Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 28, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Marcel Marceau is Shanks.
Starring world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau in a dual role, the bizarre 1974 cult horror-fantasy film Shanks is the final movie directed by William Castle, the equally renowned gimmick-loving horror filmmaker who produced Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby just a few years earlier.
Malcolm Shanks (Marceau) is a sad deaf and mute man living with his cruel sister (Tsilla Chelton) and her husband (Philippe Clay), who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. This talent that earns him a job as a lab assistant to an weird professor (also Marceau) who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies with electrodes and manipulating their bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body,...
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Marcel Marceau is Shanks.
Starring world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau in a dual role, the bizarre 1974 cult horror-fantasy film Shanks is the final movie directed by William Castle, the equally renowned gimmick-loving horror filmmaker who produced Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby just a few years earlier.
Malcolm Shanks (Marceau) is a sad deaf and mute man living with his cruel sister (Tsilla Chelton) and her husband (Philippe Clay), who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. This talent that earns him a job as a lab assistant to an weird professor (also Marceau) who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies with electrodes and manipulating their bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body,...
- 3/29/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
French actor known for her role as the cantankerous widow in Tatie Danielle, the 1990 film directed by Étienne Chatiliez
With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars. Like Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955) and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1972), Chelton, who has died aged 93, finally moved into the limelight in her 70s.
In this second feature directed by Étienne Chatiliez, Auntie Danielle manipulates everyone around her, including her great-nephew, his family and a housekeeper whom she regularly abuses, until she meets her match in a young woman paid to look after her. Not pathetic or twinkly-eyed, as older people are generally depicted in the movies, Chelton, in the antipathetic title role, is on screen most of the time, not seeking understanding,...
With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars. Like Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955) and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1972), Chelton, who has died aged 93, finally moved into the limelight in her 70s.
In this second feature directed by Étienne Chatiliez, Auntie Danielle manipulates everyone around her, including her great-nephew, his family and a housekeeper whom she regularly abuses, until she meets her match in a young woman paid to look after her. Not pathetic or twinkly-eyed, as older people are generally depicted in the movies, Chelton, in the antipathetic title role, is on screen most of the time, not seeking understanding,...
- 7/22/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Shanks (1974) Direction: William Castle Cast: Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher, Larry Bishop, Don Calfa Screenplay: Ranald Graham Oscar Movies Schlock-master William Castle's Shanks, a little-known curiosity piece, is the story (written by Ranald Graham) of Malcolm Shanks, a deaf-mute puppeteer who leaves his abusive family to go to work for the creator of a device that brings the dead back to life. Shortly after sharing his secrets with the puppeteer, the scientist dies. Since pantomimist Marcel Marceau stars as both the deaf-mute and the scientist, Shanks offers precious little dialogue. In fact, long stretches of the film have no speech at all. And with title cards to connect the scenes, Shanks plays almost like a silent movie. It's really too bad it wasn't filmed in black and white. In this dream-like fantasy, Shanks continues the resuscitation process on the scientist himself. But instead of a complete resurrection,...
- 3/21/2011
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
And here's the rest, including the Midnight Section, all after the break.
Encounters
This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.
• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.
Encounters
This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.
• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.
- 3/11/2009
- QuietEarth.us
- Turkey Film Scene: Local With the 2009 calender year upon us, I looked back at last year's domestic box office stats and surprisingly, Turkish cinema's top ten box office films were all local products. Audience numbers went up last year and the top ten largest grossing films population preferred mostly mainstream, formulaic homegrown comedies over Hollywood films and even a critical favorites like Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys. Last month proved to be a great start for helmer Özcan Alper’s debut film Sonbahar (Autumn). The drama centers around a young man, named Yusuf, who was sentenced to jail in 1997 and released ten years later because of his health issues. When he returns to his village at the top of the mountains of Eastern Black Sea, it appears that the life of his village had changed. There he had his relations with his elderly mother, his childhood friend, and a beautiful Georgian woman.
- 2/1/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Pandora’s Box by Yesim Ustaoglu won two awards in San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, including the top award, Golden Shell. The best actress prize award went to Tsilla Chelton, famed with her role in the 1990 French movie Tatie Denielle. She learned Turkish for her part in Pandora’s Box, an Alzheimer’s afflicted mother of three mid-aged siblings who decide to bring her into the city from the Black Sea village she lives after learning about her developing condition. Chelton, whose performance had already received praises in early reviews is accompanied by Derya Alabora, Ovul Avkiran and Osman Sonant.
