Tag Archives: Georges Franju

*In memory of French film actress Edith Scob Although often referred to as a dark, gothic fairy tale, Georges Franju’s 1960 film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is perhaps more aptly described as a frozen, static fairy ...

“And now you see these rabid creatures overtaken: they have fallen into sleep, abominations that they are, maidens in old age, ancient children, whom no god mixes with, nor man, nor beast, ever.” —Aeschylus, The Eumenides 1960 was a banner year for ...

Kat and Samm begin an exploration of the films of Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar. This episode focuses on his collaborations with actor Antonio Banderas, beginning with 1986’s explicit serial killer film Matador, where a young would-be bullfighter (Banderas) confesses to several ...

Kat and Samm return for episode 12 of Daughters of Darkness, where they discuss mad science in general and transplant-themed horror in particular. They begin with an analysis of the origins of mad science fiction in Gothic literature — partly ...

It might have taken some time to arrive, but the BFI’s all singing, all dancing, extras packed Blu-ray edition of Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) (1960) was certainly worth the wait. Rounding off a summer that saw ...

By 1914 Louis Feuillade, creator and director of Fantômas (1913) and Les Vampires (1915), was under fire for creating serials that allegedly glorified the criminal element. In response, and as a way to calm the reaction, Feuillade created Judex (1916), a serial that ...

One of the most important genre blu-ray releases this year comes from Criterion on October 15th in the form of Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage – 1960). The film is unique in the history of ...

From Grindhouse Releasing comes the first ever US home video release of Robert Hartford-Davis’s Corruption (1968), a film that can only be described as Britain’s answer to Grand Guignol. But, even if this hadn’t been the first ever US release, ...

With Criterion about to release Franju’s enigmatic masterpiece of macabre poetry on blu-ray for the first time, Steve Head, David Kleiler and Dan Kimmel get together to discuss the film’s unique place in the history of French cinema and the ...