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Isabel Is About To Be Number One!

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It is natural, at least for us, that a new release will climb up the best seller list. It happened to all of our movies. The question is how long will a new film retain that first place once it gets there. It is Isabel's turn. She is climbing very fast and in the first 10 days it's already about to top JUSTINE's place. It would mean, when that happens, that in the first two weeks since its release The Passion of Isabel made more that JUSTINE in the last 8 months. That is a very good sign for a new release. I can predict that The Passion will be a strong candidate for the Number One spot the rest of the year.

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The conversation about The Passion of Isabel is underway, with so many varied opinions that it's hard to keep up with them, but I'll try, to the dismay of some, but I'll do it in parts, otherwise it would take an extremely long post. We don't what, do we? I will start with Bergie14 who says: (...) Michael Max wrote (about The Passion of Isabel): This movie is an absolute insult to film making. A total abomination. There is no plot, not a single line of dialogue as far as I can tell, and it goes absolutely nowhere to the very end ;. My God man, this is exactly what we've been waiting for! cool Watching beautiful Bea get tortured is gift enough that requires no plot.

How fortunate was Jac that Bea was willing to go through hell for the enjoyment of many? I would say, extremely fortunate. When he gave me the VidCaps to process them, he commented that while working on the film he was too engaged in the production and the work to fully appreciate what he had going. Now that he is capturing the pictures, long after going through the editing of the film, which had its own tension, he can fully appreciate how amazing Bea was. He feels truly fortunate indeed.

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bakerboy Re "Passion of Isabel" and the negative comment below... I have NOT seen the movie and likely will not since I prefer lesbian GIMPs, however I do understand why productions like these MUST sometime be simplified to appear " like NO plot and NO dialogue".... You just need to read between the lines...! Movie like this, simply because it is a movie (confused with real events), will NOT be able to be sold or processed by most payment processors or sold on any movie sites ( like Amazon) due to the reality of censorship, yet movie like this ( even without complexity) will cost a lot more money then standard fetish clips most producers make. Regardless of its perceived quality, I give many kudos to ALL the people who are creating these films and taking all the financial risks only to be to attacked by those who do not know the "background of modern censorship". Buy, watch and enjoy and if you need to criticise, do it objectively..

I'm grateful for the appreciation to the effort that comes when making a film like The Passion. We're very happy that we have a system where we can sell ALL of our production in our stores. A film like The Passion of Isabel cannot be sold at places like Amazon.com, a film like JUSTINE can. We could offer The Passion at Amazon, it's not too different from Le Marquis de la Croix, but we chose not to at Bea's request. This is not a film that she wants everyone in the planet to have access to, she has her reasons, so it is limited to our Red Feline crowd that is proving to be good enough, Isabel is going to be Number One this month at the rate she is going.

Contrary to what 'Dr Yuya reported, I found Jan Jan (or Jac Avila whatever) to be most convincing in his torturer roles in Via Cruces of Jane (1), VC of Camille 3, 6 + 7 and 10. His performance in the 1 hour + epic "Red Room (Desperately seeking Red Feline)" was brilliant. He came across as being so used to inflicting endless cruelty of females sent for his brutal ministrations that he seemed almost detached from the agonies they suffer at his hands. And yet, he can still exercise creativity during sessions such as tying barbed wire around and into the head of his naked female victim (Jane von Detlefson) thereby replicating images many of us are familiar with as we have grown up.

I am keen to purchase AND download several recent productions including Maleficarum as well as further VC Camille episodes 9, 8, 4, 5 and 1+2, among others.

Alas, as a Macintosh user, I cannot utilise the VOD facility offered to others. This remains the only blemish on an otherwise uniquely creative and satisfying production and marketing company/s. As I lament my exclusion from VOD purchase and download facilities, I hope one day this access will be provided to all fellow Macintosh users.
 
Hey guys I can't load any of the pictures on this thread but I can load pictures from other threads. Can anyone help me out please?
 
Hey guys I can't load any of the pictures on this thread but I can load pictures from other threads. Can anyone help me out please?

