Woman of the Dunes DVD Silent Cinema an hour long documentary on

an hour long documentary on the making of the film and much more| Starring Joaquin Phoenix

Violent and frenetic body horror films which use practical effects and in camera techniques imaginatively and effectively

examining what exactly makes them popular

A young woman cracks up in her London flat under pressures real and imagined

Woman of the Dunes DVD Silent Cinema an hour long documentary on'Woman of the Dunes' Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964) BFI DVD Staff Pick Japanese w English subtitles One of the 1960s great international art house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara and writer Kb Abe (Face of Another, Pitfall). When an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle in a vast desert misses his bus back to