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Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (Review)
6 November 2009 10:26 PM, PST
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Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
Directed by Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea
[1]Serge Bromberg’s much-lauded documentary, on limited UK release from today, tells the story of revered French director Henri-Georges Clouzot's ill-fated attempt to create his cinematic opus: L’Enfer (‘Inferno’ or, more commonly, ‘Hell’). In 1964, Clouzot, working with an unlimited budget, a handpicked crew, and total creative autonomy, set out on the project which would live up to its name before long.
Clouzot made his reputation as a thriller director: his 1950s films The Wages of Fearand Diabolique earned him the sobriquet ‘the French Hitchcock’ and brought him great acclaim both in his native country as well as internationally. But it was L’Enfer that Clouzot hoped would create a lasting legacy; not just for him as a filmmaker but in its transformation of cinema itself. Shifts in the boundaries of visual effects, storytelling, psychological exposition – all of
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- Joel
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Ciff 2009: The winners! And our reviews
22 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT
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Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,
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- Roger Ebert
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Preview: The Best of the 45th Chicago International Film Festival, Week One
8 October 2009 8:51 AM, PDT
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Chicago – We’ve been working our way through the schedule for the upcoming 45th Annual Chicago International Film Festival, kicking off tonight with the premiere of “Motherhood,” starring Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, and Minnie Driver. We’ve watched dozens of films from some that stand among the best of the year to a few that stand among the worst. We’re here to focus on the former and point out a few highlights for your movie-going weekend.
The best films of the first week of the fest include a spectacular coming-of-age story, an intense drama, a fascinating documentary, and a Russian musical. The lineup at this year’s fest may be a little light on true gems that instantly jump out from the printed schedule, but it just means you’ll have to dig a little harder. There are great films on there. Here are a few.
The top tier
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Stage Fright: The Grand-guignol And The Popularity Of Horror
19 September 2009 7:54 PM, PDT
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While the phrase “grand-guignol” has become commonplace in describing anything bloody or gory, its origin has its roots in an almost forgotten theater at the end of one of Paris’ alleyways. This theater, which started out life as a Catholic church, became famous for showing blood, guts, dismemberment, thrown eyeballs, acid burned faces, and severed tongues.
The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (literally, The Theatre of the Large Puppet) was born in a part of town well-known for its roughnecks and whores in 1897. By the time it closed its doors for good in 1962 it had entertained hundreds of thousands of people and had a lasting influence on the worlds of literature, art, film, and theater.
The theater did not start out with the blood and guts, but was a theater dedicated to showing reality; taking its stories from the local papers. The theater had been running for several years before it hit
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (John Porter)
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Critics' Picks
27 June 2009 11:05 PM, PDT
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The New York Film Critics Circle, the nation's old est association of movie reviewers, turns 75 this year; and the Museum of Modern Art is marking the occasion with a 12-week series (Friday through Sept. 23) of award-winning films, each one chosen by a member of the group.
My choice, screening Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. and Sept. 10 at 4:30 p.m., is Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1954 French thriller "Les Diaboliques," shot in black and white, which does for bathtubs what Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" does for showers.
It unfolds in
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- By V.A. MUSETTO
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Blu-ray Review: The Wages of Fear (Criterion Collection)
21 April 2009 3:09 AM, PDT
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I saw Wages of Fear for the first time earlier this year, and approximately three weeks later Criterion announced it for a Blu-ray release and I couldn't have been any more ecstatic. My version of Wages of Fear is the bare bones DVD edition that comes in Criterion's Essential Art House Collection, so on top of now getting the special features from the previously released DVD edition, I was also going to get the film in HD. Hard to complain with that.
First off, the film itself sounds incredibly tedious if someone were to describe it to you in short as the majority of the film follows two pair of men as they are transporting two trucks filled with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain and jungle route where even the slightest bump could cause the entire truck to explode. Hearing this you would think it is two-and-a-half hours of slow moving trucks,
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- Brad Brevet
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