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	Salon \| "Irma Vep"
		Slinky, smart and funny, "Irma Vep" doesn't send up that sticky-sweet incense smell you usually get in movies about the joy of cinema-with-a-capital-C. It's a languorous love ballad, and a daring one, about the way moving pictures move, the way they hold light, the way they steal from us when we're not looking.
		As Irma Vep, the leader of a mysterious gang of thieves who haunt Paris by night -- a part originally played by the legendary French silent star Musidora, as René persistently reminds her -- Cheung creeps around the set in a fl latex cat suit.
		In "Irma Vep," shot in 16 mm on a tiny budget, Assayas affirms that for viewers and filmmakers alike, movies are still worth believing in -- that the very lunacy of trusting in their significance is just as brave and extravagant an act as actually going out and making one yourself.
	www.salon.com /may97/vep970509.html (1038 words)

	Irma Vep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She spends most of the film dressed in a tight, fl, latex rubber suit, defending her directors' odd choices to hostile crew members and journalists.
		In the 1915 original serial, written and directed by Louis Feuillade, Irma Vep (an anagram for vampire) was played by French silent film actress Musidora (1889-1957).
		The Mystery of Irma Vep, a 1984 play for two characters by Charles Ludlam
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irma_Vep (228 words)

	Irma Vep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
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	www.dvd-vhs.net /irma-vep.html (963 words)

	Irma Vep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Irma Vep is presented as a comedy, but at its heart lies an examination of the art and craft of filmmaking.
		Irma Vep elicits two reactions from different groups of people: nay sayers who view it as yet another boring French film and people who focus on the film-about-a-film.
		Irma Vep should be viewed as a series of short films, tied together by the "plot" of the film.
	www.hallfictionbooks.com /store/dvd_1572522380_Irma-Vep.html (790 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Les Vampires / Irma Vep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Irma Vep, the most dominant member of “The Vampires”, uses a variety of disguises to infiltrate the homes of her victims.
		Irma’s changes as she accommodates herself to each of the several Grand Vampires, successively becoming inspiration and lover to each of them, can clearly be aligned with the strange bedfellows that result as different actors are paired with different directors for each project.
		Irma Vep is that if directors and audiences remain at odds with each other about what they want to be and see, then creation really cannot commence, and in its stead there will only be reactionary regurgitation.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1915/lesvampires.htm (1705 words)

	ipedia.com: Irma Vep Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Irma Vep is a 1996 film directed by French director Olivier Assayas, which stars Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung who plays herself in a story about the many disasters that ensue when a middle-aged Fre...
		Irma Vep is a 1996 film directed by French director Olivier Assayas, which stars Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung who plays herself in a story about the many disasters that ensue when a middle-aged French film maker (played by Francois Truffaut's fetish actor Jean-Pierre Léaud) decides to remake a vintage silent serial called "Les vampires".
		Irma Vep is a film about filmmaking, an insightful and disturbing film which delivers some beautiful voyeuristic glimpses of vampirism, realist cinema, gritty fl-and-white cine-retro and avant-garde French chic.
	www.ipedia.com /irma_vep.html (693 words)

	Amazon.com: Irma Vep: DVD: Maggie Cheung,Jean-Pierre Léaud,Nathalie Richard,Antoine Basler,Nathalie Boutefeu,Alex ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Irma Vep is presented as a comedy, but at its heart lies an examination of the art and craft of filmmaking.
		Irma Vep is an interesting film that portraits thoughts that are not followed through with or that cannot be followed through with unless they are organized.
		Irma Vep is a bizarre story about a young Chinese actress who plays the title character in a remake of the 1915 silent French film Les Vampires.
	www.amazon.com /Irma-Vep-Maggie-Cheung/dp/1572522380 (1515 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		"Irma Vep," the title of the film within the film, is the head villainess in Les vampires, her name an anagram of "vampire," who rules a gang of thieves who prey exclusively on the rich.
		For every character in Irma Vep, both male and female--virtually all of them part of the workaholic atmosphere of a film shoot, and thereby part of the same capitalist treadmill affecting most of us--it has something to do with libido and the sexual fantasies unleashed by that aggressive energy.
		To call Irma Vep a Day for Night of the 90s is to do it a gross injustice: for all the charm and bounce of Truffaut's movie, it has next to nothing to say about the contemporary world.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/0697/06137.html (2247 words)

	DVD Times - Irma Vep
		Irma Vep takes an amusing behind-the-scenes look at the French film industry, yet is quite critical of how it is funded, how it looks upon its cinematic legacy and how it is rife with complacency, seriousness, self-importance, petty in-fighting and jealousies that suffocate any real creativity.
		Irma Vep flows beautifully in this way with an unselfconscious technique that allows the backs of people’s heads to intrude on the compositions in the frame, giving the film a free and fluid ability to more authentically capture the situation it is depicting, imbuing the film with a wonderful freshness and lightness of touch.
		Irma Vep, by inviting a new and fresh approach to filmmaking, is consequently an important landmark French cinema, as well as for the films of Olivier Assayas.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=60265 (2011 words)

