The other movies I watched between two... ;)

“L'anticristo“ (aka “The Antichrist“) (Alberto De Martino, Italy 1974)
Ippolita is a paralyzed young woman with serious mental problems stemming from the death of her mother. Her crisis of faith and the intervention of a well-meaning psychologist lead Ippolita to remember her past life as a witch during the Inquisition. Eventually, Ippolita becomes possessed and starts seducing local men, only to kill them. An exorcism seems to be the only solution to stop the madness. A good horror movie in the lineage of The Exorcist… 8/10

“Les hautes solitudes“ (Philippe Garrel, France 1974)
Biographical film about Jean Seberg, losely based on Nietschze's Anti-Christ. 82 minutes of silence and close-up on the faces of three beautiful actress, Jean Seberg, alcoholic, druged, a dawnfall angel who’ll soon disappear. Nico iconic figure of that time who’ll have the same was as Tina Aumont sex-symbol on screen who’ll fall too later… Amazing and moving. 8,5/10

“El exilio de Gardel: Tangos“ (Fernando E. Solanas, France | Argentina 1985)
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star. Amazing music/dance movie and a nice depiction of the feelings of the exiled… 8,5/10

“Invasion of Saucer Men” (Edward L. Cahn USA 1957)
Rewatched with much pleasure this funny sci-fi movie from the 50’s… A teenage couple accidentally awakens an alien after inadvertently hitting it with their car…. Some dialogues are completely camp and kitsch and the scene of the battle between an alien and the bull is quite ridiculous. But very good for fans of vintage Sci-Fi 6,5/10

“Little Miss Sunshine” (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, USA 2006)
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. A gentle family movie with some good moments but mostly thanks to the little Abigail Breslin. 6,5/10

“The Underworld Story” (Cy Endfield, USA 1950)
Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham. So, with a shrug, he makes the suspicion come true, then elbows his way into the editorship of the local paper in a small town where, opportunely, a sensational murder case threatens to destroy the family of newspaper magnate E.J. Stanton. When a black servant is made the patsy for this killing, Reese helps himself by helping her...but proves a dangerous ally. A classic theme but a nice treatment by Endfield dans the good role for dan Dureya… 7,5/10

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Nobody's Perfect(1990)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097994/
Chad Lowe looks alike/vs Jonathan Brandis(Ladybugs, 1992)

Luc Besson?

sry, executive producer (uncredited)
Sirga, az oroszlán (1993) L'enfant lion (original title)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106820/

wolverine vs ...?
lol, kid movie :Ö

Lefty, a kelekótya hiúz (1971)
Lefty, the Dingaling Lynx (original title)
1h | Family | TV Movie 28 November 1971

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067336/

Some movies I watched those last days...

“Messiah of Evil” (Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, USA 1973)
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult. Good and effiscient little horror movie. 7/10

“Oldás és kötés” (aka “Cantata”) (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary 1963)
A young doctor undergoes a spiritual and political crisis when he returns to his rural home. Jancsó’s first long feature is already very good even if his typical style will arise a bit later. A good portrayal of a young man who’ll realizes that his success may ha ve cause more damages he could imagine… 8,5/10

“La Fayette“ (aka “Lafayette”) (André Dreville, France/Italy 1961)
During the American War of Independence, French officer and nobleman La Fayette comes to America's aid with men, money and weapons and becomes a Major-General under George Washington's command. At that time it was the most expensive French movie ever made. A huge and international cast for this classic history movie. 7/10

“Œil pour œil“ (aka “An Eye for an Eye“) (André Cayatte, France 1957)
In North Africa Dr. Walter is a very skilled surgeon but lives at a distance from the hospital. In the evening a husband and his sick wife come to his private home from far away. He tells them to go to the hospital. The wife dies during the operation. The other doctors think that Walter might have saved her. Shortly afterward a man asks Walter to come to a village to treat a very sick man. He goes thither in his car. There all tyres of his car are stolen, and he sees the Husband in this village. Then he accepts Husband’s “guidance” through the desert… Just excellent ! 9/10

“La part de l’ombre“ (Jean Delannoy, France 1945)
An old famous musician lives retired in a castle with his daughter. A young composer, a genius with dark past has seduced the girl. Fearing a destructive genius the old man tells him to leave…. Not bad at all even if Delannoy made a better work later… 7,5/10

"Linda and Abilene" (Herschell Gordon Lewis, USA 1969)
In the 19th century, siblings Abilene and Tod, orphaned on their western farm, become attracted to each other, sexually. The confused Tod fleas to a nearby town where he meets Linda, a local bar girl, and begins a sexual relationship with her, while a rough cowboy, named Rawhide, sexually assaults Abilene leading Tod wanting revenge despite Linda's wariness and growing compassion for Abilene… An Early H.G. Lewis movie a curious mix of western and nudie… 6/10

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The movies of the last two days...

