What makes Franco-era Spanish horror so horrible? The unnecessary cruelty and emphatic nastiness, a combination that’s led to more than a few essays about political repression. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s shocker puts psycho headmistress Lilli Palmer in charge of a twisted girl’s boarding school. Get ready for ice-cold Women-In-Prison intrigues, with macabre carnage for a chaser. Arrow Video’s pristine new encoding is already being applauded — it far surpasses edited, color-challenged older releases, revealing a beautifully-produced thriller with fine lighting cinematography.
The House That Screamed
Blu-ray
Arrow Video
1969 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 105 + 94 min. / La Residencia, The Finishing School / Street Date March 7, 2023 / Available from / 39.95
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, Maribel Martín, Mary Maude, Pauline Challoner, Tomás Blanco, Víctor Israel, Teresa Hurtado.
Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer
Production Designer and Art Director: Ramiro Gómez
Costume Design Victor Marí Cortezo
Film Editors: Mercedes Alonso, Reginald Mills
Original Music: Waldo de los Ríos...
The House That Screamed
Blu-ray
Arrow Video
1969 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 105 + 94 min. / La Residencia, The Finishing School / Street Date March 7, 2023 / Available from / 39.95
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, Maribel Martín, Mary Maude, Pauline Challoner, Tomás Blanco, Víctor Israel, Teresa Hurtado.
Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer
Production Designer and Art Director: Ramiro Gómez
Costume Design Victor Marí Cortezo
Film Editors: Mercedes Alonso, Reginald Mills
Original Music: Waldo de los Ríos...
- 2/21/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products released each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Bones and All Blu-ray from Warner Bros.
A late contender for one of the most affecting horror films of the year, Bones and All will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 31 via Warner Bros. Unfortunately, no special features are listed for the cannibal drama.
Luca Guadagnino directs from a script by David Kajganich (Suspiria), based on Camille DeAngelis’ 2015 novel of the same name. Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet star with Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon Green, and Jessica Harper.
Terrifier 2 Shirt from Terror Threads
Art the Clown has cemented his place as a modern horror icon, so it’s to be expected that he’s the focal point of most merchandise,...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Bones and All Blu-ray from Warner Bros.
A late contender for one of the most affecting horror films of the year, Bones and All will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 31 via Warner Bros. Unfortunately, no special features are listed for the cannibal drama.
Luca Guadagnino directs from a script by David Kajganich (Suspiria), based on Camille DeAngelis’ 2015 novel of the same name. Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet star with Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon Green, and Jessica Harper.
Terrifier 2 Shirt from Terror Threads
Art the Clown has cemented his place as a modern horror icon, so it’s to be expected that he’s the focal point of most merchandise,...
- 12/23/2022
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Any WW2 action adventure involving the Norwegian resistance is Ok in my book, and this big-star saga about sabotage efforts to stop the Nazis’ atom research is a natural — much of what happens in the story is true. The show can boast marvelous locations and excellent action scenes but the script and characters aren’t very strong. Did Columbia curb epic director Anthony Mann’s greater ambitions, or did star Kirk Douglas interfere to enhance his leading character into a combo scientist, playboy and sure-shot action man? Also starring Ulla Jacobsson, Richard Harris, Michael Redgrave, and every over-fifty English name actor not nailed down.
The Heroes of Telemark
Blu-ray
Sony Home Entertainment
1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 130 min. / Street Date January 8, 2019
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring, Ralph Michael, Eric Porter, Karel Stepanek, George Murcell, Mervyn Johns, Barry Jones, Geoffrey Keen, Robert Ayres,...
The Heroes of Telemark
Blu-ray
Sony Home Entertainment
1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 130 min. / Street Date January 8, 2019
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring, Ralph Michael, Eric Porter, Karel Stepanek, George Murcell, Mervyn Johns, Barry Jones, Geoffrey Keen, Robert Ayres,...
