Charles Bramesco

1 month ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Charles Bramesco

Back to selection by Charles Bramesco in Directors, Features, Interviews, Issues on Mar 18, 2025 Ash, Flying Lotus, Spring 2025 With 2017’s Kuso, the first feature from polymath Steve Ellison (a.k.a. musician Flying Lotus, a.k.a. rapper Captain Murphy), a respectable claim is made to the title of history’s most disgusting commercially released film, with such amusements as vomit baths, sentient wart coitus and a large talking cockroach residing in the prolapsed anus of funk godhead George...

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Charles Bramesco

What would having sex in a car crash sound like, as music? What about a gynaecological exam performed by identical twins, or a man’s transmogrification into a grotesque human-insectoid hybrid? These are just some of the challenges faced, over more than 40 years and upwards of a dozen films, by the composer Howard Shore as part of his long collaboration with the director David Cronenberg.

1 month ago | msn.com | Radheyan Simonpillai |Andrew Pulver |Charles Bramesco |Andrew Lawrence |Pamela Hutchinson |Scott Tobias | +1 more

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Radheyan Simonpillai |Andrew Pulver |Benjamin Lee |Charles Bramesco |Andrew Lawrence |Pamela Hutchinson | +2 more

The French ConnectionAlmost five minutes go by in The French Connection before we get a good look at Gene Hackman. Various other operators come and go in William Friedkin’s gritty and unsettling procedural – based on a real heroin sting – before Hackman’s Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle emerges from behind an ill-fitting undercover Santa Claus outfit, like a background player busting into his first lead role.

2 months ago | msn.com | Charles Bramesco

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