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Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll: The Official Website

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Unlike capturing images from life, personal visions of imagination are constantly shifting and are by nature finicky and nearly impossible to access or capture. In "Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll" Marilyn Manson, his magicians Alain de la Mata, Steven Klein and Benoît Debie evoke the sleepless heartache which once clung to the personality Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).

Personally I'm exited by the casting choices for this movie, as well as what may or may not be introduced into the ever expanding redefinition of horror genre.

Updated Dec 16, 2008

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Chungking Express - Wong Kar-wai (Criterion Blu-ray edition)

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Updated Dec 20, 2008

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Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

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I'm not your typical vampire film fan, I tend to go for stuff that has a little more thought in it that just fangs and blood. I'm also not going to win any points with those who want a film companion that only feast on a diet of domesticated flicks. I tend to hunt down the kind of film that takes it's time to seduce it's audience, Andrzej Krzysztof Tarkowski would have been a great horror movie director if he's been so inclined. But there is a film that comes close to what I've been thirsting for, the Scandinavian "Let The Right One In". Let the Right One In is very orthodox in keeping to all the vampire rules, and yet it is the most naturalistic, and maybe most realistic portrayal of the plight of the vampire I've seen in a long while. Don't get me wrong, I love where "30 Days of Night" went in expanding on the myth of the vampires among us, and I hope to see more like it, yet Let The Right One In adds a softer touch that is seldom experienced in horror. I'd love to write more, but I think the film speaks for it's self.

Updated Dec 8, 2008

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Blind Beast: Yasuzo Masumara

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It could have been a first date, I don't know, but there I was at the video rental place with, uh lets just call her "Golden Eye", "Golden Eye" turns to me and says " I need a movie suggestion, something that's like 80's, something penetrating, something thats eye opening, maybe naughty...". I turned and a few minutes later returned with "Blind Beast".

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One of the chief purveyors of the Japanese new wave cinema, Yasuzo Masumara is the mastermind behind this frightening and erotic horror film. Based on a short story by Edogawa Rampo, 'Blind Beast' tells the disturbing story of a blind sculptor who is obsessed with the female form. He caters to his unhealthy fixation by kidnapping an artist's model and holding her captive in his studio, exposed to his dirty touch. Presented here in uncut form, 'Blind Beast' is an affecting study of sexual perversion.

Updated Dec 8, 2008

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Giants & Toys: Yasuzo Masumura

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In 2008 many big businesses failed, some of us took our trade to the street to tout our products directly to the people. In the market place one is directly confronted with a roaring competition which has been playing out for generations. All those who choose to enter this world should take note from "Giants & Toys".

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This visually stunning satire from Yasuzo Masumura on the world of Japanese business stars Hiroshi Kawaguchi as an advertising executive in a caramel company who enters into a war with two other companies trying to corner the market. When he hires a young girl with bad teeth as an ad model for an edge, all hell breaks loose when she becomes an instant sensation (via Royal-T)

Updated Dec 6, 2008

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Manji: Yasuzo Masumura

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Some times your wife or your girlfriend finds themselves attracted to women but they just don't know what it's like, seems like a new trend but it's not, for a fictionalized look at this subject Yasuzo Masumura's "Manji" is spot on. It's from the radical 60's Japan, but it the story is as relevant today as it was a thousand years ago.

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The dutiful, unhappy wife of a lawyer falls in love with a young, mysterious woman she encounters at an art class. Soon their affair involves her husband and the young woman's impotent lover and the four slowly descend into web of desire, deceit, blackmail, blood oaths and suicide pacts. Featuring superb performances and director Yasuzo Masumura's stunning visual precision, this exquisitely wrought tale of erotic obsession is a hothouse of tangled passions and over the top emotion (via Royal-T)

Updated Dec 6, 2008

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David Lynch The Lime Green Set

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Writer, director and artist David Lynch has personally selected these works, including many pieces new to DVD, and a Mystery disc of content taken from Lynch's own personal archives...oooh! (via Amoeba Music)

Updated Nov 21, 2008

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Blood Tea And Red String: Christiane Cegavske

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Horror comes in all flavors, this one features animated dolls.

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This dark foray into the world of stop-motion animation offers a gloomy fairy story aimed at adults. The story revolves around a group of mice who battle some devious creatures for possession of a doll.

Updated Aug 24, 2008

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch

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From the the first few minutes of my first viewing of this unique work I was truly astonished.

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The oldest extant animated feature, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) was made by Lotte Reiniger using the silhouette technique she invented. Reiniger manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under the camera to create an Arabian Nights world of delicate, filigree backgrounds and intricately jointed figures. With the assistance of Aladdin, the Witch of the Fiery Mountain, and a magic horse, the title character battles the evil African sorcerer to win the hand of Princess Peri Banu.

Updated Aug 24, 2008