"La cage aux folles" (Édouard Molinaro, France 1978)
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner. I rewatched this great classic of French comedy with much pleasure… 8/10

"Harvey" (Henry Koster, USA 1950)
Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows. I rewatched with much pleasure this delightfull comedy with a James Stewart at the top. 8,5/10

"Le faux-pas" (Antoine d'Ormesson, France 1965)
A poorly know thriller with good and twisted plot about a woman who sees her husband falling from a cliff in Calanques near Marseille. She ran away because they were on divorce and had threatened him many times to kill him. She meets a man and decides to lie him saying she’s a tourist and that someone stole her car with all her stuff… Quite good and full of nice on location filming in Marseille and the Calanques… 7/10

"Savage Streets" (Danny Steinmann, USA 1984)
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend. A classic plot for those times but the movie is well done with a Linda Blair who goes on rampage in what remains certainly his best performamance post-Exorcist… 7/10

"Belle" (André Delvaux, Belgium | France 1973)
A professor of literature who develops an obsession with a beautiful woman he meets in the woods. He has an affair with this woman, but before he can run off with her, a stranger arrives and he plans to kill him. Furthermore his daughter, who is an object of his incestuous desire, kills his daydreams when she gets married… Interresting movie which balances on the thin cord of psychological drama, surrealistic thriller and sometimes even comedy… 8/10

"La musica" (Marguerite Duras, Paul Seban, France 1967)
The movie was written by Marguerite Duras based on her eponymous play which she also directed with Paul Seban. Just the story of "He" (Robert Hossein) and "She" (Delphine Seyrig) who come for their nonetheless divorce judgement and stay in the same hotel and realize some extraordinary insights into their dissolving marriage. Just Very Good. 8,5/10

"L’heure exquise" (René Allio, France 1981)
Documentary about Marseille from the 20s to present, filtered through the director's childhood memories of his family and places where they lived. Then as he wishes to do it at the beginning of the movie, he just want to leave a trace of people who usually don’t leave any or so few… Excellent and very movieng and furthermore a lit of nostalgia for me who lived in the same area at that time… 10/10

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one letter? C character, case sensitive or not, today learned
John Reilly or John C. Reilly

Érints meg és menj! (1986)
Touch and Go (original title)
1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2 June 1988 (Hungary)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092104/

the movies of the week... very few indeed but some interessant stuff...

“Agatha et les lectures illimitées” (aka “Agatha and the Limitless Readings“) (Margueritte Duras, France 1981)
A dialogue-driven drama about a woman and her brother who meet at a deserted seaside hotel to deal with their passionate incestuous feelings for each other and reminisce about their happy childhood. Great movie ! but not for all public. 8,5/10

“Ce corps tant desiré“ (aka “This Desired Body“) (Luis Saslavsky, France 1959)
Lina a prostitute flees from Narbonne with a Loser, Guillaume to the remote Bouzigue near Sète. There she seduces Henri the local womanizer who lives with Marinette… Bit when the truth about Lina’s wife becomes clear things begin to go wrong… Interresting melodrama with good acting and gorgeous Belinda Lee… 7,5/10

“Un officier de police sans importance“ (aka “A Police Officer Without Importance“) (Jean Larriaga France/Italy, 1973)
Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre. Interresting even if not fully original movie with good ending.... 7,5/10

“El monstruo resucitado” (aka “The Monstrous Doctor Crimen“) (Chano Urueta, Mexico 1953)
Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her. The first major horror movie in Mexico golden age, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to dominate Hispanic Science Fictionin the 60's and 70's… 7/10

“Abigail Lesley Is Back in Town” (Joseph W. Sarno, USA 1975)
Sex in little town… The return of Abigail Lesley brings back some old painful memories for several inhabitants of a small quiet finishing village that's been hit by economic troubles. Abigail left town years ago after she and Gordon Howe were caught by accident by his wife Priscilla, while having sex. Abigail is a sexually liberated and predatory woman, who knows what she wants and what she wants is revenge… or somethong like that… This nudie directed by master of the genre Joseph W. Sarno brings much more than you could expect from such movies. It’s often a very accurate depiction of the hypocrisy of human relations and especialy regarding sex and the character of Abigail acts like the real pointer of the situation… Not bad at all and furthermore with some pretty actressesa and nice filming on location in small fishermen town (Amityville). 7,5/10

Movies of the last two days...

"Le piège" (aka "The Trap") (Charles Brabant, France/Italy 1958)
Near the refineries of Berre, a lecherous eldery man, owner of an hotel, covets the widow of his son and the maid… But soon a tough guy escape from Italy and accused of murder arrives and seduces the widow… The old man accepts not to denounce him to the police only if the couple accept to stay there… trapped. Interresting small drama even if nothing original. Raf Valone is not very good as usual but Malgali Noël is convincing and Charles Vanel frightening as the old pervert. 7/10

"Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle" (aka "Candide") (Norbert Carbonnaux, France 1960)
The script transposes the action of Voltaire's famous novel into the twentieth century just before WII. Carbonneaux's movie remains a fable faithful to the writer's spirit and when the transposition works well it’s sometime very funny and satirical... Jean-Pierre Cassel is a good cast as Candide who ,in every ituation even the worst, always shares the philosophy of his master Pangloss "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" The cast is a who's who of the French cinema: Michel Simon, Louis de Funès, Luis Mariano, Dario Moreno, Jacqueline Maillan, Pierre Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Jean Richard, Jean Poiret, Daliah Lavi, Alice Sapritch…. 7/10

"Monique, My Love" (Peter Woodcock, USA 1969)
The roommate of Monique, a model and sexploitation actress, reads her writings to a group of sensual women about the adventure of Monique through sex industry… very tiny script but girls are very pretty as Jo Sweet or Maria Lease… for fan of nudies of the golden age… 6,5/10

"L’Amour de Femmes" (Nick Millard, USA 1969)
Lenore and Suzanne are swinging' 60s chicks who share a swank apartment and a Lincoln Continental financed by their rich, bankrolling daddies.They have a lot of sex experiences with lot of other girls… A classic nudie but this time only focused on lesbianism and strongly pro-Queer. Intrerresting with lot of pretty actresses. 7/10

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amercian election? jfk vs ?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089331/
Impure Thoughts (1985)

Four male friends are reunited after not being in contact with each other for several years. However, the meeting place is Purgatory, the afterlife state of limbo between heaven and hell.

