Her Private Hell (2026)

NWR originals -Refn 's comeback ? more like Refn's goodbye...or His Private Hell instead of Her Private Hell !

10 years ago he divided the cinema world last time with The Neon Demon, then he antagonised execs with his streaming fares, Copenhagen Cowboy for Netflix, which of course never got renewed..

Now he was in Cannes (out of competition with the worst reviews of his career) and is in Romanian theaters (very Limited, brave Bad Unicorn release), even with his new UFO, Her Private Hell.

Now, I wished I liked this, but no... fell asleep almost. 

Well the film is a dream, a dream within a dream, with dream logic and nightmares. It's supposedly concieved after Refn had a clinical death of 25 minutes in 2023...

Mist, The Letherman, Metropolis and crystals, models who can't act, yakuza and choreographed empty fights, disco inferno, lesbianism, incest. A Refn original ;) 

mixing giallo, B Sf & japanese action/yakuza films (Seijun Suzuki?).

Again the Hans Christian Andersen trauma, the girl with the matches...

visuals of Barbarella, Diabolik and Flash Gordon ?  Terrore nello spazio / aka Planet of the Vampires ?Tron meets Suspiria and other Argento fares (defenestration) ? Technicolor by Bava ?

He's trying Lynch's tricks, from Lost Highway and Mullholand Drive, but he's getting zilch. 

acting level is subzero...Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, gorgeously photographed but used as cardboard models. 

the letragic pacing goes lethal, the film comes alive on the neon visuals only when there's music.

So, the only redeeeming quality of the film is the score by Pino Donnagio, an eerie, elegiac beautiful (Herrmannesque, there is some Vertigo in it) score that stands out and it's one of his best, together with the ones for De Palma. It would be ironic if Donaggio reworked some of his rejected score for De Palma's Snake Eyes (1999).

The disco synth pop is not by Donnagio but by Refn's collaborator Julian Winding (Dolce mio).

https://fictionhorizon.com/her-private-hell-budget-breakdown-how-nicolas-winding-refns-costly-gamble-struggled-at-the-box-office/

2 out of 5 / 4 out of 10 !

RIP Mario Adorf

Mario Adorf, the Swiss cult actor that died on April 8th 2026 was 95. His father was an Italian surgeon, his mother a German nurse.

He acted in over 200 films, played grand theatre, wrote bestsellers. La Piovra's Acidduzzu (for the Romanians), spaghetti westerns (Gli Specialisti/The Specialists), giallos  (L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo), polizioteschi (Milano Calibro 9), but also Alfred Matzerath in Die Blechtrommel for the arthouse and posterity. Winner of the Leopard Career Award in 2016.

Cultiest movie: Deadlock (1970)

met him briefly in Cannes in 2013 after the screening of Billy Wilder's Fedora. 

https://aldmovieland.blogspot.com/2013/05/c66-mario.html

La traque (1975)

La Traque / The track (1975) is an excellent french thriller with psychological and social touches, it can be included in the pre-survival horror genre. A riff on the Most Dangerous Game meets La regle du jeu with a bit of Straw Dogs..

The social / class commentary  (la bourgeoisie de la campagne/province), and the solid acting by some of the best French actors of that time (Jean Paul Marielle, Michel Lonsdale, Philippe Leotard, Jean-Luc Bideau, Michel Constantin), the presence of American Mimsy Farmer (in lots of giallos in Italy at that period) , the atmosphere (no music except the opening and end credits), the time unity (all almost in real time, one day) and the great photography by Claude Renoir ! make this one of the most interesting films of this kind of the seventies. An unknown gem ! Considered to be the best Serge Leroy film. 

MaXXXine (2024)

MaXXXine ends the X trilogy, continued with prequel Pearl (2022). Of course he just made it up as he went along...

It might be Ti West's most ambitious yet, more Meta and auto-referential. Plus the whole Hollywood puns and the 80's cheesy sleazy world of addiction and decadence. It's also the most self-ironical, self-conscious film of the three, more like a parody than the others, cynical, tongue-in-cheek, movie universe based, locked & loaded.