- 9/11/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The swinging sixties came to a bleakly comic end with Jerzy Skolimowski’s undeservedly obscure 1970 British-German coproduction, a strikingly original study of obsession that descends into disturbing psycho-drama. John Moulder-Brown plays a repressed, near-infantile teenage bathhouse attendant who nurses a bizarre fixation with his enigmatic co-worker. No surprise really, considering that co-worker is played by auburn-haired Jane Asher at her most mysteriously seductive. A favorite of director David Lynch, who said, “There’s never been a color movie I’ve freaked out about, except one, this thing called Deep End which had great art direction”.
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The post Deep End appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
- 9/1/2021
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
” You perverted little monster!”
Director Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End (1970) starring John Moulder-Brown and Jane Asher screens Sunday, November 3rd at Webster University’s Moor Auditorium(470 E Lockwood Ave)at 7:30pm. A Facebook invite for the film can be found Here
In the late 60s and early 70s, it looked like Skolimowski might pick up where Jean-Luc Godard left off when he fell down the rabbit hole of Marxist filmmaking, and Deep End is perhaps the clearest evidence of why people thought this. The plot hinges on an obsession on the part of Mike (John Moulder-Brown), a 15-year-old new hire at a moldy pool, for Susan, a twentysomething pool employee who is hip and enigmatic in a way that Mike will never be. Featuring a memorable supporting performance by Diana Dors and use of the classic track “Mother Sky” by the Krautrock band Can (which was written for this...
Director Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End (1970) starring John Moulder-Brown and Jane Asher screens Sunday, November 3rd at Webster University’s Moor Auditorium(470 E Lockwood Ave)at 7:30pm. A Facebook invite for the film can be found Here
In the late 60s and early 70s, it looked like Skolimowski might pick up where Jean-Luc Godard left off when he fell down the rabbit hole of Marxist filmmaking, and Deep End is perhaps the clearest evidence of why people thought this. The plot hinges on an obsession on the part of Mike (John Moulder-Brown), a 15-year-old new hire at a moldy pool, for Susan, a twentysomething pool employee who is hip and enigmatic in a way that Mike will never be. Featuring a memorable supporting performance by Diana Dors and use of the classic track “Mother Sky” by the Krautrock band Can (which was written for this...
- 10/31/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Something sinister stalks the halls of a brutal boarding school in The House That Screamed, and to celebrate its new home media release from Scream Factory, we've been provided with three Blu-ray copies of the film to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of The House That Screamed.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The House That Screamed Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on January 2nd. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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The House That Screamed Blu-ray: "The chilling 1970 horror film by Narciso Ibáñez-Serrador (Who Could Kill A Child?) has been cited as an influence...
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of The House That Screamed.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The House That Screamed Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on January 2nd. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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The House That Screamed Blu-ray: "The chilling 1970 horror film by Narciso Ibáñez-Serrador (Who Could Kill A Child?) has been cited as an influence...
- 12/27/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Even though there are only a few days of 2016 left, that doesn’t mean we don’t have several more horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases to look forward to before the new year arrives. This Tuesday, Ti West’s In A Valley of Violence arrives on both Blu-ray and DVD, and Scream Factory is giving the cult classic The House That Screamed an HD overhaul.
Festival favorite Pet comes home on December 27th courtesy of Paramount, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has a new batch of Underworld Blu-rays coming our way, including the original film in 4K Ultra HD. Other notable releases this week include When the Bough Breaks, Dog Eat Dog, and Kill Command.
The House That Screamed (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
The chilling 1970 horror film by Narciso Ibáñez-Serrador (Who Could Kill A Child?) has been cited as an influence on Dario Argento's classic Suspiria.
Festival favorite Pet comes home on December 27th courtesy of Paramount, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has a new batch of Underworld Blu-rays coming our way, including the original film in 4K Ultra HD. Other notable releases this week include When the Bough Breaks, Dog Eat Dog, and Kill Command.
The House That Screamed (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
The chilling 1970 horror film by Narciso Ibáñez-Serrador (Who Could Kill A Child?) has been cited as an influence on Dario Argento's classic Suspiria.
