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Double Feature: Simon of the Desert (1965)/The Monk (1972)

Posted on July 12, 2014 at 5:44 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Luis Buñuel had come out of the desert with Viridiana (1961). Since 1945 the Spanish-born enfant terrible behind the definitive works of Surrealist cinema, Un Chien Andalou (1929, with Salvador Dalí) and L’Age d’Or (1930), had been living in Mexico, … Continue reading →

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Black Jack (1979)

Posted on April 20, 2014 at 11:21 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

First we see the French sailor “Black Jack” (Jean Franval, Le Cercle Rouge) – no one can pronounce his true name – hanged for murder following a deadly tavern brawl, and his body is delivered to a widow who makes … Continue reading →

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99 Women (1969)

Posted on September 14, 2013 at 5:57 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The IMDB attaches Jess Franco’s name to eight different films in 1969, including Venus in Furs with James Darren and Klaus Kinski, The Castle of Fu Manchu with Christopher Lee, and The Girl from Rio with Shirley Eaton and George … Continue reading →

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