daughters of darkness ( in france , les lèvres rouges , and in belgium , le rouge aux lèvres , both literally translated as the red lips ; in dutch , dorst naar bloed , meaning " blood thirst " ) is a 1971 belgian horror film ( with dialogue in english ) , directed by harry kümel .

it is an erotic vampire film .

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daughters of darkness ( night world , # 2 ) by l . j . smith
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shock talks to french canadian actress danielle ouimet about her role in 1971’s daughters of darkness .
in this interview , ouimet tells tales about her life in the opulent world of daughters of darkness .
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these are the daughters of darkness . . . they are waiting for you - they thrive on blood
she ' s a lesbian and she gets scissor happy . she goes both ways hence daughters of darkness .
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daughter of darkness ( kindred , # 1 ) by v . c . andrews
na - na - na - na - na na - na - na - na - na we came to battle baby we came to win the war we won’t surrender till we get what we ' re lookin for we ' re blowing out our speakers there goes the neighbourhood a little scissor happy little misunderstood we can turn you on or we will turn on you daughters of darkness sisters insane a little evil goes a long , long way we stand together no we ' re not afraid we ' ll live forever daughters of darkness daughters of darkness na - na - na - na - na na - na - na - na - na daughters of darkness na - na - na - na - na na - na - na - na - na we ' re all survivors somehow we just broke out the pack and i don ' t need no dogtag my name is on my back we can turn you on or we can turn on you daughters of darkness sisters insane a little evil goes a long , long way we stand together no we ' re not afraid we ' ll live forever daughters of darkness daughters of darkness na - na - na - na - na na - na - na - na - na daughters of darkness na - na - na - na - na na - na - na - na - na never down never out playing hard living loud keeping up with the boys making out making noise and you better get me home before the sun comes up . . . up . . . up daughters of darkness sisters insane a little evil goes a long , long way we stand together no we ' re not afraid we ' ll live forever daughters of darkness daughters of darkness na - na - na - na - na na - na - na - na - na daughters of darkness na - na - na - na - na na - na - na - na - na we’re the daughters of darkness na - na - na - na - na na - na - na - na - na daughters of darkness
” and he and his fallen angels as “principalities…powers…rulers of the darkness of this age . . spiritual hosts of wickedness
daughters of darkness is the second book in the night world series by bestselling author l . j . smith . it was first published in august 1996 .
in 1971 , belgian filmmaker harry kümel brought the world the lesbian vampire cult classic daughters of darkness . with that film ' s fiftieth anniversary fast approaching , kümel gearing up to go into production on a sequel to daughters that will be titled
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hall , one of four daughters , moved to paris to pursue her modelling career aged just 16 .
3 . in his church he would preach , exposing the works of darkness , after which he started binding demons .
the assistance of the powers of darkness , to establish new secret societies that would appear harmless so to attract young people and more church goers .
when i was a little girl , daddy told me never to fear the dark . “we exist because of the darkness , ” he told me . “all of you are daughters of darkness . ” beloved bestselling author v . c . andrews’s passion for vampires comes to spellbinding life in a long - awaited novel of dark desires as all - consuming—and forbidden—as in flowers in the attic . one night , with the sound of a you
an undying procession of sons of dracula and daughters of darkness has animated the horror film genre from the beginning . indeed , in this pioneering exploration of the cinema of fear , barry keith grant and twenty other film critics posit that horror is always rooted in gender , particularly in anxieties about sexual difference and gender politics .
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some weeks ago , i used my shock treatment column to discuss and appreciate a picture i have long considered a masterpiece of erotic , european fantastique cinema , the sensual 1971 vampire melodrama - cum - dark - satire daughters of darkness ( aka les levres rouges ) .
my parents had six daughters and then i was born . after me was another daughter and another son .
creon appears in order to abduct oedipus , but , proving unsuccessful , he kidnaps antigone and ismene instead . theseus promises oedipus that he will get his daughters back . theseus does in fact return with oedipus’s daughters shortly .
daughters of darkness is a pitch perfect exercise in mood , tone and tension and , if you ' re willing to let it work you over , it casts a slick , strange and chilly spell that sticks long after the screen has faded to red .
i saw daughters of darkness in the early nineties at the now - defunct and much - missed scala cinema in kings cross ( the london equivalent of a grindhouse theatre . they used to show double bills of warhol , waters , russ meyer , kenneth anger , etc in its heyday ) . it made a vivid impression . some of the images are seared in my brain ! hadn’t seen it in over twenty years and the hip gay bar the glory here in london recently organised a screening of it – so i finally got to re - visit daughters of darkness . what a truly great and original art movie ! they did an unusual thing at the glory : they screened daughters of darkness with no audio and the subtitles on , and the musician helen noir provided a live eerie electronic soundtrack as the film unfolded . it was mesmerising ! delphine seyrig is truly spectacular in it .
i can’t attest as to what a horror / vampire film fan makes of daughters of darkness ( my sense is that it’s too slow and lacking in scares and gore to be satisfying ) ; but everything about this movie is as suited to my tastes as a ken russell - roman polanski film festival .
“a classy genre of vampire film follows a style i call psychological high gothic . it begins in coleridge ‘s medieval christabel and its descendants , poe ‘s ligeia and james ‘s the turn of the screw . a good example is daughters of darkness , starring delphine seyrig as an elegant lesbian vampire . high gothic is abstract and ceremonious’ .
there were giants on the earth in those days , and also afterward , when the sons of god came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them .
jude speaks about the same rebellion as peter and genesis . sometime during the times of noah , angels “left their own habitation” and went after “strange flesh” , after the daughters of
of the servants of the lord , and their righteousness is of me . ”
director harry kümel talks about daughters of darkness in the excellent bbc documentary horror europa ( 2012 ) by mark gattis . he ' s the first director interviewed , and he sheds fascinating light on the reasons behind his choices for the look of the countess and the dominance of the colors red , black , and white . available on youtube here .
thid sort of behaviour is not an islamic quality or injunction . daughters are a way to paradise . may allah help us muslims to change our behaviors .
his example still carries on to this day as a legacy because my sisters and other relatives treat their daughters the same way .
4 authors will each take a different daughter born from the prince of darkness , vlad montour . ( also known as vlad the impaler , an evil villain from history )
daughters of darkness is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea that is for sure . but if you are a lover of the vampire as the erotic there is going to be some appeal . the film had a strong feminine feel to it with the female cast outnumbering the male , and the distinctly feminist portrayal of the countess . to quote from wikipedia camille paglia writes that ,
there was something that happened when man started multiplying . the “sons of god” saw the daughters of men and took wives from them . see that verse 1 puts in contrast the men and the
while the sight of jerry brought cheers , it was her daughters from her marriage to mick , georgia may and elizabeth , who almost stole the show . also in blue , they were among the bridesmaids , along with mr murdoch’s daughters grace and chloe from his marriage to third wife wendi deng .
an eye - opening article . let us go back to the time of the jahiliyah . daughters are looked down upon and buried alive upon their birth . from this article and from my observation , we are now returning to that era with the exception that daughters are not being buried alive , yet .
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murdoch , 84 , has four daughters from three marriages ; prudence , 57 , elisabeth , 47 , grace , 14 , and chloe 12 . hall , 59 , has two daughters , lizzie , 32 , and georgia , 24 , from her relationship to sir mick jagger .
shock : my goodness ! such turmoil behind the scenes of such a controlled film . looking back on daughters as both a movie and an experience , what are your thoughts ?
all of this makes
daughters of darkness
a fairly stylish adult vampire movie , and delphine seyrig ( last seen wandering about a resort hotel in
last year at marienbad
) is a most satisfactory vampire . the movie ends on a note of divine retribution , which is always nice in this sort of enterprise . the moral is , never take on a vampire with a car if all you ' ve got is a bicycle .
great blu ray release of daughters of darkness , a film that is so beautiful to look at helped by it ' s desolate seascape locations , elegant costuming & set design & wonderful cast with d . seyrig stealing every scene . blu ray also includes some interesting interviews with cast . also includes blood splattered bride as an extra that is uniqe in it ' s own demented way .
one word , wtf . let me start by saying that i picked daughter of darkness up with the expectation and acknowledgment that it would be a very weird story . i figured it was a scrungy sort of book about a vampire “daddy” who adopts daughters for retrieval purposes . meaning , the daughters picked up poor suckers ( being perverted guys looking for a one night stand ) at a club , brought them home , and handed them to the vampire for his immortal needs . sounded original enough and i needed a new read . eeeks !
a while back i collaborated with a couple of bloggers on an article called 16 unusual vampire movies where we came up with a list of vampire films that break the norm of what we’ve come to expect from a vampire film . many interesting films where mentioned on that article , amongst them daughters of darkness which i’ve only recently had the pleasure of watching , and i say “pleasure” because i really enjoyed this film ! i wasn’t expecting to , but damn it , i loved it !
