Marie-poupée
Marie-poupée (1976) is generally considered to be Joël Séria’s finest feature film. For Marie-poupée Séria re-teamed with actress Jeanne Goupil whom he had worked with on the far better known… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Hours & Times
In 1963 John Lennon went on holiday with Brian Epstein in Barcelona. Cynthia Lennon had just given birth to John’s son Julian. In less than a year’s time The Beatles… Read more »
Rote Lippen, Sadisterotica
Rote Lippen, Sadisterotica (1969) is Jesús Franco’s ultra campy send-up of the sixties’ spy thriller. This German-Spanish co-production feels like a parody of an episode of The Avengers but with… Read more »
Kekko Kamen
Kekko Kamen (1991) is a live-action adaptation by Go Nagai of his own manga series of the same name. Kakko Kamen is both campy and satirical; an ironically erotic adventure… Read more »
Chinesisches Roulette
Chinesisches Roulette (1976) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s macabre marriage farce. It’s a film of cold spaces occupied by unloving individuals caught in a series of maneuvers attempting to gain the… Read more »
Tick, Tick… Boom!
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film Tick, Tick… Boom! (2021) is an adaptation of David Auburn’s adaptation of Jonathan Lason’s stage musical of the same name. Miranda’s debut is about what one would… Read more »
The Hot Spot
Just about every ten years Dennis Hopper made one genuine masterpiece. First there was the formally avant-garde The Last Movie (1971), followed by the gritty drama Out Of The Blue… Read more »
The Beatles: Get Back
Walt Disney Studios has taken the hundreds of hours of film that Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed in January of 1969 and turned it over to the filmmaker responsible for bringing Tolkien… Read more »
Kung-fu Master!
With Kung-fu Master! (1988) legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda turns her lens towards an inverted Lolita narrative where a middle aged woman (Jane Birkin) has a love affair with her daughter’s… Read more »
Holiday Affair
Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh) is a widow, raising her son Timmy (Gordon Gebert) alone. One day, while working as a comparative shopper for a department store, she meets Steve Mason… Read more »