This is an article mentioning 7 films related to MaXXXine. Psycho (again!, after Pearl) and De Palma's Body Double (complete with a Frankie Goes to Hollywood sequence !)

Adding to that Sunset Blvd., What Happened to Baby Jane, Profondo Rosso,  Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, even Chinatown... the elevator from 8 Millions Ways to Die, a showdown at the Hollywood sign...  

And that damn Alligator has a cameo, this time on the small video screen, not from Tobe Hopper but from the Sergio Martino's the Great Alligator (1979) ;)

an interview with Ti West (here's my notes on his western, In a Valley of Violence, and the cult film The Sacrament), on the Konbini video store series, about his models, references, favorite flicks here or below: 

His BFI top films list is a classical (and classy;) one.

RIP Frederic Forrest

"Chef "is gone...He was 86. Frederic Forrest was one of Francis Coppola's favorite actors, he put him in The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, One form the Heart and Tucker: A man and his Dream.

Forrest was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting role in Mark Rydell's The Rose (1980).

He was also Dashiell Hammett in Coppola's produced Hammett, directed by Wim Wenders in 1982, a flop and BO failure at the time, but very good movie. He was doctor Judd in Dario Argento's US shot Trauma. And the nazi store owner in Falling Down. Last film in 2006, in the remake of All the King's Men by Steven Zaillian. 

RIP Helmut Berger

He was Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973). 

He was Alberto Finzi-Contini (Vittorio De Sica, .

He was Dorian Gray (Massimo Dallamano, 1970) 

Austrian Helmut Berger (born Helmut Steinberger, in Salzburg in 1944) was also Luchino Visconti's partner til the director's death. Visconti discovered him in 1965 and gave him the best parts of his career, La Caduta degli dei -The Damned (1969), Ludwig (1973) and Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (1974). Also he was the lead in Duccio Tessari's 1973 giallo Una farfalla con le ali insaguinate (The Bloodstained Butterfly). Had a small part in The Godfather part III (1973). 

He died on May 18th, 2023 (same day as Jim Brown), just ten days before he would've been 79. 

RIP Ennio Morricone

July 6th 2020. A sad sad day for all film and music lovers !

Ennio, il maestro Morricone is no more...

He was 91 (born November 10th 1928). He even conducted a concert in Rome this January !

I wrote a LMA piece on his carrer and influence by the time of too long awaited Oscar and the score of The Hateful Eight  in the Sunete magazine! Time to republish soon.

I saw him with my buddies Andrei & Relu in 2004, live in Budapest.  The Arena Concerto series. 

Saw him again in 2012 in Cannes, at the anniversary projection of restored Once Upon a Time in America.  The best partnership ever, Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone, unmatched even by the Prokofiev-Einsenstein collaboration, or the Bernard Herrmann-Hitchcock, or Nino Rota with Fellini. 

He did great scores for many directors, three for Brian De Palma (Untouchables, Casualties of War, Mission to Mars), three for Gillo Pontercorvo (Battle of Algiers, Burn/Chiemada, Ogro), for Polanski (Frantic), Joffe (the Mission), John Carpenter (The Thing), Warren Beatty (Bugsy), oh so many, and so many perfect brilliant ones. The giallos, starting with the first Argento films, to Spasmo and The Black Belly of Tarantula, gli polizioteschi, from Revolver to les  French -Le Clan des siciliens, to Peur sur la Ville, to Chi Mai in Le Profesionnel, Le Marginal. Last score of his I heard was in Jose Giovanni, Le Ruffian (1983), that I cought-up with last month.

Love his psychedelic score for The Exorcist II  (The Heretic) !!! Love the parodic score for Ochhio a la Pena ! (Buddy Goes West/ Atentie la pana de vultur!), which wierdly he did for Michele Lupo (ans Bud Spencer, and Amidou!). Or the original parodic My Name is Nobody/Mio nome e nessuno.  The beautiful Il Grande Silenzio for Sergio Corbucci. Pop-ish Danger Diabolik for Mario Bava ! And of course the dramatic TV series La Piovra !

