#the ninth gate 1999

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Happy 22nd of DEPPcember!

(Johnny Depp) (22/31)

(The Ninth Gate) [1999]

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A book broker discovers his latest find may summon Satan.

mod L says: note that while this is technically an American production (through an American production company) it was not filmed in America, because director Roman Polanski is not allowed in America on account of his crimes.

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Johnny Depp at press conference in Toledo, Spain photographed by Domonique Faget/Getty (September 1998)

Re: Johnny Depp as Dean Corso in The Ninth Gate (1999) dir. Roman Polanski

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Roman Polanski & Emmanuelle Seigner at the premiere of The Ninth Gate at Biarritz cinema, Paris 1999. Photo by Rindoff - Borde

Roman Polanski & Emmanuelle Seigner at the premiere of “The Ninth Gate’ at Biarritz cinema, Paris 1999. Photo by Michel Ginies

Roman Polanski & Emmanuelle Seigner at the premiere of The Ninth Gate at Biarritz cinema, Paris 1999

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Johnny Depp Horror Icon

01. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

02. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

03. Ed Wood (1994)

04. Sleepy Hollow (1999)

05. The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

06. The Ninth Gate (1999)

07. Corpse Bride (2005)

08. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

09. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

10. From Hell (2001)

11. Secret Window (2004)

12. Dark Shadows (2012)

13. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

14. Transcendence (2014)

15. Marilyn Manson: Kill4Me (2017)

16. London Fields (2018))

17. Tusk (2014)

18. Yoga Hosers (2016)

[tygerland]

The Ninth Gate (1999)

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"There's nothing more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash." - The Ninth Gate (1999)

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Dear @faisonsunreve thanks for the tag. This was definitely a time taking task but so much fun to do. A true time travel to your watching history. To my surprise there are three French films and three Tom Hanks films included. 😄

A few comments about certain choices.

Favorite film of all time: The Thief of Bagdad (1940): The jewel of the film is Conrad Veidt’s insane Jaffar dressed up with the turban.

Best script: Some Like It Hot (1959): The story about two antihero musicians trying to make a living and avoiding gangsters by dressing as women and joining a female band and traveling to Miami is still unique to watch.

Favorite poster: The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Memories from the childhood. Darth Vader’s perhaps a little too epic posture promises you an emotional adventure and that promise will be fulfilled.

"I’ll watch it some day": Napoléon (1927): @missholson and I were introduced to this 6-hour biopic of Napoleon and we were stunned by the shots of the twenty-minute triptych sequence, where widescreen panorama is made by projecting multiple-image montages simultaneously on three screens. Blu-ray is waiting on the shelf.

Big personal impact: Elvis (2022): I wasn’t prepared for the narrative where female gaze and male vulnerability are allowed and validated.

You like, but everyone hates: Angels & Demons (2009): Don’t know today’s reception but when it was released the film was heavily criticized by the critics and the audience. I like both this and The Da Vinci Code (2006), but having more convincing characters, plot and hold for the entirety makes it better than the first one.

Underrated: The Ninth Gate (1999): Polanski is a very contradictory director for his sexual abuse charges, therefore it feels shameful to admit liking his films or considering his films to be valued. Many find Gate as a dull thriller. The film doesn’t rely on jump scares or gore but the mystery around the occult books and the things you can’t see. 

"Why do I like this?": Bachelor Party (1984): This is my favourite question of them all. I discussed with @faisonsunreve about on what basis you should answer this and does it reveal your true movie taste. The 80’s crazy comedy is a silly and out-dated genre and that is why the films of this era fascinate me. Bachelor Party is full of lame humor and over-the-top characters. Yet the storyline is versatile and entertaining. Young Tom Hanks embodies the past. 

Great soundtrack: La Cage aux Folles (1978): Ennio Morricone has said first he has to understand the film, the images, the story and the director’s intentions before starting to compose. I would like to know his study for Folles, because the soundtrack has such a humorous, characteristic and warm sound. 

That cinematography: Furiant (2015): I was balancing between Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and La double vie de Véronique (1991), but this short film stands out with the way the rural landscapes, the dimly lit rooms and the unspoken moments are visualized (and edited) by the producer, director, writer, cinematographer and editor Ondřej Hudeček.

