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20 juin 2010

Claude Chabrol Week 2/7 : Unfaithful Wife

UNFAITHFUL WIFE (LA FEMME INFIDELE) (France 1969) Directed by Claude Chabrol Directly following the release in March 68 of his incredible bisexual love triangle drama "Les Biches", French New Wave master Claude Chabrol initiated another exploration of...

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Tags: Audran, Chabrol, Bouquet, Duchaussoy, Femme Infidèle, Ronet, Unfaithful Wife

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28 juin 2010

Hammer Time! : The Curse of the Werewolf

THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (UK 1961) Directed by Terence Fisher Classy English horror today. The British company Hammer Films, best provider of euro horror pictures in the sixties, offered brilliant reinterpretations of the great myths of the genre. But...

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Tags: Hammer, Oliver Reed, Reed, Terence Fisher, UK, Yvonne Romain, werewolf

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20 juin 2010

Claude Chabrol Week 4/7 : The Butcher

THE BUTCHER (LE BOUCHER) (France/Italy 1970) Directed by Claude Chabrol As the legend (and wikipedia) now says : "The Butcher is one of the two films Alfred Hitchcock stated that he wished he had made". I don't know what was the other one, although Clouzot's...

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Tags: Audran, Chabrol, French, Jean Yanne, Eurothriller, Yanne

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22 juin 2010

Claude Chabrol Week 6/7 : Nada!

NADA ! (France/Italy 1974) Directed by Claude Chabrol After the string of great films he made between 1968 and 70, Claude Chabrol got access to bigger budgets and bigger projects. Those would prove to be fatal to the delicate balance the French director...

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Tags: Chabrol, Duchaussoy, Fabio Testi, Michel Aumont, leftist cinema

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19 juin 2010

Claude Chabrol Week 1/7 : Bad Girls

BAD GIRLS (LES BICHES) (France 1968) Directed by Claude Chabrol This incredible film was made in 1968 and kicks off our week devoted to the greatest cycle of Claude Chabrol's work. The prolific French director, a baron of the New Wave who is still active...

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Tags: Audran, Biches, Chabrol, French, Sassard, Trintignant

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1 juillet 2010

Hammer Time! : When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth!

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH (UK 1970) Directed by Val Guest If you want entertainment, nothing beats shapely cave girls catfighting in suede bikinis. That and dinosaurs of course. The great men behind English production company Hammer Films understood...

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Tags: Hammer, J.G. Ballard, Val Guest, Victoria Vetri, cave girls, dinosaurs

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22 juin 2010

Claude Chabrol Week 5/7 : The Breach

FTHE BREACH (LA RUPTURE) (France/Italy/Belgium 1970) Directed by Claude Chabrol Veteran French director Claude Chabrol has turned over the years into an old humorous bourgeois figure, who loves nothing more than entertain French TV and radio talk shows...

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Tags: Audran, Chabrol, French, Duchaussoy, Jean-Pierre Cassel

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24 juin 2010

Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (USA / Mexico 1974) Directed by Sam Peckinpah Following the commercial failure of "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" in 73, director Sam Peckinpah started to work on a low budget film, shot in Mexico. The idea for this...

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Tags: Alfredo Garcia, Bring me the Head, Oates, Peckinpah, Sam Peckinpah

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26 juin 2010

The Magic Christian

THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN (UK 1969) Directed by Joseph McGrath Ringo Starr + Peter Sellers. Now THAT's what you call a "cult movie". And an absolute must for Beatles fans ( if you are, you have already seen it, so what's the point of me saying it? Well I don't...

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Tags: Beatles, Christopher Lee, Paul McCartney, Magic Christian, Monty Python

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20 juin 2010

Claude Chabrol Week 3/7 : This Man Must Die

THIS MAN MUST DIE (QUE LA BETE MEURE) (France 1969) Directed by Claude Chabrol At the time of "Unfaithful Wife"'s release in January 69, Chabrol was already into his new project, a revenge film called "This Man Must Die" ("Que la Bête Meure", in French),...

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Tags: Chabrol, French, Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne

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22 juin 2010

Claude Chabrol Week 7/7 : Dirty Hands

DIRTY HANDS (LES INNOCENTS AUX MAINS SALES) (France/Italy/Germany 1975) Directed by Claude Chabrol Another film noir by Chabrol to conclude this week dedicated to the French director, this one released in 1975. This is an adaptation of a novel by suspense...

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Tags: Chabrol, Rochefort, Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider

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15 juin 2010

The Biggest Bond of all!

THUNDERBALL (UK 1965) Directed by Robert Young. Enjoy the movie : In November 65, a month before "Thunderball", the fourth James Bond film premièred, Sean Connery gave a great int erview to Playboy magazine about 007. This is how Bond talked, in 65 :...

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Tags: 007, Bond, Connery, Eurospy, Thunderball, spies, spy

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16 juin 2010

Samurai and Gunfighters

THE 5-MAN ARMY (Italy 1969) Directed by Don Taylor & Italo Zingarelli. Not the most original of the sixties' EuroWesterns, "The 5-Man Army" is nonetheless a fun ride, if only for the number of cool people involved. Set during the Mexican revolution (...

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17 juin 2010

The Idi Amin Dada Show

GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA : A SELF PORTRAIT (France 1974) Directed by Barbet Schroeder General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (French: Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait ) is a 1974 documentary film by French director Barbet Schroeder. The film depicts Ugandan...

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