Finally after forgiving him of using-remashing up -his music and themes he made some music for his fan, Quentin Tarantino in /for The Hateful Eight. That uncanilly got him his only Oscar of his career ! He got a Honorary one in 2007 after many nominations, first of which only in 1979 (!)  for Malick's Days of Heaven ! Last score for his friend, another T-as in Tornatore, for whom he was an attached composer, for La Corrispondenza, in 2016.  Unarguably he did some of his finest music for Tornatore, from Nuovo Cinama Paradiso to Malena to Legend of 1900.

The most influential film score composer of all time, over 500 films, my favourite film composer and one of the best musicians EVER ! 

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“If you scroll through all the movies I’ve worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies and so on. So in other words, I’m no specialist, because I’ve done everything. I’m a specialist in music.” 

                                                                  Ennio Morricone

Here's a post from Film Stage which contains his best 20 scores -in their opinion -almost agreed

-and here's Rolling Stone Top Ten Morricone scores-even better !

“Ennio was an icon and icons just don’t go away, icons are forever. The first movie I ever saw was Once Upon A Time In The West. I heard the music and saw those images and I said, ‘That’s what I want to do’.”  Hans Zimmer

  

Metallica

@Metallica

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Metallica: R.I.P. Ennio Morricone

Your career was legendary, your compositions were timeless. Thank you for setting the mood for so many of our shows since 1983.

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John Carpenter

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Brilliant composer Ennio Morricone has passed away. A friend and collaborator, his talent was inestimable. I will miss him

Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)

The Black Belly of the Tarantula (La tarantola dal ventre nero) is considered one of the superior giallos. And it\s been staying in my Giallo B collection for at least ten years since I saw it now. And now I can concur. It is.
A film by Paulo Cavara who might be unknown now but he worked on the Mondo Cane movies.
Music by Ennio Morricone, conducted by Bruno Nicolai
Uncommon for the giallos of the perios the protagonist is a police inspector, played by an "unual suspect" of giallo genre, a very young Giancarlo Giannini.
The very hot blonde Barabara Bouchet is killed in the very beginning and the also very hot future Bond girl and mrs. Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach is killed later, and she shows up just a few minutes, enough to undress and..be of course stabbed to death...The real two female protagonists of the film are Claudine Auger, a deja Bond girl -in Thunderball- and Stefania Sandrelli (Il Conformista).
Shot with plenty of zooms by Marcello Gatti, who filmed Battle of Algiers, Quiemada/Burn and Ogro fpr Pontecuorvo, A\L'anonimo Veneziano, The Salamander and la Piovra for TV !
a great chase on the rooftops is the highlight except the MO of the murders which remind a Tarantula being killed by a black WASP !
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3 1/2 -7 out of 10 !

Morricone@87 !

Ennio Morricone a implinit azi, pe 10 noiembrie 2015, 87 de ani. Noul sau score este primul la un film de Tarantino, care i-a "canibalizat' muzica in deja 4 filme, incepind cu Kill Bill, si anume la THE HATEFUL EIGHT (la noi in ianuarie 2016).
Indiewire a facut un articol-omagiu cu 30 din cele mai bune soundtrackuri de Morricone, clasicele din westernuri, de la Leone la Clanul sicilienilor, Untouchables, si Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, printre care si piese mai putin cunoscute, asa cum am descoperit-o pe aceasta, Guerra E Pace, Pollo E Brace - o combinatie geniala de cor de copii si percutie, paroxistica si psihedelica, dintr-un film din 1968, “Gracie Zia,” de Salvatorre Samperi, thriller erotic despre incest !

LMA e Grazie, Maestro !
* Ennio Morricone va fi din nou in turneu in 2016, incepind cu Budapesta in ianuarie ! Relik ??!

RAMONA

RAMONA de Andrei Cretulescu in competitia shorts Semaine de la Critique; premierea azi
si cel mai catchy poster roumain de anul asta

urmeaza TIFF !
Bafta 2nite; Ramones !

HA and what gives :) tadam; bravo; vere ; see Bauhaus brought you luck
-and the lettering 2-
communique NOW:
Scurtmetrajul independent “Ramona” , în regia lui Andrei Crețulescu, a câștigat în această seară “Premiul CANAL +” în cadrul secțiunii Semaine de la Critique de la Cannes.

