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Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar ought to be the break-out hit for First Second. If the filmmakers Eric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach) and Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) ever teamed up on a graphic novel, it might well resemble this funny take on the complex love life of a sensitive vampire ("I bite with one tooth so that it looks like a mosquito bite") and his friends. Sfar imagines a world being shared with our own, but made up of ghosts, monsters and witches who do things like rent cruise ships so they can be with their...
...year before his film debut, Chabrol co-wrote a book on Hitchcock's oeuvre (with fellow critic and budding director Eric Rohmer). Of all the new-wave auteurs, Chabrol was the one who took Hitchcock's fancy for cinematic dread most to heart, then gave it his own twist. In deadpan tragedies like Le Boucher, La Femme Infidèle and The Beast Must Die, passion leads to crimes of passion, and crime to self-lacerating punishment. These films are all the more potent because they speak their evils and ironies in a Gallic whisper...
...Based on a Fu Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer, the plot of Daughter of the Dragon extended the curse sworn by Dr. Fu on the Petrie family to the next generation. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), long ago injured and exiled in an attempt on Petrie Sr., returns to London and confronts the father: "In the 20 years I have fought to live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling...
...Much of the fun lies in Carey's bravura manipulation of the clich?s of genre fiction. Some readers might find the diabolical Chinese women in the grisly finale to be an offensive caricature, reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu epics, but the scene plays absorbingly well as the denouement of a revenge tragedy...
...SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and 15) PAULINE AT THE BEACH If there's anything worse than a beach, it's a French beach. In Ryan, Spielberg's American soldiers are slaughtered as they de-boat on D-day in a rain of enemy fire. In Pauline a la plage, Eric Rohmer's protagonist probably wishes for shrapnel to off her, if only to spare her the pointless banter of her tacky, divorce cousin...