In 1866, Gustave Courbet painted The Origin of the World, a portrait of a woman’s nude torso and exposed vagina that still possesses the capacity to shock the straitlaced. On one level, the painting proves pretty definitively that there’s a fine line between a timeless work of art and a beaver shot. On another, it provides a convenient precursor for the cinematic sensibility of Spanish maverick Jess Franco, who seemingly never met a pussy he didn’t want to zoom unabashedly in on. This holds especially true for Lorna the Exorcist, wherein the female genitalia play a significant thematic as well as aesthetic role.
For what it’s worth, the film bears only the slightest passing resemblance to the William Friedkin classic that it’s ostensibly ripping off. Both films focus on a character located on the cusp between childhood and womanhood (though here she’s a bit of...
For what it’s worth, the film bears only the slightest passing resemblance to the William Friedkin classic that it’s ostensibly ripping off. Both films focus on a character located on the cusp between childhood and womanhood (though here she’s a bit of...
- 10/18/2023
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
The second of nine films made by director Jess Franco and writer-producer Harry Alan Towers over the course of only two years, The Girl from Rio is their jazzy, featherweight riff on the spy-fi genre, a heady blend of international intrigue and semi-science-fictional elements, popular (especially in Europe) in the wake of the James Bond films. It’s also a sequel of sorts to Towers’s earlier film The Million Eyes of Sumuru, directed by Lindsay Shonteff, based on the exploits of the Sax Rohmer super-villainess. Though in this film, for some inexplicable reason, the character is regularly referred to as Sunanda (obviously and not very convincingly dubbed in post) and listed in the credits as Sumitra. Blame it on Rio!
Like many a Franco film, The Girl from Rio opens with a protracted erotic dance routine: Clad only in a webbed body stocking, Yana (Beni Cardoso) does her number for a recumbent man,...
Like many a Franco film, The Girl from Rio opens with a protracted erotic dance routine: Clad only in a webbed body stocking, Yana (Beni Cardoso) does her number for a recumbent man,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
Broadway box office was down 6% last week – the second week of the 2023-24 season – with even some Tony-nominated productions taking noticeable hits. Camelot, New York, New York, Life of Pi, Fat Ham, Parade, Prima Facie and Shucked were among the productions reporting at least some box office slippage.
In all, the 34 productions grossed $31,144,237 for the week ending June 4, with attendance of 263,096 down about 5% from the previous week. The attendance was at about 84% of capacity.
Some of the notable figures:
Life of Pi, with five Tony nominations including direction, was down about 13% from the previous week, with a gross of $433,904, and attendance of 5,266 was down about 18%; New York, New York was off 9% from the previous week, grossing $859,285 and playing to 74% of attendance capacity; Camelot was off 8% to $747,958, filling 80% of seats.
A Beautiful Noise, a Tony nominee shut-out, grossed $875,807, a tiny drop of less than a percentage point from the previous week.
In all, the 34 productions grossed $31,144,237 for the week ending June 4, with attendance of 263,096 down about 5% from the previous week. The attendance was at about 84% of capacity.
Some of the notable figures:
Life of Pi, with five Tony nominations including direction, was down about 13% from the previous week, with a gross of $433,904, and attendance of 5,266 was down about 18%; New York, New York was off 9% from the previous week, grossing $859,285 and playing to 74% of attendance capacity; Camelot was off 8% to $747,958, filling 80% of seats.
A Beautiful Noise, a Tony nominee shut-out, grossed $875,807, a tiny drop of less than a percentage point from the previous week.
- 6/7/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
While George Harrison was secure in his identity as an artist outside of The Beatles, he couldn’t help but be self-deprecating about his achievements. In his time with the band, Harrison reached heights that most musicians can only dream about. Still, Harrison said that he wasn’t good at many of his musical pursuits. Here are three times Harrison was self-deprecating.
George Harrison | Fox Photos/Getty Images George Harrison had a self-deprecating opinion about his first song
For Harrison’s first several years in The Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the band’s sole songwriters. They worked together and penned all the band’s early hits. The longer Harrison was in The Beatles, though, the more his interest in songwriting grew.
His first song to make it on a Beatles album was 1963’s “Don’t Bother Me,” which he wrote while sick.
“I was a bit run...
George Harrison | Fox Photos/Getty Images George Harrison had a self-deprecating opinion about his first song
For Harrison’s first several years in The Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the band’s sole songwriters. They worked together and penned all the band’s early hits. The longer Harrison was in The Beatles, though, the more his interest in songwriting grew.
His first song to make it on a Beatles album was 1963’s “Don’t Bother Me,” which he wrote while sick.
“I was a bit run...
- 3/22/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
George Harrison was the youngest member of The Beatles, but he was a talented enough guitar player that his age didn’t matter. John Lennon was slightly embarrassed by his younger bandmate at first, but he came to accept Harrison. Still, both Lennon and McCartney treated him as a younger brother. This began to wear on Harrison, who wondered if he wasn’t able to do anything besides play the guitar.
