Friday, January 30, 2004
at the dobie this weekend
for one week only, and i want to go see it:
A deranged plastic surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) obsessively removes the faces of kidnapped women, grafting their flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter (Edith Scob), who had been disfigured in an automobile accident. Director Georges Franju's terrifying, gothic horror film is invested with a weird poetry, elevating his variation on the mad-doctor story to the level of Cocteau and the best of early German cinema. Alida Valli (The Third Man) co-stars. New, uncut 35mm print featuring a new translation and subtitles. Official Web Site
Director: Georges Franju
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Juliette Mayniel, Charles Blavette, Claude Brasseur, Michel Etcheverry, Yvette Etiévant, René Génin
MPAA Rating: NR
Run Time: 1hr 28mins
Release Year: 1959
Country Of Origin: France/Italy
A deranged plastic surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) obsessively removes the faces of kidnapped women, grafting their flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter (Edith Scob), who had been disfigured in an automobile accident. Director Georges Franju's terrifying, gothic horror film is invested with a weird poetry, elevating his variation on the mad-doctor story to the level of Cocteau and the best of early German cinema. Alida Valli (The Third Man) co-stars. New, uncut 35mm print featuring a new translation and subtitles. Official Web Site
Director: Georges Franju
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Juliette Mayniel, Charles Blavette, Claude Brasseur, Michel Etcheverry, Yvette Etiévant, René Génin
MPAA Rating: NR
Run Time: 1hr 28mins
Release Year: 1959
Country Of Origin: France/Italy
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Neo-Realism: a movement especially in Italian filmmaking characterized by the simple direct depiction of lower-class life
Il Grido (The Outcry)
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957, 35mm, B&W, 115 min
Cast: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Gabriella Pallotta, Dorian Gray
Overjoyed that Irma's husband has died in a distant land, Aldo assumes that now they will marry and raise the daughter they already have. However, Irma reveals that she now loves another man. Aldo takes their daughter and begins a journey through the Po Valley, drifting from place to place, job to job, stopping for occasional affairs but mainly trying to care for his daughter. When the obligation proves too much, she is returned to her mother. Aldo finally gives up and returns to the factory town where he lived with Irma and the girl--to an unexpected conclusion. Stunningly and evocatively photographed, this film brought Antonioni, the poet of space, composition, and emptiness, to the attention of global audiences.
-Thanks to Austin Film Society for these FREE Essential Cinema Series every Tuesday at the Alamo ($4 for general public)
-And thanks to the Alamo always, well, for just being the Alamo
Neo-Realism: a movement especially in Italian filmmaking characterized by the simple direct depiction of lower-class life
Il Grido (The Outcry)
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957, 35mm, B&W, 115 min
Cast: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Gabriella Pallotta, Dorian Gray
Overjoyed that Irma's husband has died in a distant land, Aldo assumes that now they will marry and raise the daughter they already have. However, Irma reveals that she now loves another man. Aldo takes their daughter and begins a journey through the Po Valley, drifting from place to place, job to job, stopping for occasional affairs but mainly trying to care for his daughter. When the obligation proves too much, she is returned to her mother. Aldo finally gives up and returns to the factory town where he lived with Irma and the girl--to an unexpected conclusion. Stunningly and evocatively photographed, this film brought Antonioni, the poet of space, composition, and emptiness, to the attention of global audiences.
-Thanks to Austin Film Society for these FREE Essential Cinema Series every Tuesday at the Alamo ($4 for general public)
-And thanks to the Alamo always, well, for just being the Alamo
