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Femmes Fatales

Deadly dames and murderous man-eaters

Reviews:

  • Laura: A detective’s obsession with a dead woman
  • Baby Face: Barbara Stanwyck seduces her way up
  • Gun Crazy: Deadly is the female in a man’s world
  • Les Diaboliques: A murderous female double act
  • The Killers: Stoic Burt Lancaster undone by dangerous Ava Gardner
  • Female Convict Scorpion: The scourge of male authority
  • Sex and Fury: Gambling, sword-fighting female yakuza

Articles:

Comic Strip Review:

  • Twin Peaks

Reel Sounds:

  • Do you like jive? Robert Siodmak’s Phantom Lady

Radio:

Theme image - February 2012

Illustration by T. Davidsohn

FAKE DOCUMENTARIES
Political satire, media manipulation, horror trickery

2011 IN FILM
The year’s highlights and low points

ECO SCI-FI
Dead forests, mutant animals, food riots

TWISTED ROMANCE
Murderous tenderness, destructive desires, awkward love

THE ART THEATRE GUILD
The creative explosion of Japanese independent cinema in the 1960s

APOCALYPSE NOW
Deserted cities, sinister machines, survivalist dogs

SECRET SOCIETIES
Freemasons, religious cults, suicide clubs and spy organisations

ALIENS
Spaced out pop stars, extra-terrestrials and foreign organisms

WOMEN IN HORROR
Scream queens, she-devils and scare mistresses

CONFESSIONS
Tricky revelations, poetic admissions and Catholic guilt

BITTERNESS
Fallen Women, Sour Love and Toxic Memories

FREEZE
Iced up Santa, freeze frames, Antarctic creatures

WOMEN ON THE VERGE
Psychotic spinsters, possessed housewives, troubled temptresses

FUTURISTIC CITIES
Cinematic visions of metropolises to come

PROPAGANDA
Revolutionary Soviets, Nazi bombast, apolitical America

OUTLANDISH WESTERNS
A wild bunch of demented gunslingers, mystic outlaws and revolutionary bandidos

CONFINED SPACES
From tanks to locked rooms and futuristic cubes

MOMMA'S BOYS (AND GIRLS)
The deviant offspring of excessively loving mothers

BLOODY BALLET
Bewitched ballerinas, dancing vampires and enchanted pumps

I FOUGHT THE LAW
Gangsters, thieves, bikers and banned filmmakers: what makes a cinematic outlaw?

DEVIL IN THE BLOOD
From Christic masochism to satanic cruelty: religious extremes on film

SHÔHEI IMAMURA
The Cultural Anthropologist

ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Metaphysical landscapes, mystical visions, melancholy longings

DARIO ARGENTO
The lush colours of terror

JIM THOMPSON
Mean men, hellish women, savage minds and corrupted souls

ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
Messiahs, midgets and metaphysical laughter

GUY MADDIN
The poetic, macabre and playful visions of a wonderfully twisted mind