- 12/27/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Something sinister stalks the halls of a brutal boarding school in The House That Screamed, which is teased in high-def clips and a trailer ahead of its Blu-ray release on December 27th.
The House That Screamed Blu-ray: "The chilling 1970 horror film by Narciso Ibáñez-Serrador (Who Could Kill A Child?) has been cited as an influence on Dario Argento's classic Suspiria. At a 19th-century French boarding school for troubled girls, run by the sinister headmistress Madame Fourneau (Lilli Palmer, The Boys From Brazil), students begin to disappear shortly after the latest student's arrival (Cristina Galbó, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue). Could a mysterious killer be loose within the school's dark corridors or have some of the girl's escaped the tight grip of the stern Fourneau?
Bonus Features
Two Versions Of The Film: Theatrical Version (In HD, 94 min.) And Extended Version (In HD With Standard Definition Inserts, 104 min.) Interview With...
The House That Screamed Blu-ray: "The chilling 1970 horror film by Narciso Ibáñez-Serrador (Who Could Kill A Child?) has been cited as an influence on Dario Argento's classic Suspiria. At a 19th-century French boarding school for troubled girls, run by the sinister headmistress Madame Fourneau (Lilli Palmer, The Boys From Brazil), students begin to disappear shortly after the latest student's arrival (Cristina Galbó, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue). Could a mysterious killer be loose within the school's dark corridors or have some of the girl's escaped the tight grip of the stern Fourneau?
Bonus Features
Two Versions Of The Film: Theatrical Version (In HD, 94 min.) And Extended Version (In HD With Standard Definition Inserts, 104 min.) Interview With...
- 12/23/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
A boarding school could be home to a killer who stalks the halls in The House That Screamed, coming out on Blu-ray this December from Scream Factory with a list of newly revealed special features.
From Facebook: "We can officially announce today our final list of extras on our release of The House That Screamed--a 1970 slasher film that clearly had some influence on Argento's Suspiria years later. Street date is December 27th.
• Two versions of the film:
- Theatrical version (in HD – 94 mins)
- Extended version (in HD with Standard Definition inserts – 104 mins)
• Interview with actor John Moulder-Brown
• Film Festival Q & A with actress Mary Maude
• Theatrical Trailer/TV Spot
• Radio Spots
• Still Gallery
Our new transfer was done from a Cri film element. The inserts came from an Sd master, which was the only element we could find.
We hope you enjoy our presentation and we're very...
From Facebook: "We can officially announce today our final list of extras on our release of The House That Screamed--a 1970 slasher film that clearly had some influence on Argento's Suspiria years later. Street date is December 27th.
• Two versions of the film:
- Theatrical version (in HD – 94 mins)
- Extended version (in HD with Standard Definition inserts – 104 mins)
• Interview with actor John Moulder-Brown
• Film Festival Q & A with actress Mary Maude
• Theatrical Trailer/TV Spot
• Radio Spots
• Still Gallery
Our new transfer was done from a Cri film element. The inserts came from an Sd master, which was the only element we could find.
We hope you enjoy our presentation and we're very...
- 11/9/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
At this time of year we want not just any horror films, but horror films with a particular atmosphere. We need creaking Gothic fantasy, not just enthusiastic splatter. There is some of both in La Residencia, which is essentially a slasher movie but which behaves as if it were a ghost story: a few moments of bubbling grue punctuate a great deal of creeping around in elegant sets, the camera spying on the action from suspicious angles, arcing athletically through the vaulted chambers, occasionally fragmenting into a orgiastic flurry of quick cuts...Narciso Ibáñez Serrador is the man who did for children what Hitchcock did for birds, in Who Can Kill a Child? (1976). This earlier effort was shot in English, owing to to the casting of Lilli Palmer as a corrupt headmistress at a boarding school, and John Moulder-Brown as her son. The German beauty was still glamorous, and apparently ageless,...
- 10/29/2015
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!
Suspenseful, stylish horror‑murder film set in a girls’ school. Exploitable and a good bet for ballyhoo spots, drive‑ins. Rating: Gp.