. “the sons of god saw the daughters of men” , we read . who were these sons of god ? although the believers in the new testament have been given authority by believing in the lord jesus christ and in his resurrection from the dead to
book 2 of the night world series , daughters of darkness , shifts focus to a new set of characters of the secret society . relatives of james from the first book , we meet rowan , kestrel , and jade . they are three vampire sisters who snuck away from home . tired of the secret society , they want to try to live as humans out in oregon . they move into a dilapidated old home , next to mark and mary - lynette carter . as jade and mark get closer , their brother ash comes to town to bring his sisters back . of co
this topic is very important for all of us . i am a mother of three daughters . i am trying my best to educate them both morally and spiritually so they can stand on their own feet and can fight for their rights .
discouraging the christians from reading and studying the word of god , and thereby making them ignorant of their authority and of the promises of god .
it ' s not clear just how long kümel has had the idea of making a sequel in his head , but when he presented several potential projects to producer tomas leyers of the production company minds meet , the first draft of the mothers of darkness screenplay was part of the presentation . when leyers read the script it
sparked the fire immediately to work on this project .
when i was a little girl , daddy told me never to fear the dark . “we exist because of the darkness , ” he told me . “all of you are daughters of darkness . ” beloved bestselling author v . c . andrews’s passion for vampires comes to spellbinding life in a long - awaited novel of dark desires as all - consuming—and forbidden—as in flowers in the attic . one night , with the sound of a young man’s scream , high school senior lorelei discovers that her stern but loving father , who adopted lorelei and her sisters as infants , is no ordinary man . he has raised his beautiful girls for one purpose : to lure young men into their world of shadows . like her sisters , lorelei has been trained in the art of seduction and warned never to fall in love . but when she meets a handsome and charming classmate , she boldly defies her family and follows her heart—even if love is a poison . . . . dangerously enticing and deliriously intoxicating , v . c . andrews’s daughter of darkness will leave readers thirsting for more .
if confronted with the fact that khadijah , ( peace be upon her ) , wife of the prophet had only surviving daughters , and that indeed , ultimately muhammad ( peace be upon him ) had no male offspring , what does that say to this tradition ? is there not also a hadith that a person who has 7 daughters is blessed ? these things should show us the better way of equality and appreciating all things male and female .
an exotic , erotic re - working of the legend of vampire elisabeth bathor .
in daughters of darkness bathory is portrayed as a vampire , though not in the traditional way . we never see fangs , they don’t melt in the sunlight and they don’t sparkle when the moonlight hits them . no , the vampires in daughters of darkness are too ‘chic’ for that sort of thing . these vampire vixens worry more about how they’re going look and what they are going to wear before they indulge in their bloodlust . i liked that about this movie , these vampires ladies really play it cool . in a way they are closer to the way count dracula would behave in the old hammer dracula movies . you know , really polite , really pleasant , then when you’ve been lulled into a false sense of security “whamo ! ” they attack ! this elizabeth bathory as played by actress delphine seyrig , starts out like a pleasant lady , kind of sexy , kind of charming with her sultry whisper of a voice , but after a while she’ll really get under your skin ! delphine seyrig really steals the show on this film as the countess ; she’ll charm the hell out of you before you know it .
. we published it in all the dailies and all the public media . all the forces of darkness were mobilized and we were very confident that nothing was going to interrupt this meeting . in fact everything was well planned and there was no loophole .
in spite of their vast number and long history , i’m not sure i can name even five vampire movies i like . there’s andy warhol’s dracula ( 1974 ) , werner herzog’s nosferatu the vampyre ( 1979 ) , the hunger ( 1983 ) , and… ok , looks like i hit the wall at three . well , make that four ; for topping this very short list and ranking # 1 as my absolute favorite vampire movie of all time is belgian director harry kümel’s sleek , sexy , and exceedingly stylish daughters of darkness .
many converts backslide because of lack of proper follow - up . if you love jesus , take care of his lambs !
my father loved my sisters equally without any regard for their gender . he would lovingly refer to my sisters as his sons . he always said that allah had blessed him with these daughters .
this is an anthem to all girls out there ! it says on their official website , “daughters of darkness is an admission that women , like men , have their dark side . ' even with the sweetest woman in the world , you click a switch somewhere , and she’s a little bit crazy or she has her secrets , ' hale says . ' and a lot of times you see these girls let all that stuff out at our concerts , which is really gratifying . '
source : i own a bind up of books 1 , 2 and 3 in this series . cost : free gift title : daughters of darkness series : night world # 2 author : lj smith overall rating : 4 stars this one is my favourite for sure , i loved the family element of it . i really love how the sisters stuck together throughout this one , and i want to know more about ash ! i really did like how this was an almost separate story from the previous one but set within the same world .
roman catholic bishop fulton scheen used to state as his motto , that it is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness . it is so . truth , can break the cycle of fear and ignorance that holds women in bondage in all religions .
review courtesy of all things urban fantasy this whole book made me…uncomfortable . the incestuous overtones that are present throughout daughter of darkness vary from subtle to overt . it’s big time creepy , and not in the fun paranormal way that we all love . more like dracula meets sister wives . the main characters were also somewhat off - putting : daddy for the obvious reasons , lorelei for her sheep - to - the - slaughter mentality that was so naïve and worshipful of daddy that i cringed constantly when she went on and on about competing with her other sexpot sisters for the position of being daddy’s best daughter . and we can’t forget the uber boring and needy romantic interest who was declaring his undying love on the second date . there were a couple of redeeming aspects of daughter of darkness . the question of who / what daddy is and the nature of his kind along with the mystery of his daughters ( where did they all come from & what is their ‘final destiny’ ? ) was genuinely intriguing and well plotted . despite there being no love lost between me and any of these characters , i had to know how the story ended . i had some suspicions , but the last chapter was truly shocking and very v . c . andrews . if you’re a fan of the books published under the andrews name , you’ll probably like the unsettling nature of daughter of darkness , but itwasn’t for me . sexual content : a couple brief , non graphic sex scenes . discussion of incest .
chrissy peebles takes on one of the daughter ' s of vlad . this is the story of blair , his hybrid daughter .
1 . confession of the lordship of christ . 2 . confession of faith in the word , in christ and in god the father . 3 . confession of sin .
the name of jesus or the blood of jesus in the mouth of the believer sends out fire etc . the scripture says :
stylistically , daughters of darkness is a knockout , making subtle visual reference to other genre films and cinema in general . among them : hitchcock’s psycho , garbo , louise brooks , the horror tropes of f . w . murnau and tod browning , and dietrich’s von sternberg collaborations . it ' s a film so comfortable in its self - awareness that at one point a character ( the detective ) breaks the fourth wall , looks directly into the camera , and identifies the film ' s tone and wry perspective .
whether considered an arty trash film or a trashy art film ( i personally think it’s a special kind of high - style pop masterpiece ) , daughters of darkness is a great deal of campy fun . i know next to nothing about harry kümel , but were i to go by the way this film makes me feel and how it engages me with its visuals , its sharp screenplay ( credited to kümel , jean ferry , pierre druot , and manfred r . köhler ) , and seyrig’s knowing evocation of the film sirens of yesteryear ; i would say he is a man who not only loves movies but understands them . it’s evident in every frame .
this review is part of miscellaneous foreign horror week , the last of five celebrations of international horror done for our shocktober 2008 event .
condemn . this is the heritage of the servants of the lord , and their righteousness is of me , said the lord . ”
eight police motorcycles escorted three stretch limousines carrying mourners to the church ahead of the service . a procession of dozens of cars followed .
i wish i could remember what kind of theater played
daughters of darkness
when it was first released in sf in 1971 . it ' s just as likely it opened oat one of the grindhouses on market street as one of the arthouses which showed warhol and john waters movies . the silent screening you describe really sounds kind of marvelous . i have yet to see this beautiful film on a big screen , but would love to have seen it in such a unique way as you describe . it must have been mesmerizing ! since posting this piece , i ' ve become re - infatuated with seyrig and acquired several of her films that slipped by me in the past . spectacular is the word !
saw the daughters of men , that they were beautiful ; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose . and the lord said ,
my spirit shall not strive with man forever , for he is indeed flesh ; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years .
