Probably the eeriest and, also, the most lyrical and deeply felt of the Hollywood Dracula films, Son of Dracula claims unexpected settings: a small town outside New Orleans; the nearby Louisiana swamps. The atmosphere drips of menace, sinister doings in the dead of night, fatal fantasy. The “undead” Count Dracula, calling himself Alucard (Dracula spelled […]
Daily Archives: December 3, 2011
Armadillo, from Denmark, has won best documentary film prizes (the Bodil Award, and at the Robert and RiverRun festivals) and the Critics Week Grand Prize at Cannes. The filmmaker is Janus Metz, a.k.a. Janus Metz Pedersen, who along with his cinematographer and cameraman, Lars Skree, followed a group of young Danish recruits during their six-month […]
Dennis Grunes 