While it blazes no new trails in the horror field (ghoulish doings at girls’ school is hardly a new theme, especially for Aip), The House that Screamed is an exploitable, classily‑assembled period chiller with plenty of seedy, menacing atmosphere. Mixing various elements of suspense, muted sex and violence, the Aip import was very big on its home ground (Spain), where it was shown in 70 millimeter as La Residencia (“The Finishing School”), and figures to be an equally solid attraction for Us horror markets. “I believe in healthy minds and healthy bodies,” preaches Lilli Palmer, widowed...
Suspenseful, stylish horror‑murder film set in a girls’ school. Exploitable and a good bet for ballyhoo spots, drive‑ins. Rating: Gp.
While it blazes no new trails in the horror field (ghoulish doings at girls’ school is hardly a new theme, especially for Aip), The House that Screamed is an exploitable, classily‑assembled period chiller with plenty of seedy, menacing atmosphere. Mixing various elements of suspense, muted sex and violence, the Aip import was very big on its home ground (Spain), where it was shown in 70 millimeter as La Residencia (“The Finishing School”), and figures to be an equally solid attraction for Us horror markets. “I believe in healthy minds and healthy bodies,” preaches Lilli Palmer, widowed...
- 5/6/2014
- by Joe Dante
- Trailers from Hell
Maximilian Schell movie director (photo: Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell) (See previous post: “Maximilian Schell Dies: Best Actor Oscar Winner for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg.’”) Maximilian Schell’s first film as a director was the 1970 (dubbed) German-language release First Love / Erste Liebe, adapted from Igor Turgenev’s novella, and starring Englishman John Moulder-Brown, Frenchwoman Dominique Sanda, and Schell in this tale about a doomed love affair in Czarist Russia. Italian Valentina Cortese and British Marius Goring provided support. Directed by a former Best Actor Oscar winner, First Love, a movie that could just as easily have been dubbed into Swedish or Swahili (or English), ended up nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Three years later, nominated in that same category was Schell’s second feature film as a director, The Pedestrian / Der Fußgänger, in which a car accident forces a German businessman to delve deep into his past.
- 2/2/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Youth Runs Wild! continues at Trailers from Hell, with director Larry Karaszewski introducing Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski's visually striking coming-of-age film "Deep End," a favorite of both David Lynch and Wes Anderson: The swinging sixties came to a bleakly comic end with Jerzy Skolimowski's undeservedly obscure 1970 British-German coproduction, a strikingly original study of obsession that descends into disturbing psycho-drama. John Moulder-Brown plays a repressed, near-infantile teenage bathhouse attendant who nurses a bizarre fixation with his enigmatic co-worker. No surprise really, considering that co-worker is played by auburn-haired Jane Asher at her most mysteriously seductive.
- 1/17/2014
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
The week-long run for Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End (1970) at Bam makes for an appropriate coda to a year in which a traveling retrospective was a summer highlight — as well as an occasion for Ben Sachs's interview. "A phantom film for more than three decades over a rights issue and only now redelivered to screens," writes Michael Atkinson in the Voice, Deep End "comes carting a megaton of lingering fuchsia praise from its release heyday. (Andrew Sarris, obviously having an up week, declared it 'the best of Godard, Truffaut, and Polanski and then some' in the Voice.) Today, Skolimowski's movie, his first after exiling himself from Poland to the UK in the late 60s, is a strangely impetuous study of coming-of-age sexual muddle, full of whimsy and abrupt ideas, and intoxicated from a distance, it seems, by Swinging London's free-love commerce."
The set-up, courtesy of Jaime N Christley in...
The set-up, courtesy of Jaime N Christley in...
