Tag: Disturbing Cinema

• Park Chan-Wook’s THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) Event and Film Review – Presented by Dead Duck Film Club, Nottingham

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  By Samuel Leary THE EVENT On January 27th, I was lucky enough to attend Dead Duck Film Club’s screening of Park Chan-Wook’s beloved modern classic, The Handmaiden (2016), at Savoy Cinema in Nottingham. Following their Dead Duck Cult Film Festival in November (for which I previously wrote an article ) and a screening of Let…

  

• ‘The Decade Taste Forgot’ – An Analysis of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

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  by Billy Butler (Sister Jeanne – played by Vanessa Redgrave – at the feet of Oliver Reed’s Urbain Grandier in a religious vision reminiscent of Mary Magdalene at Jesus’ feet. The Devils, 1971, Dir. Ken Russell) Film is a powerful medium. It has the ability to affect our lives – the power to inspire us,…