That is strange. They're streamed direct from Red Feline, something might be blocking them where you are.
And they're quite big in terms of byte size, they sometimes take a little while to load for me,
but if you can see other streamed images (e.g. BakerBoy's) you should be able to see these.
 
Isabel Is Reaching the Top!

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As Isabel climbs the charts, getting ever closer to unseat our wonderful JUSTINE, Jac is having daily work meetings with Danielle, who has become a regular member of our team. It's almost certain that he'll begin directing Danielle in Jaula (Cage) very soon. Jac also had a very important meeting with Bea, he wants her to play the female lead in The Cage, that's a big reason for the meeting, apart from giving her what she earned so far with The Passion of Isabel. Another issue of discussion in their meeting was be Maleficarum II, which Jac is very keen on doing early next year. It means that he is very pleased with how The Passion is doing so far and he has seen the potential for a Training Danielle movie, Cage and Maleficarum II.

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Ralphus Michael Max wrote: This movie is an absolute insult to film making. A total abomination. There is no plot, not a single line of dialogue as far as I can tell, and it goes absolutely nowhere to the very end. Uh oh. This is the movie that was supposed to be Pachamama's big comeback project, the movie designed to lure back GIMPers after the Justine backlash. I just got the DVD yesterday but haven't had time to look at it, but that news is rather surprising to hear. No dialogue at all? I know Jac has a heavy accent and English isn't Bea's first language, but that's still an odd choice. It still has a chance to be a successful movie if the visuals are strong, though. None of the early Blakemore silent loops had dialogue either, and they are revered even today. And certainly Bea is a very attractive woman who gets naked (even pussy fur this time!) and tied up and tortured. I don't think one early negative review should deter many people. I'm going to watch this one with an open mind.

I'm looking forward to Ralphus comments on the film, in the meantime I can say now, without a doubt, that The Passion is already successful. And how do we rate success? We could rate the success of a film by the old profit margin proposition that says that if a film makes a nice percentage over its investment it is successful. From that perspective all of our films are successful! Or we could declare a film successful depending on how long it takes for the film to reach the coveted profit margin. The Passion became a success the first day of its release because it dwarfed it's initial expense. However we rate the success of a film by how steady the cash flow is. In the case of The Passion, it is successful. We never rate the success of our films by what people comment because we have too few comments on any of our films. JUSTINE, a declared ‘flop’ by two or three comments, is a very successful film to this date and it will continue to be in the future. Is The Passion more successful than JUSTINE? That's too early to say. Right now JUSTINE is on the top. Maleficarum is our most successful film to date, bar none, but The Passion is right up there now, sharing its own success with the very best.

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Meanwhile the conversation over The Passion continues in many sides, many sides:

Dr Yuya Would I get someone else to play Jac's parts if I were him? Ummm...yeah...absolutely with no questions. If I thought it could positively affect the business that I was running and attempting to earn my living and the living of others by doing so...I'd think itd be a no brainer to set aside whatever enjoyment I might be getting from playing the role and see the bigger picture. Enough have clearly voiced their disapproval of him as a villain by now for him to know taking himself out of the role is a positive change. Apparently though he prefers approaching the issue from the completely illogical perspective we are discussing here though...the "I like doing it so to hell with anyone else's opinion" perspective. So then...I guess it just is what it is. I have no expectations at this point he'll ever quit the role so I'd rather now just avoid future Red Feline stuff.

A response came from CruxForum, where some of my previous quotes originate:

Ranger1 (CruxForum) Contrary to what 'Dr Yuya reported, I found Jan Jan (or Jac Avila whatever) to be most convincing in his torturer roles in Via Cruces of Jane (1), VC of Camille 3, 6 + 7 and 10. His performance in the 1 hour + epic "Red Room (Desperately seeking Red Feline)" was brilliant. He came across as being so used to inflicting endless cruelty of females sent for his brutal ministrations that he seemed almost detached from the agonies they suffer at his hands. And yet, he can still exercise creativity during sessions such as tying barbed wire around and into the head of his naked female victim (Jane von Detlefson) thereby replicating images many of us are familiar with as we have grown up. I am keen to purchase AND download several recent productions including Maleficarum as well as further VC Camille episodes 9, 8, 4, 5 and 1+2, among others. Alas, as a Macintosh user, I cannot utilise the VOD facility offered to others. This remains the only blemish on an otherwise uniquely creative and satisfying production and marketing company/s. As I lament my exclusion from VOD purchase and download facilities, I hope one day this access will be provided to all fellow Macintosh users.