Criminally overlooked: Angélique film series (1964-68): Yes, you could put almost any Conrad Veidt film here, however I chose this. I have been fond of Angélique films since I was a child. These spectacles tell the story of Angélique in the time of King Louis XIV of France. Romance, adventure, scheming with breathtaking soundtrack and costume design, beautiful Michèle Mercier in the leading role and the flashy way of speaking French offer us an exquisite interpretation from the 60’s. 

Favorite active director: Peter Strickland: I have seen only The Duke of Burgundy (2014) and Flux Gourmet (2022), nevertheless his style of using the aesthetics of Italian genre films and the intimacy he creates is just heartwarming.

Anyone who wants to make their own version, please do and let me know. 📼📀📦🔦

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...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Interdimensional portals and gateways to Hell in horror films

Come then, dearest. Let us walk, hand in hand, through the fiery Gardens of Hell!

The Sentinel (1977) The Beyond (1981) Poltergeist (1982) Hellraiser (1987) Event Horizon (1997) Ninth Gate (1999) Constantine (2005) Drag Me to Hell (2009) The Void (2016)

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Happy 8th of DEPPcember!

(Johnny Depp) (8/31)

(The Ninth Gate) [1999]

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The Ninth Gate, 1999

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I remember you saying that you're okay with watching horror movies (no zombie stuff though). Does that include the horror slasher and horror gore genres (things like the Scream or Saw movies)? If so, have you seen any of those and did you like them? Also ,any favorite horror movies you can rec?

Hello! This is a fun question! I do love non-zombie horror movies, but I can't stand gore, which is a fine and delicate line to walk. The original Scream is actually one of my favorites, for example, but if you want the Saw franchise you'll have to talk to my partner @rudojudo, who loves those movies so much they've been working on an extremely silly TTRPG inspired by them. Mostly I survive watching these movies that I love specifically by watching them with Rudo, who will happily let me cover my face during particularly nasty scenes and tell me when it's safe to look again. (What's even worse is, I hate gore but I love Clive Barker. My life is agony.)

Anyway! Here are some of my favorite horror movies, all of which I recommend highly! Not all of them are slashers, but all of them are delightful.

The original Halloween (1978) and Halloween (2018)

Dark Star (1974)

Warlock (1989)

The Prophecy (1995)

Wishmaster (1997)

Gojira (1954)

Event Horizon (1997)

Crimson Peak (2015)

The Menu (2022)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Candyman (1992)

There's also the whole Garo franchise, of course, which is a nice bundle of tasty horror for me, with the caveat that some of it does suck, and The Ninth Gate (1999), which I can't honestly recommend but I do love.

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The Ninth Gate (1999)

Dir. Roman Polanski

Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) specializes in tracking down rare and exotic volumes for collectors. Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) has recently acquired a seventeenth-century satanic text called The Nine Gates- a legendary book written by Satan himself. With The Nine Gates in his possession, Corso soon finds himself at the center of strange and violent goings-on. Not only is his apartment ransacked, it appears that he is being shadowed ferociously by others determined to regain the book.

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#1999 #David Letterman #Letterman promoting #Sleepy Hollow

Johnny talks about #Lily Rose #London incident #Mark Hotel NY incident #speaking French #The Ninth Gate #Roman Polanski

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So where does the white-glove myth come from? A frequently cited 2005 scholarly article, “Misperceptions About White Gloves,” found little historical support for the practice. Rather, the stereotype seemed to really take root in the public mind in the 1990s, the authors found, possibly thanks to images in archival supply catalogs.

Pop culture has hardly helped matters. In the movie “National Treasure,” Nicolas Cage and his co-conspirators wear white gloves while handling the Declaration of Independence. (They also squeeze lemon juice on the document and blast it with a hairdryer, in an attempt to reveal a secret message.)

In the 1999 bibliothriller “The Ninth Gate,” Johnny Depp, who plays a swashbuckling book dealer tasked with authenticating a 17th-century volume that may contain an incantation for summoning the Devil, does not wear gloves. But he does press the precious volume flat on a photocopier, and at one point even stashes it behind a minifridge.

“That’s the worst place to keep a book,” Heritage said. The film (whose howlers have inspired a drinking game at Rare Book School) is “basically about how not to treat books.”