Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin, from here on simply Orchestrator of Storms, is a long overdue examination of the works of French filmmaker Jean Rollin, a man who has been labelled everything from an auteur to a pornographer and a hack.
Writer/directors Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger have worked together on several previous documentary shorts about genre films and filmmakers such as The Tale of Mr. Corman and Mr. Poe and The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves as well as on individual projects. However, coming in at an hour and fifty-two minutes Orchestrator of Storms is anything but short.
Orchestrator of Storms picks up almost from the moment of Rollin’s birth to a father who worked in the theatre and a mother who had been an artist’s model. It was his mother who raised him after his father left. The film explores how...
Writer/directors Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger have worked together on several previous documentary shorts about genre films and filmmakers such as The Tale of Mr. Corman and Mr. Poe and The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves as well as on individual projects. However, coming in at an hour and fifty-two minutes Orchestrator of Storms is anything but short.
Orchestrator of Storms picks up almost from the moment of Rollin’s birth to a father who worked in the theatre and a mother who had been an artist’s model. It was his mother who raised him after his father left. The film explores how...
- 2/14/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin, from here on simply Orchestrator of Storms, is a long overdue examination of the works of French filmmaker Jean Rollin, a man who has been labelled everything from an auteur to a pornographer and a hack.
Writer/directors Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger have worked together on several previous documentary shorts about genre films and filmmakers such as The Tale of Mr. Corman and Mr. Poe and The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves as well as on individual projects. However, coming in at an hour and fifty-two minutes Orchestrator of Storms is anything but short.
Orchestrator of Storms picks up almost from the moment of Rollin’s birth to a father who worked in the theatre and a mother who had been an artist’s model. It was his mother who raised him after his father left. The film explores how...
Writer/directors Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger have worked together on several previous documentary shorts about genre films and filmmakers such as The Tale of Mr. Corman and Mr. Poe and The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves as well as on individual projects. However, coming in at an hour and fifty-two minutes Orchestrator of Storms is anything but short.
Orchestrator of Storms picks up almost from the moment of Rollin’s birth to a father who worked in the theatre and a mother who had been an artist’s model. It was his mother who raised him after his father left. The film explores how...
- 7/29/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Editor’s note: The following is an exclusive excerpt from “’Castles of Subversion’ Continued: From the Roman Noir and Surrealism to Jean Rollin” by Virginie Sélavy. This essay is featured in “Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollins,” which is available now. To celebrate the book’s release, curator and editor Samm Deighan will be on hand to introduce a special screening of Rollin’s 1971 film “The Shiver of the Vampires” at the Brooklyn Horror Festival on October 14.
Usually deserted or abandoned, often in ruins or in a state of decay, sometimes captured just before demolition, always bearing the melancholy traces of human presence, locations are key to Jean Rollin’s cinema and often were the starting points for his films. Three in particular recur throughout his work: the famous Dieppe beach (specifically Pourville-sur-Mer), the cemetery, and the castle. The latter two are typical Gothic locations and an...
Usually deserted or abandoned, often in ruins or in a state of decay, sometimes captured just before demolition, always bearing the melancholy traces of human presence, locations are key to Jean Rollin’s cinema and often were the starting points for his films. Three in particular recur throughout his work: the famous Dieppe beach (specifically Pourville-sur-Mer), the cemetery, and the castle. The latter two are typical Gothic locations and an...
- 9/25/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
New Form Digital has released its upcoming slate of pilots from its most recent incubator series, featuring both traditional and web-based stars. The digital studio’s incubator series (now in its fourth run) acts as a showcase for up and coming creators mentored and developed through the program. Pilots that have been sold in the past have included Streamy Award winners “Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures” and “Anna Akana’s Miss 2059”, YouTube Red’s “Single By 30,” “I Ship It,” and the Conan O’Brien produced animated series “Final Space.”