It's always good to hear what you actually know to be a fact from someone else. If I say it, it sounds defensive and/or like simply the promotion of our work, if others see it and mention it in their comments, then it's not just promotion. In this case, when discussing Jac's acting, some see a wooden character where others see cruel detachment. Jac is a firm believer of Less is Better as when Blake Edwards was directing Jack Lemmon in the drama Days of Wine and Roses. Lemmon would play the scene and Edwards would say... I want less[/i … the scene was repeated and again Edwards said I want less … it went like that for a while until dear Jack, tired of hearing the same admonition, exclaimed in anger [i”]you want less?! Less?! How much less? Nothing?!” Blake said That's exactly what I want! Jack Lemmon went on to win the Oscar for that performance. Underacting can bring a lot to a character, there's nothing more eery than the detached performance of Tony Curtis while strangling his victim in The Boston Strangler. A scene that was compared to Jac's performance in BARBAZUL.

I personally believe that Jac is a very good actor, one that because he has to direct himself very often, chooses to play his characters with the kind of detachment that allows him to be an observer of the scene he's directing. His concentration falling on his co actors, particularly his women who must suffer at his hands. He had a conversation in NY once, with none other than John Sayles, who is an excellent director and actor. During that conversation, which was taped, because it was done for a French film festival, Sayles said that he tends to underplay his characters so he can concentrate on directing. I think that's a very valid point.

In movies like Maleficarum, where a bunch of people are making money, where a crew of people are taking care of everything, from setting up the lights, to manning the camera, putting make up ... acting... Jac chooses who is going to be in the movie carefully. It is not like he has a big choice, he's not in Hollywood with thousands of actors auditioning for the same part, but he chooses when he can. But in a film like The Passion of Isabel, Jac works alone with his actress/partner in mischief. It is a true labor of love and love has a lot to do with it. Love for the work, love for the part, love for the passion, love for his partner. The experience is very intimate, if there was a third person in it, it would not be possible. And that's that.

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petelobo Dr. Yuya wrote: Apparently though he prefers approaching the issue from the completely illogical perspective we are discussing here though...the "I like doing it so to hell with anyone else's opinion" perspective. That's the artist's perspective, sir. If he were just one of the machines pumping out the stuff you also prefer not to watch, yes he'd make business decisions. But he essentially makes one movie over and over with different females experiencing the passion. He likes whipping and racking and piercing and crux. Those things are the main skeleton of all his non-Amy movies. When they aren't, it feels incomplete.
Maleficarum brought Amy to the ultimate production of his fantasy--then Marquis. Passion of Isabel is Avila with his new technical capacity, showing that the story still drives him--with a new woman. Just the two of them in the carefully-lit dungeon with the cameras and torture devices, keep her naked and for several weeks spend hours a day in there making a movie. My point was that, if any of those activities ring a bell for you, this is an experience that clearly was powerful for them, and it's technically skilled. Will Bia ever do it again? I doubt it. His usual pattern is a "training of" (Jame, Mila and others going back decades) followed by a major commitment on the part of the woman to exploring that space within themselves. This film was both for Bia. If I really think hard, I don't know that I could come up with many villains I thought was good in a gimp movie. (...).
Finally, there's obviously a trust relationship between the players in this sort of act. That's one of the frustrations of Kink stuff--everybody is professional and the relationship is usually like that between two gears in an engine. The relationship between Avila and his women carries this to an extreme that's almost voyeuristic. Using the camera, he loves her and kills her and puts it all in a postcard we can share. Just as Marquis de la Croix was his meditation on Mila, so POI is to Bia.
Very nicely put! The Passion of Isabel was a powerful experience for both, and the fact that Bea arrived to the set on time every day to put herself through so much discomfort and pain for hours, attest to her dedication to the passion. It was commented that the last scene was thrown there. I don't know where that comes from, since each torture was carefully planned and carried through. However, the last sequence had to be done in less time that all previous ones and under some different kind of stress. The scene was ready to be shot when Jac's dad got very sick and was hospitalised. Jac had to go to his side, to a different city, and he stayed there for a week. His dad passed away then. It was very difficult for Jac to return to work and finish that last sequence.
In addition, the time Bea committed to the work was up. She had some urgent things to take care of, she could not take another couple of weeks to complete the film. The film had to be finish in a couple of days and it was done like that. I believe the scene is powerful and the fact that was done in continuous shots, mostly, lends a different feeling than all the previous scenes.

