[This is part of a sporadic series in which I explore the work of the Austrian DVD label Index DVD. This company has released a great deal o...
Showing posts with label '1970s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label '1970s. Show all posts
Xala
Ousmane Sembene's Xala is a sharp, bitter satire of Senegalese independence, lampooning the corruption and incompetence of the sham self...
Fascination
Fascination is a very apt title for a Jean Rollin film. Rollin's ethereal horror oeuvre revolves around the idea of fascination: fixatio...
The Grapes of Death
The Grapes of Death marked a return to form for the idiosyncratic horror auteur Jean Rollin. After 1974's remarkable but commercially un...
Lips of Blood
[This piece was previously posted as a guest review at Jeremy Richey's blog Fascination: The Jean Rollin Experience, one of the Internet...
The Man Who Loved Women
François Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women is a retrospective look at the life and many affairs of an unrepetant womanizer, a man who c...
Deep Red
Dario Argento's Deep Red is the predecessor of the director's unsettling Suspiria, sharing with that film a bright, colorful aesthet...
Demoniacs
Jean Rollin walks a very fine line in his trashy B-movie exploitation flicks. So much is "bad" and amateurish in his movies, from ...