	Irma Vep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Irma Vep is a film loosely constructed around a single image, but it's a great one: Hong Kong cinema star Maggie Cheung in a latex catsuit.
		Irma Vep is a farce about filmmaking that evokes Truffaut's Day for Night, not least because René Vidal, the director of the film within the film, is played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.
		Irma Vep is even faster and more frenetic than Assayas's last film, Cold Water, which constantly threatened to collapse into entropy.
	bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/06-26-97/IRMA_VEP.html (723 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Irma Vep' puts stake in the heart of current cinema - June 12, 1997
		The film that we're watching being made in "Irma Vep" is a re-make of an actual silent French serial called "The Vampires." Irma Vep, the name of one of the jewel thieves in the completely blood sucker-less stories, is an anagram.
		Cheung is a real-life Hong Kong action movie star, and, in "Irma Vep," she plays Maggie Cheung, real-life Hong Kong action movie star.
		There's an anger in "Irma Vep" that only comes to the surface at this point, and the result is an unexpected shock to the system.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9706/12/irma.review (1001 words)

	Review - Irma Vep (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Bordering on the avant-garde, "Irma Vep," from French director Olivier Assayas (A New Life, Cold Water), tries but fails to hold your attention with its unusual subject matter and off-kilter premise.
		"Irma Vep" is performed mostly in English; the only language in which the French characters can communicate with Maggie.
		"Irma Vep" is a bland film, only watchable for the few moments when some of its characters actually participate in a well-scripted conversation, something that doesn't happen all that often.
	www.cinetalk.org /review_irma_vep.htm (515 words)

	Irma Vep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Irma Vep is (according to a review) supposed to be a "scathingly funny" indictment on the French movie industry, as Maggie (playing herself) travels to France to star in a remake of the silent movie Les Vampires, which is being directed by a mumble-mouthed burn-out (Jean-Pierre Leaud).
		Maggie doesn't like Hong Kong movies (this movie was Maggie's first in two years because she had gotten tired of the HK film industry and, more specifically, the hounding tabloid reporters around it, and her character seems to reflect these feelings), the French people don't like French movies, and everyone hates American movies.
		In the end, Irma Vep just seemed like a bunch of pointless bickering -- I felt like I didn't know the French film industry (or the people involved in it) any better than before I had watched this film.
	www.hkfilm.net /irmavep.htm (397 words)

	Irma Vep. The Cowl - Le Capuchon. by gnosisonG at Share Poetry
		Honestly, your description of Irma Vep feeding really delighted me...her belch was so human and yet the rest of her so fiendish...loved it.
		Irma (god bless `er) became the backdrop to events instigated however by her.
		With the Cowl I felt Vep to be a kind of Force of Nature disrupting life and limb of any she comes into the proximity of.
	sharepoetry.com /poem/show/10716 (3124 words)

	Film & TV: Irma Vep (Weekly Alibi . 09-15-97)
		The French have a wonderful slang term for it: "nombrilistic," which, bluntly translated, means "navel-gazing." The new film Irma Vep by up-and-coming avant-frenchy Oliver Assayas nestles quite nicely into the company of those other great filmmakers.
		Irma Vep's fast and loose storyline concerns a Hong Kong action star named Maggie Cheung (played by Hong Kong action star Maggie Cheung) who is summoned to Paris to star in a remake of Louis Feuillade's silent film classic Les Vampires.
		Irma Vep is certainly not a film for the casual viewer.
	www.weeklywire.com /ww/09-15-97/alibi_film1.html (617 words)

	girish: Irma Vep
		Irma Vep (1996), by Olivier Assayas, is one of the great movies about the making of a movie.
		Irma Vep's tone is much darker, much more night than day.
		In the maelstrom of mercenary hijinks and crazy delusions which Irma Vep documents, the serene center is Maggie Cheung, who observes this madness with bemusement.
	www.girishshambu.com /blog/2004/10/irma-vep.html (332 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Irma Vep
		In Irma Vep, it is Maggie Cheung, familiar to Hong Kong cinema fans, who gives a remarkably warm performance as herself.
		More is going on in Irma Vep than just the simple story of a crush on a movie star.
		Irma Vep (Unrated; 97 min.), directed and written by Olivier Assayas, photographed by Eric Gautier and starring Maggie Cheung and Jean-Pierre Léaud.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.14.97/irmavep-9733.html (588 words)

