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Femmes Fatales:

Deadly dames and murderous man-eaters

issue sixty To mark the restoration of Otto Preminger’s magnificent Laura, we celebrate femmes fatales, including Peggy Cummins’s gutsy bank robber in Gun Crazy and Barbara Stanwyck’s sassy social climber in Baby Face. We have a feature on female action heroines and a Comic Strip on Twin Peaks temptresses while Reel Sounds is enthused by a wild jazz scene in The Phantom Lady and in Alter Ego Katy Darby is Bridget Gregory in The Last Seduction.

New cinema releases include the intelligent, creepy cult victim tale Martha Marcy May Marlene, the excellent James Ellroy-scripted LA crime thriller Rampart, Polanski’s ferociously funny middle-class satire Carnage, and Cronenberg’s disastrous A Dangerous Method. And we have a feature on doyenne of lesbian cinema Barbara Hammer, who is the subject of a retrospective at Tate Modern.

In the DVDs, we review 70s Vietnam vet vigilante drama Rolling Thunder and Bulgarian neo-noir Zift, and to give context to the latter’s interest in bodily waste, we have an article on toilet scenes in cinema.

In Short Cuts, we review the screening of Swedish feminist porn shorts Dirty Diaries at the London Short Film Festival while Cine Lit peruses the latest film books. In the Film Jukebox, soulful, dreamy chamber popsters The Tindersticks pick their favourite films.

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Lair of the White Worm

March 14: Russell Forever - The Lair of the White Worm + Talk

Electric Sheep and Strange Attractor are proud to present a rare outing for this unjustly neglected horror romp from the late Ken Russell as part of Russell Forever, a tribute to the director organised by the good people of Scala Forever. Plus talk with BFI archive curators and Flipside programmers Vic Pratt and Will Fowler and a specially filmed video interview with eminent fantasy and horror film reporter and FrightFest head honcho Alan Jones about his experience on the set of The Lair of the White Worm.

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Femmes Fatales: To mark the restoration of Otto Preminger’s magnificent Laura, we celebrate femmes fatales, including Peggy Cummins’s gutsy bank robber in Gun Crazy and Barbara Stanwyck’s sassy social climber in Baby Face. We have a feature on female action heroines and a Comic Strip on Twin Peaks temptresses while Reel Sounds is enthused by a wild jazz scene in The Phantom Lady and in Alter Ego Katy Darby is Bridget Gregory in The Last Seduction.

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Deadly Angel Faces: A discussion on femmes fatales, including the heroines of Laura (1944), Baby Face (1933) and Gun Crazy (1950), with writer and filmmaker Nicola Woodham and former Plan B editor and musician Frances Morgan, hosted by Virginie Sélavy - Friday 17 Feb, 5-5:30pm, Resonance 104.4 FM.

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Win a pair of tickets to a screening of Otto Preminger's noir masterpiece Laura at BFI Southbank, courtesy of the BFI.

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