George Harrison | Max Scheler – K & K/Redferns The guitarist was the youngest member of The Beatles
Harrison met McCartney on the bus to school, and the two bonded over their love of music. When McCartney joined Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen, he pushed for the group to welcome Harrison as well.
“I know this guy,” McCartney told Lennon, per the book George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thomson. “He’s a bit young, but he’s good.
George Harrison | Max Scheler – K & K/Redferns The guitarist was the youngest member of The Beatles
Harrison met McCartney on the bus to school, and the two bonded over their love of music. When McCartney joined Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen, he pushed for the group to welcome Harrison as well.
“I know this guy,” McCartney told Lennon, per the book George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thomson. “He’s a bit young, but he’s good.
- 2/7/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
We now know how Arrow‘s Mia — who lives as a grown-up in the year 2040 or so — will figure into the conclusion of The Flash‘s five-part “Armageddon” event.
Now two episodes into its five-week run, “Armageddon” has Barry Allen (played by Grant Gustin) puzzling over his alleged role in the titular destruction of Earth in the year 2031. Thus far, Barry has hung out with Brandon Routh’s Ray Palmer/The Atom (from Legends of Tomorrow), Supergirl‘s Chyler Leigh appeared as Alex Danvers via a video chat, and at the close of Part 2 Barry met up with Cress Williams...
Now two episodes into its five-week run, “Armageddon” has Barry Allen (played by Grant Gustin) puzzling over his alleged role in the titular destruction of Earth in the year 2031. Thus far, Barry has hung out with Brandon Routh’s Ray Palmer/The Atom (from Legends of Tomorrow), Supergirl‘s Chyler Leigh appeared as Alex Danvers via a video chat, and at the close of Part 2 Barry met up with Cress Williams...
- 11/24/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Need to catch up? Read our previous Riverdale recap here.
Riverdale cooked up a good old-fashioned ghost story this week… and another key character made the ultimate sacrifice.
More from TVLineRiverdale Boss Confirms Premiere's Shocking Death and Warns 'That's Only the Start of the Body Count'Riverdale Boss Teases Horror-Themed 'Rivervale' Event, Sabrina Crossover: 'Why Didn't We Do This Sooner?'Batwoman's Nick Creegan Breaks Down That Marquis Twist, Teases 'a Stressful Season' Ahead for the Bat Team
The action starts with a vicious gang brawl between the Serpents and the Ghoulies that leads to Toni accidentally killing Darla’s son Danny.
Riverdale cooked up a good old-fashioned ghost story this week… and another key character made the ultimate sacrifice.
More from TVLineRiverdale Boss Confirms Premiere's Shocking Death and Warns 'That's Only the Start of the Body Count'Riverdale Boss Teases Horror-Themed 'Rivervale' Event, Sabrina Crossover: 'Why Didn't We Do This Sooner?'Batwoman's Nick Creegan Breaks Down That Marquis Twist, Teases 'a Stressful Season' Ahead for the Bat Team
The action starts with a vicious gang brawl between the Serpents and the Ghoulies that leads to Toni accidentally killing Darla’s son Danny.
- 11/24/2021
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
The following contains spoilers from the Nov. 23 episode of The CW’s The Flash.
This week on The Flash — in the style of a February episode of CBS’ NCIS (as well as a September 2017 episode of Blue Bloods) — it became increasingly clear (to us if not to Barry Allen) that a major character had died months prior, off-camera.
More from TVLineBatwoman's Nick Creegan Breaks Down That Marquis Twist, Teases 'a Stressful Season' Ahead for the Bat TeamHere Is How Arrow's Mia Figures Into The Flash's 'Armageddon' FinaleTV Ratings: Queens, The Resident and Flash Eye Lows, La Brea Slips
That character is(/was?...
This week on The Flash — in the style of a February episode of CBS’ NCIS (as well as a September 2017 episode of Blue Bloods) — it became increasingly clear (to us if not to Barry Allen) that a major character had died months prior, off-camera.
More from TVLineBatwoman's Nick Creegan Breaks Down That Marquis Twist, Teases 'a Stressful Season' Ahead for the Bat TeamHere Is How Arrow's Mia Figures Into The Flash's 'Armageddon' FinaleTV Ratings: Queens, The Resident and Flash Eye Lows, La Brea Slips
That character is(/was?...
- 11/24/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
When Denis Villeneuve first approached costume designer Jacqueline West to work on Dune, she flatly refused. “‘No, I don’t do sci-fi,'” West remembers telling the filmmaker.
Determined, Villeneuve circled back weeks later and asked again, but West wouldn’t budge. “Denis, I love your work,” she told him, “but this just isn’t my genre.”
A former high-fashion designer turned costume creator, West has been nominated for three Oscars, all for acclaimed period films: Philip Kaufman’s Marquis De Sade biopic Quills (2000), David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ...
Determined, Villeneuve circled back weeks later and asked again, but West wouldn’t budge. “Denis, I love your work,” she told him, “but this just isn’t my genre.”
A former high-fashion designer turned costume creator, West has been nominated for three Oscars, all for acclaimed period films: Philip Kaufman’s Marquis De Sade biopic Quills (2000), David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ...