Jac's relationship to his partners in mischief is at the core of the films of course, and his love for them and what they do is the true essence of the work. The trust that must exist to make these movies is essential, without it, it would not be possible at all. That kind of rapport is beginning to take shape with Danielle. I would not discount totally the possibility of Bea repeating the experience either.​
 
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The pictures are fed from our site and they are kind of big. Not hard to download, but depending on your internet connection, it might take a bit of time. You can click on the picture, it gets bigger, then you hold the mouse and save as to your computer.
 
Isabel Is Number One!

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The Passion of Isabel is number ONE! The new girl in town is officially the rave of the month. The results from Amazon are not in yet and those results can make JUSTINE jump back up to the top at the end of the month, putting some distance between her and Isabel, but who knows, maybe Isabel will retain its place on the top if it keeps selling as it is doing now. Meanwhile, the positive comments are coming in: Phlebas (Crux Foundation) :) Her passion feeds our passion - The Beast (CruxForum) I think Bea's body is made for being tied and whipped. Very beautiful woman:).

Isabel is becoming very popular. Bea did an amazing job playing Isabel and this film is on its way to become a classic like Red Feline on The Cross. I didn't expect less. Bea was very happy with her first fat payment, but she's not yet committed to anything in the near future. Her interests are behind the camera now. She offered Jac her services as Camera Operator and Assistant Director for his next film, Cage, Jac accepted so Bea is part of the crew as a trainee for Director of Photography and Assistant Director and probably as production assistant as well, all of which is what she would love to do in the future.

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bastinado I just finished watching "The Passion Of Isabel" and I'm happy to say I enjoyed it much more than "Justine". While Jac is certainly no Vincent Price and Bea is no Sandra Knight (See the The Tower of London) they do a credible job as torturer and victim. The sound effects and Bea's acting more than make up for his limp wristed wielding of the various whips and floggers used throughout the film. The extended scenes of foot torture and bastinado are greatly appreciated and if this becomes a regular part of RF productions, then Margot will have a new subscriber!! I also hope that Bea will continue working in this genre because I think she could be quite good with more training as an actress and could become as popular as Amy and Mila with fellow GIMPERS.

Bea always surprises Jac by first saying no and then saying yes and jumping in a role with incredible intensity. But she also surprises him by saying yes and then saying no. To the question whether Bea will make more movies like The Passion, I don't have an answer, and that's a fact. Jac is moving on with Cage, a film based on Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in a style more like Pygmalion than JUSTINE. Will there be more films in the old Red Feline style? At this point I know that there's the possibility of a Training Danielle movie. Jac and Danielle are working on the pre-production of Cage, it includes sessions with Danielle in a number of painful situations, I heard she's very limber and she can possibly do an extreme Strappado scene. Danielle might end up playing the Agent Y role of no interest to Bea.

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HammerTime (Crux Foundation) I thoroughly enjoyed the The Passion of Isabel. It's old school Red Feline. While I enjoy the full production pieces, I prefer the films like RF on the Cross, Romana crucifixa est, the Seven Days series, ..., ect. They are more intense, from my perspective. BTW, I'm really looking forward to the completion of the Seven Days on the Cross series. I'd given up on seeing Part V.