“CANAL + Award” este oferit unui singur film de scurt sau mediu metraj din cadrul secțiunii, de către echipa prestigiosului canal de televiziune. Astfel scurtmetrajul românesc “Ramona” urmează să fie difuzat de postul de televiziune CANAL +.

LMA Enzo G. Castellari

Astazi il maestro Enzo G. Castellari (Enzo Girolami) a implinit 76 de ani. Auguri !
L-am ratat anul trecut la festivalul Grossmann, unde era invitat de onoare, mare pacat ca nu am ajuns !

Filmul meu preferat, Quel maledetto treno blindato, ACEL BLSTEMAT TREN BLINDAT, la cinema la noi in 1978, despre care am scris pe larg aici
Unul din cel mai chull filme ale copilariei mele (alaturi de Lumea Atlantidei, Taramul uitat de timp, Revansa, Sub patru steaguri, Seaua de argint, Pentru un pumn de ceapa, Zorro-astea pina la Razboiul stelelor si Superman). (2014: adaug Tunurile din navarone...si Uraganul ca atunci nu stiam ca e prost)...Probabil cel mai bun comando de razboi (Cinci pentru infern revazut nu e atit de khull, exceptindu-l pe Klaus Kinski), pina la 10 ani. Folosind hipnoza regresiva
s-ar putea afla ca am patit ceva in timpul vizionarii acestor filme di guerra (mi-a sugerat un prieten de curind), din moment ce primul film pe care l-am vazut ever a fost Ziua cea mai lunga.

read more"> asa sau:
http://aldmovieland.blogspot.ro/2007/09/film-cult-82007-acel-blestemat-tren.html
si care, banuiesc ca stiti, s-a numit in engleza Inglorious Bastards si a fost referentiat si updatat de Tarantino in INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, filmul meu preferat al lui QT, alaturi de Reservoir Dogs.
In curind o sa dau filmul lui Tarantino la Cinemateca Patria, si sper in double bill cu Quel maledetto treno blindato !!!!

Veronica Lazar RIP

Daca ai vazut filme italienesti, fie giallo-uri de Argento sau filme de Bertolucci, stii numele Veronica Lazar. Actrita de origine romana a fost si la Bucuresti la festivalul filmului italian. A murit la Roma, pe 8 iulie la 76 de ani. Am vazut un scroll pe un post tv romanesc. Primul rol, in Ultimul Tango la Paris, a lui Bertolucci (1972). Ultimul rol, bunica din Io e Te (tot Bertolucci, din 2012). A jucat in Inferno si Sindromul Stendhal si in The Beyond /L'aldilà al lui Lucio Fulci, ca si in Identificazione di una donna al lui Antonioni.
A fost sotia lui Adolfo Celli, cu care are 2 copii. Buona Notte, Veronica....

v. si aici in italiana

Tony Musante RIP

Detectivul Toma, Incidentul, Mercenarul, Anonimul venetian, Un ostatic in plus, pe cind eram mic filme cu Tony Musante erau peste tot la cinema. Actorul italo-american a murit marti (26 noiembrie) la New York, avea 77 de ani. S-a intors in atentia publicului cu rolul din serialul Oz (1997) si filmele lui James Gray, The Yards (2000) si We Own the Night (2007).