i strongly disagree with the fact that men remarry to have sons . islam allowed men to marry up to 4 wives for a reason , for instance , if his wife can ' t get pregnant . but the problem is that some men want to have sons rather than daughters . what ' s that for ? a child , whether he ' s a boy or a girl , is a gift from god , why do some think of it as a tragedy ? women are really suffering in our societies because of polygamy , and because of having daughters instead of having sons to rejoice their spouses .
having sisters and a daughters is a blessing . i was spoiled and pampered by my sisters . i miss that because allah has blessed me with three sons . i wish i had a daughter like my sisters .
she wrote : ' i was very upset when i was told about the incident that was witnessed by [ my daughters ] when the door to the room [ jessa and ben ] were in was accidentally opened .
overall i enjoyed this book . i hope that there will be a sequel to explain more of the plot . daughter of darkness was in the spirit of most v . c . andrews books . the main character was not much of a role model until the end of the book . she was meek , weak , naive , childish , and boy crazy ( instant true love ) . but , by the end of the book she had found her strength ! pro : a great amount of mystery that kept me reading the book even through all of the things that annoyed me . an original take on vampire cu
near the end of the insistently weepy “fathers and daughters , ” aunt elizabeth ( diane kruger , aged up with makeup ) tells her niece katie ( amanda seyfried ) , with a weariness that can only be cultivated by a life of disappointment , that “men , they can survive without love—but not us women . ”
i agree with you whole - heartily . we must look inside ourselves and practice the true islam and the message of prophet mohammed ( pbuh ) its odd to see the people who pray five time a day and fast but reject there wife and daughters and deem them to be
useless
, surely prophet mohammed ' s ( pbuh ) greatest asset was his wife and daughter ( bibi khatija and bibi fatima - ul zahra ) . as a society we can be more successful with the help of our wives and daughters . your essay is a step in the right direction of dialogue .
there’s a kind of predictable , to - be - expected adherence to form and structure that comes with the territory of genre films . filmmakers deviate from it at their own risk . as a movie fan , i can’t help but give historical credit to horror films in general for their vast stylistic influence on the art form , as such . but as a non - fan of vampire films , it helped a great deal that i came to daughters of darkness with little in the way of expectations and devoid of an awareness of any vampire film
traditions
i longed to see upheld . i simply hoped the film wouldn’t live up to its limp u . s . ad campaign and that cheesy title , which made the film sound like a made - for - tv movie starring donna mills and kay lenz .
to conclude therefore : when in i peter 3 : 19 we read that jesus went and preached to the spirits in prison , we should not read into it dead people living in a prison , without resurrection , and jesus going to them to preach the good news . what the word of god is speaking in i peter 3 : 19 is not about dead people but about spirits , angelic beings that are in a prison , in the tartarus , bound in everlasting chains under darkness . why ? because of what they did in the times of noah , leaving their own habitation , giving themselves over to fornication and going after “strange flesh” , after the daughters of men .
one for the goths daughters of darkness just oozes an understated gothic charm which instantly captured my heart . in a movie which my co - blogger described as ‘too arty’ for his tastes , i found that the stylistic quality of this film really made it for me , and i can see why it has become a cult favourite in recent times . directed by harry kumel this is a belgium horror affair with a strong european cast . the film was originally released in france under the title les lèvres rouges , and in belgium as le rouge aux lèvres , both which translate to ‘red lips’ , titles befitting the erotic nature of this film .
imagine living in a small town where nothing happens , and then suddenly becoming involved in something beyond your wildest dreams . welcome to mary - lynnette ' s life in * daughters of darkness * . in this book , she sees the nieces of her neighbor burying what appears to be a bagged body , and she decides to investigate . but , she gets caught . in true l . j . smith fashion , this leads to the sisters - - who are vampire - witch girls - - agreeing to form blood ties with ml and her brother , mark . it gets even more comp
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even a casual glance at the titles of actual horror movies reveals the genre ' s marked emphasis on gender . there are , to be sure , some genderless monsters—the blobs , parasites , gremlins , and so forth—but gender - specific monsters clearly predominate : weird woman ( 1944 ) and she freak ( 1966 ) ; the wolf man ( 1941 ) and the ape man ( 1943 ) ; and , of course , the legions of dracula ' s sons and daughters of darkness . in many horror movies the politics of sexual difference is immediately signaled as an issue by the title , as in bride of frankenstein ( 1935 ) , the monster and the girl ( 1941 ) , jesse james meets frankenstein ' s daughter ( 1966 ) , and jack ' s wife ( 1972 ) . think of he knows you ' re alone ( 1980 ) with a feminine pronoun instead of the masculine , and the importance of gender to the genre becomes clear .
ero guro nansensu
: the dark , disturbed grandchildren of japan ' s era of decadence .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
i believe the author made the mistake of not pointing out that this serious problem is not the result of islam ; it is due to the ignorance of islam and the adoptation of the customs and traditions of the south asian subcontinent taking precedence over islamic values .
bismillahir rahmanir raheem salaam alaykum wa ramadan mubarek . i agree with the author . a teacher of mine used to say that when we look to other cultures we should take the best from them and leave behind the bad aspects . i have been struggling with this topic for quite a while now . if it clearly says in the quran that the practice of infanticide of daughters is haram does that not indicate that , even from the start , they should be treated as equal human beings ? there is no islamic justification for the treatment of daughters in the manner described in the article . islam is supposed to improve the conditions under which we all live and to teach all of us how to better serve allah . it says the best of you is the most pious , not the best of you men is the most pious . i lead the jummah prayers to a small group of people , most of whom have come to the us from other contries . they rarely , if ever bring their wives and daughters . my wife is almost always there . i have been wanting for a long time to encourage them to bring wives and daughters , this is a new country , we need to change things now . this is not bidah , there is plenty of quran and sahih hadith to support it . this article has let me look more deeply at my own role here . i will be writing a khutbah on this topic and encouraging people to all come to our jummah . wa allahu alim .
the wider jagger family was in attendance , an indication of how close hall is to her former partner . karis jagger , sir mick ' s daughter by marsha hunt , and her two daughters were among the guests , as was his first wife , bianca jagger , and their daughter , jade .
' prostitutes , orgies , group sex - all of it ' : ex - wife of . . .
daughters of darkness tells the tale of a recently married couple who end up staying in a deserted hotel for a couple of days . unbeknownst to them , a vampire vixen by the name of elizabeth bathory checks into the hotel as well ; yup , that’s right , that elizabeth bathory ; the countess who bathed in the blood of her young female victimes so she could retain her youth forever . some reports say she killed about 650 young girls , though when she was convicted , she was only charged for 80 deaths . her similarities with the famous ‘vlad the impaler’ led to her being named ‘the blood countess’ and even ‘countess dracula’ . in reality she probably only killed these young girls out of pure sadistic pleasure , but you know how legends go , and so it wasn’t long before people started to say that she bathed in the blood of her female victims , and eventually that she drank it as well .
when islam came we woman had been given a high status in life . for allahswt knew the way daughters were treated and wifes , when a woman gave birth of a girl the husband felt ashamed and humyliated and buried it under sand and qur ' an says that was not allowed and a huge sin .
when we hear the word “confession , ” we easily think of sin . the dictionary definition of confession is :
and , of course , both families are fighting for control of bobbi kristina ' s $ 20 million inheritance .
thanks very much for giving such a true account of islamic societies now a days . unfortunately we are no better than pre - islamic arabs who use to bury their daughters alive for the shame . islam came to lay that burden off from humanity and liberate them . we need to look back and follow true islamic teachings .
thus a collection of essays on the horror film focusing specifically on issues of gender is both likely and timely . the writings gathered here provide examples of the various theoretical models and critical methods that have gained currency in the analysis of the genre . as well , they offer a balance of theoretical generalizations about the genre with close readings of particular films . collectively they include discussions of many of the important films and directors known for their work in the genre .
ouimet : no , i think thats just some of the imagination of the director and i think it was a little part of himself that made its way into the film .
