'Emmanuelle' movies producer Alain Siritzky dead at 72 (photo: Sylvia Kristel in 'Emmanuelle' 1974) Emmanuelle franchise producer Alain Siritzky died after what has been described as "a short illness" on Saturday, October 11, 2014, at a Paris hospital. Siritzky, whose credits include dozens of Emmanuelle movies and direct-to-video efforts, several of which starring Sylvia Kristel in the title role, was 72. Ironically, Alain Siritzky didn't produce the original, epoch-making 1974 Emmanuelle. He became involved in that Yves Rousset-Rouard production via his Parafrance Films, which distributed Emmanuelle in France. 'Emmanuelle': 1974 movie sensation A couple of years after the release of Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones (not to mention Boys in the Sand and Eyes of a Stranger), and the year after Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider sparked a furor by having simulated sex in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, the 1974 French release Emmanuelle still managed to become a worldwide cause célèbre.
- 10/15/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 26, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Francois Leterrier attemtps to bust out of a Nazi prison in A Man Escaped.
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson (The Devil, Probably) made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in his 1956 drama-thriller A Man Escaped.
Based on the memoirs of imprisoned French resistance leader Andre Devigny, the movie follows a French activist named Fontaine (Francois Leterrier), who has been imprisoned by the Nazis during the war and devotes his every waking hour to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death and given a new cellmate. Should Andre kill him, or risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer?
Bresson’s film details the planning and carrying out of the escape with gripping precision. But the filmmaker isn’t only interested in the process,...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Francois Leterrier attemtps to bust out of a Nazi prison in A Man Escaped.
With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson (The Devil, Probably) made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in his 1956 drama-thriller A Man Escaped.
Based on the memoirs of imprisoned French resistance leader Andre Devigny, the movie follows a French activist named Fontaine (Francois Leterrier), who has been imprisoned by the Nazis during the war and devotes his every waking hour to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death and given a new cellmate. Should Andre kill him, or risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer?
Bresson’s film details the planning and carrying out of the escape with gripping precision. But the filmmaker isn’t only interested in the process,...
- 12/20/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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