I argued before that the Red Feline style of movies had some limitations and that it was not very likely that Jac would be making many more of those. The Passion was an exception, the conditions were all there and Jac and Bea took the opportunity; but if we were to compare the past with the present, the Passion is somewhat similar to Le Marquis de la Croix, so it wasn't so much going back to the old style but rather making something in between the old style and our big budget production movies. The company must go on with the bigger productions, and there are at least five movies waiting for the green light. One of them, Cage, is practically ready to be approved. It's a matter of completing the cast, which might happen as early as next week. Cage might start production in the middle of next month.

There are four movies in post production right now. Pygmalion, Spectres of Blood Castle, DoubleCross and Seven Days on the Cross 5. All of them to be released before the end of the year, two of them theatrically.

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petelobo I bought Isabel and went through it part-way once, frustrated by the things that always frustrate me about RF films. Then later again just to see what it was. It's a Jac Avila film. Rick's style was a problem for me in certain cases, but I let it go because I liked what he provided in return. Jac's camera work and quality have gotten much better. He's still a wimpy whipper, and the use of red dye is way over the top for me, and his acting makes a wooden indian look responsive. He should find someone to play the parts he plays--but would you, if it were you?! Passion is about Bea, and she is impressive. She's not asked to do a lot of acting, but she's worth watching almost every minute she's onscreen. Her character follows the story experience. Even if she weren't a beautiful young woman and even if she wasn't willing to be hung up all over the room nude, she would be worth watching. Take it for what it is. Jac somehow is able to convince very attractive women to climb into his fantasy world and pay the price to do so. And he makes some money filming and selling it. It's another guy's wet-dream, but at least he's got great taste in victims, and he delivers enough in this one to make it worth $30.

There weren't any pretensions for grandeur in The Passion. When Jac worked as an actor in Amy's second feature film BARBAZUL, he didn't have any other role during the shooting of that very impressive film, other than producer, of course, but he didn't do anything else in the set. Amy was directing it and she was totally in charge. The only thing that Jac had to worry about was his role as the psycho killer. He has been praised for his acting in that movie, he was compared to the likes of Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler, to name a few.

In the case of The Passion, he did everything by himself, from setting up the set, working with the decor, the lights, moving those lights every time he had to have different angles of the same shot; he spent some time setting up the cameras, setting up and working the crane, while shooting and acting in the movie and sometimes while torturing Bea! He also worked on the special effects, the make up ... and as if that wasn't enough, he had to direct Bea and himself, because he was acting too! Too much on his plate, right? I think so. This is not what he prefers to do. It is too much work, but it is also a lot of fun. He doesn't mind doing it once in a while, however, he has other interests too and he will be working on a feature film where he will act and direct, but he will have a crew to do the actual, physical, work of setting up the shots.

 
Isabel Is Number One!

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While Isabel continues to be Number One, but with fierce competition from JUSTINE, we, as a group, are taking the steps that lead us to the future. Jac has began to work with Danielle towards the production of Cage, in the meantime Amy finished shooting a short in the US, a comedy, in preparation for a feature film that she'll be producing soon. I see an onslaught of comments emanating from this highly esteemed place, some of them very critical of my posts. For those who suffer the verbose torture of my posts, let me just say that my cruelty will not subside. I have a job to do, which is to promote our work and to keep informed all those interested in our goings and doings. And to Klingsor who I treat so badly with Bea's pictures and wonders if I think it brings you one more purchase of this movie ???? I can only show the results of my postings. The link to Get your Download of The Passion of Isabel shows that most of our customers come from the GIMP forum, most likely, the result of my posts:

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I will continue to promote our work, here and elsewhere. I will also continue to discuss issues that seem to keep some people up at night, like Jac's acting, and I will continue to share those painful images of a naked Bea under merciless torture. Brace yourselves, here comes another one:

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I appreciate all the comments that come my way and some of them I think require my response. While it is true that I don't often comment on the stories or other artist's work, I do appreciate them, my two favorites are Quoom and SkatingJesus, Nalpalm's work is not my cup of tea, but I can appreciate the effort. I like Eda's stories a lot, those I read, and I don't mean to ignore the others but my verbosity is mostly dedicated to discuss our work like The Passion, and the soon to be produced Cage, no disrespect intended. BTW, there are many, many, really many people who read the posts, see the pictures, read the stories and never ever comment about anything at all. But a larger number of them buy our films...