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dear brother malik who wrote this article needs to make it clear that this is not traditional islam . the preference of having boys over girls is not part of islamic tradition , history of the past . islam came to abolish such abominations . for a father to have daughters , is a blessing , for muslims ; allah ( swt ) gives fathers success in the afterlife , if he raises them to obey allah , and obey them , the parents .
the thing is , sometimes you do . melodrama can have its merits when the players are good , and “fathers and daughters” is top - heavy with acting talent . the father - daughter chemistry between crowe and rogers feels natural whether they ' re hugging or fighting , and seyfried ' s expressive performance transforms a role that seems borrowed from a lifetime potboiler into something much more empathetic . brad desch ' s screenplay for “fathers and daughters” made the black list in 2012 , and director gabriele muccino ( “ seven pounds , ” “the pursuit of happyness” ) has ample experience with this sort of material . it ' s lavishly shot and styled . it ' s nice to look at .
and international production directed by belgian filmmaker harry kumel , daughters rode the then hot torrent of films that riffed on j . sheridan lefanus story carmilla and brought its suggested lesbianism to the forefront , allowing a more permissive decade to drift through exotic locations and lush interiors with equally dreamy european actresses pressing their flesh together whilst simultaneously biting and bleeding .
women , has lived for over a thousand years , and most of them searching for a man she met when she became an immortal . during all of this time , she has experienced all sorts of deaths , surviving all of them .
and men should be thankful for what the merciful lord have given them . here in singapore , we don ' t see such attitudes towards daughters , not yet but maybe in the near future . families and especially men should really dig deep and ponder upon the two above facts .
review courtesy of all things urban fantasy this whole book made me…uncomfortable . the incestuous overtones that are present throughout daughter of darkness vary from subtle to overt . it’s big time creepy , and not in the fun paranormal way that we all love . more like dracula meets sister wives . the main characters were also somewhat off - putting : daddy for the obvious reasons , lorelei for her sheep - to - the - slaughter mentality that was so naïve and worshipful of daddy that i cringed constantly when
gothic 70 ' s horror that ' s a little too methodical and calibrated to be taken seriously . a bit of atmosphere , a bit of titillation and a bit of schlock .
im a strange kind of person ; i dont believe in the supernatural at all , as some of you might already know , i think its all a lot of . . .
, 44 : executive co - chairman of 21st century fox , rupert murdoch ' s film and television empire . one of the most laid - back members of the murdoch clan .
what else would you expect from the husbands of a region where 70 % are can ' t read , where 99 % of the people don ' t understand the meaning of quran and of course never apply the religion in real life situations .
the devil would either encourage you to believe that he is a myth or simple evil thoughts , or would make you see more of his powers and less of the powers of god .
there have been other , smaller research projects : ernest mathijs has researched the reception of films as diverse as daughters of darkness ( kümel , 1971 ) , the texas chainsaw massacre ( hooper , 1974 ) , shivers ( cronenberg , 1975 ) , the fan ( schmidt , 1983 ) , phenomena ( argento , 1985 ) , the fly ( cronenberg , 1986 ) , monkey shines ( romero , 1988 ) , man bites dog ( belvaux , bonzel , poelvoorde , 1992 ) , s . ( henderickx , 1998 ) , the wisconsin death trip ( marsh , 1999 ) , hannibal ( scott , 2001 ) , donnie darko ( kelly , 2001 ) , the room ( wiseau , 2003 ) , the ordeal ( du welz , 2004 ) .
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number of refugees accepted into the u . s . falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time since 1980
the pair then signed st bride ' s register of blessings before exiting the church to the sound of vivaldi ' s gloria .
rehmat is a forty year old lady who has developed symptoms of depression . she has been married for over twenty years and her husband now plans to get remarried . her fault : she has borne him three daughters and no son . he , now , desperately wants a son and believes , and his parents believe too , that a second wife will most certainly produce one for him . a relationship of twenty years with all the emotional investment that rehmat bibi has made in it over the years is soon going to end . her daughters , who are now grown up , can sense the tension at home . when they see their mother crying they hold themselves responsible for her misery . is it a crime to be a daughter ?
in a broad sense , this project is part of a series of efforts to chart cult film , fandom , and their impacts on and importance for the outlook and status of popular culture today .
terrific recommendations from others commenting . i saw daughters of darkness at a drive - in as well . my co - feature though was let’s scare jessica to death . tonally , i think it’s a pretty good double bill , and if you haven’t seen that one , i’d recommend it . highly ! one of the dvd documentaries for dod is a revisit to the hotel . at the time of the dvd release , it was still standing , and in business . you’re really going to want to stay there . as for the beguiling delphine seyrig , when last year at marienbad was shown at the bleecker street cinema in new york city , in the early 80s , a reel was out of order and no one noticed . i do admire that movie very much , but i think my favorite seyrig is chantal akerman’s jeanne dielman . a marathon performance , and if one is prepared for it , it’s completely immersive .
there are a three books with the
daughter of darkness
title , and this one
sucked
! one can ' t truly enjoy a v . c . andrews book because it will have incest , overstated teen angst , and a rags to riches tale . v . c . andrews should have allowed her books to be laid to rest , too . can ' t we let her rest ?
; and did not spare the ancient world , but saved noah , one of eight people , a preacher of righteousness , bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly ; … . . the lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment , ”
the neoclassic opulence of the desolate belgian sea resort makes for a picturesque alternative to the usual gothic vampire castle , while the desolate backdrop of a vacation spot in the bleakness of winter predates nicolas roeg’s similar use of venice , italy in the 1974 supernatural thriller don’t look now ( especially the scene where stefan & valerie explore the canals of bruges and happen upon the scene of a brutal murder ) .
number of refugees accepted into the u . s . falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time . . .
all the mourners inside the church were given an a4 order of service , embossed with a beautiful picture of bobbi on the front .
it ' s the lines like these—statements that sounds profound , but mean next to nothing—that really sink “fathers and daughters . ” if it didn ' t so obviously want to be a serious adult drama , leaned into its own melodrama with zest , it could have been pretty good . as it is , it feels like a misfire that ' s trying just a little too hard to be oscar bait . but in some ways that ' s what makes it watchable : put great actors in a middling film , and you ' ve still got some fine performances to watch . pair “fathers and daughters” with a bottle of wine and a friend on a rainy night , and it will work just fine .
i knew some people were more happy with the birth of a son than a daughter but never thought it was that ridiculous . that is not islam that i know . the quarn does say not to kill your daughters and that male and females are equal , i guess we are equal in allahs sight not our parentseyes i can understand how this vicious cycle can continue those moms are in need of our and allah ' s support to change . speak up
of course , the horror evoked by such images of monstrous penetration of the bedroom also articulates , on one level , the generalized fear , at least in western culture , that monsters are bred by the sleep of reason . to be in the state of sleep is , in effect , to surrender one ' s identity—a fundamental fear exploited by the horror film ( consider , again , that memorable scene in invasion of the body snatchers ) —and hence to be in a position of extreme vulnerability , as in the shower . such fears have informed many of the sweeping assertions made about the genre . horror films have been seen as nothing less than grand metaphysical morality plays that embody the residual manifestation of ancient religious thinking in the age of science or that bring us to an acceptance of the inevitability of death . certainly horror films are about such great themes , but the experience of horror in the cinema is almost always grounded in the visual representation of bodily difference .
our mothers , regardless of religion , were all women and are desearving of respect that even i cannot say that i gave to mine .
well written article , but at time there seems to be some over generalizations . indeed we should focus on the plight of our sisters and remedy the suffering and oppression that many of them are subjected to in the name of islam . the reason behind the misperceptions about islam in many parts of the non - arab speaking muslim world is the lack of proper understanding due to a language barrier and a reliance on religious authorities of dubious credentials , and secondly a result of local customs .
« and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony . . . » revelations 12 : 11
hollywood hostage actor who lost his eye , had nose and tongue slit , and was ' deprived of a member of his . . .
shortly after whitney ' s death in 2012 , a photo of the star ' s body ended up on the cover of a magazine .
it is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness . we need to realize that until we stop ceaselessly blaming others and instead take on the responsibility to bringing about the required social change upon our own selves , the birth of a daughter will continue to strike as a calamity in many homes , some parents may reluctantly accept it , the others may not , but the pain will be there all the same .


heartbreak is a 1931 american pre-code war drama film directed by alfred l. werker and starring charles farrell , madge evans and paul cavanagh .

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heartbreak ( 1931 film )

heartbreak is a 1931 american pre - code war drama film directed by alfred l . werker and starring charles farrell , madge evans and paul cavanagh .
the following is an overview of 1931 in film , including significant events , a list of films released and notable births and deaths .
heartbreak ( original post - production script for the 1931 film ) by werker , alfred l . ( director ) ; william m . conselman , leon gordon ( screenwriters ) ; llewellyn hughes ( story writer ) ; charles farrell , paul cavanagh , madge evans ( starring ) : fox film corporation - urltoken
heartbreak ( make me a dancer )
, a 2009 song by freemasons feat . sophie ellis - bextor
has anyone seen either body and soul which starred charles farrell and elissa landi or heartbreak which starred charles farrell and madge evans ( on loan from mgm ) ? both were made by fox films in 1931 and take place during world war i . i suspect both may include footage that was shot for the sky hawk ( 1929 ) . the former also has early appearances of myrna loy , humphrey bogart , and douglas walton . i ' ve read online the original short story by llewellyn hughes that was published in liberty magazine ( april 25 , 1931 ) which was the basis of heartbreak ; the films adds the character played by john arledge and changes the names of the twins played by madge evans and hardie albright . judging by stills , the costumes by guy s . duty are more 1930s than 1910s . i also bought off ebay an article from fortune magazine ( august 1931 ) that described the cost of making sets , costumes , etc for body and soul . interesting read ! stills for this film are usually scooped up rather quickly on ebay . i know the ucla film archive has a print of heartbreak , but didn ' t find body and soul there .