Recents movies of the last two days...

“Le vieux fusils” (aka (“The Old Gun”) (Robert Enrico, France/West Germany 1975)
Near Mautauban, a quiet surgeon takes revenge on a group of nazis soldiers after they massacre his wife and daughter. A radical and very violent movie but very effective with great acting of Philippe Noiret as the revengeful husband… I rewatched this movie with great pleasure… 8,5/10

“See no Evil” (Richard Fleischer, UK 1971)
Sarah is a blind girl who has returned to her home, a country manor in which all of the occupants are dead. She unknowingly sleeps overnight, among a houseful of corpses, arising the next morning to quietly creep out of bed, in order not to awaken the other members of the household… Great suspense and great Mia Farrow in this well done thriller. 8/10

“10 Rillington Place”, (Richard Fleischer, UK 1971)
London, 1949. John Christie is an unassuming, middle-aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, lives in the ground-floor flat at 10 Rillington Place. His demeanor masks the fact of being a serial killer. His modus operandi is to act as a person with a medical background, lure unsuspecting women to his apartment on the pretense of curing them of some ailment, knock them unconscious with carbon monoxyd and then has necrophiliac sexual relation after stranging them… Adapted from true events certainly one of Fleischer’s very best movie and a strong mix of perversion on misery background. Richard Attenborough is amazing as the serial killer. This movie was haunting me since I watched it in may ealy 20’s… I enjoy a lot to watch it again… 9/10

“Monstrosity” (Joseph V. Mascelli, USA 1964)
Mrs. March, sadistic, selfish, and rich, uses her aging gigolo boyfriend and renegade scientist Otto Frank, whose illegal experiments she is subsidizing in her Gothic mansion, in a plan to transplant her brain into the body of a young woman. Three foreign domestics: Mexican Anita, British Bea, and Austrian Nina, are hired. Frank's mysterious and unexplained use of radiation can inexplicably transplant brains without surgery. After he puts a cat's brain into Anita and she literally scratches out Bea's eye, Nina becomes the prospective receptacle for Mrs. March's aging but still active libido. Amazing Z grade movie…. A must to see for all fans of this kind of cinema. 3/10 or 10/10 for fans !

"The Head Mistress" (Byron Mabe, USA 1968)
This sleazy soft porn is set in the past and it ollows a horny young man who applies to work as the gardener in the local school for female students. The students in this girlschool are very libidinous and they are more than happy that there's finally a vigorous young man there who soon begins to service the school in more than one way. The head mistress of the girlschool is an attractive man-hating tyrant who has a lesbian affair with one of her students. When the student in question becomes accidentally pregnant with the gardener's child, she can't bare the shame and hangs herself. The head mistress finds her, breaks down, caresses her dead body and swears vengeance against the gardener…. A strange nudie with some weird scenes of fetichism, even necrophilia... but on a not very serious way indeed... Furthermore girls are very pretty. For fans only 6/10

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Today's movies...

"Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate" (aka "The Bloodstained Butterfly") (Duccio Tessari, Italy 1971)
A girl is murdered in a park. The man is tried and convicted for the crime but afterwards the killings continue. Good plot for this good giallo with a strong documentary style especialy about the scientific police… A goog twisted ending. 8/10

"Les Poneyttes" (Joël Le Moigné, France 1967)
At the y è-Yé times the story of the director of a magazine for Teenage girls « The Poneyttes » and his team in the world off showbusiness… You have the presence of some stars of that times Hubert, Rosko, Sylvie Vartan, Johnny Hallyday who sings a couple of rare erd songs, Bruno Coquatrix and others… A curiosity for fans of a lost time only. 5,5/10

"Biohazard" (Fred Olen Ray, USA 1985)
Alien monster uses a psychic to try to take over the earth. That’s almost all what you’ll can understand from this ultra Z grade movie, some kind of earthbound ripoff of Alien with zero budget… The only interest is the presence of too soon disappeared busty Angelique Pettyjohn ! 3/10 For Z grad fans 10/10 or more !

"The English Patient" Anthony Minghella USA/UK 1996)
Rewatched this one with some pleasure… A good melodrama nicely filmed even if a bit soapy sometimes. 7/10

A good rainy day...

alternative history

Movies of the last two days...

“Def-Con 4” (Paul Donovan, Digby Cook, Tony Randel, Canada 1985)
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power. This Canadian’s Mad-Max is a bit cheap but quite entertaining. 6,5/10

“Così come sei” (“Stay as You Are”) (Alberto Lattuada, Italy 1978)
Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his daughter. He resolves to keep his hands off but can't seem to stay away, and she's eager for a lover who's a father figure. He's happy to be a kid, so he tries to find out who her father is; his wife knows something is up; his daughter, who's Francesca's age and is pregnant, encourages the affair. Another movie about the mature man falling for the young teen on incest background but the couple Mastroianni / Kinsky work very well. 7,5/10

“Warlords of Atlantis” (Kevin Connor, UK 1978)
Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell destroyed, a deep sea monster attacks the boat. They are all dragged to the bottom of the sea where they meet the inhabitants of the lost continent, an advance alien race makes slaves of the ship-wrecked sailors. The aliens want to rule the human world to create a nazi state. (sic). A camps and cheap adventure movie but quite entertaining. 6,5/10

“Maléfices” (Henri Decoin, France 1962)
A veterinary surgeon on the French atlantic coast is one day called to cure a leopard… he meets there the owner of the beast, a strange woman recently widowed and coming from Africa to sell the family house she has inherited on a remote island… They fall in love but some strange things begins to happen… A poorly known Henri Decoin movie with a weird story and very nice filming on location at Noirmoutier. 8/10

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Very few movies those last few days... but some !