The newest wave of this incubator series includes content from web series stars such as Manon Matthews, Eric Ochoa, Alexa Losey and television stars Melissa Fumero (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Lisa Kudrow, who in 2015 signed an exclusive deal with New Form through her production company Is or Isn’t Entertainment.
New Form has a recent track record for including...
The newest wave of this incubator series includes content from web series stars such as Manon Matthews, Eric Ochoa, Alexa Losey and television stars Melissa Fumero (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Lisa Kudrow, who in 2015 signed an exclusive deal with New Form through her production company Is or Isn’t Entertainment.
New Form has a recent track record for including...
- 5/5/2017
- by Juan Diaz
- Indiewire
Canadian micro-publisher Spectacular Optical is pleased to announce a new book focused on the career of French fantasy and horror filmmaker Jean Rollin, Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin, penned by all women critics, scholars and film historians.
Set to be released in the summer of 2017, this collection of essays covers the wide range of Rollin’s career from 1968’s Le Viol Du Vampire through his 2010 swansong, Le Masque De La Meduse, touching upon his horror, fantasy, crime and sex films—including many lesser seen titles. The book closely examines Rollin’s core themes: his focus on overwhelmingly female protagonists, his use of horror genre and exploitation tropes, his reinterpretations of the fairy tale and fantastique, the influence of crime serials, Gothic literature and the occult, as well as much more.
From the press release:
Lost Girls is the third book in Spectacular Optical’s ongoing series...
Set to be released in the summer of 2017, this collection of essays covers the wide range of Rollin’s career from 1968’s Le Viol Du Vampire through his 2010 swansong, Le Masque De La Meduse, touching upon his horror, fantasy, crime and sex films—including many lesser seen titles. The book closely examines Rollin’s core themes: his focus on overwhelmingly female protagonists, his use of horror genre and exploitation tropes, his reinterpretations of the fairy tale and fantastique, the influence of crime serials, Gothic literature and the occult, as well as much more.
From the press release:
Lost Girls is the third book in Spectacular Optical’s ongoing series...
- 3/24/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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- 11/14/2014
- by Matt MacNabb
- Legions of Gotham
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George Clooney normally ignores tabloids that make up stories about him, but he’s had enough when the Daily Mail posted a story that his fiance’s mother was against his marriage because she was a member of the Druze faith, which frowns on marrying outsiders, and can lead to violence against the bride who does. It’s not the ridiculous lie that angered Clooney, but the invocation of religious violence. “The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal.” Then something remarkable happened – the Daily...
George Clooney normally ignores tabloids that make up stories about him, but he’s had enough when the Daily Mail posted a story that his fiance’s mother was against his marriage because she was a member of the Druze faith, which frowns on marrying outsiders, and can lead to violence against the bride who does. It’s not the ridiculous lie that angered Clooney, but the invocation of religious violence. “The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal.” Then something remarkable happened – the Daily...
- 7/10/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 18, 2014
Price: DVD $59.95, Blu-ray $89.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Jean Rollin's Requiem for a Vampire
Kino Lorber is bundling four of French filmmaker’s Jean Rollin sexy vampire flicks together in the inevitably entitled box set Jean Rollin: The Vampire Films.
As the constraints of censorship began to see in the late 1960′s and early ’70′s, visionary French filmmaker Rollin created a series of mesmerizing horror-thrillers that injected the Gothic vampire film with a more contemporary strain of eroticism. (He took what Hammer had done in the previous decade and turned it up a kinkily erotic notch.) Fluctuating between visual allure and shocking violence, Rollin’s films have come to be recognized as vital entries in the vampire genre.
The four films—The Rape of the Vampire (1968), The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) and Requiem for a Vampire (1973)—are mastered in HD from the original 35mm negatives.
Price: DVD $59.95, Blu-ray $89.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
Jean Rollin's Requiem for a Vampire
Kino Lorber is bundling four of French filmmaker’s Jean Rollin sexy vampire flicks together in the inevitably entitled box set Jean Rollin: The Vampire Films.
