Whale followed up his iconic horror classic ‘Frankenstein’ with this strange, sly, and sardonic project, part haunted house terror and part spoof, executed with baroque style.
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Voyage of ‘The Damned’ on Kanopy
The Damned (aka Les maudits) (France, 1947) is a superb title for this noir-tinged 1947 French war thriller from René Clément. In the final days of World War II, as the Third Reich falls under the Allied advance, the Nazis send a special team on a secret mission to South America by submarine to prepare […]
Bertrand Tavernier presents ‘My Journey Through French Cinema’ on Kanopy
Bertrand Tavernier is both an essential French filmmaker and a dedicated film historian. His epic (over three hours long) documentary My Journey Through French Cinema (France, 2016) combines the two professional callings in a decidedly personal look at the cinema that shaped and excited him as both a cinephile and a filmmaker. Forget the familiar […]
Blu-ray: 3 by Claude Chabrol – Betty / Torment / The Swindle
Betty / Torment / The Swindle: 3 Classic Films by Claude Chabrol (Cohen, Blu-ray) – Claude Chabrol has been called the Gallic Hitchcock because of his fascination with the Master of Suspense (he co-authored the first groundbreaking study of Hitchcock with Eric Rohmer in 1957) and his career-defining work in the suspense genre. But where […]