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The Keep: the Mann rediscover



second film directed by Michael Mann in 1983, The Keep (The fort black) has accumulated disability. The head of visual effects, Wally Veevers (known for his work on 2001, A Space Odyssey and Superman) dies in the middle of shooting. Then, the first three hours of assembly proposed by Mann in Paramount which was denied. Released in a version of 1:30, down by critics, the film will fail at the box office and in spite of a laser-disc release, he will never know favors the DVD format.

very unfortunate situation as the film has great qualities. Proposed in July at the French Cinematheque as part of a retrospective devoted to American director The Keep tells the woes of a Nazi garrison whose mission is to keep a fortress lost in the mountains of Romania in 1942. Decimated by a mysterious force that seeks to break free from this prison, the Nazis are using an old Jew to try to understand what is happening.

If the music of Tangerine Dream might seem dated, though some special effects seem rudimentary, the fact remains that the film has real atmosphere, a photograph of great beauty and enjoys the presence of major actors, which some were their debut here, including Gabriel Byrne, Ian McKellen, but also and Jürgen Prochnow.

Blending fantasy and thriller, the film deals with themes that run throughout Mann's career: the manic individualism, the struggle against evil, the identification on the part of the evil that is in us, love is like output. The appellation of "great movie sick" is well suited to The Keep, which does not appreciate the pending rehabilitation worthy of the name.

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The Changeling: jewel of the Sam Raimi horror





Forget any consecutive French title, The Changeling, completely irrelevant for this film, in which there is no mention of the devil. And do not confuse with the penultimate Eastwood Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie .

First, what is this strange word, changeling? Literally, it's a baby who is used to secretly take the place of another baby. Perhaps the French translators they had mistaken The Omen, where the stillbirth of the character played by Lee Remick was exchanged with the devil himself.

In The Changeling, Canadian film from 1980 directed by Peter Medak, director Romeo Is Bleeding of (1993) and numerous TV series (one episode of Masters of Horror ), John Russell, a composer played by George C. Scott attends helplessly as the car accident that kills his wife and daughter. Yielding to the encouragement of a couple of friends, he settled in the Seattle area and rented a historic mansion, where he plans to write and rest.

In this house, huge and vacant for 12 years, John is soon confronted with sound strange events, and will be contacted by the ghost of a young boy who tries to give him his horrible secret. This
is striking in this horror film clean is the rejection of stereotypes. The supernatural events do not occur in the dark but in broad daylight. Fear arises in the everyday and the most common objects become threatening. Like another great movie The Haunting (1963), the suggestion, the invisible, sound processing, marking more spirit than any monster dripping.

Why this film is it now forgotten while his influence on later generations is undeniable ? Hard to say.

However, it is high time to rediscover in The Changeling DVD (available only in Zone 1 for now) and fun to note the involuntary affiliations with the masterpiece of Kubrick released the same year, The Shining.