FilmCritic entries tagged "Asia Argento"

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Go Go Tales

by Chris Cabin on Jan 6 2011
Go Go Tales

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As big-hearted, unabashedly cheesy and larger-than-life as the gaudy, white-suited ringmaster of the New York City strip club that it takes as (practically) its sole setting, Abel Ferrara's excellent Go Go Tales arrives for a premiere run some three and...... more »
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The Last Mistress

by Chris Cabin on Jun 26 2008
The Last Mistress

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After years of lascivious experiments and audience-bludgeoning anti-romances, French provocateur Catherine Breillat pulls an unexpectedly engrossing and lurid film out of Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th-century novel Un Vieille Maitresse, the tale of a French dandy and the 36-year-old 'Old Mistress'...... more »
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The Mother of Tears

by Chris Cabin on Mar 23 2008
DVD Release Date: September 23, 2008

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The apocalypse is held over in Rome and, per usual, perennial schlockmeister Dario Argento is behind the entire thing. People are getting strangled by their own guts, women are taking butcher cleavers to their children, large bald men are dispatching...... more »
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Boarding Gate

by Chris Cabin on Mar 20 2008
DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008
Boarding Gate

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Asia Argento plays a former prostitute cum corporate assassin who decides to murder her old flame in Olivier Assayas' wasteful Boarding Gate, and that's just about all I can say about the movie. Michael Madsen plays a perverse bigwig too,...... more »
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Marie Antoinette

by Chris Cabin on Oct 21 2006
DVD Release Date: February 13, 2007
Marie Antoinette

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The word 'soft' summarizes the world of Sofia Coppola, perfectly. Each film she has made has the tenderness, vagueness and, ultimately, the sensibility of a fluffy, white cloud in the middle of a blue sky. With two near-perfect films on...... more »
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

by Nicholas Schager on Mar 10 2006
DVD Release Date: June 6, 2006

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Only a month after acclaimed author J.T. LeRoy was exposed by The New York Times as a fictional persona concocted by writer Laura Albert - a revelation that all but demolished the credibility of the scribe's supposedly semi-autobiographical books -...... more »
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Last Days

by Nicholas Schager on Jun 25 2005
DVD Release Date: October 25, 2005
Last Days

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Completing a stylistic and thematic trilogy begun with 2003's Gerry and Elephant (and inspired by the work of Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr), Last Days finds director Gus Van Sant once again engaging in breathtaking experimentation with sound, image, and content....... more »
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Land of the Dead

by Keith Breese on Jun 24 2005
DVD Release Date: October 18, 2005
Land of the Dead

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George Romero inhabits a peculiar realm in American cinema. He is both a political provocateur, championing the cause of the common man, and the king of zombie gore, the lowbrow art of human disembowelment, decapitation, and so on. Land of...... more »
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Scarlet Diva

by Christopher Null on May 21 2003
DVD Release Date: May 1, 2001

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Were it not for her semi-famous father, director Dario Argento, Asia Argento would undoubtedly by wading thigh-deep through the porn industry right now. She may as well be: Scarlet Diva, her semi-fictionalized life story (written by, directed by, and starring...... more »
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New Rose Hotel

by Christopher Null on Aug 12 2002
DVD Release Date: August 1, 1999

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Frustrated to the point where most people will give up, Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel is one of the worst-realized psychodramas ever made, despite its stellar one-two punch of Walken and Dafoe. Ostensibly a story about two con men who...... more »

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