Replace (2017)

REPLACE
A new body horror in 1st film from German director Norbert Keil is my 1st movie at BIFFF 35 *(in competition}, a stylish dramatic viral love story that has to do with the fear and doom of aging. Richard Stanley (Hardwire, Dust Devil) contributes to creepy, slick script. Rebecca Forsythe is in the lead role, an amnesiac with a recurring mummyskinlike eczema that can be cured by new fresh skin and flesh.

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Shades of Repulsion, Croneberg themes, N W Refn's Neon Demon, The Hunger,  photographic inspiration from Dario Argento by dop Tim Kuhn with a very low budget, atmospheric music reminiscent of John Carpenter's The Thing, Halloween, plus stylish piano works a la Hunger, Satie's Gimnosfere and Chopin.  Veteran horror queen Barbara Crampton (Re-animator)  is supporting as doctor Crober.
3 1/2

*hope you'll get to see this in Dracula Film Festival Competition this fall in Brasov, Transylvania

Jonathan Demme RIP

The Silence of the Lambs: Joanthan Demme is no more :(
73 years old -cancer-seemed younger, a man who started directing for Roger Corman (still alive at 90 !) -Caged Heat -1974, Crazy Mama-1975-and then went to Oscar respect with Philadelphia.
My faved flicks of his: Last Embrace, The Manchurian Candidate, Something Wild, Melvin and Howard and surely LAMBS (Oscar for best director in 1992).
Directed rockumentaries, Stop Making Sense -Talking Heads, Heart of Gold-Neil Young,. so forth.
Lasst film, Ricki and the Flash, in 2015.
His nephew, director Ted Demme  (Blow, The Ref) died in 2002 at 38 !
RIP !

Jack is 80 !!!

Mr.Jack Torrance, Jake Gittes, Melvin Udall, George Hanson, Randle P.McMurphy, colonel Jessup, Schmidt, The Passenger, The Joker,  and maybe soon Toni Erdmann ? oh yeah, Jack Nichoson is 80 to-day ! Happy Birthday Jack !!! Here's to ya -the hair of the dogs that bite me still !!!

la Cinemateca Patria Brasov am dat luna aceasta 8 filme cu Jack, marti miercuri si joia viit.mai sunt The Shining, The Pledge si The Fortune. 

LMA IGGY !

Iggy Pop is 70 today !
planned to celebrate him on Doc and Roll fest with GIMME DANGER doc and still do, but in November. Meanwhile he shows up in Danny Fields doc, Danny Says, and recently he penned the movie GOLD's main song from the soundtrack, a great song composed together with Daniel Penberton, Danger Mouse and Stephen Gaghan (the director).  Great song !

bonus:

a great great interview with the Igg from Rolling Stone, one of the most honest and in your face interviews ever !!!

You turn 70 in April. How do you feel about that?

I'm excited. I hope I make it.