Pandora’s Box recently has been shown in North America, in the Toronto International Film Festival. Below is the synopsis from the film’s page on Tiff web site. A collection of clips from the movie can be found at San Sebastian Film Festival’s site, linked below.
Pandora...
Pandora’s Box recently has been shown in North America, in the Toronto International Film Festival. Below is the synopsis from the film’s page on Tiff web site. A collection of clips from the movie can be found at San Sebastian Film Festival’s site, linked below.
Pandora...
- 9/30/2008
- by Z
- Screen Anarchy
San Sebastian, Spain -- Yesim Ustaoglu's "Pandora's Box" walked away with the Golden Shell in a ceremony Saturday night that sprinkled prizes broadly and wrapped the 56th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Michael Winterbottom took the best director honor for "Genova," starring Colin Firth, while Samira Makhmalbaf's Iranian-French "Two-Legged Horse" won the special jury prize.
Cao Baoping's "The Equation of Love and Death" won the coveted 90,000-euro Altadis-New Directors Prize, to be split between the director and the Spanish distributor of the film.
"Pandora's Box" protagonist Tsilla Chelton shared the best actress award with Melissa Leo for her role in "Frozen River," while Oscar Martinez won the actor award for his role as a writer struggling with his children's growing independence in "Empty Nest."
"Nest," directed by Daniel Burman, also picked up the prize for Hugo Colace's cinematography, while Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern won the best screenplay prize for "Louise-Michel.
Michael Winterbottom took the best director honor for "Genova," starring Colin Firth, while Samira Makhmalbaf's Iranian-French "Two-Legged Horse" won the special jury prize.
Cao Baoping's "The Equation of Love and Death" won the coveted 90,000-euro Altadis-New Directors Prize, to be split between the director and the Spanish distributor of the film.
"Pandora's Box" protagonist Tsilla Chelton shared the best actress award with Melissa Leo for her role in "Frozen River," while Oscar Martinez won the actor award for his role as a writer struggling with his children's growing independence in "Empty Nest."
"Nest," directed by Daniel Burman, also picked up the prize for Hugo Colace's cinematography, while Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern won the best screenplay prize for "Louise-Michel.
- 9/28/2008
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One doesn't have to have a Ph.D. in geriatric behavior to acknowledge that the elderly, like small children, have a natural power base for obnoxious behavior, and that kind and considerate people often indulge them, dismissing their most unsavory antics as a side-effect of their age. In certain instances, including this story, such latitude is perceived by the elderly person as a form of condescension, and, ultimately, as a type of personal rejection.
In this spry and vital story, Tsilla Chelton stars as Danielle, a chronically depressed 82-year-old widow who longs for death; at least it will reunite her with her late husband (who died more than 50 years ago on Armistice Day) whose portrait she commiserates with in extended, paranoidal monologues. Content only when gorging upon sweets (forbidden by her doctor) and sneaking peeks at TV soaps, the old woman tyrannizes all who care for her, most prominently a devoted housekeeper (Neige Dolsky), a grand nephew (Eric Prat) and his obsequious wife (Catherine Jacob). She also gets her jollies from annoying strangers, kicking household pets and disdaining authority figures -- in short, as W.C. Fields would concur, she's not all bad.
Capturing both the elderly woman's mean-spirited nature as well as her sense of abandonment, screenwriter Florence Quentin has fleshed out a splendidly entertaining yet disturbing story. While the scenario seems a tad bloated with repetitions of the aged Danielle's most-abrasive behavior, director Etienne Chatiliez has honed a remarkably rounded human portrait in this spare and feisty movie.
The performances all shine, especially Chelton as the autocratic aunt. It's a straight-to-the-marrow performance, and Chelton maintains a hard integrity throughout, never sugar-coating her portrayal of the rancorous Danielle with false endearment or cutesy theatrics.
As the old woman's well-meaning but ultimately off-putting familial caretakers, Eric Prat and Mathieu Foulon are perfect -- they are the personification of good intentions gone awry. Isabelle Nanty's performance as a spunky young woman who calls the old lady's bluff is terrific. Nanty deftly shows her independent character's inner need to be loved, as well as her winning take-no-guff attitude.
Technical contributions are excellent. Director of photography Philippe Welt's crisp compositions and composer Gabriel Yared's crosscurrent woodwinds eloquently convey the contradictory human needs on display here.