- 11/3/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
When Denis Villeneuve first approached costume designer Jacqueline West to work on Dune, she flatly refused. “‘No, I don’t do sci-fi,'” West remembers telling the filmmaker.
Determined, Villeneuve circled back weeks later and asked again, but West wouldn’t budge. “Denis, I love your work,” she told him, “but this just isn’t my genre.”
A former high-fashion designer turned costume creator, West has been nominated for three Oscars, all for acclaimed period films: Philip Kaufman’s Marquis De Sade biopic Quills (2000), David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ...
Determined, Villeneuve circled back weeks later and asked again, but West wouldn’t budge. “Denis, I love your work,” she told him, “but this just isn’t my genre.”
A former high-fashion designer turned costume creator, West has been nominated for three Oscars, all for acclaimed period films: Philip Kaufman’s Marquis De Sade biopic Quills (2000), David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ...
- 11/3/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Peter Cushing! Christopher Lee! Each is at the top of his game, playing competing collectors of occult incunabula — the kind that comes with a satanic curse, when the purloined item in question is the Skull Of The infamous, despicable and sharp-toothed Marquis De Sade! Freddie Francis directs up a storm in this amicable Amicus chiller: the mysterious skull-duggery is beautifully shot and edited, giving the horror scenes real Bite.
The Skull
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 83 min. / Street Date March 14, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Nigel Green, Jill Bennett, Michael Gough, Ceorge Couloris, Christopher Lee.
Cinematography: John Wilcox
Art Direction: Bill Constable
Film Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Original Music: Elisabeth Lutyens
Written by Milton Subotsky from a story by Robert Bloch
Produced by Milton Subotsky, Max J. Rosenberg
Directed by Freddie Francis
Nine years ago Legend Films brought us a DVD of this 1965 horror item,...
The Skull
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 83 min. / Street Date March 14, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Nigel Green, Jill Bennett, Michael Gough, Ceorge Couloris, Christopher Lee.
Cinematography: John Wilcox
Art Direction: Bill Constable
Film Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Original Music: Elisabeth Lutyens
Written by Milton Subotsky from a story by Robert Bloch
Produced by Milton Subotsky, Max J. Rosenberg
Directed by Freddie Francis
Nine years ago Legend Films brought us a DVD of this 1965 horror item,...
- 4/1/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Marquis de Sade was a French revolutionary politician, writer and philosopher who gifted the world with his libertine novels – Justine, Juliette and Philosophy in the Bedroom. He also produced the 120 Days of Sodom – a masterpiece of transgressive literature – a work that the Marquis spoke of wanting to present to the world – “the most impure tale that has ever been written since the world exists”.
Much speculation has centred on de Sade’s life – that he held orgies in which people were whipped, tortured and depraved. His name gave us the word ‘sadism’ which means cruelty and violence and it is particularly associated with sexual practices that are extreme in nature.
From almost the beginning of cinema, film makers have been applying their Sadean aesthetics onto the silver screen. We can see this in Luis Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou (1929) with the infamous eye razor sequence – pure de Sade. De...
Much speculation has centred on de Sade’s life – that he held orgies in which people were whipped, tortured and depraved. His name gave us the word ‘sadism’ which means cruelty and violence and it is particularly associated with sexual practices that are extreme in nature.
From almost the beginning of cinema, film makers have been applying their Sadean aesthetics onto the silver screen. We can see this in Luis Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou (1929) with the infamous eye razor sequence – pure de Sade. De...
- 3/6/2013
- by Clare Simpson
- Obsessed with Film
The next two weeks see the continuation of Kino's Redemption Blu-ray series with spine numbers 8 and 9, The Asphyx and Marquis De Sade's Justine. This is the second pair of non-Rollin British genre films titles to come from Redemption, and this batch keeps the quality coming with a pair of fun little films with a lot to offer. The Asphyx is an early 70's Hammer styled Victorian horror film with plenty of goofball fun mixed in with some supernatural/steampunk elements. Marquis De Sade's Justine is one of many adaptations of the Marquis' signature works on film, though perhaps not the most famous of the lot. While the two are divergent in their themes, they share a similar, though not identical period setting which makes...
- 4/17/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Having examined the American fright features populating the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival’s Midnight collection, it’s high time to look at a pair of European genre movies playing the event. One of them is actually part of the Spotlight section instead, as Lunacy's Czech writer/director Jan Svankmajer, at age 71, now qualifies as a Grand Old Man of oddball cinema as opposed to the young turks populating the Midnight realm. And despite its title, Lunacy may be the least “mad” of Svankmajer’s features, committing (pardon the pun) to a straightforward story interspersed with the filmmaker’s traditional surreal stop-motion animation. In an onscreen introduction, the filmmaker describes his latest work as “a horror film, with all the degeneracy of the genre,” and is interrupted by a fleshy animated tongue skittering past his feet. That’s a sign of things to come, as the stop-motion isn’t nearly as...
- 4/21/2009
- Fangoria
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