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Web resources on French director Jean Rollin

Welcome to the Kinoeye archive. The ultimate aim of the archive is to provide a near-as-damn-it definitive index of intelligent and thoughtful English-language analysis of cinema from the new Europe on the web.

This page is devoted web and print resources on the French director Jean Rollin.

• Articles in Kinoeye
• Websites
• Reviews and articles
• Interviews
• Documentaries

Entries in bold are articles that have appeared in either Kinoeye or Central Europe Review.

We are always looking for more articles to add. Please contact us if you have any suggestions.

 

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Articles in Kinoeye

• Black, Andy. "Clocks, seagulls, Romeo and Juliet: Surrealism Rollin style," Kinoeye 2.7 (15 April 2002)
• Cherry, Brigid. "The universe of madness and death: Jean Rollin’s Fascination (1979)," Kinoeye 2.7 (15 April 2002)
• Kalat, David. "Exoticism and eroticism in French horror cinema: A brief introduction to the world of Jean Rollin," Kinoeye 2.7 (15 April 2002)
• Rhodes, Gary D. "'You are the only memory I have right now': Jean Rollin’s La Nuit des traquées (Night of the Hunted, 1980)," Kinoeye 2.7 (15 April 2002)
• Sparks, Doug. "The romance of childhood: Jean Rollin’s Lèvres de sang (Lips of Blood, 1975)," Kinoeye 2.7 (15 April 2002)

 

Websites

• Blood Sucking Erotica: The Films of Jean Rollin
• Horror Directors on Video and DVD
• Mondo Erotico
• The Cinema of Jean Rollin
• Virgins and Vampires

 

Reviews and articles

Online essays

• Museedesvampires.com (follow link to Jean Rollin essay, in French)
• "Castillos, lesbianas y aburrimiento" (in Spanish)

Online reviews

• Amazing World of Cult Movies – Night of the Hunted"
• "CineXtreme – Fascination"
• "Gotterdamerung – Demoniacs"
• "Culture Dose – Rape of the Vampire"
• "Cinetrange – Grapes of Death" (in French)
• "Alex Visani – Zombie Lake" (in Italian)
• Cooke, Paul. "Grapes of Death"
• Papoz, Micky. "Les Deux Orphelines Vampires" (in French)

Print essays

• Bird, Daniel. "Jean Rollin: Cinematic Poet." In Necronomicon: The Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema, Book 1, ed Andy Black (London: Creation Books, 1996).
• Kalat, David. "French revolution: the secret history of French horror movies," Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe, ed Steven Jay Schneider (Surrey: FAB Press, forthcoming 2003).
• Lucas, Tim. "Versions and Vampires," Video Watchdog, 31, 1996, 28-35.
• Tohill, Cathal and Tombs, Pete . "Back to the Beach: the films of Jean Rollin" in Immoral Tales: Sex and Horror Cinema in Europe 1956-1984 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 135-92.

 

Interviews

Online

• Necromonicon Excerpt
• Devildead.com (in French)

• Objectif-cinema.com (in French)
• Black, Andy. "Clocks, seagulls, Romeo and Juliet: Surrealism Rollin style," Kinoeye 2.7 (15 April 2002)
• Blumenstock, Peter. "Jean Rollin has risen from the grave!" The Official Jean Rollin Website
• Durand, Frédérick. "13 Questions to Jean Rollin." The Official Jean Rollin Website
• Thompson, Nathaniel. "Blood and Pathos: Jean Rollin: The Interview." Mondo-Digital Website

Print

• Amarcord #5.
• Blumenstock, Peter. Video Watchdog #31, 1996: 36-57.
• European Trash Cinema #8. Craig Ledbetter, ed

Documentaries

• McCrae, Scooter. Interview with Jean Rollin and Brigitte Lahaie, from double DVD release by Dark Side Magazine.
• Virgins and Vampires: the Films of Jean Rollin, from the UK TV series Eurotika!

Compiled by
 
Steven Jay Schneider and Maxwell Anderson