TATIE DANIELLE
Prestige
A Film by Etienne Chatiliez
Producer Charles Gassot
Director Etienne Chatiliez
Screenwriter Florence Quentin
Line producer Volker Lemke
Director of photographyPhilippe Welt
Production designerGeoffroy Larcher
MusicGabriel Yared
EditorCatherine Renault
Costume designer Elisabeth Tavernier
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Tatie DanielleTsilla Chelton
Catherine Billard Catherine Jacob
Sandrine Isabelle Nanty
Odile Neige Dolsky
Jean-Pierre Billard Laurence Fevrier
Madamde Lafosse Virginie Pradal
Jean-Marie Billard Mathieu Foulon
Running time -- 110 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
In this spry and vital story, Tsilla Chelton stars as Danielle, a chronically depressed 82-year-old widow who longs for death; at least it will reunite her with her late husband (who died more than 50 years ago on Armistice Day) whose portrait she commiserates with in extended, paranoidal monologues. Content only when gorging upon sweets (forbidden by her doctor) and sneaking peeks at TV soaps, the old woman tyrannizes all who care for her, most prominently a devoted housekeeper (Neige Dolsky), a grand nephew (Eric Prat) and his obsequious wife (Catherine Jacob). She also gets her jollies from annoying strangers, kicking household pets and disdaining authority figures -- in short, as W.C. Fields would concur, she's not all bad.
Capturing both the elderly woman's mean-spirited nature as well as her sense of abandonment, screenwriter Florence Quentin has fleshed out a splendidly entertaining yet disturbing story. While the scenario seems a tad bloated with repetitions of the aged Danielle's most-abrasive behavior, director Etienne Chatiliez has honed a remarkably rounded human portrait in this spare and feisty movie.
The performances all shine, especially Chelton as the autocratic aunt. It's a straight-to-the-marrow performance, and Chelton maintains a hard integrity throughout, never sugar-coating her portrayal of the rancorous Danielle with false endearment or cutesy theatrics.
As the old woman's well-meaning but ultimately off-putting familial caretakers, Eric Prat and Mathieu Foulon are perfect -- they are the personification of good intentions gone awry. Isabelle Nanty's performance as a spunky young woman who calls the old lady's bluff is terrific. Nanty deftly shows her independent character's inner need to be loved, as well as her winning take-no-guff attitude.
Technical contributions are excellent. Director of photography Philippe Welt's crisp compositions and composer Gabriel Yared's crosscurrent woodwinds eloquently convey the contradictory human needs on display here.
TATIE DANIELLE
Prestige
A Film by Etienne Chatiliez
Producer Charles Gassot
Director Etienne Chatiliez
Screenwriter Florence Quentin
Line producer Volker Lemke
Director of photographyPhilippe Welt
Production designerGeoffroy Larcher
MusicGabriel Yared
EditorCatherine Renault
Costume designer Elisabeth Tavernier
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Tatie DanielleTsilla Chelton
Catherine Billard Catherine Jacob
Sandrine Isabelle Nanty
Odile Neige Dolsky
Jean-Pierre Billard Laurence Fevrier
Madamde Lafosse Virginie Pradal
Jean-Marie Billard Mathieu Foulon
Running time -- 110 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 6/23/1991
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Little old ladies have usually gotten a bum rap in the movies, stereotyped as loveable, quirky and good-hearted. The lead character in ''Tatie Danielle'' (Aunt Danielle) has none of those qualities. She's an irascible, manipulative old coot and, accordingly, a breath of fresh air on the screen. Black comedy connoisseurs who fondly remember ''Where's Poppa?'' and ''Throw Mama From the Train'' will delight in ''Tatie Danielle, '' both for its dark humor and for its perceptive slant on the debilitating effects of aging.
One doesn't have to have a Ph.D. in geriatric behavior to acknowledge that the elderly, like small children, have a natural power base for obnoxious behavior, and that kind and considerate people often indulge them, dismissing their most unsavory antics as a side-effect of their age. In certain instances, including this story, such latitude is perceived by the elderly person as a form of condescension, and, ultimately, as a type of personal rejection.
In this spry and vital story, Tsilla Chelton stars as Danielle, a chronically depressed 82-year-old widow who longs for death; at least it will reunite her with her late husband (who died more than 50 years ago on Armistice Day) whose portrait she commiserates with in extended, paranoidal monologues. Content only when gorging upon sweets (forbidden by her doctor) and sneaking peeks at TV soaps, the old woman tyrannizes all who care for her, most prominently a devoted housekeeper (Neige Dolsky), a grand nephew (Eric Prat) and his obsequious wife (Catherine Jacob). She also gets her jollies from annoying strangers, kicking household pets and disdaining authority figures -- in short, as W.C. Fields would concur, she's not all bad.
