(Here's something I wrote last summer but forgot to post back then. Just a couple of short reviews for 2 Fulci flicks I happened to watch in a row. I guess this would've been a little more relevant back then, since Una sull'altra had been recently released and All'onorevole piacciono le donne was about to come out too. Oh well.)

All'onorevole ( Read more... )

Because he has a short memory, man accumulates countless aide-mémoires.

Confronted with these bulging repositories, man is assailed by a fear of being engulfed by this mass of words. To assure his liberty, he builds fortresses.

Thus begins the narration to Alain Resnais' 1956 short film Toute la Mémoire du Monde, a portrayal of Bibliothèque Nationale ( Read more... )

La Novia ensangrentada (Blood Spattered Bride) - dir. Vicente Aranda (1972)

70's Spanish horror movie industry seems dwarfed in comparison to the vast amount of Italian exploitation churned out at the time. Spanish directors, however, were able to produce films of unparallelled strangeness with considerable consistency. As for the reasons, one needs ( Read more... )

I'm so happy I finally found it:

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La Philosophie dans le boudoir (Beyond Love And Evil) - dir. Jacques Scandelari (1969)

Many adaptations of de Sade's titular play were made during the heyday of messed-up soft porn cinema. This one's quite literal, with one remarkable exception: the main character - the only one with supposedly impeccable moral standards - is male. Zenoff (Lucas De ( Read more... )

Many a sixties band had seen their rise and fall by the early years of the next decade, resulting in an influx of solo efforts. This was, after all, the perfect time to try and make it as a singer-songwriter, what with all the Don McLeans and the Jackson Brownes making the big bucks. During the occasional bouts of renewed interest in the singer- ( Read more... )

Downtown 81 A.K.A. New York Beat Movie - dir. Edo Bertoglio (2001)

This fictional romp through the early 80's New York with Jean-Michel Basquiat mainly seems to serve the purpose of advertising the whole post punk/no wave scene. The sparse storyline accentuates the constructed nature of this particular image, although most of the time the events ( Read more... )

When it comes to housekeeping I'm a complete nightmare as I tend to spend all my money on music and film. Still in some respects I'm kind of stingy at the same time. I know what I want and rarely buy anything at a price I wouldn't consider an exceptionally good deal. The fact that I'm interested in such diverse things helps, because there's always ( Read more... )

Lili - dir. Charles Walters (1953)

I can't quite explain what made me watch this - maybe the fact that one of my favourite records of all time  has Tim Buckley singing the theme song as a middle part of his own "Carnival Song" (although as I found out, his rendition has very little to do with the annoying original as performed in the film). It might ( Read more... )

Singapore Sling - dir. Nikos Nikolaidis (1990)

I have a cautious attitude towards notoriously "extreme" films because more often than not they tend to overestimate their visual power: you try to watch the movie, but all you can think of is the director going "aren't I daring and uncompromising?" The more obvious it is the film is meant to be either ( Read more... )