Lansat cu percutantul Incident al lui Larry Peerce(1968), cu doi golani care terorizeaza metroul newyorkez (alaturi de Mratin Sheen), Musante a devenit mai intii star in Italia, in westernul spaghetti a lui Sergio Corbuccci din 1968, Il Mercenario (A Professional Gun), alaturi de Franco Nero, in lovstoryul-erotic- Metti, una sera a cena (1969, v. o scena aici), in triunghi amoros cu Florinda Bolkan si Jean-Louis Trintignant, in primul giallo si prima parte a trilogiei animaliere a lui Dario Argento, L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo/The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970), si in lovestoryul tragic pe muzica de Benedetto Marcello, Anonimul venetian de Enrico Maria Salerno (1971), tot cu Florinda Bolkan (muzica filmului de Stelvio Cipriani). Apoi, intors in SUA a jucat in The Grissom Gang al lui Robert Aldrich (1971), in The Last Run alaturi de George C. Scott (1971) si a avut rolul principal in serialul TOMA (la noi la cinema, pilotul a rulat sub titlul Detectivul Toma), intre 1973-74. Musante nu a vrut sa continue serialul, care, extrem de violent pentru epoca sa, avea un succes fulminant. Studioul a mai scos din violenta si a creat Baretta, care l-a facut faimos pe Robert Blake. Cariera lui Musante a intrat intr-un cond e umbra, cu mult TV in roluri episodice. S-a intors in Italia unde a facut Goodbye e amen de Damiano Damiani (1978), unul din filmele care mi-au marcat copilaria si unul dinn cele mai bune roluri ale sale. Apoi un comeback in 1984, cu roul unchiului mafiot al lui Eric Roberts din The Pope from Greenich Village. Goodbye e Amen :(

Necrolog aici

Carlo Lizzani RIP

Inca o veste trista pentru cinematograful italian. Dupa Luciano Vincenzoni si Giuliano Gemma a urmatCarlo Lizzani,. Scenaristul si regizorul roman s-a sinucis, la 91 de ani, exact la fel ca si omonimul sau, Mario Monicelli, aruncindu-se de la balcon.
Lizzani a fost un membru al curentului neo-realist, documentarist, critic, presedintele festivalului de film de la Venetia. A fost co-scenarist la Orez amar (1950, Giuseppe De Santis, nominalizare la Oscar). In 1951 Lizzani regizeaza primul sau film, “Achtung! Banditi!,” drama de razboi cu rezistnta si...Gina Lollobrigida. "Cronache di poveri amanti"(1954), cu Marcello Mastroianni, ia premiul international la Cannes. Il gobbo (1960) e un alt titlu de referinta din filmografia sa. A regizat si filme de gen, western-Un fiume di dollari/The Hills Run Red (1966), polizioteschi, Svegliati e uccidi (1966), Banditi a Milano (1968), Torino nera (1972), Crazy Joe (1973), sexdrama, Kleinhoff Hotel (1977) si giallo...La casa del tappeto giallo (1983). E unul din cei cinci regizori ai filmului in schetciuri Amore e rabbia (1969), alaturi de Godard, Bertolucci, Pasolini si Bellocchio. La fel si cu filmul de spionaj in scechiuri, The Dirty Game, aka The Secret Agents (1965), co-regizat cu Terence Young, Christian-Jaque, Werner Klingler.
Necrolog in Variety aici.

am aflat via Alina Nedelea de pe FB, careia Lizzani i-a oferit o sansa si un rol in Italia.

Giuliano Gemma RIP

Aflu in mijlocul noptii de pe wikipedia ca a murit Giuliano Gemma, in urma unui accident de masina. Avea 75 de ani si ultima data a aparut in filmul lui Woody Allen de anul trecut, From Rome With Love. Gemma a fost unul din idolii copilariei mele, prin westernurile spaghetti Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, Seaua de argint, comediile de aventuri Africa Express si Safari Express (cu Ursula Andress, jack Palance, si un cimpanzeu simpatic, Biba, de unde si salutul copilariei la cel moment era "Ave, Biba" :) si prin politiottesco-urile Prefectul de fier, Corleone, Avertismentul. L-am vazut la Bucuresti cind a fost la un Dakino in prima parte a anilor '90 sa prezinte Desertul tatarilor (1976, pentru care a primit premiul David di Donatello). Unul din eroii filmelor italienesti in perioada lor de aur, a jucat in vreo 100 de filme, a intrat in cinema cascador, a avut un rolisor in Ghepardul lui Visconti (1963, ca general), a aparut in primele Angelici si a devenit faimos cu westernuri spaghetti esentiale, in America sub pseudonimul Montgomery Wood, Una pistola per Ringo (1964) si continuarile lui, in Un dollaro bucato (1965), Arizona Colt (1966), I lunghi giorni della vendetta (1967), si l-a secondat pe Lee Van Cleef in I giorni dell'ira (Tonino Valerii, 1967). Un rol atipic intr-un western politic, tot al lui Tonino Valerii, Il prezzo del potere (1969). Un rol important si tot atipic in post-giallo-ul lui Dario Argento, Tenebre, in 1982. In anii '80 japonezii au scos un scuter numit dupa el, Suzuki Gemma scooter. La batrinete Gemma s-a apucat de sculptura, si se pare ca era un sculptor foarte bun. Fiica sa, Vera Gemma, e actrita.