- 12/16/2011
- MUBI
by Vadim Rizov
"How does a foreigner know, for instance, what a particular character does when he is alone?" novelist, screenwriter and film critic Penelope Gilliatt asked in 1971 about Jerzy Skolimowski's English-language debut Deep End (screening Dec. 16 - 22 at BAMcinématek). "It seem stirring that Skolimowski should have managed it at all, and that his London should seem so nearly like London when a lot of the film was actually made in Munich, with German-speaking actors in the small parts. The slightly off-note ear, the gaps in knowledge don't so much muddy the film as give it a peculiar asymmetry and lack of repose." Despite Gilliatt's mildly offensive tone of reductive national diagnosis ("Poles often serve an ethic of not seeming to try," she also notes), her question makes for a useful analogy. In the film, Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a 15-year-old foreigner to the land of adult sexuality, for...
"How does a foreigner know, for instance, what a particular character does when he is alone?" novelist, screenwriter and film critic Penelope Gilliatt asked in 1971 about Jerzy Skolimowski's English-language debut Deep End (screening Dec. 16 - 22 at BAMcinématek). "It seem stirring that Skolimowski should have managed it at all, and that his London should seem so nearly like London when a lot of the film was actually made in Munich, with German-speaking actors in the small parts. The slightly off-note ear, the gaps in knowledge don't so much muddy the film as give it a peculiar asymmetry and lack of repose." Despite Gilliatt's mildly offensive tone of reductive national diagnosis ("Poles often serve an ethic of not seeming to try," she also notes), her question makes for a useful analogy. In the film, Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a 15-year-old foreigner to the land of adult sexuality, for...
- 12/14/2011
- GreenCine Daily
The Swinging Sixties were over and all that was left was the murky hangover of the party decade. The Deep End is a highly expressive take on what came afterwards and is released now on Blu-ray and DVD.
Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a naïve teenager who feels he’s missed all of the fun and freedom of the Sixties. Stuck in the perpetually dull morning after of the 1970s, an era of uncertainty and shifting sexual tides, Mike’s life takes a sudden change when he finds a job at a rundown swimming pool. Whilst working, Mike learns some valuable life lessons, particularly when one of the more mature bathers (former bombshell Diana Dors) tries to take advantage of him. But Mike has fallen for brassy co-worker Susan (Jane Asher), who just happens to be in a relationship already. Becoming increasingly obsessed with Susan, Mike blindly follows her into the...
Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a naïve teenager who feels he’s missed all of the fun and freedom of the Sixties. Stuck in the perpetually dull morning after of the 1970s, an era of uncertainty and shifting sexual tides, Mike’s life takes a sudden change when he finds a job at a rundown swimming pool. Whilst working, Mike learns some valuable life lessons, particularly when one of the more mature bathers (former bombshell Diana Dors) tries to take advantage of him. But Mike has fallen for brassy co-worker Susan (Jane Asher), who just happens to be in a relationship already. Becoming increasingly obsessed with Susan, Mike blindly follows her into the...
- 8/5/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
BFI Flipside:Newly employed at a run-down London swimming baths, Mike (John Moulder-Brown) obsesses over his sassy and self-assured co-worker (Jane Asher) whilst collecting tips for the 'special services' he is expected to perform for clients (including the superb Diana Dors). Darkly comic and utterly compelling, this portrait of Britain in a era of uncertainty makes its long overdue return to the screen in a new digital restoration with extensive bonus features. This is why I love BFI Flipside.Deep End is a film that is widely acclaimed among those who've seen it, and yet it remains largely unknown among modern film fans. Prior to this film, director Jerzy Skolimowski was best known as the co-writer of Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water, and was a part...
- 7/27/2011
- Screen Anarchy
[Update! BFI Flipside have announced something really special for their release of Deep End, a 3 disc edition that will be limited to 1,000 units. So check out the details below and get your pre-order in now!]I'm really looking forward to this release, as a Skolimowski virgin. BFI's fantastic Flipside collection is bringing Jerzy Skolimowski's underseen Deep End to Blu-ray and DVD on July 18th. The trailer alone, which features no dialogue, has me very intrigued, as it looks like a lot of the counter culture 60's film with which I've fallen so in love. Here's the word from BFI:bfi Flipside presents: Deep EndA film by Jerzy SkolimowskiWith Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Diana DorsAfter a critically acclaimed revival in cinemas in May, one of the...
