ARROW have released Dima Ballin & Kat Ellinger’s acclaimed documentary Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World Of Jean Rollin, to its subscription-based platform available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Has there been a genre artist more fundamentally misunderstood and inappropriately discussed than Jean Rollin? He…
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ORCHESTRATOR OF STORMS: THE FANTASTIQUE WORLD OF JEAN ROLLIN **** USA 2022 Dir: Kat Ellinger, Dima Ballin. 113 mins Narrated by Ayvianna Snow and with Benoit Carry voicing the words of the late filmmaker himself, this enthralling feature documentary adeptly captures the influences, passion and struggles of beloved French director…
DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES *** Germany 2021 Dir: Kevin Kopacka. 73 mins Austrian-Sri-Lankan filmmaker / artist Kevin Kopacka’s second feature – after 2020’s HAGER – is a disorientating, multi-layered Gothic tale of entrapment that toys with everything from the Eastmancolor atmosphere of Mario Bava’s classic horror films and the…
HOUSE OF USHER (DEVIL’S ADVOCATES) by Evert Jan Van Leeuwen Author Evert Jan Van Leeuwen brings a welcome personal touch to this informative celebration of the first of Roger Corman’s beloved Poe Cycle. The monograph opens with Van Leeuwen’s memories of discovering ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and…
CRUCIBLE OF THE VAMPIRE *** UK 2018 Dir: Iain Ross-McNamee. 97 mins An engaging throwback to the Gothic horrors of Hammer and Tigon, starring an appealing Katie Goldfinch as a Catholic museum curator tasked with tracking down a pre-Roman stone cauldron previously owned by an associate of Matthew Hopkins. Her…