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…
SACRED FLESH Original Soundtrack by Band Of Pain Nigel Wingrove’s SACRED FLESH is now over two decades old and, as with most things of this kind of vintage, it’s tough to comprehend the controversy it courted in an age where any of us can obtain terrorist beheading videos or footage…
VIPCO THE UNTOLD STORY **** UK 2018 Dir: Jason Impey. 132 mins Rarely seen on camera, Vipco impresario Michael Lee is the star of Jason Impey’s engaging documentary about the UK video industry’s “Wild West” period in the 1980s. Lee’s honest reflections easily overshadow some dullish contextual analysis by UK…