“La Storia di Piera” (aka The Story of Piera) (Marco Ferreri, France / Italy / West Germany 1983)
This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti. A very strange movie with quite complex characters. Despite a rather scabrous subject a fine depiction of human relationships on incestuous and pervert background. Marcello Mastrioanni is good and the couple Bettina Grühn/ Isabelle Huppert makes an amazing portrait of Piera… 8/10

“Wadjda” (Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | Germany | Jordan | United Arab Emirates | USA, 2012)
An enterprising 10 years old Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest. Despite some plot twist to face an ointernational audience, the whole is quite good with a nice depiction of women’s lives behind the walls and closed doors…Interesting even if no great cinema. 7/10

“Csend és kiáltás” (aka “Silence and Cry”) (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary 1968)
István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal, who is now a commandant of the local Royal Gendarme outfit, István is safely hidden from the ever-prying eyes of the secret policemen, who relentlessly roam the countryside searching for ex-Red Army men… Excellent dance of death (the camera of Jancsó!) between the two men under the sight of the women spectators of this deadly fight… 8,5/10

“Orazi e Curiazi” (aka “Duel of the Champions”) (Ferdinando Baldi, Terence Young Italy | Yugoslavia, 1961)
A duel takes place in order to put an end to the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. Three valiant brothers are chosen for each side. The Romans choose three brothers: the Orazi. The Albans are represented by the Curiazi. During the fierce and bloody final duel the Romans defeat their opponents.Losely adapted from the famous legend, a cheap sword and sandals movie in which Alan Ladd seems a bit lost… Furthermore he was heavily drinking at that time and will die less than three years after. 6,5/10

“Giallo in Venezia” (aka “Gore in Venice”) (Mario Landi, Italy 1979)
In Venice a detective is on the trail of a killer who commits a double murder (a married couple) then more grisly killings occur. Sex, drugs, gore and perversions are ingredients of this sadistic and sleazy giallo. Avery sick, violent, pervert anq quite misogynistic movie but much enjoyable for fans of the genre… 7/10

“Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly” (Freddie Francis, UK 1970)
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered. Very sic and pervert movie by a specialist of the genre. Nice filming. 6,5/10

“Jeunes filles impudiques“ (aka “Schoolgirl Hitchhikers“) (Jean Rollin, France 1974)
Two female hitch-hikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelry. For those “alimentary” movies, far from his main work, Jean Rollin uses the pseudonym of Michel Gentil. This is a cheap story but the occasion to watch and appreciate the beauty of one of the most gorgeous girls of the French soft-porn cinema of the 70’, Joëlle Coeur. For fans only. 6/10

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the others...

“Le chemin d'Ernoa“ (aka “Ernoa’s Way“) (René Coiffard, Louis Delluc, France 1921)
After making fortune in America Etchégor is back in Basque Country and has built a nice big home But he’s boring. A poor girl is in love with him but he only has eyes for the wife of an American living here… But the guy is a thief and must flee to nearby Spain… An early movie of famous French director and writer Louis Delluc. 7/10

“La verte moisson” (aka “Green Harvest”) (François Villiers, France 1959)
In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death. A fine depiction of an engagement. Just excellent. 9/10

“Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù“ (aka “Private Vices, Public Virtues“) (Miklós Jancsó, Italy / Yugoslavia 1976)
Rudolf is a good-natured pan-sexual golden boy, who cavorts on his rural estate with a host of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. He refuses to leave his country idyll even though he has been ordered to by the Emperor, his father. An Italian movie for great Miklós Jancsó, The spirits of early works is a bit lost but the art is still there… 7/10.

“Sergil chez les filles“ (Jacques Daroy, France 1952)
Inspector Sergil goes head to head with a ruthless gang of drug dealers. The movie is supposed to be set in Marseille but we can barely see some seasides views… The whole is a bit poorly acted and filmed. A French crime B movie. 6/10

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Movies of the last few days...

“Out 1, noli me tangere“ (Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman, France 1971)
Two marginals who don't know one another stumble into the remnants of a "secret society": Colin, a seemingly deaf-mute who all of a sudden begins to talk and Frederique, a con artist working the "short con". Meanwhile there are two theater groups rehearsing classic Greek dramas: "Seven Against Thebes" and "Prometheus Bound". A member of the Moretti group passes a note to Colin about "The 13" which sends Leaud on a search for "The 13" (referring to a Balzac novel). His search brings him eventually t the shop "L'Angle du Hasard." Owned by Emily. Frederique follows much the same path when she steals a cachet of letters from Etienne and tries to get money from their owners for their return. These twin activities reactivate "The 13" which had been dormant for years, revealing among other things that the two theater groups were once one… A cult movie. Out 1, noli me tangere is a very precise picture of post May '68 malaise after the disillusion and collapse of all the dreams of the revolution… An amazing experiment I made in one complete day of more than 12 hours of cinema… Simply amazing ! 10/10

“Cap Canaille“ (Juliet Berto, Jean-Henri Roger, France 1983)
Paula is caught in the world of crime because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. A bit dull story (but what’s not dull in Marseille underworld) But all is filmed on location in Marseille in the 80’s… And tht’s the most important (all my youth !) Furthermore a good cast (Juliet Berto, Richard Anconina, Richard Borhinger, Jean-Claude Brialy, Patrick Chesnay, Bernadette Lafond,.. and the presence of famous character actor of franch cinema Andrex… 7/10

“Come rubare la corona d'Inghilterra“ (aka “The Invincible Superman“) (Sergio Grieco, Italy 1967)
I rewatched this one on a much better copy and even if the plot is always bad… the image makes it much better 3/10 but for Z fans 10/10 or much more !

