The leitmotif of the Feast Naked, a novel by William S. Burroughs adapted to film by David Cronenberg, has not finished to haunt the imagination of movie-goers. Some aficionados of the fantastic genre today use this term to name the place, uncertain, and unique, in which some of the characters come to go astray, and […]
fantastic Cinema : postcard from the FEFFS
fantastic Cinema : Blow of heart for THE BISTRO OF The HORROR
One afternoon of November, I face the icy wind, which reigns over Paris for me to visit one of the most intriguing of the capital. The kind of establishment for which all movie-goers dream, where we can converse for hours at a time, while chaining the glasses until all the cinemas of the world blend […]
fantastic Cinema : Blow of heart for Editions DEEP RED
Founded in 2003, Editions Deep Red have over the years expanded their catalog of books exciting on the fantastic cinema. Go through all the publications this year : the diptych Images and Words of the horror of Guy Astic and Shining in the mirror of Loig Le Bihan. As we would create a decompression chamber […]
Fantastic Cinema : Discourses of artificial 2/3
Second part of our dossier on the manifestations and uses of the artificial in the cinema, in the continuity of the Escape Impossible. We will process and of the different manifestations of the artificial, in three parts : – The SCREEN IS A MASK STITCHED INTO THE NARRATIVE – AWARENESS OF The ARTIFICIALITY – The […]
fantastic Cinema : Dissociation aesthetic of the gothic
In literature as in cinema, it has long been associated with aesthetic and gothic state of mind romantic, but this couple is still as close today ? Before the critics do not refer to the aesthetics of a film “gothic”, even before the birth of the cinema, there was already a literary movement called “literary […]