As always, Alexis & Jaimie are entirely responsible for finding that shit...
Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Faculty - R. Rodriguez - USA - (1998)
Plot from Imdb: "Six students are about to find out their teachers really are from another planet."
Great old-school fun in this College/SciFi movie from the 90's. Only watched it a few years ago, and I think this is amongst the best works of Rodriguez. The cast is really nice, with future stars like Josh Hartnett & Elijah Wodd. Nice to see also the always entertaining Robert Patrick, as the bad alien. It will remember a lot to the hardcore fans of the genre (aliens conspiracy), and as I watched it, some titles popped into my head, like "Invasion of the body snatchers" or "Night of the creeps". There is also a scene that's identical to one of the most famous scene in john Carpenter's "The Thing"... Good work from KNB, combining prosthetic with CGI. You can see that the screenwriter had a lot of fun turning every normal moral values from the school education upside down: the outcasts are the good guys, the teachers are evil, violence always helps, the cure of everything is dope...Needless to say that this more an homage to this kind of cult-classic movies than a cult classic itself, but still it's a lot of fun. If you want American Alien football players & blonde teenager girls with tentacles, you're in for a treat. Cheers !
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Le Corbeau (The Raven) - H.G Clouzot - France - 1943
Plot from Imdb. "French village doctor becomes target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion."
An all-time classic. A perfect movie about human nature. An incredible achievement by HG Clouzot, one of the most respected french director of the 20th century. Incredibly, this story of anonymous letters was made during the German occupation and under their watch. At a time were some of the french population was acting as informers for the Nazi regime and the pro-Nazi french government, it is hard to believe that the political implications of that story didn't ring a bell. The movie in itself is technically perfect, as usual with Clouzot, and at the same time, very simple. Everything is made to be efficient. On that level, Clouzot could be considered a french Hitchcock (some of his other works, like "Les Diaboliques", are definitively Hitchcockians). The acting is really great, a special mention to Pierre Fresnay, the main male lead. But the main character is the "provincial little town-everybody knows everything about everybody" atmosphere. It really reeks with fear, cowardliness and mediocrity. Society in this microcosm is not far away from what we usually associate with the so-called "primitive" cultures: the non-said laws, the forbidden behaviors, the impossibility for someone to reinvent oneself, the imposed -even if absurd- traditional rules, the oppression of the locals... If you should watch only one french movie in your life, you should watch this one.
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