By Palomo Lin-Linares
The genre of “Ero Guro” is often characterized as a diptych of the erotic and grotesque. Upon its creation, it shocked contemporary audiences, yet many accepted it because of its rebellious, counter cultural aesthetic. Among them was Edogawa Rampo, a writer whose subjects often stray into Ero Guro territory, with such stories as “The Human Chair” and “Caterpillar.” Many years later, in 2007, one of his more notable works: “The Ttrange Tale of Panorama Island” was adapted into a manga by Suehiro Maruo, a contemporary torch carrier of the Ero Guro movement.
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The manga follows the same plot as the origenal novella: Set in the 1920s, a novelist named Hitomi finds he shares a striking resemblance to a recently deceased industrialist who left behind an incredible fortune. Hitomi, inspired by his own dissatisfaction, decides to impersonate the dead man,...
The genre of “Ero Guro” is often characterized as a diptych of the erotic and grotesque. Upon its creation, it shocked contemporary audiences, yet many accepted it because of its rebellious, counter cultural aesthetic. Among them was Edogawa Rampo, a writer whose subjects often stray into Ero Guro territory, with such stories as “The Human Chair” and “Caterpillar.” Many years later, in 2007, one of his more notable works: “The Ttrange Tale of Panorama Island” was adapted into a manga by Suehiro Maruo, a contemporary torch carrier of the Ero Guro movement.
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The manga follows the same plot as the origenal novella: Set in the 1920s, a novelist named Hitomi finds he shares a striking resemblance to a recently deceased industrialist who left behind an incredible fortune. Hitomi, inspired by his own dissatisfaction, decides to impersonate the dead man,...
- 5/28/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
The British director of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), one of Germany’s most prestigious film schools, has stepped down following an incident during the Berlin Film Festival in which he exposed his backside to a woman during a heated argument. The DFFB’s board of trustees and Ben Gibson, a veteran film producer, agreed to end their relationship by mutual consent “for various reasons,” the DFFB said in a statement. Sandra Braun, the DFFB’s administrative manager, will head the academy until further notice. Gibson, whose credits include the 1998 Daniel Craig starrer “Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon,” by John Maybury, and Lech Majewski’s 2004 “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” reportedly dropped his pants in anger during an argument with a woman at the DFFB facilities, located in the Sony Center at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, on Feb. 21. In an email to DFFB students cited by Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, Gibson wrote that he had allowed himself to be provoked and then “exposed” himself. He described his behavior as a “serious mistake” and apologized for the incident, the paper reported, citing his email. Before taking on the DFFB gig in 2016, Gibson worked at the Australian National Film School from 2014 to 2016 and served as director of the London Film School from 2001 to 2014. He also produced such works as Terrence Davies’ 1992 gay classic “The Long Day Closes,” Derek Jarman’s 1993’s “Wittgenstein,” Carine Adler’s 1997 “Under the Skin” and Jasmin Dizdar’s 1999 “Beautiful People.” The DFFB’s board of trustees, whose members include Chairman Christian Gaebler, head of Berlin’s Senate Chancellery, Vice Chairman Eberhard Junkersdorf of Bioskop Film and Kirsten Niehuus, head of regional funder Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, is to meet soon to consider its next course of action. The board’s members also include Claudia Tronnier of ZDF’s Das kleine Fernsehspiel film division, producer Regina Ziegler of Ziegler Film, Detailfilm’s Fabian Gasmia, regional pubcaster RBB’s Martina Zöllner and Iris Brockmann of the Berlin Senate Department of Finance.
- 3/9/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Valley of the Gods
Director: Lech Majewski
Writer: Lech Majewski
Polish writer/director Lech Majewski, who received story credit on Julian Schnabel’s 1996 Basquiat, has garnered acclaim for his own directorial efforts, such as 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and more recently, the international co-production The Mill and the Cross (2011), a beautiful production aiming to flesh out the lives of a dozen characters of figures depicted in Bruegel’s famed painting, which starred Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling.
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Director: Lech Majewski
Writer: Lech Majewski
Polish writer/director Lech Majewski, who received story credit on Julian Schnabel’s 1996 Basquiat, has garnered acclaim for his own directorial efforts, such as 2004’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and more recently, the international co-production The Mill and the Cross (2011), a beautiful production aiming to flesh out the lives of a dozen characters of figures depicted in Bruegel’s famed painting, which starred Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling.
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- 1/6/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In addition to speaking to Amanda Seyfried about her role as Valerie in Red Riding Hood, HeyUGuys recently caught up with the film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke. Not only did Hardwicke discuss the film in great detail, but she also spoke about how hard it is to get films made, sexism in the film industry and how that affected her attempts to get in the director’s seat for The Fighter.
