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DVD The Hunger
Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are rich, beautiful, and oh-so chic as denizens of the night. Dressed in sleek outfits and stylish sunglasses, they haunt rock & roll clubs on the prowl for young blood, whom they bring home to their impossibly luxurious mansion for a late-night snack. Being a vampire never looked more sexy, but there's a price: Bowie starts to age so fast he wrinkles up in the waiting room of a doctor's (Susan Sarandon) office. The agelessly elegant Deneuve, evoking Delphine Seyrig's Countess Bathory from Daughters of Darkness, is perfectly cast as a millenniums-old bloodsucker who seeks a new mate in Sarandon and seduces her in a sunlight-bathed afternoon of smooth, silky sex. Tony Scott's (Ridley's brother) directorial debut, adapted from the Whitley Strieber novel, revises the vampire myth with Egyptian inflections and removes all references to garlic and crosses and wooden stakes--these bloodsuckers can even walk around in the daylight--but the ties between blood and sex are as strong as ever. Scott's background as an award-winning commercial director is evident in every richly textured frame and his densely interwoven editing, but the moody atmosphere comes at the expense of dramatic urgency. At times the film is so languid it becomes mired in its hazy, impeccably designed visual style. In its own way, The Hunger is the perfect vampire film for the '80s, all poise and attitude and surface beauty. Sarandon talks candidly about the film in the documentary The Celluloid Closet. --Sean Axmaker
Vampires, Bowie, Sarandon, and Deneuve -- directed by Tony Scott...
What more could anyone want?
It has David Bowie, and Bauhaus!
This film itself is actually not quite that good. A vampire's lover dies and she gets a scientist to replace him. It all plays out like an artsy Anne Rice book. Maybe in a way it's Anne Rice meets Ed Wood. Except this Ed Wood has a larger budget. To make things worse, the vampires cut people up with knives hanging from their necks. Ouch!
But either than the film, there's
Bauhaus! At the beginning of the film they are playing Bela Lugosi's Dead and you get to see frontman, Peter Murphy, writhing in a cage. Hot!
David Bowie! He's great eye candy. But when he starts aging and cutting up little girls, he's not too sexy.
Susan Sarandon makes out with Catherine Deneuve!
Yes, this is quite a good movie.
haute couture blood suckers rock!
Tony scott's stunning directorial debut makes the most of his background in filming commercials. Imagine the haughty images from the most rarified french couture houses mixed in with a splash of vampire blood and a lusty triangle of omnisexual predators. Throw in the darkest, most seductively violent punk rock track alternating with the most elegant classical and you have an amazing atmosphere worth dying for. No one can wear a veiled cocktail hat ,pose their mannequin-like faces quite like Deneuve (since Dietrich) or play the icy glamour queen of the night . Bowie is perfect as one of her (many, many) elegant ,devoted lovers facing sudden decay and abandonment. Sarandon holds her own against these legendary style icons as she falls deeper into Deneuve's dangerous web. The scenes where Deneuve is "courting" and finally seducing Sarandon is something to behold. Perfect editing with style and drama to spare. A vampire tale involving rabid lab-monkeys, an ancient Egyptian blood thirsty queen,an 80's manhattan swinging couple , a male prostitute, the search for everlasting love and life and lots of angular, black and white high fashion straight out of any 1980's Italian Vogue.
One of Roman Polanski's more overt comedies, this 1966 monster spectacle stars Jack MacGowran and Polanski as a clunky but heroic pair of vampire killers. Called upon to rescue the beautiful and buxom daughter (Sharon Tate) of an innkeeper from a Draculalike bloodsucker, the duo muddle through all sorts of scrapes, the most intense being a scene in which a room full of dancing vampires realize the human interlopers are the only ones in the room who are reflected in a mirror. Scary and funny, the film has some unforgettable set pieces, a terrific score, one of the few records of Tate's extraordinary beauty, and vibrant performances. Not exactly Polanski in a relaxed mode, but clear evidence of his estimable skills as a director of both brilliance and polish. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Roman Polanski - Jack MacGowran - Alfie Bass - Jessie Robins - Sharon Tate Director(s): Roman Polanski DVD Release Date: Released the 05 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Paul Schrader, the director of American Gigolo, brought a similar kind of sexual chic to this explicit horror movie. A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex. Arriving to meet her brother (Malcolm McDowell) in New Orleans, she finds herself disturbed by his sexual presence. A zoo curator (John Heard) becomes fascinated by her, but he will discover that her kittenish ways are just the tip of the claw. Schrader dresses the story up in a stylish, glossy production, keyed on Kinski's green-eyed, thick-lipped beauty; it's hard to think of another actress in 1982 who could so immediately suggest a cat... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Nastassja Kinski - Malcolm McDowell - John Heard Director(s): Paul Schrader DVD Release Date: Released the 27 August 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), over their mutual love of film--they not only quote lines of dialogue, they act out small bits and challenge each other to name the cinematic source. Matthew suspects the twins of incest, but that doesn't stop him from falling into his own intimacies with Isabelle. As the threesome becomes threatened, Paris succumbs to student riots. The Dreamers aspires to be kinky, but the results are more... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Bernardo Bertolucci DVD Release Date: Released the 13 July 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Once upon a time, in the 1980s and early 1990s, American independent movies did not seek to merely ape Hollywood formulas. They were more than just feature-length resumes for shrewd, enterprising filmmakers who had nothing to say, but dreamed of saying it with a big-studio budget. Back then, independent films provided a different kind of movie experience; they challenged and provoked audiences--and none more so than 1991's The Rapture, written and directed by Michael Tolkin, the man who wrote the screenplay for The Player, Robert Altman's scathing anti-Hollywood comedy. Mimi Rogers plays Sharon, a lost soul who gives up her hedonistic life of sex and drugs when she finds God and becomes a fundamentalist Christian fanatic. Her pilgrim's progress, presented in a deadpan,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Mimi Rogers - David Duchovny Director(s): Michael Tolkin DVD Release Date: Released the 02 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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