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living room the cinema of mikio naruse is one of heartbreak but also one of indomitable poise . melodrama is the director’s stock - in - trade . his stories are inhabited by people , generally women , imprisoned in their domestic and professional circum…
note : prior to 1933 , awards were not based on calendar years . and there were two awards given in 1932 for ' best actor ' . that ' s how there are 3 ' best actor ' , 2 ' best actress ' awards for 1931 films .
aubrey solomon . the fox film corporation , 1915 - 1935 : a history and filmography . mcfarland , 2011 .
original post - production script for the 1931 film . based on the short story by llewellyn hughes , published in
liberty
on april 25 , 1931 . an american pilot , engaged to an austrian countess , finds his personal life uncomfortably overlapping his military service when he is forced to fight against ( and kill ) her twin brother on the italian front of world war i . green titled wrappers , rubber - stamped copy no . 697 . 5a and production no . 48 , dated 8 - 5 - 31 , with credits for llewellyn hughes and william conselman . title page integral with the cast and filmmakers page . 75 leaves , mimeograph . pages near fine , wrapper near fine with foxing , internally bound with three gold brads .
haigh’s film is marked by an immediacy and a sense of tentative exploration that’s rare in depictions of couplings , and by a keen awareness that we project one image on the world and hold another back for ourselves . not a great deal happens in terms of big events , but the film’s honesty and realism mean that it’s a little film with a lot to say . dc
with charles grodin , cybill shepherd , jeannie berlin , and eddie albert . “were there film - historical justice in the world , the heartbreak kid would be remembered as something more than a finger - jabbed - a - little - too - sharply - in - the - ribs footnote to the graduate . an excruciatingly hilarious masterpiece of modern misanthropy , may’s second directorial outing stars charles grodin as a newlywed who , not five days into his honeymoon , mercilessly dumps his bride ( played , with an oscar - nominated mixture of hapless pathos and a double order of egg salad , by may’s daughter , jeannie berlin ) in order to pursue cybill shepherd’s teenage minnesota wasp princess . an anatomy of internalized rage , curdled misogyny , and bottomless self - deception , may’s second film – as indeed do each of the four films she directed – deserves better . ” –chuck stephens , film comment
( entuziasm : simfoniya donbassa ) enthusiasm is vertov’s vision of the transformation of social energies in a progressive society . the film is remarkable for its experimental use of sound and montage . vertov himself invented special lightweight recording equipment to register the sounds of workers in the mines and factories of the don basin in this film . it is the best example of his theory of cinema which brings together “the film - eye and the radio - ear . ” at one point he described the film as a “symphony of noises . ” “i would never have believed it possible to assemble mechanical noises to create such beauty . one of the most superb symphonies i have known . dziga vertov is a musician . ” –charles chaplin
dalen’s rarely - seen directorial debut is lean and mean in the best possible way , an uncompromising character study about a driven and coolly effective debt collector ( david petersen , brilliant in his first film role ) for a vancouver loan agency . a perennial “man of the year” at his office , the film finds petersen at something of a crossroads , as the pressures of his profession begin to wear him down . after some high - profile festival exposure , including the new york film festival in 1978 , the film all but disappeared , resurfacing briefly in the 1980s for a vhs release under a different title . owing to this slipshod release pattern , it’s come to be regarded as one of the lost masterpieces of the canadian tax shelter era . “a downbeat film set in a seedy ‘70s version of vancouver where ubiquitous construction sites signal the oncoming wave of gentrification , the film falls between a noir and a western in tone – the latter especially fitting given that dalen had abandoned an unproduced oater script to focus on skip tracer . ” –kier - la janisse , off screen
( warnung vor einer heiligen nutte ) in rainer werner fassbinder’s brazen depiction of the alternating currents of lethargy and mayhem inherent in moviemaking , a film crew – played by , and not so loosely based on , his own frequent collaborators – deals with an aloof star ( eddie constantine ) , an abusive director ( lou castel ) , and a financially troubled production . playing out predominantly within the lobby of the spanish hotel where the film’s cast and crew are staying , the film features a nearly nonstop succession of songs issuing from the hotel’s jukebox , with memorable airtime for cohen’s “suzanne , ” “so long , marianne , ” “master song , ” “sisters of mercy , ” “teachers , ” and “winter lady . ”
the film proved an inspiration for two later inquiring romances , fassbinder’s ‘ fear eats the soul ’ and todd haynes’s ‘far from heaven’ , both of which took sirk’s interest in sexual repression and love - across - the - divide in very different directions . dc
review : a film set in vienna in 1916 promises lots of waltzing , and this one delivers . farrell is berated by his commanding officers when he travels over enemy lines to visit his girl . he brings her the unfortunate news that he has killed her brother in an aerial… ( more )
mikio naruse’s earliest available film , flunky , work hard is the rare work by the director not to center around female characters . it is a charming , breezy short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son , whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy .
let them all talk the swooning technicolor palette , the pristine costumes and the fairly standard odd - couple romance between a rich widow , cary ( wyman ) , and a thoreau - reading gardener , ron ( hudson ) , only serve to make the social commentary in sirk’s film all the more powerful .
a film set in vienna in 1916 promises lots of waltzing , and this one delivers . farrell is berated by his commanding officers when he travels over enemy lines to visit his girl . he brings her the unfortunate news that he has killed her brother in an aerial battle , and tells her how sorry he
desert song thanks to ‘seinfeld’ , anthony minghella’s oscar - guzzling , two - planed love story became the butt of many a joke with harder - hearted viewers . but the film’s lingering impression in the public imagination as a kind of saturated desert swoon does a disservice to its subdued yet shimmering sense of melancholy .
so begins a thrilling , devastating journey through the hinterland , as the forces of propriety and tradition band together to frustrate the lovers’ happiness . unabashedly sentimental but rich with meaning and subtle purpose , mizoguchi’s film teaches us that one moment of reckless love is worth more than a lifetime of socially approved loneliness . th
( nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble ) with jean yanne & marlene joubert . “far from viewer - friendly , [ this film ] tells the story of the endless breakups and makeups of a highly unstable yet apparently indissoluble couple . it’s a sort of love story told in inverted terms , depicting the protracted end of a five - year affair , with its arbitrary disagreements , sudden mood shifts , moments of irrational anger , and displays of stinging contempt , presented with a genuine , unmeasured violence . ‘you’ve never succeeded at anything and you never will’ , says jean , a 40 - year - old married filmmaker , to his younger , working - class lover catherine . ‘and do you know why ? because you are vulgar , irremediably vulgar , and not only are you vulgar , you are ordinary . ’ these are the film’s most celebrated lines…a sort of brutalist alternative to the famous line from love story : ‘love means never having to say you’re sorry . ’” –dave kehr , film comment
romantically speaking , the heartbreaker comes in the film’s final seconds , in which the tramp’s identity is finally revealed to his love interest , who can now see . on chaplin’s face , we see shame intermingling with fear and , ultimately , euphoria . cribbed by federico fellini and woody allen for similar endings , it’s the greatest close - up in movie history . jr
to celebrate the 66th birthday of jim jennings , a beloved yet under - sung stalwart of the new york city experimental film community whose lyrical , sharp - eyed films speak to the glorious tradition of urban street photography , we have invited six of jennings’s fellow filmmakers – abigail child , nathaniel dorsky , ernie gehr , vincent grenier , henry hills , and ken jacobs – to select their favorite films from throughout his long , productive career . with the exception of nathaniel dorsky and henry hills ( who will be here in spirit ) , they will all be present to introduce their chosen films , alongside jim himself who will screen his very first film , made 50 years ago ! special thanks to all the filmmakers , and to karen treanor .