Cred ca ultimul film pe care l-am vazut pe dvd cu el a fost Un uomo in ginocchio (1980, Damiano Damiani, regizor care s-a dus si el, in martie a.c), dar ma simt extrem de legat de unicul CIRCUIT INCHIS/"Circuito chiuso" de Giulano Montaldo (1980), film care mi-a schimbat oarecum impresia despre cinema, in care Gemma apare doar in filmul de pe ecran, sub titlul laconic, il pistolero. Am aflat 20 de ani mai tirziu ca era un film TV (cu toate astea a participat in selectia festivalului de la Berlin), dar vi-l recomand, este un thriller psihologic, eseu despre puterea cinematografului, care poate -literal-sa ucida. Si se gaseste greu, sau deloc.

Cum zice titlul filmului sau din 1991, Non ci sono più uominie :(

Goodnight, arrivederci Giuliano, grazie...

Sitges 45: Berberian Sound Studios

Al doilea film de Peter Strikland (Katalin Varga, filmat in Romania si cu o postprocesare pe sunet spectaculoasa, premiata si la Berlin !), e ciudatul si cosmarescul arthouse Berberian Sound Studios, un omagiu ciudat de Giallo, un Barton Fink pe sunet si un reper Blow Out & Conversatia si Repulsie plus Locatarul de Polanski meets angoasele lui David Lynch (si Anguish al lui Bigas Luna for that matter), cu un nelinistitor Toby Jones pe post de Peter Lorre.

Jones (care l-a jucat si pe Truman Capote si pe Alfred Hitchcock'in The Girl) este sunetistul Gilderoy, care vine in Italia sa faca mixajul de sunet la un film cu vrajitoare exploitation mai mult gen Jess Franco decit Argento (Suspiria ?) sau Bava (Maschera di Demonio) sau Lenzi sau Lado (cu scene gen "A dangerously aroused goblin stalks the dormitory, the witches are being punished with a red-hot iron into their vagina"). Titul filmului (al carui genric cu grafica exact cea cea din epoca e prezentat pe ecran, singurul excerpt de altfel, este The Equestrian Vortex !!!!) Producatorul draconic (Corrado-Cosimo Fusco) regizorul laudaros (Santini-Antonio Mancino) il exploateaza cumplit pe pudicul si fragilul Gilderoy si el incepe sa piarda simtul realitatii...metamorfoza lui Kafka pe sunet, sound on sight...
premiera la festivalul de la Edinburgh, cu participare la Locarno. la Sitges in competitie. in cinema in Anglia din 31 august.

4 din 5, 8 din 10 !

Sitges 45-poza zilei

Caro Dario :)
aseara 8.10.2012 la Casa Bacardi, centru Sitges. photo by AC :)

Sitges 45-new week-lunedi

linkul la cronica de pe feeder, a doua...
am mai vazut Safety Not Guaranteed si Citadel, doua opera prima cum le numesc catalunii. Am mai vazut concert Claudio Simonetti

la disco Ricky´s cu Lamberto Bava si Dario Argento in audienta.

Am luat soundtrackul la Opera pentru Relik si apoi magnificant signatures per lui e me :). Si apoi am baut mojito cu Dario la Casa Bacardi (da, Juan Bacardi e din Siges si de aici a pornit legenda. aici se fac poate cele mai bune mojitouri...stiati ca Dario Argneto si tatal lui Claudio au fost in Romania in 1987 pentru 2 saptamini ? Dar poate cu ajutorul Full Moon mai vine...i'am zis ca nici un film de'al sau nu a fost distribuit la noi pe ecrane dar le avem pe toate in casele noastre :)

Am vorbit cu Dee Wallace si Meg Foster dupa conferinta de presa la Lords of Salem. Actritele au vorbit in termeni superlativi despre domnul Zombie, ca despre un artist adevarat !

dont forget, powered by Golem Studios !

