One of France's first modern horror movies is a haunting meditation on grief and loneliness. And face stealing.
Zombie Lake: An Alternate Take
Jess Franco didn't want to direct Zombie Lake, so it fell upon down-on-his-luck Jean Rollin to crank out this infamously bad horror film.
Zombie Lake
Watching Zombie Lake isn't so much a viewing experience as it is a grim rite of passage for anyone who's serious about a career in cult film commentary.
Barflies and Boulevardiers
The Boulevardier is a variation on the Negroni, using whiskey instead of gin. Here's how it came to be.
The Great Silence
Sergio Corbucci directs a classic spaghetti western set against bleak, snowy landscape.
Fantomas
Andre Hunebelle chose 1964 to make the first of a trio of Fantomas films that channeled the James Bondian high gloss of their era.
Francoise Hardy: Midnight Blues – Paris, London, 1968-72
Francoise Hardy became the face of French ye-ye pop but presented a moodier, more introspective body of work than many of her peers.
Clothilde: Queen of the French Swinging Mademoiselle
French Ye-Ye girls of the 1960s often affected a world-weary detachment, but few were as over it all as Clothilde
Suburban Pagans 