Inferno (L’enfer) is auteur Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished masterpiece. A film though incomplete, may well be one of the most inspired and avant garde films of it’s time. Clouzot wanted to make a film about a husband’s jealousy and how it consumes his thoughts and sense of reality. The new documentary Inferno compiles lost footage, reenactments and candid interviews from crew members to tell the story of it’s disastrous and ill fated production and the undoing of it’s obsessed director.
There are five little words that will always give me more incentive to see a film. That’s it, just five. No, not “Nachos are on the house!”(Though that would work too) but Based on a True Story. Why? Because truth is stranger than fiction and usually makes for an entertaining or disturbing movie.
When Stefan, a misguided grad hitchhikes to Paris looking for adventure, he has no idea he’ll meet a woman that will change his life forever. But don’t fret, More isn’t a shitty romantic comedy of errors starring Katherine Heigl or Sad Jen. Its a cautionary tale of drugs and free love with the lushly beautiful island of Ibiza as it’s backdrop.
Just watched Godard’s Tout va bien and fell in love with Jane Fonda all over again…
Babe City, Population: 1.
We are a culture that loves to watch. There is little mystery left to us at this point, with no reality show plot left unturned or film idea deemed too ridiculous. Peeping Tom is a film that was ahead of its time. It preceded our desensitisation to gory horror and torture porn, and the availability of internet content faster than a Domino’s pizza.
A man is suspended in a tank full of water in what looks like some sort of crude NASA experiment. The camera focuses in on our subject as over sized credits slide slowly across the screen finally centering on a black background. The title, Altered States is written in a modified version of the beautifully minimal Avant Garde typeface and it sets the tone of the whole film. Forget what you know about normal because shits about to get really weird.
Heroin addiction + Ibiza + a soundtrack by Pink Floyd = a movie I need to see asap.