“L‘affaire des poisons“ (aka “The Case of Poisons“) (Henri Decoin France 1955)
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty... Nice adaptation of historical Events. Viviane Romance as the "witch" is excellent... 8/10

“Sirokkó“ (aka “Winter wind“) (Miklós Jancsó, France / Hungary 1969)
Some Croatians revolutionairs hide in Hungary and prepare the assassination of King (that will take place in Marseille in 1934). One of the leader is Mark,o Lazar who is very active… the leaders of the rebellion even find him too active and decide to make him a martyr… Never before actors have more danced in front of Jancsó’s camera in a sinister ballet of death wonderfully filmed… 8,5/10

“Avant le deluge“ (aka “Before the Deluge“) (André Cayatte, France 1954)
Deep in cold-war a group of teen-agers afraid of the developments of Corean War plan to flee to a remote island in the Pacific. To get money they decide,to rob a crooked business man but during the robbery the nightkeeper is murdered… Another strongly enfgaged movie from André Cayatte… Very interesting… 8/10

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"Tropic of Cancer" (Joseph Strick, USA 1970)
Henry is an ex-pat in Paris, cadging drinks and meals and places to sleep, giving advice about women to clueless men, flirting with the wives of acquaintances, burning bridges, and making philosophical observations. In vignettes we see his wife Mona come to Paris and leave immediately when she tastes Henry's vagabond life; he tries teaching English at a school in Dijon, takes the son of a wealthy Indian to a bordello, gets a job as a proofreader at the Herald Tribune, and helps out a pal who's in and out of an asylum and deeply in love with a whore. Can Henry make his own discovery of ecstasy? Quite interesting adaptation of Miller’s novel… 7,5/10

"Pièce montée" (Denys Granier-Deferre, France 2010)
Families gather together for a happy day, the wedding of their children. But it's also the time to reveal all their secrets. Despite the movie is full of clichés, interesting acting by Jean-Pierre Marielle and the last feature movie of Great great french actress Danièle Darrieux who’ll be 100 next 1 of May !!! 6/10

"Maciste nelle miniere di re Salomone" (aka "Maciste in King Solomon’s Mines") (Piero Regnoli, Italy 1964)
Maciste is captured and forced to work as a slave in an African mine…. Quite poor sword and sandals movie with ex-Mr Universe Reg Park… 5/10

"Elle cause plus… elle flingue" (Michel Audiard, France 1972)
A bunch of oddballs, under the orders of Rosemonde du Bois de la Faisanderie and living in a shanty town in Paris outskirts, liquidate visitors and foreigners thru a special machine… Absurd and sometimes funny crime-comedy with huge cast : Annie Girardot, Bernerd Blier, Jean Carmet and many others… 6,5/10

"Bons baisers… à lundi" (Michel Audiard, France 1974)
A troio of poor crooks, take in hostage a (supposed) wealthy impresario and his friends in hostage for a week-end… Barely funny comedy with once more Bernard Blier, Maria Pacome, Jean Carmet… 6/10

"Vive la France" (Michel Audiard, France 1974)
A funny review of french history mainly WWII and post war years. Sometimes funny but with strong populist background… 6,5/10

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Movies of the last few days...

“The Ugly Truth” (Robert Luketic, USA 2009)
In Sacramento, Abby Richter produces a morning news show that's about to be canceled. To boost ratings, her boss hires Mike Chadway, a local cable call-in host who promotes the ugly truth: sex is the only glue in a relationship, men can't change, and they only respond to women's looks. Mike offends Abby's sensibility: she has a checklist about the perfect man, and she's found him in her new neighbor, Colin, a hunky doctor. Mike offers to help her reel in Colin if she'll work with Mike on the show; she accepts the deal, ratings go up, and, with Mike's help, so does Colin's interest in her…. Another sadly conventional romantic comedy… with Katherine Heigl some kind of specialist of such movies… 3,5/10

“La nuit des traqués“ (Bernard-Roland Belgium/France 1959)
A crooked guy try to dominate a gang of young hells angels. But during a fight the thief is killed… all the friends promise silence but soon the young killer is blackmailed… the blackmailer want to have sexual relation with his girlfriend otherwise he will tell all the story to the police… Set in Antwerpen, this little crime movie is not as bad as expected even if a bit dated mainly thanks to nice atmospheric filming on location in Antwerpen… 7/10

“Assassins et Voleurs“ (Sacha Guitry, France 1957)
A burglar is surprised by his victim who indeed ask him to murder him. The victim now explain how is arrived to this fatal decision… But things are not always what they seem. Ferocious crime comedy with lot of salacious and satirical dialogs as Guitry know to do it. Also the first meeting of Jean Poret and Michel Serrault. 8/10

“Un revenant“ (Christian-Jaque, France 1946)
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before. Christian-Jaque is a much under-rated director and he once màore prove it in this cruel sory and satyre about bourgeoisie… Louis ouvet is amzing and nice views of Lyon… 8,5/10

“Compartiment tueurs“ (Costa-Gavras, France 1967)
Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them committed the homicide, but the suspects are killed one by one. The last two must solve the case themselves before they become the next victims. Adapted from a Japrisot novel an excellent crime movie with huge casting… A good beginning for Costa-Gavras 9/10

