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Mondo macabro pete tombs5/24/2023 The dialogue is ripe with delicious one-liners (“My feelings are like filthy prayers I want to scream into your face”) and incredible visual gags. CALIGARI might be one of the American cinema's most incisive and unique portraits of national excess ever to grace the screen.Ībove all else, though, the film has a biting and over-the-top sense of humour. Far more than just narratively similar, Sayadian's background in set design and art keeps with the silent classic's highly stylized design, updated with the bright, disorienting commercialism of 1980s Americana. Caligari, who diagnoses her with a “disease of the libido”. Van Houten, a woman who seems to be losing touch with reality, and her treatment under Dr. As the film’s title might suggest, the film is a loose remake of the German Expressionist classic, following Mrs. CALIGARI embraces the avant-garde in its exquisite and hilarious exploitation of America’s repressed libido. Bizarre, stunning, goofy and unsettling, DR. For the first time since its release, thanks to a new restoration, it will finally find its audience, and retroactively be appreciated as the underground masterpiece that it is. In 1989, Stephen Sayadian, aka Rinse Dream, released one of the most iconic and fantastical works in American exploitation cinema. CALIGARI” (1989) debuts at Fantasia International Film Festival A new 4K restoration of Rinse Dream’s “DR.
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