	ArtForum: Irma Vep. - motion picture - movie reviews
		As tempting as it is to compare Irma Vep to Truffaut's Day for Night, the latter is at best a point of departure - a set of chords on which to improvise a series of polyrhythmic riffs.
		In Irma Vep, there's a scene where a Neanderthal interviewer tries to browbeat Maggie Cheung into saying that the art cinema of people like Rene Vidal is finished, kaput; he crows over the master-race of action heroes (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme) that takes movies back to the stone age.
		The beauty of Irma Vep is that, in the same breath, it shows the impasse cinema has reached and points the way out.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n9_v35/ai_19587061 (1331 words)

	Stage Review: Actors take farcical twists and turns in 'The Mystery of Irma Vep'
		A wonderfully resourceful comic actor, he wrote "Irma Vep" mainly for himself, and the result is comic delight.
		Savoring this quick-change artistry is half the fun of "Irma Vep." You tingle with anticipation as Chambers exits stage left as the fluttery Enid and, even while her voice and presence still hover just behind that door, enters almost simultaneously upstage as the slovenly swineherd Nicodemus.
		Lycanthrophy is feared, not to mention vampires (study that title name, hint, hint) and there are also the mysteries of Egyptian tombs and of the elderly retainer, Jane, who may not be the loyal servant that she never really convinces you she ever was.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000505irmavep6.asp (785 words)

	nadja: Email address change: I am now at (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Irma Vep was a charcter in the 1915 French serial Les Vampires.
		I've seen neither, but Ross has seen the 1915 serial and has talked about it for a long time, thought I bore some resemblance to the actress who played her (Musidora), and suggested Irma Vep when I was trying to think of a gmail name.
		the star of "irma vep" was maggie cheung, playing herself, as we worked on a french filmmaker's attempt to remake "les vampires".
	www.livejournal.com /users/nadja/264520.html (469 words)

	Unmitigated Gaul By David Edelstein
		Irma Vep has been dubbed the anti-Day for Night, a cynical answer to Truffaut's romanticization of moviemaking for its own sweet sake.
		Irma Vep was written and shot on the fly, conceived as a piece of a three-part anthology and perhaps overextended.
		Imagine an Irma Vep-like documentary of The Fifth Element's filming, on vast sets, with hordes of technicians attending to hordes of gun-toting rubber hippos.
	www.slate.com /id/3218 (1493 words)

	Review: Irma Vep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas' incisive and entertaining 1996 feature, takes an offbeat look at the current state of French cinema.
		Re-arrange the letters in the name "Irma Vep" and you get "vampire." However, Les Vampires, like Vidal's remake, has nothing to do with the creatures of the night that Bram Stoker wrote about in his classic Dracula.
		Irma Vep features some wonderful performances (notably those of Cheung, Leaud, and Richard), that, in concert with its sure direction and smart script, make for a wholly satisfying motion picture.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/i/irma.html (836 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Vampy and Campy, Irma Vep Still Lags
		Irma Vep has all the elements of a romantic horror story, including vampires, mummies, a family curse, portraits which come to life, a servant with a peg leg, mysterious deaths and a tragic love triangle (or quadrangle as the case may be).
		Irma Vep was originally written, directed acted and produced by Charles Ludlam and his troupe, The Ridiculous Theatre Company.
		It is difficult to tell whether these plays can hold their own outside the Ridiculous Company and in the absence of the great directorial and performance skills of Landlam, who died of AIDS in 1987.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=218816 (586 words)

	Oliver Assayas (Irma Vep)
		Olivier Assayas is the director of "Irma Vep", which screened at the 1996 New York Film Festival.
		They're working on the same kind of budget, they're dealing with the same subjects-- which are outside mainstream-- and have the same relationship with the industry, trying to remain on the fringe of it and trying not to become absorbed by the ugliest part of it.
		She is the only person who is sad that the film has stopped, so she's left alone, but it is really the spirit of the film they were making that is left alone.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/OA01.HTM (780 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Irma Vep Film Notes
		Irma Vep is an anagram taken from Les Vampyres, and the Leaud character’s version of the beloved nightmare of 85 years ago is a B-movie, a low-budget bricolage in which the elements of the original are tossed into the air and reassembled rather casually by the distracted director.
		It turns out that Maggie's lack of facility with French mimics the problem everyone else on Irma Vep has: none of them seem to be familiar with the lingua Franca of sanity.
		The early returns from the film she's making, however, suggest that the off-screen drama is far more exciting; she fears that the film she's working on will stink up the screen.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fnf98n3.html (606 words)

	Aisle Say (San Francisco): THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The late Charles Ludlam's "The Mystery of Irma Vep" is great fun on several levels.
		His new bride is Lady Enid Hillcrest (Arnie Burton), who is distressed that Irma's portrait still hangs above the fireplace and that Edgar is still mourning her death and the death of their young son, apparently at the teeth of a wolf, or maybe a werewolf.
		Irma learns most of the details from Jane Twisden (Steele), the estate's housekeeper.
	www.aislesay.com /SF-IRMAVEP.html (303 words)

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