In the fifth episode of Daughters of Darkness, Kat and Samm continue on to the second part of their four-episode discussion of director Andrzej Zuławski. This time they discuss his work in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, when he ...
Read More »An Andrzej Żuławski Retrospective: Possession
As I’ve been slowly making my way through Andrzej Żuławski’s catalogue for Diabolique, I think the title I’ve dreaded writing about most is the director’s only English-language film and his most well-known, Possession (1981). Made in the wake of his ...
Read More »Episode No. 40: Roman Polanski’s The Tenant (1976)
The Tenant isn’t the first film I think of when the name Roman Polanski is mentioned. The director’s 1976 film strikes me more as a curiosity. Does its central character, Trelkovsky, out of all the characters in Polanski’s films, most ...
Read More »The Werner Herzog Collection (UK Blu-Ray Review)
It sounds banal to call someone a legend in his own time, but that is, in fact, the best way to describe German filmmaker Werner Herzog; who, in recent years, seems to have settled quite comfortably into the role of ...
Read More »Episode No. 27: Thirty-Five Years of Nosferatu the Vampyre
Thirty-five years after it’s initial release, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog’s haunting tone poem of death and loneliness is as potent today as it was in 1979. To celebrate the film’s recent arrival on blu-ray for the first time in ...
Read More »Possession (UK Blu-Ray Review)
Details Year: 1981 Length: 124 min Rating: BBFC 18 Disks: 1 Region: B Label: Second Sight Films Video Resolution: 1080p Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Type: Color Audio Audio: English LPCM Mono Subtitles: English SDH Film: [rating=6] Video: [rating=6] ...
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