‘all that heaven allows’ is a blistering exposé of how society’s attitudes serve to throw cold water on passion and keep our purer romantic instincts in check . scenes of folk gossiping behind the couple’s backs or predatory men leaping on cary are shocking and only make us root even more for cary and ron’s relationship ( even if the film lacks a genuine spark between the pair ) .
one night , as the two men spout nonsense about a strindberg play , catherine hurls herself into the seine . she’s unpredictable like that . later , when she switches allegiances to jim , jules can’t bear to be apart from her . let jim have her , but let her stay in his life . the years can’t dim the warmth or humanity of truffaut’s third ( and best ) film . cc
there’s another version , 1994’s ‘love affair’ – a tepid showcase for warren beatty and annette bening . but as any fan of ‘sleepless in seattle’ will tell you , the 1957 film is the most enduring , allowing grant to play simmering passion beneath a debonair exterior , while kerr suggests fervent yearning behind that reserved front . hokey ? yes . manipulative ? certainly . but we defy you not to blub like meg ryan . tj
the rest of us get to enjoy one of the most perfect films ever made about the indefinable bonds that can form between people who happen to find each other at just the right moment , with coppola’s hazy direction focusing on the infinite meanings that live between words . we may never know what bob whispers to charlotte in the film’s final scene , but it’s a safe bet that neither one of them will ever forget . de
a film set in vienna in 1916 promises lots of waltzing , and this one delivers . farrell is berated by his commanding officers when he travels over enemy lines to visit his girl . he brings her the unfortunate news that he has killed her brother in an aerial battle , and tells her how sorry he is . she tosses him out , but changes her mind and calls him back - - after . . . read more
a wild surmise sometimes the line between disaster and perfection is alarmingly fine . by all rights , ‘bright star’ should’ve been awful : a simpering love story between a fey poet and a bolshy society girl , all bulging bodices and whispered nothings . but then jane campion grabbed the reins as director , and produced perhaps the most intense and mesmerising romantic film of the century so far , a gorgeous , gossamer - light look at love as living poetry .
were the real - life depression era outlaws ( whose robbing spree left at least nine policemen and several civilians dead ) really as glamorous as beatty and dunaway in gangster chic ? no , of course not . but as veteran critic david thomson once wrote , ‘bonnie and clyde’ was a film as much about the 1960s as it was about the 1930s : ‘the picture caught the mood of the late 1960s , with kids angry at society . ’ cc
soda _ jerk , mónica savirón , luis parés , and sandra ruesga in person . these works critically interrogate image production and the reproduction of images as materials of thought ; they question historical continuities and ideological certainties of representation . the artists tackle the “muscle sense” of fascist history embodied in the life of spanish filmmakers ; a cinematic study on the color film stock made in nazi germany ; speculative fiction and the personal experience of time , immigration , and the poetics of film deterioration . sandra ruesga haciendo memoria 2005 , 10 min , digital mareike bernien & kerstin schroedinger rainbow’s gravity 2014 , 33 min , digital soda _ jerk the time that remains 2012 , 12 min , digital mónica savirón answer print 2016 , 5 min , 16mm soda _ jerk & the avalanches the was 2016 , 14 min , digital luis parés the cadaver of time 2016 , 13 min , digital total running time : ca . 95 min .
with isabelle adjani , sam neill , and margit carstensen . written by andrzej zulawski & frederic tuten . if you think the pialat and albert brooks films depict romantic relationships in a less - than - flattering light , behold zulawski’s possession , in which the psychic violence of the other two films in the series erupts into literal violence of the most outrageous and over - the - top variety . a nihilistic , no - holds - barred portrait of a disintegrating marriage , featuring highly stylized , career - best performances by isabelle adjani and sam neill , possession starts as psychodrama , develops into queasy supernatural horror , and ends up exploding all known genres . a film of rampant and astonishingly sustained hysteria , its craziness equaled only by its fecund imagination and deep conviction , possession is the definition of a film that’s not for the faint of heart . it may just have the power to annihilate valentine’s day once and for all .
with albert brooks , kathryn harrold , bruno kirby , george kennedy , and james l . brooks . mint condition print courtesy of sony pictures . modern romance may be albert brooks’s least - known film , but arguably it’s his greatest – the most uncompromising and consistent , and , as restrained as it is on the surface , ultimately the most personal and unforgiving in its self - criticism . brooks is robert cole , a film editor who breaks up with his girlfriend only to spend the rest of the movie desperately trying to erase his mistake , and even more desperately trying to contain his jealousy , neediness , and paranoia . still the great comic portrait of male neurosis , and of emotional and psychological dysfunction , modern romance lays bare its protagonist’s insecurities with an honesty few dramatic films have achieved . only brooks could make a deadpan comedy about a man who’s very nearly psychotic . painfully funny , with the emphasis on ‘funny . ’
a film , also called a movie , motion picture or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a screen , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . this optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . a film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques ; by means of cgi and computer animation ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects . the word
cinema
, short for cinematography , is often used to refer to the industry of films and filmmaking or to the art of filmmaking itself . the contemporary definition of cinema is the art of simulating experiences to communicate ideas , stories , perceptions , feelings , beauty or atmosphere by the means of recorded or programmed moving images along with other sensory stimulations .
boy meets boy this british film , shot on a shoestring , captures in a lively and fresh style the first throes of attraction , passion and maybe even love between two men , glen ( new ) and russell ( cullen ) , who meet one night in a bar and spend a couple of days and nights together . they talk , they have sex , they size each other up . glen is open and chatty , while russell is more guarded and defensive .
yet there’s a rare authenticity and sincerity to this intimate miniature that never so much as grazes the gag reflex , from the gentle chemistry of the non - professional , refreshingly non - pretty leads ( collaborators and lovers in real life ) to the naked emotional candour of their songs ( one of which won a deserved oscar ) to the heartbreaking matter - of - factness with which the film resolves their ambiguous relationship . a wisp of a love story , but a perfect one . gl
looks like we made it to the end ‘what will survive of us is love , ’ wrote philip larkin , a poet equally known for being a cuddly old romantic as michael haneke , the writer and director of ‘amour’ . in his paris - set film , haneke examines what love means when we’re reaching the end of our lives . haneke gives us georges ( trintignant ) and anne ( riva ) , a couple in their eighties who struggle to cope when anne falls ill from a stroke .
this informal black - and - white portrait of leonard cohen shows him at age 30 on a visit to his hometown of montreal , where the poet , novelist , and songwriter comes “to renew his neurotic affiliations . ” he reads his poetry to an enthusiastic crowd , strolls the streets of the city , relaxes in this three - dollar - a - night hotel room and even takes a bath . with : derek may angel ( 1966 , 6 min , 16mm , b & w ) in this short film , a young man , a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical . music by cohen , performed by the stormy clovers . josef reeve poen ( 1967 , 4 min , 16mm , b & w ) this short film features four readings of a prose poem from leonard cohen’s novel beautiful losers . read by cohen himself , the poem produces a distinct emotional effect every time it is read , following the poet’s rendition and accompanying visuals . total running time : ca . 60 min .
set in turn - of - the - century vienna but shot in 1948 hollywood by max ophüls with a gorgeous , swooning camera , joan fontaine stars as lisa . over decades lisa has had three brief meetings with womanising concert pianist stefan ( louis jourdan ) – who fails to recognise her every time . her aching letter gives the film its voiceover as she tells the story of her unrequited , borderline masochistic love : ‘my life can be measured in the moments i have had with you . ’ a heartbreaking masterpiece . cc
on the face of it , it’s hard to say why the aggressively sentimental ‘the notebook’ is any different . but there’s something so earnest about the way this star - crossed teen romance – he’s a common country boy , she’s a beautiful heiress , you do the math – hits its clichéd marks that the film itself takes on the unassailable , idealistic purity of first love . magic casting , too : here’s where the world’s love affair with ryan gosling started , before he got way too cool for this sort of thing . gl
‘west side story’ is like no other musical : sure , it’s sappy ( ‘mariaaaaaaaaaa’ ) and slightly ridiculous , but it’s also brazenly political ( ‘if you’re all white in a - me - ri - ca ! ’ ) , sneakily self - mocking ( ‘hey , i got a social disease ! ’ ) and ferociously , aggressively emotional : the operatic finale is a masterclass in three - hanky audience manipulation . also , the film contains perhaps the single best song ever written for the musical theatre : ‘somewhere’ , the ultimate romantic ballad for trapped and dreaming lovers . th
my heart will go on… and on… and on… few films inspire as much passion as james cameron’s epic would - be folly . following a troubled production , when the film finally splashed into cinemas , it became the biggest money - spinner of all time , provoking an ocean of housewives’ tears and one of the biggest oscar hauls in history . then the backlash hit , like an iceberg in arctic waters : wait a second , people pointed out , the dialogue’s godawful , the depiction of social class is farcical , and the romance is just join - the - dots mills and boon nonsense .