“Escort Girls“ (Donovan Winter, UK 1974)
It is Christmas Eve in London, and various lonely men and women turn to male and female escorts for company. Despite the title there are also escirt-boys in this curious movie. It’s almost the antithesis of the usual stuff of this time a very dull and sad nudy and a diusturbing movie about loneliness wich is never so strong than in such events as Christmas eve. Here the characters are not sympathetic, not very handsome neighter beautiful, girls are quite aged for this kind of movies, at leas not the standards you could expect. Even sex scenes are sad. Indeed a quite good movie. 8/10

“The Black Gestapo“ (Lee Frost, USA 1975)
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into a vigilante mob, and his prediction soon proves correct. Will Ahmed be able to wrest control back from the power-mad Kojah, or will he be the mob's next victim? Pure gilty pleasure, yes it’s bad but you’ll enjoy a lot watching it !! 3/10 or 8/10 depending your mood and approach… :)

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“Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens” (J.J. Abrams, USA 2015)
Three decades after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a new threat arises. The First Order attempts to rule the galaxy and only a ragtag group of heroes can stop them, along with the help of the Resistance. I watched the first movie in 1977 it was 39 years ago… and now this remake of episode IV… a sad remake some plans and sequences are almost identical… Of course they’ll call it an homage, a good expression for lack of imagination and money-making. Of course it’s still visualy amazing and the tremendous action maintain the spectator addicted to the screen (that’s the only ything those movies still can do) but nothing left few minutes after the end of the movie only. Capitalizing on old times and characters to make money is not fair, but what expect more from Disney ? Nothing I supose… except the next episode… 4/10
582°) “Hail, Caesar!” (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, UK/USA/Japan, 2016)
Hail Caesar! Follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix, a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the 1950s, who cleans up and solves problems for big names and stars in the industry. But when studio star Baird Whitlock disappears, Mannix has to deal with more than just the fix. What a wonderful idea, exactly the movie I was waiting : the Cohen brothers once more exploring the Hollywood business of the golden age… But I’m a bit disappointed… the atmosphere is there, the actors are quite good but something is missing to unit the whole… to create something… a certain waste of potential. I love most of Choen brothers movie but this one is a bit disappointing. 6,5/10

“Plus ça va, moins ça va“ (Michel Vianey, France/Spain, 1977)
Southern France Two racists, dumb, sexist cops (Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean Carmet, very good) investigate on a vicious sexual murder. THey accuse an arab worker but even if he has an alibi they keep him in jail. Hes then escapes and all the racist of the area are after him… On the other hand their investigation leads them to the house of a rich businessman and an cinema producer surrounded by lot of pretty gals… A typical post-68 movie near to Dupon-Lajoie for the thema. Quite interesting even if a bit clichéd, but people like that are few more than living clichés… A negaticve point is that other characters are few developed for example the old actor played by Louis Jourdan or the producer played by Mort Shuman (Yes!) who composed also the music.. 7/10

“Les assassins du dimanche“ (aka “Every Second Counts“) (Alex Joffé, France 1956)
Robert a garage owner, has spent all night on fixing in due time a car completely wrecked in a crash by its careless speed-crazy driver. Upset by this event and by the coming cycle race where he is a favorite, he miss the German patrons who are back to take their car… A curious movie mixing comedy and suspense… A typical French movie of lost times and lost places, little villages, little people… 7/10

to be continued...

Let's begin 2017 with some little movies....

"Les bidasses en folie" (aka "The Five Crazy Boys") (Claude Zidi, France 1971)
Some friends want to be famous and found a country music band and make some concerts… but they are called under the flags and they’ll try everything to get fired from the army… A typical French comedy with the famous band Les Charlots… for fans 6,5/10

"Landru" (Claude Chabrol, France/Italy 1963)
France, WWI. Landru, the father of four children, contacts Parisian women through newspaper ads, seduces and eventually kills them. Certainly the most faithfull adaptation of the story of the famous French serial killer of WWI…. WWII will have his sinister double with the sinister Dr. Petioit… A quite good movie with bunch of famous actress to murder… 7,5/10

"Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob" (aka "The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) (Gérard Oury, France 1973)
A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police. I rewatched this classic French comedy once more… Certainly the one of the best Louis de Funèse effort… just good. 8,5/10

"Soleil noir" (aka "Black Sun") (Denys de La Patellière, France/Italy, 1966)
A young girl goes to Africa to find her lost brother living among sordid people but finds true love with a disqualified pilot. Michèle Mezrcier was the great heroin of the famous Angélique série… There she’s once more a v ery courageous and strong girl in a difficult mission. Despite some plot holes the whole is armless and entertaining with some nice filming on location in the desert… 7/10

"Un homme et une femme" (aka "A Man and a Woman") (Claude Lelouch, France 1966)
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow/widower. Each is slow to reveal anything personal so that each revelation is hidden by a misperception. They become friends, then close friends, and then she reveals that she can't have a lover because, for her, her husband's memory is still too strong. Much of the film is told wordlessly in action, or through hearing one of their thoughts as they go about their day. I rewatched this one with true pleasure. I’m not a Lelouch’s great fan but this one is very good. 9/10

"La bonne année" (aka "Happy New Year") (Claude Lelouch, France 1973)
Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes but by someone special he met there. Curious mix of crime movie and romance as only Lelouch know s and can do it. But quite interesting movie indeed. 8/10

"The Bees" (Alfredo Zacarías, Mexico 1978)
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world. Yeah it’s bad but true guilty pleasure and JohnSaxon and John Carradine in the same movie is a must to see… 3/10 but 10/10 for Z grade fans…

that's a good beginning...

