The remains of an aborted movie can become a fascinating pastiche.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 16, 2010

The results are like nothing you've seen before: Clouzot seemed to be reinventing the medium itself.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 16, 2010

A fascinating exploration of artistic self-destruction and hubris...

Full Review | Jul 23, 2010

An amazing glimpse into not only what could have been but how easy it is for a filmmaker to go down the rabbit hole into his own project-killing obsessive behavior.

| Jul 16, 2010

It is, in effect, a making-of documentary about a movie that was never made -- a movie that was supposed to revolutionize the art form and that survives, in the limbo between intention and realization, as an intriguing possibility.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2010

Thankfully, the story -- and especially Clouzot's existing footage -- is fascinating enough to transcend the treatment.

| Original Score: B | Jul 15, 2010

[A] frequently tantalizing, if featherweight, documentary reconstruction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2010

For all the irrationality that fueled Clouzot's project, it's reasonable to assume that the finished Inferno would never have been any better or more evocative than this arrangement of its shards.

| Jul 13, 2010

The resulting reconstruction is a triumphant realization of Clouzot's vision.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2010

Superbly portrays the truly extraordinary and inventive vision this doomed movie could have unleashed upon the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Up there with Lost in La Mancha as a glorious chronicle of film-making folly, the documentary Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno is a beguiling account of a movie that never happened.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Bromberg examines this lost footage and his assemblage is perhaps more fascinating than the completed work would have been. A must-see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2009

What's clear is that the film really does look like a lost masterpiece, a synthesis of Hitchcockian psychosis and pure '60s style. Bromberg's doc deserves to be the last word on an enigmatic film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Shocking, enthralling, educative. It proves that falling in love with cinema can be, for some who pick it as a career, the most health-endangering thing of all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Unearths footage of camera tests and experiments in kinetic art and colouration that suggest how very remarkable the film might have been. At times, it recalls Hitchcock's use of optical trickery in Vertigo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2009