Mubi's retrospective The Many Sins of Walerian Borowczyk is showing February 12 - June 18, 2017 in the United States and in many other countries around the world.The late 1970s marks a stylistic departure for Walerian Borowczyk, as the Polish director moved away from a controlled, painterly style and toward a ‘corporeal’ style, wherein changes in aesthetic choices allowed him to explore the human body in greater depth than in his previous films. While the liberal portrayal of sex and sexuality (lending itself to the liberal portrayal of bodies, human or otherwise) is present in Borowczyk’s live-action films as early as his anthology Immoral Tales from 1973, the preoccupation with the body specifically comes to the fore with the films Behind Convent Walls (1978), Immoral Women (1979), L’armoire (1979), Lulu (1980), and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981). It is in this four-year period that the viewer will notice Borowczyk's moving away...
- 4/6/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. The retrospective The Many Sins of Walerian Borowczyk is showing February 12 - June 18, 2017 in the United States and in many other countries around the world.As the reverberation of horses fervently neighing and clomping their hooves begins to permeate the opening credit soundtrack of The Beast, one may recall the similarly orchestrated donkey brays that introduce Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Or, given its title, and the very basic concept of a young woman becoming enamored with an savage creature, one may be tempted to compare this 1975 feature to the many variations of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s classic fairy tale, La belle et la bête. One would be more than a little confounded, however, by making either inadequate association. If Walerian Borowczyk’s semi-porn-semi-art-semi-monster movie bears any resemblance to another film or story, it would be...
- 3/21/2017
- MUBI
Is there a filmmaker better-suited to the classic Dr. Jekyll story than Walerian Borowczyk? In the five films (and numerous shorts) Arrow included in their box set last year, he again and again returns to the idea of people having two sides – a socially-acceptable, even enviable face they put to the public, and a sordid private life in which they commit all manner of sins. Unlike so much of Western fiction, this license to transgress was not granted exclusively to men, either. His women were often capable of much worse. Fitting, then, that his version of this story, which shares only the premise with Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, should include a woman in its title. All the more daring that this woman should be based, at least in name, on Stevenson’s own wife.
Like Borowczyk’s The Beast (or the even more-disturbing “Erzsébet Báthory” segment from Immoral Tales), Dr.
Like Borowczyk’s The Beast (or the even more-disturbing “Erzsébet Báthory” segment from Immoral Tales), Dr.
- 6/5/2015
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
Buckle up buttercup, ‘cuz ol’ Xiii is back in town, and we goin’ ridin’ on the freeway of fright in my black Cadillac!
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Miss Osbourne
Release Date: Available Now on Blu-ray Written By: Walerian Borowczyk Directed By: Walerian Borowczyk Starring: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee
Show of hands (or claws, or whatever you ghouls have): how many of you knew that ol’ Walerian Borowczyk—you know, the dude that directed The Beast, that flick with the be-donged creature that managed to cover every square inch of everything in cu…err, fluid—directed an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic nightmare novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? No one? Well, I didn’t either, but he did, and I got to watch it. How close will he keep to the original text? Read on and find out!
Well,...
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Miss Osbourne
Release Date: Available Now on Blu-ray Written By: Walerian Borowczyk Directed By: Walerian Borowczyk Starring: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee
Show of hands (or claws, or whatever you ghouls have): how many of you knew that ol’ Walerian Borowczyk—you know, the dude that directed The Beast, that flick with the be-donged creature that managed to cover every square inch of everything in cu…err, fluid—directed an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic nightmare novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? No one? Well, I didn’t either, but he did, and I got to watch it. How close will he keep to the original text? Read on and find out!
Well,...
- 5/25/2015
- by DanielXIII
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Robert Louis Stevenson’s literary horror classic Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published in 1886, just a decade before the birth of cinema and only two decades prior to its first screen adaptation (William N. Selig’s now lost Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Since then a lengthy list of cinematic interpretations have come to fruition, from the 1931 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian which earned Fredric March an Oscar for his performance in the starring role, to the 1941 remake that boasted of names like Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner, through a TV movie featuring Mickey Rooney in his very last screen performance. Despite the lengthy list, there is certainly no adaptation quite like Walerian Borowczyk’s hyper sexualized The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne.
By 1981, the year of the film’s release, Borowczyk had (somewhat unwillingly) been pegged as an art house...