As the constraints of censorship began to see in the late 1960′s and early ’70′s, visionary French filmmaker Rollin created a series of mesmerizing horror-thrillers that injected the Gothic vampire film with a more contemporary strain of eroticism. (He took what Hammer had done in the previous decade and turned it up a kinkily erotic notch.) Fluctuating between visual allure and shocking violence, Rollin’s films have come to be recognized as vital entries in the vampire genre.
The four films—The Rape of the Vampire (1968), The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) and Requiem for a Vampire (1973)—are mastered in HD from the original 35mm negatives.
- 2/5/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
I always found it interesting that actress Patty Shepard was from Greenville, South Caroline, my father’s hometown, and wondered how she ended up in Europe co-starring alongside Paul Naschy and others in a string of cult horror films. She moved to Spain at 18 to study philosophy and ended up living there the remainder of her life. She started as a model and worked in Spanish television before moving into film. Like Barabra Steele, Shepard had a face that could embody both innocence and evil at the same time and her first horror film was with Naschy in Assignment Terror (1970). The role cult fans best remember her for was as Wandesa D¡rvula de Nadasdy in Werewolf Vs. Vampire Woman (1971) the second film featuring Naschy’s doomed werewolf character, Waldemar Daninsky (I have the paperback tie-in novel). Other horror credits for Ms Shepard include Hannah Queen Of The Vampires (1973), Rest In Pieces...
- 1/11/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Actress Patty Shepard, with nearly 50 Spanish and Italian films to her credit, has died of a heart attack in her home in Madrid on January 3rd. She was 68.
Born in South Carolina, Shepard moved to Madrid at age 18 to study philosophy and never left. She starred in a number of Paul Naschy films, including La Noche de Walpurgis (aka The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman) and Los Monstruos del Terror (aka Assignment Terror). Other horror titles to her credit includes Hannah, Queen of the Vampires; Rest in Pieces; Edge of the Axe; Slugs; El Monte de las Brujas; and My Dear Killer. ...
Born in South Carolina, Shepard moved to Madrid at age 18 to study philosophy and never left. She starred in a number of Paul Naschy films, including La Noche de Walpurgis (aka The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman) and Los Monstruos del Terror (aka Assignment Terror). Other horror titles to her credit includes Hannah, Queen of the Vampires; Rest in Pieces; Edge of the Axe; Slugs; El Monte de las Brujas; and My Dear Killer. ...
- 1/10/2013
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
Up to this point, Redemption's Blu-ray releases of the work of Jean Rollin has focused on his classical period, that is, the films from his debut in 1968 with The Rape of the Vampire through the early '80s with films like The Living Dead Girl. The latter film pretty much serves as the line of demarcation between those films made from passion in his hungry years and the films he made in the '80s to pay the bills. Between 1983's Sadomania and 1994's Le parfum de Mathilde, Rollin mostly served as a hired gun making sex films; some classy and some not so classy. It wasn't until 1997 that he was able to make something that resembled the films for which he's known best; that...
- 9/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
With the second wave of Jean Rollin Blu-ray releases from Redemption/Kino on May 29th, I get to resume this series, and that makes me smile. The first of the discs hitting store shelves next Tuesday is Rollin's debut feature, The Rape of the Vampire (Le viol du vampire). This is completely unlike anything else in his oeuvre, and yet representative of his obsessions all at the same time. The film is told in thematically interwoven short stories that, narratively, don't make a whole lot of sense. However, this film was mainly about Rollin getting his sea-legs, and it is apparent within a few minutes of the opening credits that the audience is in for something unique.Attempting a plot synopsis for The Rape of the...
- 5/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Jean Rollin "was a double outsider," argues Dave Kehr in the New York Times, "a filmmaker drawn to the fantastique in a country that had a limited tradition of genre filmmaking as well as a proud tradition of Cartesian rationalism that discouraged explorations of the supernatural. What France did offer, however, was a thriving interest in eroticism, and when Rollin was finally able to make his first feature, The Rape of the Vampire (1968), he did so by combining his childhood fascination with American cliffhanger serials and early-20th-century French fantasists like Gaston Leroux (author of The Phantom of the Opera) with gauzy nudes and exotic couplings." The British company Redemption is "collaborating with Kino International to release handsomely remastered Blu-rays, taken from the original camera negatives, of five key Rollin titles: The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), The Iron Rose (1973), Lips of Blood (1975) and Fascination (1979)."
