The third volume in Cult Epic’s French erotica series shows a marked boost in the use of montage, primitive optical effects, and some elaborately rendered main titles. Perhaps the result of greater familiarity with film technique, the more comfortable use of editing and close-ups also show how filmmakers had started to…
When a primitive Neanderthal scratched petroglyphs to chronicle the day’s hunting with Fred & the boys, you knew someone was standing nearby, with a giant ember glowing brightly above his creative, crafty little head. The adult mind will always be among the first to exploit the potential of a new technological milestone…
The first installment in Cult Epics’ Vintage Erotica series covers a collection of surprisingly elaborate and funny shorts made in France during the 1920s, with costumes, brief plots, literary riffing, and inter-titles elevating standard bonking into something a bit more engaging…
A bone-dry dark comedy, Graham Greene’s screen adaptation of his 1958 novel also gave director Carol Reed an opportunity to show he possessed a wicked sense of humour, riffing some of the stylistic elements from The Third Man (1949) and walking a fine line between comedy, satire, and genuine drama…
Jacques Tourneur’s career was given a big boost at RKO, especially when he directed a series of low-budget shockers for their B-division, namely Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and The Leopard Man (1943), and although he moved into westerns and eventually TV…
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