Old Haunts
A pre-Halloween haunted houseful in this week’s edition of The Forgotten. I’ve written about this one before here.
AU SECOURS! is available as an extra on the DVD of Abel Gance’s LUCREZIA BORGIA, along with the film with the greatest title ever, LA FOLIE DU DOCTEUR TUBE (THE MADNESS OF DR TUBE).
Buy — Lucrezia Borgia
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October 6, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Great stuff. Gance is a lot more than just Napoleon
October 6, 2011 at 6:18 pm
My vote for greatest title ever: The Merry Frolics of Satan.
October 6, 2011 at 7:53 pm
TMFOS is pretty good, I must admit. “Merry” and “Frolics” builds up such a momentum of frivolity that “Satan” arrives like a slap!
I plan on getting more into Gance, I just enjoyed the first J’Accuse, and I’m upset that I can’t see a decent copy of his remake.
October 6, 2011 at 10:58 pm
“I have to pay all those monsters right away..”
October 6, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Well, you don’t want to keep THOSE guys waiting…
October 6, 2011 at 11:34 pm
love those old intertitles ..”Hes barring his teeth at me!”
October 7, 2011 at 9:26 am
Haven’t seen much of early Gance but LUCREZIA BORGIA is certainly a treat. A frontally nude Edwige Feuillere playing with a giant fluorescent beach ball, and perhaps the most overt gay man I’ve ever seen in a 30s film.
October 7, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Gance is definitely one of those directors who loves the decadence he’s denouncing!
October 7, 2011 at 4:09 pm
…and why not?
October 7, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Certainly the best alibi for getting a lot of transgressive sex into a movie, as DeMille knew well.