- 6/23/2011
- Screen Anarchy
For 50 years Skolimowski has lived in the shadow of his fellow Polish film-making dissident Roman Polanski, acting with him under the direction of Andrzej Wajda and co-scripting Knife in the Water, the debut film that is the keystone of Polanski's career. He established his personal identity with absolute clarity only once, in the devastatingly honest comedy Moonlighting (1982), in which a party of Polish artisans led by Jeremy Irons are trapped in London doing a black-market building job during the December 1981 emergency. The time is ripe for his rehabilitation, and it has begun with the last two issues of Sight & Sound and the release of his new film, Essential Killing, and this revival of his almost forgotten Deep End (1970) is an important occasion. Made in Munich but set entirely in London, it's a bizarre tail end to the swinging London cycle of the 1960s, centring on a rundown suburban public swimming...
- 5/7/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Deep End (15)
(Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970, UK) John Moulder-Brown, Jane Asher. 92 mins
Where has this movie been for the past 40 years? It's as fresh and stylish a snapshot of late-60s Britain as we've ever seen, and a twisted coming-of-ager to boot. New kid Moulder-Brown wades into the depths of adulthood at the public bathhouse, and develops an unhealthy obsession with his worldlier colleague. The acting is natural, the soundtrack groovy (Can, Cat Stevens) and the visuals bold.
Hanna (12A)
(Joe Wright, 2011, Us/UK/Ger) Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana. 111 mins
A novel fusion of Bourne and The Wizard Of Oz, this thriller packs some visual punches (aided by a Chemical Brothers score) and trowels on the symbolism. Blanchett relishes her she-wolf role, hunting little teen assassin Ronan across Europe.
13 Assassins (15)
(Takashi Miike, 2010, Jap/UK) Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya. 125 mins
Noble samurai spring a trap for an evil lord...
(Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970, UK) John Moulder-Brown, Jane Asher. 92 mins
Where has this movie been for the past 40 years? It's as fresh and stylish a snapshot of late-60s Britain as we've ever seen, and a twisted coming-of-ager to boot. New kid Moulder-Brown wades into the depths of adulthood at the public bathhouse, and develops an unhealthy obsession with his worldlier colleague. The acting is natural, the soundtrack groovy (Can, Cat Stevens) and the visuals bold.
Hanna (12A)
(Joe Wright, 2011, Us/UK/Ger) Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana. 111 mins
A novel fusion of Bourne and The Wizard Of Oz, this thriller packs some visual punches (aided by a Chemical Brothers score) and trowels on the symbolism. Blanchett relishes her she-wolf role, hunting little teen assassin Ronan across Europe.
13 Assassins (15)
(Takashi Miike, 2010, Jap/UK) Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya. 125 mins
Noble samurai spring a trap for an evil lord...
- 5/6/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Jane Asher is the object of puppy love in this rereleased cult favourite from 1970 by Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski
It's amazing to think this could have slipped the net for so long: it should be up there with Blow Up or Repulsion – both outsiders' views of 60s Britain, as is this. The principal setting is a public swimming-pool, where callow new assistant Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is shown the ropes, floats, and a whole lot more by his worldlier colleague Susan (Jane Asher). Mike's puppy-love obsession with Susan is sketched against a backdrop of hideously dated sexual attitudes, a time when a man could take his date to a porn movie, and when a swimming teacher could casually lech over his teenage pupils. Most lamentable, though, is the passing of an era when you could take such risks with tone and content. Deep End is bravely ambiguous and disjointed, lurching unpredictably...
It's amazing to think this could have slipped the net for so long: it should be up there with Blow Up or Repulsion – both outsiders' views of 60s Britain, as is this. The principal setting is a public swimming-pool, where callow new assistant Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is shown the ropes, floats, and a whole lot more by his worldlier colleague Susan (Jane Asher). Mike's puppy-love obsession with Susan is sketched against a backdrop of hideously dated sexual attitudes, a time when a man could take his date to a porn movie, and when a swimming teacher could casually lech over his teenage pupils. Most lamentable, though, is the passing of an era when you could take such risks with tone and content. Deep End is bravely ambiguous and disjointed, lurching unpredictably...