it’s a golden age – a long - lost arcadia – that can never be recovered by this unlikely romantic pair as the years go by and jack and ennis live separate lives ( though they occasionally meet up for secretive fishing trips to rekindle their passion ) . as they age , jack is more successful at holding down an everyday life with a job and family , but ennis seriously struggles , and his story is all the more tragic for it . it’s a brilliantly acted film , and lee finds time to celebrate and explore the love at the core of his story as well as creating space to mourn its fallout . dc
( chelovek s kino - apparatom ) “if vertov had never made anything other than man with a movie camera he would still be among the cinema’s greatest masters . a kaleidoscopic city symphony – conjoining moscow , kiev , and odessa in one dizzying metropolis – this is vertov’s most complex film , matching the rhythms of a day to the cycle of life ( birth , death , marriage , divorce ) and the mechanisms of movie - making to the logic of production . made without titles , the movie is at once a documentary portrait of the soviet people , a reflexive essay on cinematic representation ( as dazzling as it is didactic ) , and an ode to work itself as a process of transformation . ” –j . hoberman , village voice
with taylor mead . “beyond cassavetes” returns with this edgy , long - lost treasure from the early days of new york feature production . a gritty thriller set in manhattan’s sex and narcotics netherworld , it was director raymond phelan’s first , no - budget feature . but what makes it truly historic is that it features the first screen appearance of as - yet - undiscovered warhol superstar , underground luminary , and national treasure taylor mead . principally shot in 1959 but not released until 1962 , the film ran for four months at times square’s notorious rialto theatre and helped signal the imminent rise of the sexploitation genre . better known as cinematographer on doris wishman’s campy nudist dramas , phelan would manage to conjure only one additional pinchpenny production ( assignment female , 1966 ) before disappearing into the hills of vermont . never available on video and not exhibited theatrically in over fifty years , these screenings are made possible with help from the estate of raymond phelan .
( les liens de sang ) chabrol’s rarely - seen canadian / french police procedural transplants ed mcbain’s detective steve carella from the 87th precinct to the streets of old montreal , with donald sutherland as carella , on the hunt for the killer of a teenage girl ( lisa langlois ) . crossing paths with the detective as he investigates are donald pleasence as a pedophile and david hemmings as the murdered girl’s boss . the supporting cast includes chabrol’s then - spouse stephane audran as the girl’s alcoholic mother , and langlois , in her film debut , who would become a familiar face in canuxploitation fare over the next several years . “chabrol’s masterful touch is apparent from the brooding , sinewy photography and the mood shifts from harrowing to lyrical abetted by regular collaborators cinematographer jean rabier and composer pierre jansen . donald sutherland gives a compelling , subdued yet sensitive performance as a detective numbed by the grisly nature of his job yet clinging onto his humanity . ” –andrew pragasam , the spinning image
in the same year she stunned as iris in taxi driver , wunderkind child actress jodie foster decamped to knowlton , quebec , to film this slow - burn thriller about a preternaturally wise young girl living with her writer father in a secluded old mansion . among the locals who come calling on her are a crippled teenage magician ( scott jacoby of bad ronald ) , a friendly cop ( mort shuman , who wrote “viva las vegas” for elvis ) , a nasty landlady ( alexis smith ) , and her pedophile son ( martin sheen ) . one of the darker and more disturbing of pg films , the material offers a fine showcase for foster , who more than holds her own against her older co - stars . “ [ t ] his eerie canadian production left a massive impression on countless 70s youngsters and continues to captivate anyone who stumbles across it . the macabre story flirts with gothic horror and classic suspense without quite settling into either , casting a unique , atmospheric spell of its own that has yet to be duplicated . ” –nathaniel thompson , mondo digital
with warren beatty & julie christie . “‘this is bob altman , ’ the voice on the other line said . ‘i’d like to use your songs in a movie i’m making . ’ leonard cohen was flattered but had no idea who this guy was : ‘is there any movie you’ve done i might have seen ? ’ altman mentioned his smash success m * a * s * h , which cohen had missed . the filmmaker then said , ‘i also did a small movie that nobody saw – brewster mccloud . ’ as cohen later recalled to altman biographer mitchell zuckoff , ‘i told him , “i just saw it this afternoon – i loved it . you can have anything you want . ”’ thus began one of the great pairings of film and soundtrack of the modern era . the movie altman was making was mccabe & mrs . miller…one of the most visionary [ of all westerns ] . [ … ] altman’s and cohen’s legacies would forever be linked by mccabe . the movie is inextricably connected to cohen’s songs . it’s impossible to imagine altman’s masterpiece without them . ” –tim grierson , rolling stone
please note : filmmaker jonathan culp was planning to travel from canada to present these screenings in person , but he has chosen to cancel his trip in protest against donald trump ' s proposed travel ban . instead he has sent the following statement :
whatever each of us choose to actually do , there can be no business as usual right now . as thrilled as i have been for many months to attend these screenings , the travel ban crisis has tainted the enterprise , and i feel that the most useful action i can take is to boycott the canada - us border until these matters are settled decisively .
the canadian films of the 1970s and 80s live in the shadow of american culture , as canadians do generally . taking shelter portrays the cinema of this era - the good , the bad and the confusing - as a literal alien invasion , in which a generation of canadian character actors suddenly find themselves attacked and colonized by the weaponized tools of cinema . i trust the film ' s paranoid themes , frantically accelerating pace , and general cognitive dissonance will strike familiar chords to anyone who can still bear to read the news .
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broken heart , a metaphorical emotional pain or suffering experienced alongside great longing or loss .
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is . she tosses him out , but changes her mind and calls him back - - after all , he did risk his life to see her .
now we know which are the 100 best romantic movies of all time . but which are funny and which are heartbreaking ? which depict a dignified romance and which are saucy tales of lust ? which are strictly arthouse and which are simply cheesy ? we’ve applied 19 handy labels to the 100 films in our list . here you’ll find all the stories we think deserve the label ‘heartbreaking’ .
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best quote : ' this misery can’t last… not even life lasts very long . '
defining moment : that most restrained of farewells , alec squeezing laura’s shoulder goodbye .
make tea not love you’d think that lean’s tale of stiff - upper - lip emotion would be frightfully and unwatchably old - fashioned today . a married woman falls in love with a married man and they do the decent thing . so why do we continue to find this much - loved classic so unbearably moving ? because it’s still thrilling to watch the continents of emotion beneath laura and alec’s icy properness .
they meet in a railway café . laura ( johnson ) has grit in her eye . alec ( howard ) gallantly removes it . later , they run into each other in a restaurant . the couple know in their heart of hearts that leaving their families and running off together will not make a happy ending . and so they must part . he accepts a job in south africa . our hearts stop with the lovers’ when a busybody crashes their last few precious minutes together . unforgettable . cc
best quote : ' oh , harold , that ' s wonderful . go and love some more . '
defining moment : in a field of daisies overlooking a vast military cemetery , maude explains her philosophy of life .
age shall not wither them the hippy era was full of movies that attempted to confront square society , to shock viewers into some undefined form of action . how many of them are still effective today ? but ‘harold and maude’ , the gentle flipside of the revolutionary dream , is every bit as charming , affecting and surprising as it must have been on its first release .
partly this is because none of its themes have gone out of date : we still live in a world of empty privilege and rigid hierarchy , petty authority and relentless conformism . so the idea of a teenage boy ( cort ) shacking up with a batty old woman ( gordon ) is still a challenge to social norms . best of all , ‘harold and maude’ is also still devastatingly romantic : a story of soulmates , in the most literal sense . th
a camp romance lee’s adaptation of e annie proulx ' s short story is a desperately sad account of gay love beaten into submission by society’s attitudes and conventions . jack ( gyllenhaal ) and ennis ( ledger ) are two ranch hands in early 1960s wyoming who spend one glorious summer out in the wilderness falling in love and sleeping with each other .
best quote : ' if only you could have shared those moments , if only you could have recognised what was always yours , could have found what was never lost . if only . . . '
defining moment : the greatest first - date setting of all time – an old fairground ride where scenes from around the globe roll past the windows of a wooden train .
lonely are the brave ‘by the time you read this letter i may be dead . ’ with these words a woman who has spent her life hopelessly devoted to a man who doesn’t know she exists begins her letter to him . quite simply , ‘letter from an unknown woman’ will leave your heart in pieces on the floor .
defining moment : alex and michele dance along the bridge and waterski down the seine to a backdrop of fireworks , strauss and iggy pop during a bastille day celebration .