Movies of the last three days...

“To prosopo tis Medousas” (aka “Vortex”) (Nikos Koundouros, Greece, 1967)
On a deserted Greek island a number of men are leaded by an attractive female who, like a medusa or spider, devours any male without inhibition. Very nice movie with complex natrative with flashbacks and film in the film actions… quite strange and haunting… Hara Angelousi as the girl is beautifull and fatale… 8,5/10

“964 Pinocchio” (Shozin Fukui, Japan 1991)
Pinocchio 964, lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. He is befriended by a criminally insane, memory-wiped, homeless girl. Meanwhile, the corporate entity who manufactured and sold him plots to kill him because of his malfunction. A typical cyberpunk movie and as most movies of the genre it’s bad… even ridiculous at some moments… unfortunately even not laughtable… a true So Bad that it’s.. Just Bad. 1,5/10

“Atoll K” (aka “Utopia”) (Léo Joannon, John Berry, Alfred J. Goulding, Tim Whelan, France /Italy 1951)
Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys are shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea. Along with their cook, a stowaway and a girl who is fleeing her fiancé, they set up their own government on the atoll. Uranium is discovered and world powers begin fighting over ownership of the island. The last movie of Laurel & Hardy… if not the best not the worst at all as some consider it… Furthermore the message of the movie is quite good with the tolerance as the main result of anarchy ! Quite enjoyable ! 7/10

“The Mountain” (Edward Dmytryk, USA 1956)
When a plane crashes on a mountaintop Chris wants to plunder the wreckage. His older brother Zachary has given up mountain guide work but goes along rather than letting his brother risk it alone. The only survivor is a Hindu girl who Chris wants to kill. Zachary fights him off. While Chris steals from the dead passengers, Zachary prepares a sled to take the girl down the mountain. Adapted frome the famous novel of Hanry Troyat and inspired by true events. A nice story nicely filmed partly on location in the Mont-Blanc area, even if the end is a bit different and less sad than the original story (it’s Hollywood you know…) 8,5/10

“Nightmare Sisters” (David DeCoteau, USA 1988)
Melody, Marci, and Mickey are three geeky college girls who can't get a date. One night, they invite some geeky college guys over and have a seance that results in the girls becoming possessed and turning into sex starved vamps. Will the geek hero guys be able to stop the horrible (?) possession? David DeCoteau is definitively the Ed Wood of modern times… I love his movies…. 2/10 (for Z fans 10/10)

“La sorcière” (aka “The Blonde Witch”) (André Michel, France/Sweden, 1956)
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to "civilization", but ends up getting her killed by superstitious villagers instead. Adapted from the novel of Russian writer Aleksandr Kuprin it’s set in Sweden in a wild country of forests… and superstition. Beautifully filùmed and acted by wonderful Marina Vladi who’s perfect in the role of the nature-girl… 8,5/10

"Airport" (George Seaton, Henry Hathaway, USA 1970)
This precursor to later "epic" 70's disaster films illustrates 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the "Lincoln Airport." Endless problems, professional and personal, are thrown at the various personnel responsible for the safe and proper administration of air traffic, airline management and aviation at a major US airport. Take one severe snowstorm, add multiple schedules gone awry, one elderly Trans Global Airlines stowaway, shortages, an aging, meretricious pilot, unreasonable, peevish spouses, manpower issues, fuel problems, frozen runways and equipment malfunctions and you get just a sample of the obstacles faced by weary, disgruntled personnel and passengers at the Lincoln Airport. Toss in one long-suffering pilot's wife, several stubborn men, office politics and romance and one passenger with a bomb. I rewatched this one with solme pleasure eve”n if the Advertizing for Boeing is a bit “heavy”… 7,5/10

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the others...

“Bestialità“ (aka “Dog Lay Afternoon”) (George Eastman, Peter Skerl, Italy 1976)
A young girl witnesses her mother having sex with the family dog. When her father finds out, he burns the dog alive. She is so traumatized by these incidents that she later turns into a nymphomaniac. She moves to an island and lives there with her own dog, having sex with various guests who visit her. Ultra weird movie deling with zoophilia but most likely turns into a more or mless classic love triangle and triolism… Quite interesting and nicely filmed…A pure euro-thrash exploitation movie of the 70’s. (don’t let you influence by IMDb’s low note) 7/10

“Santo y Blue Demon contra el doctor Frankenstein“ (aka “Santo & Blue Deamon vs. Dr. Frankenstein“) (Miguel M. Delgado, Mexico 1974)
El Santo and Blue Demon team up with a couple of detectives to stop the grandson of Dr Frankenstein from conducting fiendish brain transplant experiments. As usual the movie is excellent and simply delirious… Simply magic ! 5/10 for fans this excellent episode deserves a glorious 8/10…

“St. Pauli zwischen Nacht und Morgen” (aka “St. Pauli Between Night and Morning”) (José Bénazéraf, West Gernamy/France 1967)
Helmut Schmidt (sic!) is a swiss inspector in mission in Hamburg… He fall in love for a Arlette, a French prostitute and then infildtrate a dangerous gans of thugs… José Benaéraf bring a dark crime moive beautifully filmed on location in the hot Sankt Pauli district… Good 7,5/10

“A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon” (aka “The Heart of the Tyran”) (Miklós Jancsó, Hungary/Italy 1977)
A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death. A wonderful fusion of Jancsó’s art of filming and comedia dell’arte in a tragic game of power and death… Excellent. 8/10

