louis Feuillade's Fantômas , one which would be as shocking...
My review of Georges Franju's Judex has also gone live over at Videovista.I requested this film because, on paper, it looks amazing. It's an adapted remake of a work of French silent genre cinema. The original Judex was directed by...
Here is the cover art for what promises to be another one of the year's best releases, the remastered Region 2 disc of Georges Franju's fantastic Judex from Eureka's Masters of Cinema Collection . I recently finally saw this extraordinary film via a truly terrible VHS copy and I can't wait to get a look at this new disc. The DVD also contains Franju's Nuits Rouges as a bonus. The couple of discs I...
Years ago I saw Georges Franju's surrealist thriller, JUDEX. And every now and again I think about it. Sometimes when drawing - I love to draw men in suits but dislike wearing them - sometimes when taking photographs (here is one I took last summer.) Now I see that Franju's near-forgotten masterpiece is about to be re-issued on DVD.
Edith Scob in Eyes Without a Face [Les yeux sans visage] (dir. Georges Franju, 1959). Alida Valli. Juliette Mayniel. A dubbed version of Franju's film was released in the US in 1962 as The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus (on a double bill with The Manster ). I'm thinking that, aside from the vocal synching, it must not have looked too terribly different to American viewers from other horror movies of...
News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Judex + Nuits Rouges Two Films by Georges Franju as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 25th August 2008 priced at £24.99. Co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française and director of Eyes...
The latest print edition of Kino Fist is out, and infinite thØught indexes a handful of pieces online. In her essay on Le Sang de bêtes, Emmy Hennings quotes director Georges Franju: "I didn't make this film because I...
Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage, 1959) Director: Georges Franju The Devil Rides Out (1967) Director: Terence Fisher By Roderick Heath What's the greatest horror film ever made? Everyone will have a different answer to that, of...
Highly Recommended Since Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle , the conditions in slaughterhouses have been a source of concern and fascination to North Americans and Europeans. From Georges Franju's starkly beautiful and gruesome short documentary, Blood of the Beasts ( Le Sang des B tes ) in 1949, to Richard Linklater's recent fictionalized film adaptation of Eric Schlosser's expos Fast Food Nation...
I wrote a short piece on Georges Franju's Les Yeux sans visage for the Auteurs' Notebook . (The piece contains serious spoilers.) Les Yeux screens once more at Anthology Film Archives on Wednesday, March 19 at 7 pm.
"Cinema of cruelty, cinema of the absurd, cinema of extreme situations - French filmmaker Georges Franju (1912 - 1987) combined them all in a cinema of bile," writes J Hoberman. "Anthology Film Archives' survey Le Grand Franju opens Friday...
Starting this Friday, Anthology Film Archives will devote a week to French director Georges Franju, screening four of his features and a program of short works. Here's a scan of an L. A. Reader article (pages one and two ) that I wrote on the occasion of a similar Franju retrospective in 1983.
