Daughter of Horror + Twin Peaks: The Return - Part 8 - « Gotta Light? »
Dementia
John Parker
- 1955
- USA
- Horror
- 1h01mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Black and white
Brand new master
A young woman nicknamed «The Gamin» wakes with a start from a nightmare. Armed with a knife, she ventures into the suffocating streets of Venice, a seedy district of Los Angeles.
In under an hour, John Parker orchestrates a fascinating descent into Hell, halfway between film noir and German expressionism, supported by superb photography and virtuoso editing. Without a line of dialogue, a pure sensory trip exploring its heroine’s psyche, Dementia transcends an already brilliant stylistic exercise with its visceral approach and the magnetic presence of its actors, notably Bruno VeSota, seen in Ed Wood’s work. By drawing inspiration from a dream recounted by his secretary, the unknown John Parker likely had no idea he was about to deliver one of the finest films on universal fear and the madness lurking in the heart of the city.
Credits
- With : Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Angelo Rossitto, Shelley Berman...
- Screenplay : John Parker
- Photography : William C. Thompson
- Editing : Joseph Gluck
- Music by : George Antheil, Shorty Rogers
- Production : John Parker, Ben Roseman, Bruno VeSota
Twin Peaks: The Return - Part 8 - « Gotta Light ? »
David Lynch
- 2017
- USA
- Horror
- 58mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Black and white
As Cooper’s evil doppelganger is left for dead, a flashback to 1945 takes us to the first nuclear test in New Mexico, that appears to cause the irruption of an evil force in the world.
Twenty five years after revolutionizing television with Mark Frost, David Lynch returned to offer the sequel to to Twin Peaks, sparking as much mistrust as excitement. Television and the world at large were not ready for such a deflagration, the ultimate masterpiece of an artist who, till his ultimate image, never ceased to reinvent his own language, making this maybe the peak of his artwork. With this eighth episode, he signs a terrifying, prophetic and surrealistic self standing medium length film; Eraserhead’s younger sibling. Almost ten years later, we still haven’t recovered.
Credits
- With : Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Berger, Robert Broski, Cullen Douglas, Erica Eynon...
- Screenplay : David Lynch
- Photography : Peter Deming
- Editing : Duwayne Dunham
- Music by : Angelo Badalamenti
- Production : Mark Frost, David Lynch
Screenings
09/09 • 21h30 • Screen 500
Presented by Nils Bouaziz & Miliani Benzerfa