 
Isabel Is The Reigning Queen!

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Isabel managed to go over JUSTINE for the number ONE spot in August. Before the results from Amazon came in, JUSTINE jumped back up to be the best seller of the month for a day or two; however Isabel gave an impressive good fight. On the last day and just before the report from amazon, JUSTINE and Isabel were tied for the first place. When the report from Amazon came, when it seemed that JUSTINE would prevail, Isabel kept gaining ground and by the end of the last day of August The Passion of Isabel was the best seller!

The results of the end of the month show some surprises, AristoCrux came up, beating even Agent X, one of the sure fire old films. These are the results:

1.- The Passion of Isabel - 694 points
2.- JUSTINE - 687 points
3.- Maleficarum - 365 points
4.- Le Marquis de la Croix - 157 points
5.- BARBAZUL - 119 points
6.- Dead But Dreaming - 82 points
7.- Sirwiñakuy - 70 points
8.- AristoCrux - 69 points
9.- Martyr - 67 points
10.- Agent X - 66 points​

The last few days at the GIMP forum saw lot of back and forth discussion about The Passion of Isabel and my posts, so much that I don't think it would be a good idea for me to respond to each and everyone of those posts, so, I'll just comment about some of them and in more general terms ... I think. I will not respond to silly comments about the 50 shades of red in the whipping marks.

windar Alright, let me vent about what I see as the real problem I have with Margot. It has nothing to do with the movies themselves; I would feel this way whether they were utter dreck or better than Citizen Kane. It's that she comes here and to CruxForums and maybe other sites, posts her advertisements and skedaddles. She NEVER reads a story, comments on a pic or in any way participates in the discussions of either site on anything other than her movies. I find that disrespectful and whatever she or Amy did at some point in the past doesn't change that. So Margot, if you want me to care about your movies, go to Cruxforum and read one of my stories. Or anyone's stories there or here. Because it should be a two way street.

Both the CruxForums and CruxFoundation are thread base forums, in both cases I have threads in areas that the people who run those forums have reserved them as "commercial" for the purpose of promoting outside work like ours. There are hundreds of threads in each of those forums, and I don't think everyone reads and/or comments on them all. You would have to go over each one of those threads and read the entire conversations going back days, months, years, to find my contributions, which do exist buried somewhere there. My commercial threads in those two forums have very high number of hits, thus a lot of people are interested in following what I have to say, and there are no complaints about holy cows there because those not interested in my eloquence simply do not go in to read me. That's not the case in the GIMP forum, where there's ONE main page and there's no way of knowing how many people actually like to read me except for the stats I get from the links I post. It's obvious that for each complainer and nay sayer I get at least 200 hits to my links.

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Dr Yuya Margot just recently responded to my criticism of Jac with a copy pasted defending post from crux forums along with an explanation of him practicing a "less is more" approach Im just not understanding...and a subtle comparison of Jac to Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon. So I know...if I can read nonsense like that and still realize the importance of Margot and her posts to this forum these whiners can do likewise. Hell...without her posts over the last few weeks thered of barely been any notable forum activity whatsoever...it seems dumb to whine about one of the few contributer who have even been around lately doing thier part and contributing. And though I may not like many things about Red Feline and the direction they've taken in the last two years even so most of her still turn me on more than the deluge of art of women with needles through thier tits or other depictions of acts I find completely unappealing. Again...RF isn't exactly rocking my world but theyre still closer than many to doing it as far as I can see. And to any who think shes "paying Ralphus"...probably know little to nothing of this board's history or why its even still around. Go check back on posts a few years...

