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Cremaster 5 (1998)

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The five in-progress avant-garde Cremaster films have been made out of sequence for a Guggenheim Museum showing of all five in the year 2000; Cremaster 5 is actually the third to be filmed (released in 1998 when number two and number three had not yet been made). In number five, the Queen of Chains (Ursula Andress, with the singing voice of Adrienne Csengery), wearing a glass dumbbell on her head, moves into the restored Budapest Opera House where she sings passionately of her lost love

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Some of the richest, most gorgeous imagery of the cycle, much of it taking place in a dark, baroque Budapest opera house. Holds the interest hypnotically, but may seem inconclusive for the concluding segment of such a sprawling work

October 11, 2010 Full Review Source: DCist | Comment

Barney's outlandish mise-en-scène, forever emphasizing the organic, the amorphous, the massive, the adhesive, and the fluorescent in quite literal ways, also retains those very qualities in my memory.

May 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks | Comment
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This final 'Cremaster' film is the most static of the series, and will appeal most to fans of opera.

February 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | Comment

Lots of classy dark colours and soaring music...

February 2, 2004 Comment

Surreal and untouchable and yet it taps into a powerful sense of emotion.

February 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall
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(Museum Exhibit) (First Viewing, 1st Barney film) I was wandering through the Tate Modern Museum in London this afternoon, and stumbled on an exhibit showing this film, and I jumped at the chance to see it (since I missed it when it played last year in San Diego). Reading the user comments over at IMDb, some says 5

September 4, 2004
Othello
Jesse Last

Cremaster 4 was so bad. My friend and I were wondering how it's possible to get four other films made when the first is so bad. And how does someone go about making the fourth film in a series of five films first? Weird. Anyway, I actually saw Cremaster 5 first, and that one was pretty good. I'd heard some really

June 11, 2004
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David Heffler

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