By 1981, the year of the film’s release, Borowczyk had (somewhat unwillingly) been pegged as an art house...
- 5/12/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Mvd Entertainment Group continues to distribute Arrow Video in North America with a strong schedule of April 2015 releases receiving the deluxe treatment in video, audio, supplements and artwork:
"Blood and Black Lace" (Blu-ray / DVD), plus a Limited Edition Steelbook, follows "...the 'Cristiana Haute Couture' fashion house, a home to models, backstabbing, blackmail, drug deals and murder. This influential film by director Mario Bava, newly restored from the original camera negative, would have a huge effect on filmmakers as diverse as Dario Argento and Martin Scorsese..."
"Massacre Gun" on Blu-ray and DVD, stars Jo Shishido in a classic 'yakuza' action film directed by Yasuharu Hasebe, following
"...'Kuroda' (Shishido), a mob associate who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers are hot-headed 'Eiji' (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer 'Saburô' (Jirô Okazaki), as the trio escalate their retaliation to an all-out...
"Blood and Black Lace" (Blu-ray / DVD), plus a Limited Edition Steelbook, follows "...the 'Cristiana Haute Couture' fashion house, a home to models, backstabbing, blackmail, drug deals and murder. This influential film by director Mario Bava, newly restored from the original camera negative, would have a huge effect on filmmakers as diverse as Dario Argento and Martin Scorsese..."
"Massacre Gun" on Blu-ray and DVD, stars Jo Shishido in a classic 'yakuza' action film directed by Yasuharu Hasebe, following
"...'Kuroda' (Shishido), a mob associate who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers are hot-headed 'Eiji' (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer 'Saburô' (Jirô Okazaki), as the trio escalate their retaliation to an all-out...
- 2/3/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
UK residents have been enjoying Arrow Video Blu-ray releases of cult films like Maniac Cop and The Funhouse for years, and soon horror hounds living stateside can enjoy the diligent distributor’s offerings now that Arrow Video is expanding to the Us. To commemorate their growth, Arrow Video has announced upcoming North American Blu-ray releases of Mark of the Devil, Blind Woman’s Curse, and more.
Making their Blu-ray debuts in the Us, 1970’s Mark of the Devil will come out on March 17th and 1971’s Blind Woman’s Curse (aka Black Cat’s Revenge on March 24th. Arrow Video will also release the Blu-ray of Blood and Black Lace on April 14th and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne to Blu-ray on April 21st. All four releases will include a DVD copy, as well. We have the official press release with full details, as well as...
Making their Blu-ray debuts in the Us, 1970’s Mark of the Devil will come out on March 17th and 1971’s Blind Woman’s Curse (aka Black Cat’s Revenge on March 24th. Arrow Video will also release the Blu-ray of Blood and Black Lace on April 14th and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne to Blu-ray on April 21st. All four releases will include a DVD copy, as well. We have the official press release with full details, as well as...
- 1/14/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The 2011 Bram Stoker International Film Festival, running October 28th-31st, takes place in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, and shows independent narrative features, documentaries, and shorts from around the world, many of which will be having their world or UK premieres at this year's fest. Read on for all the details regarding the lineup!
Below is a list of all the films screening this year. Other events include a Vampire Ball on Saturday, October 29th; a performance of The Feast of Blood on Sunday, October 30th; and the Scorpius Dance Theatre's production of A Vampire's Tale on Halloween itself. In addition, the following awards will be presented at the festival:
Best Picture
Best Short
Best Director
Best Effects
Best Script...
...and a special Lifetime Achievement Award
For more info visit the official Bram Stoker International Film Festival website, and click here for ticket packages.
Absentia - UK Premiere
Director: Mike Flanagan...
Below is a list of all the films screening this year. Other events include a Vampire Ball on Saturday, October 29th; a performance of The Feast of Blood on Sunday, October 30th; and the Scorpius Dance Theatre's production of A Vampire's Tale on Halloween itself. In addition, the following awards will be presented at the festival:
Best Picture
Best Short
Best Director
Best Effects
Best Script...
...and a special Lifetime Achievement Award
For more info visit the official Bram Stoker International Film Festival website, and click here for ticket packages.
Absentia - UK Premiere
Director: Mike Flanagan...
- 9/9/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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