- 5/5/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
"It's not uncommon for movies to drop out of circulation and simply disappear, as fans of Deep End will attest," begins Ryan Gilbey in the Guardian. "Barely seen since its release in 1971, the film concerns Mike (played by John Moulder-Brown), a floppy-fringed 15-year-old who becomes dangerously infatuated with Susan (Jane Asher), his co-worker at the public baths. What's unusual about this prolonged absence is that it should have befallen a film so passionately admired. The influential critic Andrew Sarris thought it measured up to the best of Godard, Truffaut and Polanski. The New Yorker's Penelope Gilliatt called it 'a work of peculiar, cock-a-hoop gifts.' If something as venerated as Deep End can sink, what hope for the rest of cinema?"
Some, at least. After all, Jerzy Skolimowski's film, kept off screens for decades due to rights issues, has been restored and will screen tomorrow night at London's BFI Southbank,...
Some, at least. After all, Jerzy Skolimowski's film, kept off screens for decades due to rights issues, has been restored and will screen tomorrow night at London's BFI Southbank,...
- 5/3/2011
- MUBI
Deep End was acclaimed by critics. Then it all but sank out of view. Ryan Gilbey on a newly salvaged British classic
It's not uncommon for movies to drop out of circulation and simply disappear, as fans of Deep End will attest. Barely seen since its release in 1971, the film concerns Mike (played by John Moulder-Brown), a floppy-fringed 15-year-old who becomes dangerously infatuated with Susan (Jane Asher), his co-worker at the public baths. What's unusual about this prolonged absence is that it should have befallen a film so passionately admired. The influential critic Andrew Sarris thought it measured up to the best of Godard, Truffaut and Polanski. The New Yorker's Penelope Gilliatt called it "a work of peculiar, cock-a-hoop gifts". If something as venerated as Deep End can sink, what hope for the rest of cinema?
After years of being mired in rights issues, this vivid, rapturous film is about...
It's not uncommon for movies to drop out of circulation and simply disappear, as fans of Deep End will attest. Barely seen since its release in 1971, the film concerns Mike (played by John Moulder-Brown), a floppy-fringed 15-year-old who becomes dangerously infatuated with Susan (Jane Asher), his co-worker at the public baths. What's unusual about this prolonged absence is that it should have befallen a film so passionately admired. The influential critic Andrew Sarris thought it measured up to the best of Godard, Truffaut and Polanski. The New Yorker's Penelope Gilliatt called it "a work of peculiar, cock-a-hoop gifts". If something as venerated as Deep End can sink, what hope for the rest of cinema?
After years of being mired in rights issues, this vivid, rapturous film is about...
- 5/1/2011
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
At the 2010 Venice film festival, when Essential Killing won the special jury prize, its director Jerzy Skolimowski announced: "For those who like me – I'm back; and to those who don't like me – I'm back."
There's much of the man in that wry, pugnacious stance. But what does "back" mean for a Pole who will be 73 this May, and who took nearly 20 years out of a film-directing career to be a painter? How will "back" turn out for one of film's least compromising mavericks? As far as I can tell, Britain is only the second large market to give Essential Killing a release (after Poland) – with no takers in the Us. But a story about a Taliban fighter (Vincent Gallo) who kills Americans in the Afghan desert, is captured and tortured, then flown back to Europe and able to escape into the deep snow, will not compete easily with Adam Sandler.
There's much of the man in that wry, pugnacious stance. But what does "back" mean for a Pole who will be 73 this May, and who took nearly 20 years out of a film-directing career to be a painter? How will "back" turn out for one of film's least compromising mavericks? As far as I can tell, Britain is only the second large market to give Essential Killing a release (after Poland) – with no takers in the Us. But a story about a Taliban fighter (Vincent Gallo) who kills Americans in the Afghan desert, is captured and tortured, then flown back to Europe and able to escape into the deep snow, will not compete easily with Adam Sandler.
