Better times by Kat Art. Evil Monito. Under-rated Film Archive: Lilith (1964) Genre HoundFilm Opinion In celebration of the success of recent films that explore themes related to madness and distorted reality (Shutter Island, Alice in Wonderland), I’d like to recommend a vintage “undiscovered” gem titled Lilith from 1964.
The film features a brilliant, haunting performance by Jean Seberg and a strange, subdued turn by a very young Warren Beatty. The last film of Robert Rossen’s career is thought by some to be a misfire while others regard it as a misunderstood masterpiece. In my opinion it is neither. What Lilith is is a complex and at times convoluted yet utterly fascinating character study masquerading as a thriller.
Beatty plays Vincent Bruce, a young war veteran, who takes a job in his hometown as an occupational therapist at a private mental institution for the wealthy. Lilith is one of those flawed films that offer strange delights amid awkward transitions from scene to scene. MUBI. The MUBI Film Forum. Notebook. Masterpieces you must have seen / Part 1. "The Masters" Lilith. The Forgotten: Never Explain a Mystery, Never Wake a Sleepwalker on Notebook. At around the time that the Vicomte de Noailles was dabbling in film finance with Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet and Buñuel's L'Age d'Or, another aristocrat, the Belgian duke Henri D'Ursel, adopted a pseudonym to direct and star in La perle (1929), a short surrealist fantasia owing much to the twin influences of Murnau's Nosferatu and Feuillade's Les vampires.
What is the 21st Century?: Revising the Dictionary on Notebook. Above: A shot from David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) being re-framed in Adobe After Effects.
Once little more than a tech buzzword, "workflow" has become an integral concept of contemporary filmmaking. Nuts-and-bolts film forums are thick with workflow tips, charts, and discussions. Industry sites run in-depth interviews with workflow gurus. Workflow is, in short, a key part of the ongoing conversation—between filmmakers, studios, and filmmaking technology companies—about how movies can and should be made. The term—which has its origins in software and business—covers the process (or series of processes) a production uses to organize digital information and turn it into editable and then projectable material. The Forgotten: The Last Trick on Notebook. Pierre Etaix is much on my mind, you could say, since I've just written about 9,000 words on him (to be trimmed down considerably, I assure you) for the forthcoming Criterion Collection box set of his cinematic works.
Though his last film for the cinema (as director: he has continued to act in films such as Micmacs and Le Havre), Etaix had a brief burst of activity directing for TV in the 1980s, which included one feature, L'âge de Monsieur est avancé, a filmed play which bursts its bounds and includes the audience and stagehand in the drama. It looks delightful, but as my French is at the level of your average two-year-old (and not even a French two-year-old), I can't really write about it. Like Méliès, Etaix is a magician and actor as well as a filmmaker (he used his prestidigitatory skills swiping wallets in Bresson's Pickpocket).
The Forgotten is a regular Thursday column by David Cairns, author of Shadowplay. The Forgotten: The Fantomas Menace on Notebook. "Fantômas.
" "What did you say? " "I said: Fantômas. " "And what does that mean? " "Nothing. . . . Everything! " The Forgotten: Mysterioso on Notebook. Louis Feuillade's great serials of the nineteen-teens (Fantomas, Les Vampires etc) inspired numerous imitations, sequels and parodies: they still lurk behind the makeshift digital scenery of the modern action film, making threatening shadows and cackling mutely.
I've long been fascinated by the followers of Fantomas—and how I long to see Zigomar (a.k.a. Zigomar the Eelskin, 1911), directed by somebody rejoicing in the name of Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, which actually predates the screen adaptation of Allain & Souvestre's master-criminal. The slippery Zigomar even manages a spectacular escape from the electric chair itself, reverse-rappeling into the ceiling at the crucial moment. Shampoo. Lists featuring Shampoo. Lists featuring Lilith. Reviews of Lilith. LILITH (1964) Jean Seberg loved her part, (even if Beatty didn’t), but the film failed at the box office:
Watch Lilith Online. GREAT FEMALE PERFORMANCES. Aaron G. 9May12 Great list.
How about Anna Magnani in Mamma Roma? Sharmila Tagore in Devi (among others)? Bijoux Alexanderplatz 26Mar11. Good Performances in Subpar films. In Lilith, Beatty’s character and Fonda’s character are after the same girl, it would be illogical for their characters to have chemistry.
I don’t understand what you mean in regard to “Beatty couldn’t keep up with Peter Fonda’s dialogue.”
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