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Basada en la novela de Matthew Lewis titulada "The Monk", la película narra la lucha de un monje por mantener su voto de castidad cuando un emisario del Diablo en forma de mujer lo tienta sin cesar. Cuando el monje se ve sumido en el pecado, la Inquisición lo captura para someterlo a las más crueles torturas. Es entonces cuando firma un pacto con Satán para liberarse de ese castigo, pero el pacto tendrá sus consecuencias...
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Basada en la novela de Matthew Lewis titulada "The Monk", la película narra la lucha de un monje por mantener su voto de castidad cuando un emisario del Diablo en forma de mujer lo tienta sin cesar. Cuando el monje se ve sumido en el pecado, la Inquisición lo captura para someterlo a las más crueles torturas. Es entonces cuando firma un pacto con Satán para liberarse de ese castigo, pero el pacto tendrá sus consecuencias...
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Short film for the french TV program "Dim Dam Dom". A love letter to Barbara Steele and Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs.
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One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work in Greece before the advent of the 1967 dictatorship forced him to flee to Paris. This confused mess, the first cinematic attempt at portraying the Greek resistance in WWII, caused quite a stink upon release, as much for its surprising style (recalling that of Bertolt Brecht) as for its subject matter. Reaction to its screening as part of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival's International Critic's Week was heated and divisive, proving Kyrou's later statement by rising above its own inherent silliness to achieve a sort of rarefied critical status. It's bad drama that nonetheless succeeds by dint of audacity more than quality (a comment which could apply equally to the work of many exploitation directors like Jean Rollin whom Kyrou later so lovingly profiled).
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One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work in Greece before the advent of the 1967 dictatorship forced him to flee to Paris. This confused mess, the first cinematic attempt at portraying the Greek resistance in WWII, caused quite a stink upon release, as much for its surprising style (recalling that of Bertolt Brecht) as for its subject matter. Reaction to its screening as part of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival's International Critic's Week was heated and divisive, proving Kyrou's later statement by rising above its own inherent silliness to achieve a sort of rarefied critical status. It's bad drama that nonetheless succeeds by dint of audacity more than quality (a comment which could apply equally to the work of many exploitation directors like Jean Rollin whom Kyrou later so lovingly profiled).
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An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.
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A man developes an obsession with a wig.
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A man developes an obsession with a wig.
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A short documentary film about the eponymous work of architecture by the postman Ferdinand Cheval. Text by Cheval, spoken by Gaston Modot. This is the first film about Cheval's creation.
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How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo.
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How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo.