paris when it sizzles ' les amants du pont - neuf ' ( ' the lovers on the bridge ' ) is leos carax ' s valentine to amour fou , paris and his then - partner juliette binoche . and it ' s as rapturous and irrational as true love itself . even the story of its production is something of a romantic tragedy : three years in the making and spiralling wildly over budget as carax reconstructed paris’s iconic pont - neuf bridge in the south of france , it ' s the kind of grand artistic expression that must fail in order to succeed .
the simple love story – between two bohemian bums , one a derelict fire - eater and one a painter losing her eyesight – could be the stuff of silent melodrama , but carax crams it with sound and colour to the point of delirious sensory ecstasy . gl
best quote : ' you don ' t talk much . i like you ! '
defining moment : it’s all about the opening ten minutes , as we follow carl and ellie from childhood , through years of happy marriage ‘til death does them part .
the story of us it’s remarkable that ‘up’ has managed to sneak into the all - time top 25 romantic movies on the strength of a single 10 - minute sequence , but it’s also testament to the extraordinary power this pixar classic possesses .
it could’ve been so cutesy , so saccharine : a geeky kid with coke - bottle glasses dreams of being an explorer . the girl down the street wants the same thing . they grow up , fall in love , years pass , and we see the highs and lows of their life together : marriage , family , work , sickness , eventually death – a tapestry of honest emotion and meaning ( and this , lest we forget , is a kids’ movie ) . the rest of ‘up’ is ‘only’ hilarious and smart – but that opening is romance itself . th
defining moment : a sad , bittersweet meeting in the snow , two lovers seeing each other for the first time in years .
all things bright and beautiful you ' d need to have a sliver of ice lodged in your heart not to be moved by ‘the umbrellas of cherbourg’ – a musical that has even hardened musical - haters melting into puddles . not that it’s a musical in the belt - ‘em - out tradition . instead , every word is sung rather than spoken as 17 - year - old geneviève ( deneuve ) falls sweetly and madly in love with car mechanic guy ( castelnuovo ) .
‘umbrellas’ is one of the most ravishing films ever made , wrapped in candyfloss colours to match the blush of first love . when guy is drafted to fight in algeria , geneviève is certain she will die of grief . but time passes and geneviève doesn’t die . love fades . and that’s the bittersweet message inside this exquisitely sugar coated pill . cc
best quote : ' a plague on both your houses ! they have made worms’ meat of me . '
defining moment : dicaprio and danes making loved - up eyes at each other through the glass and water of a fish tank .
from the globe to the ghetto baz luhrmann had some cast - iron source material to work with in the form of shakespeare’s story – but the australian writer - director took the playwright’s romantic tragedy to another place entirely with this ultra - modern reworking . at the same , he never lost sight of the essence of shakespeare’s tale of two young lovers doomed from the first time they lay eyes on each other .
the moment that romeo ( dicaprio , so young ! ) and juliet ( danes , so young too ! ) meet at a wild fancy - dress party is pure bliss to watch , just as luhrmann’s staging of the final death scene is almost impossible to bear . there are guns , hip - hop , open - topped cars and characters so larger - than - life that the whole thing now , in retrospect , feels like tarantino directing a season - finale episode of ‘dynasty’ . it’s mad , musical and immensely moving . dc
best quote : ' please never take me back to the hospital… promise… promise me . '
‘amour’ isn’t romantic in any traditional sense of the word , but it’s steeped in ideas about living life as a couple . it’s deeply thoughtful – and thought - provoking – in relation to what it really , properly means to be with someone all your life , to the end of your life . it’s heartbreaking and totally free of false sentiment . dc
defining moment : the last kiss in the firelit saharan cave , just after the count tells the doomed katherine he’ll never leave her – a promise they both know he can’t keep .
for all its sweeping sequences of radiantly lit passion , this adaptation of michael ondaatje’s booker prize - winning novel is more a story of love’s withered aftermath , as the disfigured count de almasy , dying in an italian monastery at the end of wwii , is ironically sustained by memories of a lethal liaison with patrician married beauty katherine . for a supposed romantic throwback , it’s impressively bleak , yet tinged with rapture – not least in the matchless beauty of its three leads . gl
defining moment : the newly - entangled cary and ron turn up at a cocktail party full of nosy neighbourhood types .
best quote : ' stay alive . no matter how long it takes , no matter how far , i will find you . '
hip to be squaw it’s partly about the hair – wild , untamed , immaculately salon - shiny despite many months in the wilderness . it’s partly about the running – manly men springing through the forest like deer , hatchets raised as they swoop down on their unsuspecting prey . and it’s partly about the guns – muskets , rifles , bayonets , all longer than a man’s arm , billowing smoke and sending another indian brave to his untimely death .
but in michael mann’s full - throated adaptation of james fenimore cooper’s timeless adventure story , it’s mainly about the romance . love comes in many forms here : shy , gushing , bloody , brotherly , doomed and feisty . and as daniel day - lewis stands beneath that waterfall , bellowing his heart out and promising to track his beloved wherever the fates may take her , you’d need to have a hard heart not to be swept away completely . th
defining moment : oh , go on then : the prow scene , where leo claims to be the king of the world , and just for a moment we all believe him .
so which is true ? well , both , to be fair . ‘titanic’ is an incredibly involving experience , especially once the ship hits the berg and all hell breaks loose . sure , it’s about as intellectually valid as a jilly cooper novel , but if you’re looking for a high - concept crowd - pleaser with its heart firmly on its sleeve , they don’t come much bigger , sillier or more enjoyable . th
best quote : ' i couldn ' t be more proud of you than if you were the first man on the moon . '
defining moment : when glen interviews russell on tape for an art project the morning after the night before .
best quote : ' can you keep a secret ? i’m trying to organise a prison break . i’m looking for , like , an accomplice . '
platonic bomb strangely polarising for such a wistful and modest little movie , some people struggle to see past the privilege that backgrounds sofia coppola’s story about the unique connection that develops between fading movie star bob ( bill murray , in his best and reportedly favourite role ) and charlotte , the married twentysomething he meets in the bar of a fancy tokyo hotel .
best quote : ' i love you . i really love you . ' ' ditto . '
care for a little necrophilia ? screenwriter bruce joel rubin was initially dismayed to hear that producers planned to hand his heartbreaking supernatural romance over to ‘airplane ! ’ director jerry zucker ( ‘i thought with this director that they were going to turn “ghost” into some kind of comedy and it’d be horrible’ ) , but in fact the move led to a skilfully put - together mixture of tearjerker and madcap farce , enabling whoopi goldberg to turn in an oscar - winning best supporting actress performance for her role as con artist / medium oda mae brown .
counting sexy pottery as a given , ‘ghost’ is also romantically notable for the queer frisson of the scene where sam ' s spirit possesses oda mae to share one final dance with demi moore ' s grieving molly . cb
defining moment : it’s as camp as christmas , but maria ( wood ) singing ‘i feel pretty’ while anticipating her next date with tony ( beymer ) is a magical moment of romantic exuberance .
the song of the streets baz luhrmann’s ‘romeo + juliet’ may have made all the tweeners’ hearts melt ( and scored a higher place on this list ) , but the real hep chicks and finger - poppin’ daddies know which version of shakespeare’s play is the real leader of the pack .
best quote : ' there must be something between us , even if it ' s only an ocean . '
defining moment : the unbearable tension in the final reel . we know something cary grant is about to find out .
ship to shore a playboy ( cary grant ) and a chanteuse ( deborah kerr ) fall in love on a transatlantic liner . both are already attached but when they dock at new york , they agree to meet at the empire state building in six months’ time . such is the set - up for one of hollywood’s most imperishable romances , which leo mccarey first directed in 1939 as ‘love affair’ ( starring charles boyer and irene dunne ) and remade in 1957 as ‘an affair to remember’ .
best quote : kim : ' hold me . ' edward : ' i can’t . '
defining moment : kim dances in the ‘snow’ edward makes from an ice sculpture in sunny california .
cuts you up the scariest thing about burton’s gothic fairy tale is reading the list of actors who were considered for the part of edward , the man with scissors for hands created by a scientist . the studio insisted burton meet tom cruise ( who believed the story needed a ‘happier ending’ ) . michael jackson badly wanted the part . tom hanks turned it down .
finally , burton got his way and cast johnny depp , who , like a camden goth charlie chaplin , plays edward with a dash of slapstick and sad - eyed loneliness ( watch edward’s scissor fingers twitch when he’s nervous ) . it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship between depp and burton , who’ve made seven films together since . not such a happy ending for depp and his co - star and then - girlfriend , ryder . they split in 1993 . cc
best quote : ' the heavens won’t punish me if , in the final moment of my life , i am unable to hold back these last words : i have always loved you with all of my being . '