The only Hollywood director ever to pursue a career in B movies by choice (or so he said), Edgar G. Ulmer somehow managed to transform the absurd limitations of the scripts, budgets, and actors he was given to work with into a mad aesthetic principle—his work, full of zomboid despair, remains unique, to say the […]

Given its mixture of sexuality, mystery, and abrupt violence, it isn’t surprising that Charles Perrault’s story “Bluebeard” held a childhood fascination for director Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, Romance). Given how concerned Breillat’s movies are with investigating primal urges through a string of metaphoric…