Roald Dahl’s marvelous horror thriller for children (the ones ready for it) knows exactly what it is and doesn’t soft-pedal the scary stuff. Horrible (but sexy) witches plot the wholesale destruction of Hansels and Gretels everywhere, and the only kid that can stop them has been changed into a mouse. Nicolas Roeg runs wild with Dahl’s imaginative, refreshingly un-pc book; the usual softening touches are skipped in favor of unadulterated scarifying Fun. It couldn’t be better directed; we wish that Roeg had been able to create a dozen such outrageous fantasies. Star Anjelica Huston is an amazing Grand High Witch, with Mai Zetterling, Anne Lambton and Jane Horrocks providing able witchy support. Recommended!
The Witches
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date August 20, 2019 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Paterson, Brenda Blethyn, Charlie Potter, Jim Carter,...
The Witches
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date August 20, 2019 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Paterson, Brenda Blethyn, Charlie Potter, Jim Carter,...
- 8/24/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Sally Potter doesn't buy the dictum about how all you need to make a film is a girl and a gun. In the opening song for her 1983 debut feature The Gold Diggers, singing in tones that recall those of Dagmar Krause, Potter sings of violence (particularly male-perpetrated violence) as manifested in both film and literature, and how it messes with her head, and pleads, "Please give me back my pleasure!"
In its resolutely non-narrative way, and even with its convoluted dialogues involving the nature of capital and alienated labor, The Gold Diggers is, on at least one level, all about a feminist re-claiming of pleasure. But pleasure doesn't have to be soft, or undemanding. Here it is most definitely found in the awe-inspiringly austere landscapes captured in fabulous black and white by Potter and Babette Mangold Mangolte—the ground through which the film's titular diggers relentlessly toil, seeking the element...
In its resolutely non-narrative way, and even with its convoluted dialogues involving the nature of capital and alienated labor, The Gold Diggers is, on at least one level, all about a feminist re-claiming of pleasure. But pleasure doesn't have to be soft, or undemanding. Here it is most definitely found in the awe-inspiringly austere landscapes captured in fabulous black and white by Potter and Babette Mangold Mangolte—the ground through which the film's titular diggers relentlessly toil, seeking the element...
- 3/9/2010
- MUBI
Sally Potter doesn't buy the dictum about how all you need to make a film is a girl and a gun. In the opening song for her 1983 debut feature The Gold Diggers, singing in tones that recall those of Dagmar Krause, Potter sings of violence (particularly male-perpetrated violence) as manifested in both film and literature, and how it messes with her head, and pleads, "Please give me back my pleasure!"
In its resolutely non-narrative way, and even with its convoluted dialogues involving the nature of capital and alienated labor, The Gold Diggers is, on at least one level, all about a feminist re-claiming of pleasure. But pleasure doesn't have to be soft, or undemanding. Here it is most definitely found in the awe-inspiringly austere landscapes captured in fabulous black and white by Potter and Babette Mangold Mangolte—the ground through which the film's titular diggers relentlessly toil, seeking the element...
In its resolutely non-narrative way, and even with its convoluted dialogues involving the nature of capital and alienated labor, The Gold Diggers is, on at least one level, all about a feminist re-claiming of pleasure. But pleasure doesn't have to be soft, or undemanding. Here it is most definitely found in the awe-inspiringly austere landscapes captured in fabulous black and white by Potter and Babette Mangold Mangolte—the ground through which the film's titular diggers relentlessly toil, seeking the element...
- 3/9/2010
- MUBI
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