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Thursday, February 2, 2012

(CONTEST CLOSED) Win a Free Copy of Finders Keepers New Jean Rollin Limited Cassette Release!

***A great big congratulations to Derek Hill for correctly answering the questions. Enjoy the collection Derek and thanks for participating!***


The great team over at Finders Keepers Records recently announced that their next release in their Jean Rollin soundtrack series will be the scores for Requiem for a Vampire and Fascination! While the CD and vinyl versions will come out in March, Finders Keepers have just released a special cassette of the scores that is limited to just 200 copies and I have one to give-away here. These hand-numbered editions are extremely cool, and will be wildly collectible, and I appreciate my friends over at Finders Keepers for supplying me an extra to give to one of my lucky readers here. Before we get to the contest details, take a moment and head over to Finders Keepers for more information about this exciting release and, if you can, drop them a line to let them know how much we appreciate these Jean Rollin releases!

Doing giveaways here are a bit tricky because I know most of my readers are Rollin devotees, a fact that makes a screenshot or trivia challenge difficult. So, I thought I would attempt a challenge that focuses on a couple of films that have some very loose connections with Rollin. It might still be super-simple but hell the main thing I am trying to do is get this tape to another fan. So okay, be the first to leave a comment with the correct answers to the following and you win the tape! After I announce the winner, you will just need to email me your address and I will ship the tape to you...that's it and now here we go:

Here is a still from a 1971 French film that has often been called very Rollinesque, although he had nothing to do with it. Name the film.



This 2001 American film was set in the late sixties and had a number of striking film references including a humorous nod to a director of Rollin-like erotic vampire films. Name the film.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

First-Time Viewings (January, 2012)


January turned out to be the best month I have had in quite awhile with each week bringing good, and sometimes surprising, news. Fingers crossed that February and the rest of 2012 continues the good-luck streak.
I also had a fairly good month movie-watching wise, with the exception of just a couple of clunkers coming into view. The best older-films I saw for the first time this past month were Bo Arne Vibenius' insane Breaking Point, Radley Metzger's brilliant Naked Came the Stranger, Gus Van Sant's haunting Paranoid Park, Dario Argento's shot-for-television The Tram and Dennis Gansel's exciting vampire thriller We Are the Night.
I also caught up with a few more 2011 releases with the best being Alexander Payne's touching The Descendants, Roman Polanski's ferocious Carnage and the Tomas Alfredson's engrossing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (give that bloody Oscar to Oldman please!)
As for 2012 releases. I loved Soderbergh's thrilling and inventive Haywire, dug Mark Wahlberg's no BS genre flick Contraband and was bored by The Devil Inside.
Here's are the full lists and, as usual, consider anything with a 3 or more star rating as a recommendation.

2012 Films:

The Devil Inside **
Haywire ****1/2
Contraband ***1/2


2011 Films:

Carnage ****1/2
The Descendants ****1/2
Mission Impossible 4 ***1/2
Red State ****
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ****1/2


Older Films:

Adrift ****
Breaking Point ****1/2
His Way ****
Il vicino di casa (The Neighbor) ****
Just the Two of Us **
Kurt & Courtney ***1/2
Misty ***1/2
Molly (1977) ***
Naked Came the Stranger ****1/2
Paranoid Park ****1/2
Psychopathia Sexualis ****
Remember Me ***1/2
Tentacles *
The Initiation ***
The Nesting ***
The Tram ****1/2
We Are the Night ****
World's Greatest Dad ***
You Can't Run Away From It **1/2

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