Capturing both the elderly woman's mean-spirited nature as well as her sense of abandonment, screenwriter Florence Quentin has fleshed out a splendidly entertaining yet disturbing story. While the scenario seems a tad bloated with repetitions of the aged Danielle's most-abrasive behavior, director Etienne Chatiliez has honed a remarkably rounded human portrait in this spare and feisty movie.
The performances all shine, especially Chelton as the autocratic aunt. It's a straight-to-the-marrow performance, and Chelton maintains a hard integrity throughout, never sugar-coating her portrayal of the rancorous Danielle with false endearment or cutesy theatrics.
As the old woman's well-meaning but ultimately off-putting familial caretakers, Eric Prat and Mathieu Foulon are perfect -- they are the personification of good intentions gone awry. Isabelle Nanty's performance as a spunky young woman who calls the old lady's bluff is terrific. Nanty deftly shows her independent character's inner need to be loved, as well as her winning take-no-guff attitude.
Technical contributions are excellent. Director of photography Philippe Welt's crisp compositions and composer Gabriel Yared's crosscurrent woodwinds eloquently convey the contradictory human needs on display here.
TATIE DANIELLE
Prestige
A Film by Etienne Chatiliez
ProducerCharles Gassot
DirectorEtienne Chatiliez
ScreenwriterFlorence Quentin
Line producerVolker Lemke
Director of photographyPhilippe Welt
Production designerGeoffroy Larcher
MusicGabriel Yared
EditorCatherine Renault
Costume designerElisabeth Tavernier
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Tatie DanielleTsilla Chelton
Catherine BillardCatherine Jacob
SandrineIsabelle Nanty
OdileNeige Dolsky
Jean-Pierre BillardLaurence Fevrier
Madamde LafosseVirginie Pradal
Jean-Marie BillardMathieu Foulon
Running time -- 110 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
One doesn't have to have a Ph.D. in geriatric behavior to acknowledge that the elderly, like small children, have a natural power base for obnoxious behavior, and that kind and considerate people often indulge them, dismissing their most unsavory antics as a side-effect of their age. In certain instances, including this story, such latitude is perceived by the elderly person as a form of condescension, and, ultimately, as a type of personal rejection.
In this spry and vital story, Tsilla Chelton stars as Danielle, a chronically depressed 82-year-old widow who longs for death; at least it will reunite her with her late husband (who died more than 50 years ago on Armistice Day) whose portrait she commiserates with in extended, paranoidal monologues. Content only when gorging upon sweets (forbidden by her doctor) and sneaking peeks at TV soaps, the old woman tyrannizes all who care for her, most prominently a devoted housekeeper (Neige Dolsky), a grand nephew (Eric Prat) and his obsequious wife (Catherine Jacob). She also gets her jollies from annoying strangers, kicking household pets and disdaining authority figures -- in short, as W.C. Fields would concur, she's not all bad.
Capturing both the elderly woman's mean-spirited nature as well as her sense of abandonment, screenwriter Florence Quentin has fleshed out a splendidly entertaining yet disturbing story. While the scenario seems a tad bloated with repetitions of the aged Danielle's most-abrasive behavior, director Etienne Chatiliez has honed a remarkably rounded human portrait in this spare and feisty movie.
The performances all shine, especially Chelton as the autocratic aunt. It's a straight-to-the-marrow performance, and Chelton maintains a hard integrity throughout, never sugar-coating her portrayal of the rancorous Danielle with false endearment or cutesy theatrics.
As the old woman's well-meaning but ultimately off-putting familial caretakers, Eric Prat and Mathieu Foulon are perfect -- they are the personification of good intentions gone awry. Isabelle Nanty's performance as a spunky young woman who calls the old lady's bluff is terrific. Nanty deftly shows her independent character's inner need to be loved, as well as her winning take-no-guff attitude.
Technical contributions are excellent. Director of photography Philippe Welt's crisp compositions and composer Gabriel Yared's crosscurrent woodwinds eloquently convey the contradictory human needs on display here.
TATIE DANIELLE
Prestige
A Film by Etienne Chatiliez
ProducerCharles Gassot
DirectorEtienne Chatiliez
ScreenwriterFlorence Quentin
Line producerVolker Lemke
Director of photographyPhilippe Welt
Production designerGeoffroy Larcher
MusicGabriel Yared
EditorCatherine Renault
Costume designerElisabeth Tavernier
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Tatie DanielleTsilla Chelton
Catherine BillardCatherine Jacob
SandrineIsabelle Nanty
OdileNeige Dolsky
Jean-Pierre BillardLaurence Fevrier
Madamde LafosseVirginie Pradal
Jean-Marie BillardMathieu Foulon
Running time -- 110 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
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