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in EpisodesIrma Vep Episode 5: “Hypnotic Eyes”
The following contains spoilers for Irma Vep Episode 5, “Hypnotic Eyes” (written and directed by Olivier Assayas) “Hypnotic Eyes” opens with a gaze. The gaze belongs to Vampires arch-rival Moreno, he of those infamous hypnotic eyes. It’s one that reminds of the centrality of the gaze to so much film theory writer-director Olivier Assayas’s characters will […] More
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Irma Vep Episode 4: “The Poisoner”
The following contains spoilers for Irma Vep Episode 4, “The Poisoner” (written and directed by Olivier Assayas) What happened to Edmond? At the end of last week’s Episode 3 of Olivier Assayas’s eight-part HBO series adapting his 1996 film Irma Vep, the actor (played by Vincent Lacoste) passed out, apparently from injury suffered in an on-set […] More
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Irma Vep Episode 3: “Dead Man’s Escape”
The following contains spoilers for Irma Vep Episode 3, “Dead Man’s Escape” (written and directed by Olivier Assayas) The title of Episode 3 of Olivier Assayas’s eight-part limited series for HBO, Irma Vep—“Dead Man’s Escape”—feels a little more on point than those of the first two episodes. In this meta-meta commentary on the filmmaking industry and […] More
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Baby It’s Hot Outside! Stay in and Watch Irma Vep and Watcher (2022)
Recommendations this week include Irma Vep and Watcher They call it the dog days of summer because all you want to do is lie around like a dog with its tongue stuck out. Of course, that’s not true and it’s also not the dog days of summer now, but boy it sure has been hot […] More
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Irma Vep Episode 2: “The Ring that Kills”
The following contains spoilers for Irma Vep Episode 2, “The Ring that Kills” (written and directed by Olivier Assayas) If last week’s premiere episode of HBO’s new miniseries Irma Vep, written and directed by Olivier Assayas as an eight-part adaptation of his own 1996 feature film, gave viewers all the necessary exposition they needed to […] More
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Irma Vep Episode 1: “The Severed Head”
The following contains spoilers for Irma Vep Episode 1, “The Severed Head” (written and directed by Olivier Assayas) Having recently rewatched Olivier Assayas’s brilliant, confounding 1996 cult classic Irma Vep for an “Off the Shelf” review of the Criterion Collection’s two-disc Blu-ray edition laden with deep-dive special features, I could not have been more excited […] More
