Jun 14
#ThisWeeksFilms:
2 indie films shot in Japan (in English) in the early '50s by George Breakston of "The Manster" fame.
Sometimes shown w/ "Geisha Girl" as a double-bill, "Oriental Evil" also got a lot of run as a second feature to other movies.
#exploitation
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May 31
#ThisWeeksFilms:
“Ahí madre!” (’70) -- #CineMexicano comedy with #LosPolivoces in multiple roles; screen story by #Chespirito;
“Aswang” (’92) – Filipino #horrormovie; it’s over 2 hours long so watching it (in 15-minute increments probably) will be a multi-day event .
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Apr 26
#ThisWeeksFilms:
"Tehuantepec" ('53) aka "Mujeres del paraíso" (I've not been able to find the English-language version "Hell in Paradise" w/ Dan O'Herlihy);
"Deadlock" ('43), once considered a lost film, but now available.
#CineMexicano
#Britishcinema
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Apr 12
#ThisWeeksFilms --
More #CineMexicano for the next Mexican Film Bulletin:
La mujer y la bestia ('58): re-watching after 4 decades, #AnaLuisaPeluffo is a serial killer;
Jóvenes y bellas ('61): don't remember ever seeing this youth-oriented romantic comedy w/#GastónSantos.
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Apr 5
#ThisWeeksFilms:
For the next Mexican Film Bulletin --
La fuerza del deseo ('55) --first Calderón "nude scenes" film;
Los pistoleros ('61) -- uncredited remake of "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" ('57), #ElizabethCampbell's first #CineMexicano role.
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Mar 22
#ThisWeeksFilms:
Le Vampire de Düsseldorf ('65), directed by & starring Robert Hossein. (I'm on a Hossein mini-binge at the moment)
Based on the same serial killer case that inspired both versions of "M" and the Argentine film "El vampiro negro" ('53).
#HorrorMovies
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Feb 15
#ThisWeeksFilms --
Algol - Tragödie der Macht [Algol -- Tragedy of Power] (1920):
An alien/demon from the star Algol gives a humble coal miner the secret of unlimited power generation. Does Algol have an ulterior motive? Mmm . . . could be!
#HorrorMovies
#sciencefiction
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23 Nov 2025
#ThisWeeksFilms:
Counter-intuitively, even though I am on holiday the whole week, only time for 1 film due to 4 projects with looming December deadlines.
"The Gay Desperado" ('36): Working on the upcoming Blu-ray release of this musical comedy w/ opera singer Nino Martini.
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9 Feb 2025
#ThisWeeksFilms:
Re-viewing "Las aventuras de Carlos Lacroix" ('58) for the first time in decades (I had to convert an old VHS tape to watch it).
"Yami no karyudo" (Hunter in the Dark, '79) -- period #Yakuza film from director Hideo Gosha.
#CineMexicano #JapaneseFilm
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26 Jan 2025
#ThisWeeksFilms:
"De Spooktrein" ('39 Dutch film by a Czech director; I've had a copy for a while, finally got English subs);
"Son of Ingagi" ('40, black cast & writer, white director & technicians; sadly, most extant copies of this are in sub-optimal condition)
#HorrorMovies
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19 Jan 2025
#ThisWeeksFilms:
"Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" (quite looking forward to this);
Bought the Blu-ray of "The Mummy & the Curse of the Jackal(s)" mostly for the extras; saw the film 30-odd yrs ago when I bought the big-box #VHS version.
#HorrorMovies
#WallaceAndGromit
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22 Sep 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms:
Re-watching "La Llorona" ('33) for the first time since at least 1997, for the Halloween Mexican Film Bulletin;
"Amakusa Shirô Tokisada" ('62 aka The Christian Revolt) -- director Ōshima Nagisa's tale of the 1637 revolt against the shogunate.
#CineMexicano
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1 Sep 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms: another #JapaneseFilm-#CineMexicano double feature --
"Cops vs. Thugs" (Kenkei tai soshiki boryoku, '75, dir. Kinji Fukasaku, yakuza action); "El fantasma del lago" ('77 -- sort of a "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" romance w/ #HugoStiglitz; 35 yrs since I saw this).
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28 Jul 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms: another #CineMexicano - #JapaneseFilm double feature.
Re-watching "Persecución infernal" ('91) after 25 yrs in preparation for the Halloween Mexican Film Bulletin.
"Kita no san-nin" (The Three in the North) -- released 5 August 1945, one day before Hiroshima.
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21 Jul 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms:
#CineMexicano - #JapaneseFilm double feature.
Kanchô imada shisezu (The Spy Hasn't Died Yet, '42): WWII propaganda set in the pre-Pearl Harbor period.
Muertes a medianoche (2001): Diana Golden is a killer nun. The Devil made her do it.
#HorrorMovies
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7 Jul 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms: another #CineMexicano & #JapaneseFilm double-feature.
Direct-to-video #horrormovie "El Mutilador" ('91): a VHS of this is currently listed for $640 on eBay!
World War II film "Raigekitai Shutsudô" ('44), aka Battle Troop, aka The Torpedo Squadron Moves Out.
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9 Jun 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms:
#CineMexicano -- "Super Colt 38" ('68) & "Violencia a domicilio" ('89) for the upcoming Mexican Film Bulletin (this month, I hope).
If I have time, I'll watch "Sabaku o wataru taiyô" (Sand City in Manchuria, '60) with Kôji Tsuruta.
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19 May 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms: I'm *not* re-watching "Night of the Demon" ('80), once was enough! But I got the Severin Blu-ray for the extras, such as the un-released "Fraternity of Horror." And for the upcoming Mexican Film Bulletin: "El Silencioso" ('66), Gastón Santos' last starring role.
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5 May 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms: working on the next episode of my Carlos Villarías series, this one covering his 15 Hollywood English-language films. So this week I'm watching "Bordertown" & "Goin' to Town," in which he plays a waiter & a butler, respectively.
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28 Jan 2024
#ThisWeeksFilms: the French version of last week's "Under Secret Orders" -- "Mademoiselle Docteur" ('37); re-watching (after 30 years) "La princesa hippie" ('68), with Pili y Mili ❤️ & Enrique Guzmán, Roberto Gómez Bolaños #Chespirito, Héctor Lechuga, Chabelo. #CineMexicano
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