This doc may well have been forgotten had it not been for its connection to Stanley Kubrick’s own cinematic milestone, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Kubrick was undoubtedly captivated by the realistic movements around planets and moons, gazes from the surface of these mysterious orbs, and the passing stars, gaseous images and cloudy bodies, because 2001’s space imagery was built upon the views and movements within this NFB classic…
After writing the scripts for the franchise reboots A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), The Thing (2011), plus Final Destination 5 (2011), Eric Heisserer earned a crack at directing, and his debut is an economical, cleverly produced drama that’s also part disaster film, albeit scaled down to what a singular character sees from inside an abandoned hospital…
New Look! New Plans! And new reviews of two Sexploitation flicks from One 7 Movies: Brutalization / aka Because of the Cats, based on the second Van der Valk novel by Nicholas Freeling (1973) + Erotic Blackmail / aka Le corps a ses raisons (1974).
If Erotic Blackmail is any indication of Eddy Naka’s skills as a writer & director, it explains why the filmmaker’s career consists of two feature films and a pair of TV series with great big time gaps in between each set…
Best-known for Van der Valk, the long –running British TV series starring Barry Foster (Frenzy), the eponymous character first hit the cinema screens in the German production Amsterdam Affair (1968), and in spite of the ongoing TV series’ success, apparently Nicholas Freeling’s character was up for grabs, resulting it this Dutch-Belgium production with a mix of British and Dutch actors…
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