Vacanze per un massacro (1980)

am facut o seara Fernando Di Leo, ce mod mai bun :D decit a-ti petrece noaptea de simbata, rainchecks et all :P
N-am vazut filme de Di Leo pina in 1997 la Milano Calibro 9, care nu m-a impresionat atit de tare, si apoi am vazut I padroni della Citta, aka Mr. Scarface (1976), care m-a dezamagit asa de tare, incit am uitat ca l-am vazut, pina asta seara, cind susceptibil l-am reluat, si mi-am amintit pe parcurs de ce nu mi-a placut (e un riff al lui Underworld USA de Sam Fuller, cu un actor neamt, Harry Baer, care semana cu Hugh Jackman tinar, cu Al Cliver si cu un Jack Palance pus pe toate afisele, dar care pare desul de putin si not so impressive). Pentru un revenge movie cu un inceput excelent pe slow motion, devine prea comic si inegal, cu o secventa buna de actiune, showdownul de la final.
Datorita pasionatilor de la raro Video/Nocturno, Il Cinema Segretto Italiano, filmele lui Di Leo au aparut pe dvd, cu extra-uri, interviuri cu el, nu toate dar suficiente pentru a-ti face o parere. Asa numita "trilogie a millieu-lui, intre 1972-1973, pentru care a fost comparat cu Melville, Milano Calibro 9, Il Boss si La Mala Ordina. Acesta din urma l-am vazut acum citeva luni si m-a impresionat profund, mai
s-a parut cel mai bun Di Leo in afara de Avere vent'anni !
Acum am vazut si La Bestia uccide a sangue freddo (1971), un slasher, sex giallo, interesant pentru ca e cu Klaus Kinski si Margaret Lee, si Vacanze per un massacro (1980), apropiat de Canni Arrabiatti the one-off al lui Mario Bava, un entry special in seria de home invasions (Straw Dogs, Last House on the Left, Death Weekend, etc), cu Joe Dellasandro in rolul principal. Extrem de kinky, cu sex gratuit dar atmosfera interesanta si bine regizat si din nou downbeat si nihilist asa cum sunt filmele lui Di Leo. Muzica lui Luis Bacalov m-a impresionat din prima, extrem de familiara. M-am gindit ca a folosit QT in Inglorious Basterds, dar finalmente am luat soundtrackul la Milano Calibro 9 sa-l reascult scriind despre Di Leo si m-am prins. Tema principala din Vacanze (intitulat in engleza Madness) e cea cintata de trupa Osanna in Milano, anume Prelude. Ea se reia, si Di Leo recicleaza muzica-high concept :D

Basically, e un film in 4 personaje, killerul pe fuga (Joe D.) si un cuplu (Gianni Macchia & Patrizia Behn), plus sora ei Paola (Lorraine De Selle), cam defecta la cap, dezinhibata sexual si nimfomana. Atmosfera de huis clos, si un macguffin cu niste bani ascunsi, duc filmul in zona de film noir, dar cote-ul de sexualitate subversiva un-PC si anti-burgheza il duc peste zona exploitation. inteleg ca inintil a fost un proiect al lui Mario Gariazzo, care ramine creditat la story, dar interventia lui Di Leo a dus filmul in alta zona.

7 din 10/ 3 1/2 din 5
dvd raro video/nocturno, 1.85.1
transfer cam subtire, nimic pe disc decit filmografia/biografia lui Di Leo. Tare ar fi fost bun un interviu !

Cronica mea la festivalul Grossmann # 7

nu va alarmati, sunt alive und kick-ing dar nu sunt internateut
itțs summertime, anyway. aici restanta Cronica mea la festivalul Grossmann # 7

pe HBO.ro aicisau
http://hbo.ro/article/grossmann-2011-greetings-von-transylvania_19731

goodie, my clip de la Scream Queen Contest moderat de actrita Diana Barrows (Vineri 13 partea a7-a), cu niste adevarate talente vocale:)...