Les diaboliques (1955) by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Although I am unfortunately not allowed to reveal anything about this film, apart from the main cast (Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot and Paul Meurisse) I will leave a little hint:
A drowned cigarette lighter will never light again.
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Menu of the day:
1. Modesty Blaise
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Film before Film
4. La Prisonnière
5. Marquis de Sade: Justine
Modesty Blaise (1966) by Joseph Losey
Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti), always one step ahead to the ultimate screams in fashion and of course (!) virtuously advancing the steps of her numerous enemies, nevertheless gets trapped in one of the giant champaign glasses of Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde), platin headed and softened twin brother of Dr. No. Obviously G. and his vicious man eating company Mrs. Fothergill (Rosella Falk) will burn his naughty long fingers, as he is playing with a very precious toy which doesn’t belong to him, but to Modesty’s father of choice Sheik Abu Tahir (Clive Revill), who, with his mounted army, crosses seven seas – to claim back his properties.
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Alice in Wonderland (1966) by Jonathan Miller
Twinkle twinkle little bat!
How i wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
like a teatray in the sky.
Alice (Ann-Marie Mallik) charmingly unbrushed but brushed, wonders bored and nine times clever through her world behind the looking glass.
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Film before Film: What Really Happened Between the Images? (1986) by Werner Nekes
The smaller the pinhole the sharper the image.
German filmmaker and artist Werner Nekes allows us a very sharp inspection through the pinhole of his magic trick box containing endless visual plays and pleasures before film was born.
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La Prisonnière (1968) by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Josée (Elisabeth Wiener), first reluctantly but soon completely caught by the intimidating but intriguing activities of her husbands’ (Bernard Fresson) friend and art gallerist Stan (Laurent Terzieff), falls deeply into the labyrinth of love, which far too soon and unexpectedly shuts both: entrance and exit.
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Marquis de Sade: Justine (1968) by Jess Franco
Young and innocent Justine (Romina Power) finds herself lost and alone in the naughty streets of Paris after the death of her father and her elder sisters’ Juliette (Maria Bohm) admission to a brothel. But soon enough she will be taken good care of by many selfish and merely helping hands escorting her on her long and painful search for happiness.
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Paganini horror (1989) by Luigi Cozzi
aka: Il Violino che uccide, Der Blutgeiger von Venedig
Lead singer Kate (Jasmine Maimone) and her groovy girl rock band learned their lesson. Unfortunately too late, i guess. Don’t buy ideas with money...or was it don’t sell yourself for money? Anyway, good old Mr. Pickett (Donald Pleasance) and his experienced asisstant Sylvia Hackett (Daria Nicolodi), – as a little girl she killed her mother in the bathtub with a hairdryer – won’t give up to missionate all these greedy, greedy people. In the name of Paganini? Scusi?
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Hysteria (1965) by Freddie Francis
Christopher Smith is the name they gave him (Robert Webber). He is a man without any memory, they are the people who look after him: Helping and understanding Dr. Keller (Anthony Newlands), lovely nurse Gina (Jennifer Jayne), and glamerous Denise James (Lelia Goldoni). But what happened??? Who are they??? What do they want??? When did he loose his memory??? Why does he see things nobody else seems to see??? And where the hell are all these voices coming from ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Mausoleum (1983) Michael Dugan
The gardener is always the murderer. Well, maybe he (Maurice Sherbanee) is not going to be punished for any murder in this case, but he certainly will be accused for penetrantly chopping pure air on his chopping trunk in the middle of the garden. It might be, that somebody just forgot to place some wood while being distracted by the lightly dressed lady of the house (Bobby Bresee) ?
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Shiryo no wana 2: Hideki (1991) Îzo Hashimoto
aka: Evil dead trap 2: Hideki
Hideki the beloved son
Hideki the only son
Hideki the dead son
Hideki will come back and play
Hideki has killed
and Hideki will kill again
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Ôdishon (1999) by Takashi Miike
aka: Audition
Life is not so easy. Shigeharu Aoyama (Rio Ishibashi) has been warned by his friend. But all promises to cool down, before he would contact her, were made to late, as he has already fallen hopelessly in love with his chosen one: Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina), a sweet, beautiful, intelligent, sensitive and very egoistic young girl.
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The french lieutenants woman (1981) by Karel Reisz
Eventually Charles Henry Smithson (Jeremy Irons) reaches light and relief after struggeling through the long dark tunnel of a proscribed, forbidden and lost love to Sarah (Meryl Streep), whereas his impersonator Mike synchronistically reverses backwards into the same tragic tunnel loosing himself in a secret film-set love affair with the leading actress and impersonator of Sarah, Anna.
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La bestia uccide a sangre freddo (1971) by Fernando di Leo
aka: Slaughter hotel or The cold blooded beast
The asylum for the rich and naughty ones. Husbands in despair. One after the other drops off their spoiled wives at the idyllic italian sanatorium hotel, in good hope for a long stay (rather than cure). And why would anybody like to leave a paradise, where a wooden but surprisingly sensitive Dr. Francis Clay (Klaus Kinski) slaloms virtuously through the ladies, cat-eye nurse Helen (Monika Strebel) takes good care of her lonely protective(s) and a well shaped gardener (John Ely) seducively swings his huge scythe in the rose garden?
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The beast must die (1974) by Paul Annett
Any beast can smell its kind from a distance, and equally instinctively blessed is their hunter, here in excellent shape of an athletically and not only purposefully dressed up Calvin Lockheart (Tom Newcliffe) whose seven well chosen suspicious guests lack any chance and hope to escape his cosy hunting ground until the pressumed werewolf is tracked down. And everybody is invited to guess who will be the first to grow black hair where it’s not supposed to grow.
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Profondo Rosso (1975) by Dario Argento
aka: Deep Red
When lithuanian medium Helga Uhlmann (Macha Méril) gets sent dangerously weird screaming thoughts in the middle of a conference for parapsychologists, a murderously looping childrens’ song will very soon be played for her as well as for all the following victims. Witness to murder and virtuous pianist neighbour Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) gets obsessed to reveal the dark lurking secret behind the killing melody.
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