Remember how kc’s blog started with a discussion of vampires? (Ok, so it was partly at my insistance.) Well nobody has talked about the poor creatures ever since. So this being a film blog and all, I thought I bring this site to your attention. What can’t you find out there somewhere on the internet? I don’t think I can help out in the search for “killer goth garb”, but do you think we could invent a cocktail that she could drink while wearing it?
http://www.sistersofblood.com/?cat=2
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Interesting site! I've never seen "The Hunger," though I've always meant to.
"The Hunger" rules. Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon are lovers in it. Catherine pulls that old vampire trick where you get a girl to spill some wine on herself so she has to take off her shirt to wash it. Then you start making out, bite her on the neck — and boom! — she's undead.
Plus, the opening song, "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus rocks! And it's played against this very hip '80s setting with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie taking a couple home for a foursome (and then pulling some old vampire tricks).
Ricky, vampires don't drink alcohol.
But, if they did, I would suggest something with blood oranges. Or perhaps a Bloody Mary with Type O negative and a celery stick.
Oh right. They have a rather strict diet. So we just need a drink that looks good. They can hold that looking deadly while they scope out the next mark.
Well, speaking of the undead, does anyone have any thoughts on what the best vampire movie ever made is?
"Catherine pulls that old vampire trick where you get a girl to spill some wine on herself so she has to take off her shirt to wash it."
Hehe ... is that just a vampire trick?
Also, I love Catherine Deneuve. "Belle de Jour" would be a fun film pick. Somebody could tell me what a "pearl" is.
I definitely haven't seen enough vampire movies to commit to a best. The "Dracula" with Winona Ryder was all right.
I liked "The Lost Boys" -- that was fun. I'm hesitant to lavish praise on it since the Coreys starred in it.
I haven't seen anything with Bela Lugosi.
I don't think I was able to sit through the movie version of "Salem's Lot," but Stephen King's novel is my favorite vampire book, even more so than "Dracula."
Ooh, I did not like the Winona Ryder Dracula, partly because I had just read Bram Stoker's "Dracula," and I was very excited about the book.
I loved "Lost Boys"!
I sort of liked "Interview with the Vampire," even though I'm NOT a Tom Cruise fan.
And I like those old-timey Count Dracula movies set in Transylvania.
"The Hunger" is sort of cheesy in places, but the cast is so great and the atmosphere so awesome. Deneuve and Bowie live in this magnificent New York mansion and they both teach classical music by day and feed by night.
Is Belle de Jour the one where she's a housewife/hooker? And she has a tryst with some woman? I don't remember anything about a pearl. Was that something sexual?
Deneuve doesn't have a tryst with a woman ... but at one point her madame refers to her as a "pearl" and makes some kind of gesture like she's threading a pearl on a string. I've always wondered what that meant.
If you ever wondered if was possible for a gothic movie to be over-the-top, then “Bram Stroker’s Dracula” answered that with a resounding yes. That film is a mess. Anthony Hopkins had his moments, though.
“Lost Boys” was a good take on the idea, I liked that one too. And I’m with kc on “Interview with the Vampire”. I expected Cruise to ruin it, but it came out better than I thought it would. But then Neil Jordan is an accomplished filmmaker. “Interview” was right after “The Crying Game” and right before “Michael Collins” which was a fine role for Liam Neeson.
Ok, have you seen Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu the Vampyre” with Klaus Kinski? Now there is a vampire movie for you. By the way, if you are interested in Herzog, there is a good appreciation of him in the December “Harper’s”.
"Nosferatu" is the one I want to see.
I don't like Winona Ryder, but I didn't remember that "Dracula" being so bad. I think there was a good romantic storyline that kept it going.
Maybe I'm mixing it up with "The Age of Innocence."
Ditto on "Interview with the Vampire." I liked that a lot.
I’ve just started watching Luis Bunuel. I saw “The Diary of a Chambermaid” and was disappointed. I think I’ll see Renoir’s version of that. I’m not going to give up on Bunuel just yet. In fact, “Belle de Jour” is somewhere in my Netflix queue.
“The Age of Innocence” was a surprising choice for Scorsese. This was another case where the movie came out better than I figured it would. It had some problems, though. The one I remember most distinctly was an annoying use of voiceover. If you have to quote at length from the book, then just admit that Wharton’s work is beyond you and go make a different movie.
I liked Bunuel's better than Renoir's. But Paulette Goddard is no Jeanne Moreau. Bunuel's ending is definitely jarring.
You are right about Jeanne Moreau—I want to see more of her. But more than the ending bothered me. The movie presented everything in a non-stylized “naturalistic” mode. But many of the characters absolutely lacked motivation for their actions, particularly Moreau’s. I thought the outdoor shots were beautiful, and the use of a winter setting provided an appropriately compressed emotional tone. But that very wide angle lens was a mistake indoors. The movie is full of panning shots where doorframes bend to and fro as the camera swings by. At the very least he should have used a stationary camera. Better still would have been to shoot in a studio and move that camera back about thirty feet so you could use a longer lens.
I thought Celestine was shopping for a rich husband or lover, but lust overtook her common sense and fears regarding the chauffeur.
I'll try to see it again through the lens of a camera. I think the shot of the rabbit running and caught is both beautiful and creepy.
Well since I tossed Klaus Kinski into this thread, I thought I’d mention that I just watched one of the best ever spaghetti westerns, Sergio Corbucci’s “The Great Science”. The madman Kinski has a perfect role where he plays a bounty hunter with the suitable name of “Loco”. Soft spoken and deeply evil.
Wow. I have never seen a Klaus Kinski film. I'll have to put "Nosferatu" on my must-see list.
He was in several of Werner Herzog’s films although the two were known for having spectacular fights. He also was in many of the spaghetti westerns. Oh, the Corbucci film is really titled “The Great Silence”. I don’t know how I managed to type “science” except that I use that word more.
“Fitzcarraldo” is one of Herzog’s better known movies. It has Kinski playing a dreamer—a mad dreamer.
The Harper’s piece got me interested in looking into some of Herzog’s documentary work. I need to see what is available.
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