L’ENFER and the Fascination for the Unfinished
The fascination exerted by aborted film projects has reached a fever pitch in recent years, and a large part of the reason, I believe, was the partial reconstruction of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s L’ENFER
Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers
Disease Movies: An Informal History
With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance
CUT TO THE CHASE
A movie book that’s as gossipy, informative and entertaining as anyone could possibly want
THE MISADVENTURES OF THE NEW SATAN
1964’s PÕRGUPÕHJA UUS VANAPAGAN, a.k.a. DEVIL WITH A FALSE PASSPORT, DEVIL ON EARTH, THE NEW DEVIL OF HELLSBOTTOM or (as the film is most commonly known) THE MISADVENTURES OF THE NEW SATAN, is all-but completely unknown in the English speaking world but widely considered a classic of Estonian cinema
Robert Forster: 1941-2019
2019 is shaping up as, among other things, a year in which quite a few vital character actors breathed their last breath
Sid Haig: 1939-2019
Oftentimes it can be difficult to grasp just how much a skilled supporting player adds to the movies s/he graces—until, that is, the player in question is no longer with us
THE MAN WHO THOUGHT LIFE
This 1969 science fiction mindbender hails from Denmark, and remains one of the better films of its type
PORCILE
This 1969 Italian import is one of the odder films made by the late Pier Paolo Pasolini
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
The word for this quasi-satirical brainwashing thriller is dated