Original Cinemaniac

Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody

The Mother and the Whore

            Film at Lincoln Center and Janus Films announced an incredible retrospective from July 7-13: “The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache” celebrating the career of the iconoclastic French post-New Wave director. “The films I made are as autobiographical as fiction can…
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Trouble Every Day

            “Eat me,” achieves a radical interpretation in Claire Denis’ (I Can’t Sleep, Beau travail) gruesome art house horror film out now in a gorgeous Blu-ray from The Film Desk.             Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue) plays Core, a young woman who suffers…
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The Wounded Man

            Finally available on Blu-ray (from Altered Innocence) is Patrice Chereau’s defiantly disturbing 1983 film about a young man’s dangerous sexual obsession with an older male hustler.              Director Patrice Chereau was mostly known for his inspired staging of operas and theater.…
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Danza Macabra

            New from Severin is this fabulous 4-movie Blu-ray box set of Italian gothic horror treats from the 1960s and 1970s. There is an abundance of cobwebs and candelabras, gloomy castles with secret passageways and hidden horrors. But some of the…
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