- 3/25/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Deep End
Cinema Retro has received the following press release from the British Film Institute:
Make film your New Year resolution
BFI Southbank – BFI Distribution – BFI Festivals – BFI IMAX – BFI DVD – BFI Membership BFI Online – BFI Filmstore – BFI Mediatheques – BFI Gallery – Sight & Sound 2011 is set to become a landmark year for the BFI and this will be reflected in the broad and diverse range of film offerings for audiences across the UK. From film and television premieres and seasons at BFI Southbank, the most eclectic range of DVDs and nationwide theatrical releases by the most influential artists of British and world cinema, to a free insight into the BFI Archive via the Mediatheques around the country and online, there is something to entertain, educate and inspire anyone who loves film. BFI Southbank Great Auteurs – seasons include Howard Hawks (Jan/Feb), Francois Truffaut (Feb/March) Nicolas Roeg (March), Terence Rattigan (April...
Cinema Retro has received the following press release from the British Film Institute:
Make film your New Year resolution
BFI Southbank – BFI Distribution – BFI Festivals – BFI IMAX – BFI DVD – BFI Membership BFI Online – BFI Filmstore – BFI Mediatheques – BFI Gallery – Sight & Sound 2011 is set to become a landmark year for the BFI and this will be reflected in the broad and diverse range of film offerings for audiences across the UK. From film and television premieres and seasons at BFI Southbank, the most eclectic range of DVDs and nationwide theatrical releases by the most influential artists of British and world cinema, to a free insight into the BFI Archive via the Mediatheques around the country and online, there is something to entertain, educate and inspire anyone who loves film. BFI Southbank Great Auteurs – seasons include Howard Hawks (Jan/Feb), Francois Truffaut (Feb/March) Nicolas Roeg (March), Terence Rattigan (April...
- 12/29/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The new wave 40 years early. The soft side of Jean-Pierre Melville. Nicole Kidman makes the unmakeable. Somewhere out there is an alternative history of film – David Thomson unearths 10 lost works of genius
Erotikon (1920)
Forget 1920, this is an absolutely modern comedy about romance and sex, directed in Sweden by Mauritz Stiller. We should remember that when MGM brought Greta Garbo from Sweden in the mid-20s, she was almost baggage in the deal that hired Stiller, one of the sharpest and most sophisticated of silent directors, but a man who would be crushed by Hollywood. Stiller needs to be recovered (like his contemporary, Victor Sjöström), and Erotikon has an instinct for attraction and infidelity that simply couldn't be permitted in American films of the same period. It's also marvellous to see that, nearly 100 years ago, Swedish cinema was in love with its country's cool light and with actresses as warm but ambiguous as Tora Teje,...
Erotikon (1920)
Forget 1920, this is an absolutely modern comedy about romance and sex, directed in Sweden by Mauritz Stiller. We should remember that when MGM brought Greta Garbo from Sweden in the mid-20s, she was almost baggage in the deal that hired Stiller, one of the sharpest and most sophisticated of silent directors, but a man who would be crushed by Hollywood. Stiller needs to be recovered (like his contemporary, Victor Sjöström), and Erotikon has an instinct for attraction and infidelity that simply couldn't be permitted in American films of the same period. It's also marvellous to see that, nearly 100 years ago, Swedish cinema was in love with its country's cool light and with actresses as warm but ambiguous as Tora Teje,...
- 8/19/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Late Friday night (2:00 Am) June 24/26, TCM will have a rare broadcast of the 1971 drama Deep End starring Jane Asher and John Moulder-Brown. The fascinating story is set in a seedy public bath house in London where a 15 year-old boy develops an unhealthy obsession with a female co-worker. Outstanding performances and a moody atmosphere make this one a "must". Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, whose other notable film The Shout will be shown immediately afterward. Neither film is available on DVD in America.
- 6/21/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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