"Entering Rollin's cinematic...
"Entering Rollin's cinematic...
- 1/30/2012
- MUBI
For the horror buff, Fall is the best time of the year. The air is crisp, the leaves are falling and a feeling of death hangs on the air. Here at Sound on Sight we have some of the biggest horror fans you can find. We are continually showcasing the best of genre cinema, so we’ve decided to put our horror knowledge and passion to the test in a horror watching contest. Each week in October, Ricky D, James Merolla and Justine Smith will post a list of the horror films they have watched. By the end of the month, the person who has seen the most films wins. Prize Tbd.
Ricky D (15 Viewings) Total of 29 Viewings
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Thirst (1979)
Directed by Rod Hardy
The film is best described as one long dream sequence with nods to David Cronenberg, Rosemary’s Baby and perhaps even Solyent Green. Thirst features some superb in-camera visual effects,...
Ricky D (15 Viewings) Total of 29 Viewings
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Thirst (1979)
Directed by Rod Hardy
The film is best described as one long dream sequence with nods to David Cronenberg, Rosemary’s Baby and perhaps even Solyent Green. Thirst features some superb in-camera visual effects,...
- 10/11/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Twitch will be on the scene at this year's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia and one of the programs sets out to honor past and present genre filmmakers as well as present a thorough program of films complete with some great retro screenings of familiar titles. Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi will receive the Nosferatu Award for his lifelong career devoted to the fantastic genre. French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010) will have a place of honor at Brigadoon along with screenings of Le Viol du Vampire (1967) or Les Raisons de la Mort (1978), the recovery of his interesting film La Nuit des Horloges (2007), and the premiere of his final movie La Masque de la Méduse (2010)Just this program alone, only a part of the entire Sitges festival,...
- 9/29/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Tremors? Nightbreed? Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat? 976-evil? Are all on the list this year. And though there were not huge horror wins in sound editing through screenplays, the Technical Awards never cease to bring out the horror veterans. Notably Tim Drnec who contributed to such VHS classics as Alien Seed, Destroyer, and Prison won for his work on “Spydercam 3D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.” An award also shared with Ben Britten Smith and Matt Davis who both also worked on Constantine.
But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.
So farewell fight fans and remember,...
But among all the winners, the Academy also honored some great loses in 2010. And though they mentioned some of our heroes, Dennis Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong), they did not mention Zelda Rubinstein or Corey Haim. But we will in this last section and the others lost to us last year.
So farewell fight fans and remember,...
- 3/13/2011
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
"Fangoria has learned of the passing of beloved French erotic-horror filmmaker Jean Rollin. The director died last night, after a long illness. He was 72. Fans of European genre films, especially those coming out of the free-thinking 1970s, are no doubt aware of the work of Rollin — a talented, gentle poet of sensual horror, a man who made personal, lush and haunting works that were often ghettoized alongside the efforts of some of his more crass contemporaries and yet almost always offered something more, something richer and more melancholy."
"Rollin's movies frequently tell conventional horror stories," wrote James Newman for Images in 2000. "The Shiver of the Vampires, for example, gives us one of the most familiar of all horror plots: a newlywed couple spends an evening at a castle and discovers it is crawling with vampires. But Rollin tells his stories in the most unconventional of ways. In Shiver, the vampires...
"Rollin's movies frequently tell conventional horror stories," wrote James Newman for Images in 2000. "The Shiver of the Vampires, for example, gives us one of the most familiar of all horror plots: a newlywed couple spends an evening at a castle and discovers it is crawling with vampires. But Rollin tells his stories in the most unconventional of ways. In Shiver, the vampires...
