The Ninth Gate (1999): Knocking on the Door… to Nowhere
2023-08-11
Dean Corso leaves New York for Europe and fucks the Devil.Continue Reading
Elle (2016)
2020-04-15
Where Hollywood actresses fear to tread, you may see Huppert running a hopscotch tournament.Continue Reading
The Cinema of Kubrick in Irreversible?
2017-03-07
For better or worse, cinema’s enfant terrible of yore and current hack artist Gaspar Noe is, to many, above any introduction except yours truly will dispense one anyway, so I promise to keep it short. Pouty SaudiSometimes rowdy, sometimes pouty.Continue Reading
La Haine (1995)
2015-03-16
Far from the tour de force treatments of similar subject matter often aspire to, La Haine is no less a poetic coup de maitre of filmmaking. Inspired by the mid 80s Paris demonstrations, footage of which is used to open the film, it required a little creative license of KassovitzContinue Reading
Ils (Them)
2014-11-24
Ils is the 2006 French horror film starring Olivia Bonamy & Michaël Cohen. Written and directed by David Moreau & Xavier Palud. Given how “based on” films are often the telltale signifiers of the dearth of original material to glean a full feature from, Ils is far from the usualContinue Reading
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
2014-09-23
The two times I sat in parts of it, I don’t remember Brotherhood of the Wolf being the sloppy, hodgepodge I finally saw in totality last night. Pouty SaudiSometimes rowdy, sometimes pouty.Continue Reading