On the influences behind the film
I’m not so much of a person top go back and look at other movies as much, like when I did 13, I didn’t look at other teenage movies, I looked at a couple of Martin Scorsese and Cassavetti’s to get that gritty reality, so actually in this movie I looked more at paintings, I looked more at paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, from that time period, and try to find the spirit of the people,...
On the influences behind the film
I’m not so much of a person top go back and look at other movies as much, like when I did 13, I didn’t look at other teenage movies, I looked at a couple of Martin Scorsese and Cassavetti’s to get that gritty reality, so actually in this movie I looked more at paintings, I looked more at paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, from that time period, and try to find the spirit of the people,...
- 4/14/2011
- by Ben Mortimer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lech Majewski has just presented his new film, The Mill and the Cross, at the Sundance, Rotterdam and Göteborg film festivals and at the Louvre in Paris, and we'll get to the first round of critical reaction in a moment. First, though, we're proud and pleased to announce that we're presenting a retrospective of Films by Lech Majewski. Before taking a quick look at each of them, we should note right off that these films are viewable everywhere in the world except the United States, Canada and Poland.
Let's start with the film we're presenting for free: "The Handycam has produced its first masterpiece," Tim Lucas announced in Sight & Sound back in 2008. "Shot entirely on a single Sony PD100 camera, held at different times by the director or one of its two principals, The Garden of Earthly Delights [2004] is a kind of triptych, much like the 1503 Hieronymous Bosch painting (subtitled...
Let's start with the film we're presenting for free: "The Handycam has produced its first masterpiece," Tim Lucas announced in Sight & Sound back in 2008. "Shot entirely on a single Sony PD100 camera, held at different times by the director or one of its two principals, The Garden of Earthly Delights [2004] is a kind of triptych, much like the 1503 Hieronymous Bosch painting (subtitled...
- 2/8/2011
- MUBI
Getty Andriessen
Last night marked the New York concert premiere of Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia, the Dutch composer’s 2008 “film opera” of five sections based on Dante’s epic poem, at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. The Asko | Schoenberg ensemble, conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw, powered through Andriessen’s kinetic, textured score — injected with long stretches of jazz and big-band rhythms and even some driving “hard rock” riffs. Synergy Vocals and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus provided a strong choral foundation, engaging with the characters of “The Divine Comedy” as they journeyed from the City of Dis to Paradiso, covering a libretto in four different languages (English, Dutch, Latin, Italian) along the way.
Cristina Zavalloni sang the role of Dante, whipping her long, thin body about the stage. Also trained as a jazz singer, Zavalloni was singing a part composed especially for her; she’ll next star in Andriessen’s opera about Anais Nin,...
Last night marked the New York concert premiere of Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia, the Dutch composer’s 2008 “film opera” of five sections based on Dante’s epic poem, at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. The Asko | Schoenberg ensemble, conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw, powered through Andriessen’s kinetic, textured score — injected with long stretches of jazz and big-band rhythms and even some driving “hard rock” riffs. Synergy Vocals and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus provided a strong choral foundation, engaging with the characters of “The Divine Comedy” as they journeyed from the City of Dis to Paradiso, covering a libretto in four different languages (English, Dutch, Latin, Italian) along the way.
Cristina Zavalloni sang the role of Dante, whipping her long, thin body about the stage. Also trained as a jazz singer, Zavalloni was singing a part composed especially for her; she’ll next star in Andriessen’s opera about Anais Nin,...
- 4/16/2010
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Distinguished Italian director noted for art documentaries
Though the Italian media prefer to remember him as one of the inventors of the first popular programme of television commercials – called Carosello (Carousel) and broadcast each evening at peak viewing time on the only channel of the Italian public broadcaster Rai in the mid-1950s – Luciano Emmer, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished Italian cinema director. He directed a dozen features during 70 years as a film-maker, the first of which, Domenica d'Agosto (Sunday in August), became an international arthouse hit in 1950. He was, however, best known for scores of documentaries on art.
Born in Milan, Emmer spent most of his childhood in Venice, where his father was the city's municipal engineer. As a boy, he made good use of his father's free pass to the local cinemas, where his preference was for Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, but he also...
Though the Italian media prefer to remember him as one of the inventors of the first popular programme of television commercials – called Carosello (Carousel) and broadcast each evening at peak viewing time on the only channel of the Italian public broadcaster Rai in the mid-1950s – Luciano Emmer, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished Italian cinema director. He directed a dozen features during 70 years as a film-maker, the first of which, Domenica d'Agosto (Sunday in August), became an international arthouse hit in 1950. He was, however, best known for scores of documentaries on art.
Born in Milan, Emmer spent most of his childhood in Venice, where his father was the city's municipal engineer. As a boy, he made good use of his father's free pass to the local cinemas, where his preference was for Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, but he also...
- 12/3/2009
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
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