- 12/17/2010
- MUBI
Chicago – Vampire and werewolf fans may be counting the days until the release of “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” at the end of this month but HBO’s spectacular “True Blood” returns this weekend with an excellent start to a third season of one of the most unusual and consistently entertaining shows on television. Juggling a dozen characters and multiple plotlines, “True Blood” has arguably never been more confident or compelling as it is during the first quarter of season three that was sent for review. Strap in and prepare for a bumpy ride.
Television Rating: 4.5/5.0
“True Blood” remains the most refreshingly unpredictable show on television and, consequently, only the most cynical critic would ruin the twists and turns of even the first half of the first episode. Like last season, the new one picks up immediately after the action of the last episode. Most notably, Bill (Stephen Moyer) has been...
Television Rating: 4.5/5.0
“True Blood” remains the most refreshingly unpredictable show on television and, consequently, only the most cynical critic would ruin the twists and turns of even the first half of the first episode. Like last season, the new one picks up immediately after the action of the last episode. Most notably, Bill (Stephen Moyer) has been...
- 6/11/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Final Girl: A Few Thoughts on Feminism and Horror By Donato Totaro
One of the more important, if not groundbreaking, accounts/recuperations of the horror film from a feminist perspective is the 1993 Carol Clover's "Men, Women, and Chainsaws". One of the book's major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre, Clover points out that in most horror films, especially the slasher film, the audience, male and female, is structurally 'forced' to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway.) So while the narratively dominant killer's subjective point of view may be male within the narrative,the male viewer is still rooting for the Final Girl to overcome the killer. We can see this...
One of the more important, if not groundbreaking, accounts/recuperations of the horror film from a feminist perspective is the 1993 Carol Clover's "Men, Women, and Chainsaws". One of the book's major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre, Clover points out that in most horror films, especially the slasher film, the audience, male and female, is structurally 'forced' to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway.) So while the narratively dominant killer's subjective point of view may be male within the narrative,the male viewer is still rooting for the Final Girl to overcome the killer. We can see this...
- 12/21/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Alan Ball's Southern Gothic sanguine potboiler, "True Blood", the HBO series that hearkens a bit of "Dark Shadows" and a smidge of "Twilight," is a fertile ground for real life romance. Lead actors Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin, who play Bill and Sookie respectively, are engaged. They kept their romance on the down low, until around Comic Con time when they sat together in panel. Now, the heartthrob bad boy Vampire of the series, Eric, played to the hilt by Alexander Skarsgard, is allegedly dating his guest starring Queen of the Vampires, Evan Rachel Wood. Website Lainey_Gossip got photographic evidence and a source who blabbed the couple were spotted all over New Orleans, hand in hand. Lainey claims...
- 9/8/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The moment we had all been waiting for finally happened last night: Evan Rachel Wood brought her dark sex appeal to True Blood. I might get burned at the stake or torn into by maenads for saying this, but what they did with Sophie-Ann Queen of the Vampires was a Snorefest from Snoozerville.
Evan really wasn’t given a lot to work with but before I get to the bad stuff, the one thing they did right was make her sexy. If Sophie-Ann wanted to take a chug of femoral blood from me, I’d tell her to sharpen her teeth and put on her best bedazzled bib.
It’s a shame, but sexiness couldn’t save the lame storyline they gave to her character this episode.
First, I must ask, of all games to play, why Yahtzee? It has to be one of the most boring games to ever be played,...
Evan really wasn’t given a lot to work with but before I get to the bad stuff, the one thing they did right was make her sexy. If Sophie-Ann wanted to take a chug of femoral blood from me, I’d tell her to sharpen her teeth and put on her best bedazzled bib.
It’s a shame, but sexiness couldn’t save the lame storyline they gave to her character this episode.
First, I must ask, of all games to play, why Yahtzee? It has to be one of the most boring games to ever be played,...
- 8/31/2009
- by Stubbs
- AfterEllen.com
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