“Vanessa” (Hubert Frank, West Germany 1977)
Famous Olivia Pascal stars as Vanessa who was raised in a convent after the death of her parents. Due to an inheritance she travels to Hong Kong to find out the inheritance is a chain of bordellos. She soon has trouble coping with her inheritance as she is thrust into her new world of carnal delights. Classic erotic movie with gorgeous Olivia Pascal… 6/10

“I... comme Icare“ (aka “I like Icarus“) (Henri Verneuil, France 1979)
After the recently re-elected President of a fictitious state has been assassinated, one of the members of the investigation committee refuses to sign the final report and is given the task of investigating once more. In the course of his search he finds evidence that casts serious doubt on the committee's "lone-gunman" theory... A very bold film that basically told the "JFK" story thinly disguised as having taken place not in the US. The movie sounds very similar to a Costa Gavras one and is fully fulfilled with the theory of conspiracy… pregnant at that time… Veru good even if noy esqualing the model. 8,5/10

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“Q” (Larry Cohen, USA 1982)
NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is. We proposed this movie in our festival iun glorious 35 mm print and with a truly pathetic French dubbed version which transform the movie in a true comedy ! Everybody laugh a lot ! 7/10

“Faccia a Faccia” (Sergio Sollima, 1967 Italy)
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness. We enjoyed a lot this movie in a hard to find 35 mm copy… Tomas Milian and Gian Maria Volonté are just great. 8/10

“Il grande racket” (aka The Big Racket) (Enzo G. Castellari Italy 19776)
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals. Fabio Testi in a role very similar to Bronson’s ones in the same period… Quite violent and entertaining… 8/10

“Tobor the Great” (Lee Sholem, USA 1954)
As projected here, a thinly-disguised NASA, working with nuclear rockets, is ready for manned flights in the mid-fifties...but Dr. Ralph Harrison doesn't think so, and resigns in protest. Colleague Prof. Nordstrom promptly enlists his aid in developing an alternative robot Spaceman! Naturally, foreign spies are keenly interested... Uses documentary footage of early space research. Ultra camp and kitch movie made before the success of Forbidden planet…and certainly not without influence on it… 7/10

Thats all for this year... Rendez-vous next year for the 10th edition !!!

Movies of the week...

“The Satanist” (Zoltan G. Spencer, USA 1968)
A young couple's marriage becomes threatened when an attractive female occultist enters their lives, enticing them into a strange world of drugs, sex, and satanic rites. Ultra Weird nudie with strong occultism background… nicely filmed… 6,5/10

“Sisters in Leather” (Zoltan G. Spencer, USA 1969)
A husband is blackmailed by 3 lesbian bikers after they spot him having sex with another woman in a car. They then take the man's wife out for a picnic and some nude motorcycle riding. The husband finds some male bikers and together they try to save his wife from becoming a lesbian biker. More classic and less interesting nudie from Zoltan G. Spencer. Bur girsl are very pretty… 6/10

“Lo zio di Brooklyn” (aka “The Uncle from Brooklyn”) (Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco, Italy 1995)
Palermo. Two dwarves, godfathers of the local mafia ask Tano and his family to host a strange "uncle" who don't speak, don't eat and never sleeps... Excellent and ferocious (outrageous) comedy 8/10

“La dame de pique” (aka “The Queen of Spades”) (Léonard Keigel, France 1965)
After escaping the french revolution, countess Anna Fedotovna lives now in Petersburg. Addicted to cards she kept a famous winning formula which turns out to be fatal for those who aim to use it... Adapted from the eponymous novel of Pushkin a quite good movie written and adapted by famous writer Julien Green and faithful to the novel. 7,5/10

“Lawman” (Michael Winner, USA 1971)
A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man. Dura lex sed lex…. Crepuscular western with a great Burt Lancaster as an exterminating angel… or deamon. A great western. 8,5/10

“L'ultima orgia del III Reich” (aka “Gestapo’s Last Orgy”) (Cesare Canevari Italy 1977)
Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron fist by Commandant Starker and his minion Alma. Starker becomes frustrated when Lise demonstrates no fear, and devises cruel experiments to scare her, to no avail. Once she realizes her guilt is unfounded, Lise begins to play Starker's game, but even though she begins living a better life, she doesn't forget the atrocities she has seen and experienced. Cerainly one of the most if not the most outrageous nazi-exploitation movie ever made not for everybody… By the way not that bad for fans of eurothrash cinema. 7/10

“The Killing Kind” (Curtis Harrington, USA 1973)
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides in and who keeps bringing him glasses of chocolate milk. One of her boarders, Lori, becomes attracted to him. However, while he was serving his prison sentence, Terry developed an interest in rough, violent sex, and gory death. Now, one by one, some of the town's women pop up dead. A classic horro little movie about the mental damages caused by a too possessive mother…But quite well treated here with more characters’ depiction than gory action. Ann Sothern and John Savage are good.… Not bad at all in it’s genre… 7/10

“Conquest” (Lucio Fulci, Italy / Mexico / Spain, 1983)
A young man, armed with a magical bow and arrows, embarks on a mystical journey through a mystical land to rid it of all evil and joins forces with an outlaw to take down an evil witch bent on claiming the magic bow for evil. A radicaly different approach of the fantasy genre by great Lucio Fulci… A curiosityif not a great movie… 6/10

“Comptes à rebours“ (aka “Circle of Vengeance“) (Roger Pigaut, France 1971)
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François. Quite a good crime movie “à la française” with nice casting Michel Bouquet Serge Reggiani, Jean-Marc Bory (Ferrier), Marcel Bozzuffi, André Pousse, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel,… 8/10

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