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Diabolique Magazine
3w ago
This month, Japan Society presents “So as to Dream: The Eternal Mysteries of Kaizô Hayashi,” the first North American retrospective on the director, with Hayashi appearing in person. The first installment of my two-part series about this event focused on the filmmaker’s neo-noir Maiku Hama trilogy, starring Masatoshi Nagase as Yokohama private eye Maiku Hama […]
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Diabolique Magazine
3w ago
This month, Japan Society presents “So as to Dream: The Eternal Mysteries of Kaizô Hayashi,” the first North American retrospective on the director, with Hayashi appearing in person. As part of the event, the international 4K premieres of the filmmaker’s Maiku Hama trilogy are scheduled. Starring Masatoshi Nagase as Yokohama private eye Maiku Hama — […]
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Diabolique Magazine
2M ago
Synopsis: This demonic action-horror where a mute woman fights for her very survival will have you screaming for more. Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman, Azrael, who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient […]
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Diabolique Magazine
2M ago
Official synopsis: Join Elijah Wood in this heartwarming comedy across New Zealand’s majestic landscapes. 11-year-old Mildred is wise beyond her years – an only child raised by a financially strapped solo Mum; she has escaped her humdrum suburban existence by immersing herself into literary adventures. Her long-dreamed quest is to capture proof that the mythological […]
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Diabolique Magazine
2M ago
Official synopsis: When the oceans disappear, danger is all that remains on the surface. Julia and her loving husband are celebrating her son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean, but when a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes on a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, […]
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Diabolique Magazine
3M ago
A review and thought piece on Genesis P-Orridge.
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Diabolique Magazine
4M ago
Hong Kong film history, though often discussed, often appears to begin at the end of the 1950s, with the establishment of the Shaw Brothers studio. One cannot help but wonder what came before and what it looked like. Sadly, very little of Hong Kong’s film output prior to the Japanese occupation, which started in ’41, remains – it is rumored to have been disposed of during the occupation as the Japanese scrounged for resources. Yet Hong Kong’s film history goes back to the very roots of cinema – as early as 1896, the Lumiere brothers visited the colony to show off the capabilities of thei ..read more
Diabolique Magazine
4M ago
During a 2004 round table discussion with fellow directors Guillermo Del Toro and Eli Roth, Takashi Miike discussed his earliest days working in “V-Cinema” or Japan’s direct-to-video genre film market. Having worked as a freelance assistant director for ten years before helming his first film (1), Miike explained his early working methods, noting to Roth and Del Toro that the major Japanese film studios, “had all their crew on payrolls, that was the way we made films” (1). “But I was freelance,” Miike continued, “and we shot many things studio people did not want to work on like tight deadline ..read more
Diabolique Magazine
4M ago
It is a common assumption that kung fu and Hong Kong cinema are, and have always been indissociable. This, of course, is impossible to verify, as most, if not all, of the films produced in the early years of Hong Kong cinema are thought to have been melted down for chemicals during the Japanese occupation of the colony between ’41 and ’45. As such, the earliest record of any kung fu movie (or “kung fu pian”) we have dates back to 1949 when Peng Hu directed Story of Wong Fei Hung¸ starring Kwan Tak Hing. Wong Fei Hung was an icon of popular Cantonese culture who lived and practiced martia ..read more
Diabolique Magazine
5M ago
The films of Jean Rollin are among the most unique. They exist in a postmodern world of vampirism, surrealism, and sexuality, which is utilized to do much more than excite the audience but display the hedonism of libertinage and vulnerability. Fascination (1979) depicts the excesses of the ruling class. So much so that one might have thought it was ripped from the pages of Juliette by The Marquis de Sade. In contrast, Night of the Hunted (La nuit des traquées, 1980) allowed sexuality to express both vulnerability and victimization.
Some might dismiss Rollin’s work altogether as nothing m ..read more