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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Wuthering Heights
It’s July 30, which means it’s time to celebrate the birthday of Emily Brontë and Kate Bush.
When Kate Bush found out she shared her birthday with the author of Wuthering Heights, it inspired her to write a song about the novel and its protagonists Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. (Discerning readers might want to bear in [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
In 1916 Tod Browning (Freaks, Dracula, …) wrote a weird little movie, “Mystery of the Leaping Fish”. Douglas Fairbanks starred as Coke Ennyday, a parody of Sherlock Holmes. The story is so wacky I won’t even try and describe it.
Just go with it (unless you’ve never seen a silent movie before).
Put on YouTube by MaidMarian, [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Kizil Tug Cengiz Han
As Pompeii and Rome weren’t the only cities around over 2000 years ago, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that other countries thought: “Hey, we have history too, let’s make a movie about it.” Nevertheless, the peplum genre was mostly popular in Italy and Hollywood. Meanwhile the Germans thought it necessary to make another movie [...]
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The Notorious Concubines
The Notorious Concubines is as odd an entry in Koji Wakamatsu’s oeuvre as The Straight Story was an a-typical David Lynch film. Wakamatsu isn’t the most typical filmmaker and he’s often the discussion of heavy debates. To date, there hasn’t been a Wakamatsu review on Delirium Vault, but there was a forum topic on whether [...]
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Les Deux Orphelines Vampires
If one had to summarize the works of Jean Rollin into just two words, I would pick “vampires” and “nudity”. Not just because the director made a movie called La Vampire Nue, but mainly because it’s hard to think of a Rollin movie without gratuitous nudity.
Not that I’m not lauching a general complaint against Rollin’s [...]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Mini Review: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
As I don’t have time to write a full new review tonight, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to dive into my archives and fish for an older review. I found this mini review of a movie that - according to me, anyhow - shouldn’t go unmentioned at DV: the classic tale [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Nuda Per Satana
The Dutch label Filmfreaks has launched a sublabel, Sodemented Cinema, which - according to the blurb on their covers - aims to release “the very best in badbad taste”.
If you don’t take their word for that, feel free to watch one of their first releases, Nuda Per Satana (a.k.a. Naked For Satan) by Luigi Batzella.
Not [...]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
A Day in the Death of Donny B.
A Day in the Death of Donny B. is a pretty obscure short from 1969. (Well, 1969ish: I say 1969 because that’s the info I’d been given, but to me this felt very much like a child of the early Seventies).
This movie is so unknown the IMDb fails to list the title, the director or [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
It’s no wonder so many novels by Vladimir Nabokov were made into movies. After all, we are talking about the man who once said: “If you don’t admire all the colours when you are outside, there is no point in becoming a writer.” The same goes for watching a movie by Mario Bava: he [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The Crazies
If you’d force me to limit my George A. Romero collection to three movies, my choices would be Night of the Living Dead (for evident reasons), Martin (where Romero manages to keep you guessing what’s true and what’s not) and The Crazies. In The Crazies (which occasionally is also named Code Name: Trixie) a small [...]
