Harvard Film Archive
Saturday October 31, 2009 at 7pm
Bedazzled
by Stanley Donen, 1967
“Donen’s second take on Faust is set in swinging Sixties London and pits a meek short order cook against the Devil, who grants him seven catch-filled wishes to further his awkward attempts at winning the affections of an uninterested waitress. The film’s episodic structure affords Donen a platform to launch a ruthless satire of Christianity, including personal appearances by each of the seven deadly sins with Lust, appropriately, played by Raquel Welch. The hapless hash-slinger and the Devil are played by the comedy duo of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, whose razor-sharp comedic style brings out a far darker and more farcical comedic strain than in any of Donen’s previous work.”
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2009octdec/donen.html#bedazzled
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive
Saturday October 31 2009, 7:30PM
THE CITY OF THE DEAD (a.k.a Horror Hotel)
by John Moxey, 1960
Sometimes compared to Psycho for its doubled narrative structure, The City of The Dead begins with college student Nan Barlow visiting the fog-shrouded town of Whitewood, Massachusetts, the site of a notorious witch burning in 1692, in order to research her thesis on the Occult. When Nan goes missing, her brother and boyfriend investigate and uncover a terrifying, centuries-old satanic conspiracy beyond their wildest nightmares. Director John Moxey makes the most of his low-budget circumstances with expressionist panache zooming into looming faces and bathing every corner with shadows and fog.”
THE SKULL
Directed by Freddie Francis, 1965
Do you dare look through the eyes of the Marquis de Sade? How about through his eye sockets? That’s just one of the shocking special effects shots in this Technicolor creepfest starring Peter Cushing as Dr. Christopher Maitland, a collector of Occult objects who acquires the Marquis’ skull only to become possessed by the evil spirit it holds within. Christopher Lee plays a fellow collector who tries to warn his friend before the skull strikes again! Director Freddie Francis, better known as the cinematographer on such films as Karel Reisz’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980), fills the Cinemascope frame with the lurid details of the devilish artifacts in Maitland’s study, stoking the atmosphere of doom and dread in this psychological tale of terror.”
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar/calendar.aspx
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George Eastman House | Dryden Theatre
Saturday, October 31st 2009, 7:00 pm
Vampire Trailers and Let the Right One In
by Tomas Alfredson, 2008
<See it in Swedish, please.>
“Plagued by school bullies, 12-year-old Oskar finds a friend and his first crush in Eli, a seemingly young girl who lives in his working-class apartment block. What Oskar doesn’t know is that his protective new friend is an ageless vampire, and an ongoing murder spree is the result of her thirst for human blood. Director Alfredson’s scary—and surprisingly touching—new genre hybrid has already developed a considerable international fanbase, and won several awards at major film festivals around the world. This screening will be preceded by an hour of trailers for various vampire trailers from the 1940s to the present. Two programs for one admission price.”
http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/films/vampire-trailers-and-let-the-right-one-in/
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…and lastly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeMz8q-92Jg
edazzled
Directed by Stanley Donen.
Saturday October 31, 2009 at 7pm
Bedazzled
Directed by Stanley Donen, 1967
“Donen’s second take on Faust is set in swinging Sixties London and pits a meek short order cook against the Devil, who grants him seven catch-filled wishes to further his awkward attempts at winning the affections of an uninterested waitress. The film’s episodic structure affords Donen a platform to launch a ruthless satire of Christianity, including personal appearances by each of the seven deadly sins with Lust, appropriately, played by Raquel Welch. The hapless hash-slinger and the Devil are played by the comedy duo of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, whose razor-sharp comedic style brings out a far darker and more farcical comedic strain than in any of Donen’s previous work.”
