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FANTOMAS: THE SUPER KRIME KUT
1913/2026
Director
Louis Feuillade
Starring
René Navarre
Edmond Bréon
Georges Melchior
Renée Carl
Runtime
105 minutes
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“Fantômas.”
“What did you say?”
“I said: Fantômas.”
“And what does that mean?”
“Nothing. . . . Everything!”
“But what is it?”
“Nobody. . . . And yet it is somebody!”
“And what does the somebody do?”
“Spread terror!”
Louis Feuillade's astonishing string of FANTÔMAS motion pictures produced from 1913 to 1914 are not only ground zero for cinematic super crime, they are an opportunity to witness the birth of cinema as popular art before your very eyes.
René Navarre stars as the criminal lord of Paris, the master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black: Fantômas. This dapper and mysterious figure holds Paris in a grip of terror and commands an army of street thugs to do his nefarious bidding. Facing him is his nemesis, Inspector Juve (Edmund Breon), and Juve's friend, journalist Jerôme Fandor (Georges Melchior), who will stop at nothing to bring the criminal genius down.
Cinephiles, crime fans, avant-garde artists, and mass audiences have found the FANTÔMAS films anxiety-provoking, even hallucinatory. The delirious imagery and plot twists are felt to harbor a demented poetry, an existential frisson that unmoors us from rationality and makes us feel the secret currents swirling through the modern city. They arouse our love of narrative invention and dazzle us with flourishes of cinematic style. The conventions of the genre, all the disguises and elaborate schemes and surprising revelations engineered by the Genius behind the scenes, the cascades of coincidence and the hairbreadth escapes aren’t merely enjoyable in themselves. They show how little plausibility matters to storytelling. So let Fantômas make your flesh creep, if your flesh is creepward inclined.
The Beacon is proud to present a special, reworked version of Feuillade's films, condensed and rearranged into a single narrative and presented with a new accompaniment of avant-garde club music to underline the super kriminal reign of terror!
“What did you say?”
“I said: Fantômas.”
“And what does that mean?”
“Nothing. . . . Everything!”
“But what is it?”
“Nobody. . . . And yet it is somebody!”
“And what does the somebody do?”
“Spread terror!”
Louis Feuillade's astonishing string of FANTÔMAS motion pictures produced from 1913 to 1914 are not only ground zero for cinematic super crime, they are an opportunity to witness the birth of cinema as popular art before your very eyes.
René Navarre stars as the criminal lord of Paris, the master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black: Fantômas. This dapper and mysterious figure holds Paris in a grip of terror and commands an army of street thugs to do his nefarious bidding. Facing him is his nemesis, Inspector Juve (Edmund Breon), and Juve's friend, journalist Jerôme Fandor (Georges Melchior), who will stop at nothing to bring the criminal genius down.
Cinephiles, crime fans, avant-garde artists, and mass audiences have found the FANTÔMAS films anxiety-provoking, even hallucinatory. The delirious imagery and plot twists are felt to harbor a demented poetry, an existential frisson that unmoors us from rationality and makes us feel the secret currents swirling through the modern city. They arouse our love of narrative invention and dazzle us with flourishes of cinematic style. The conventions of the genre, all the disguises and elaborate schemes and surprising revelations engineered by the Genius behind the scenes, the cascades of coincidence and the hairbreadth escapes aren’t merely enjoyable in themselves. They show how little plausibility matters to storytelling. So let Fantômas make your flesh creep, if your flesh is creepward inclined.
The Beacon is proud to present a special, reworked version of Feuillade's films, condensed and rearranged into a single narrative and presented with a new accompaniment of avant-garde club music to underline the super kriminal reign of terror!