While I appreciate the positive aspects of the good Dr comments, I feel I must clear up a couple of things. I was not comparing our Jac to Jack Lemmon, one of the greatest comedian actors of all time, I was just pointing out that Blake Edwards needed him to play against character for his role in Days of Wine and Roses. I could also have commented about Jack Palance, playing good old Rodin in Jess Franco's Justine. Palance went totally to the overacting side, overplaying the character to the hilt. Our Jac decided to go the opposite, giving him a more sinister feeling, just as he does in his role of Torquemada in The Passion.

Another issue I'd like to clarify is concerned with the direction we took in the last two years. It was almost two years ago that we finished shooting Pygmalion, it will be two years at the end of this year when we completed shooting JUSTINE. After completing JUSTINE our work practically stopped while Jac went into the rain forest to shoot a documentary for NatGeo, while, at the same time, he was totally involved in the post production of both, JUSTINE and Pygmalion. Amy too was busy with those two films, apart from getting her masters degree and teaching film at a university in the US.

Jac began this year by taking our company through an old ground, the Red Feline style of movies, with The Passion of Isabel. So, the last couple of years were mostly a transition period between the cycle that ended when Amy decided to return to the US and the new cycle that starts with The Passion and the work that is to come. The direction we'll be taking now is a blank page at this point. However, the direction we took almost ten years ago, might be at the crux of the matter. It was in 2008 that we produced Amy's first film, Sirwiñakuy, which led to us getting involved in big production budget movies like Maleficarum, BARBAZUL, Le Marquis de la Croix and so on. So, if the comment about the direction we took is about all those movies, then it's practically a decade worth of productions. I know, it all seems like yesterday, but its almost ten years and we all kind of grew a lot older since then. BTW, the direction we took after 2008, has Ralphus as a culprit, he put down a good amount of cash that made Maleficarum possible. If there ever was a cash transaction between our company and our dear Ralphus, it was that.

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Michael Max (...) I thought Pachamama was going for a more ambitious project that would be more than kink.com style torture porn. Obviously my opinion is my own and I will not even debate those who disagree with me. If they enjoy this production, then that is all that matters. I just felt that I had to voice my disappointment and give advance warning of what to expect to those who have not yet purchased the movie.

Bea is beautiful and convincing in her suffering ... admittedly nice visuals ... people looking for a video of a beautiful woman suffering would be pleased... and so on... for a 'bad' review, Mr Max gives a lot of kudos to The Passion. This film was never intended to be as ambitious as our big budget movies like Maleficarum, Dead But Dreaming or BARBAZUL, with a display of production values worthy of Hammer films. No, The Passion was an intense study of the torture of a beautiful woman. That was the intention and that's what the film is. A very intimate performance where only two people were involved in the entire production and no one else took part in it, NO CREW at all! I have to emphasise that.

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There are hundreds of threads in each of those forums, and I don't think everyone reads and/or comments on them all.
You'd be surprised, some of us staff keep an eye on them all, at least when there's any activity on them.
And it is possible (even for ordinary members) to trace a member's activity, just got to her/his profile and click on 'postings',
at the bottom of the page that comes up you can opt to view lists of all their posts or all their threads. ;)
But you're doing nothing wrong, using this 'Links to Paysites' Forum for its intended purpose,
I for one enjoy reading your blogs, especially about the personalities and experiences of the actresses
who are such convincing participants in their own torments.
 
Since you quoted my comment on the GIMP forum, I should be clear that my objection isn't really about your advertising. This is a capitalist society and if I hated advertising I'd have to go live in a cave. Your posts here are perfectly fine; they're in a place where those who want to see them can and those who don't will never have to look at them. It isn't your fault the GIMP forum uses 1998 site architecture in 2017. Ralphus still has an aol email address for Pete's sake.

That said, you claim your over-the-top advertising is hugely successful because people go to your site. Fine, but how do you know a softer approach wouldn't work even better? You don't.

And my other point on the GIMP stands. If you use site to advertise for free, it would be nice if you participated beyond posting about your films. Read a few stories, look at a few pics. You might learn something about your target audience that would help you target them better with your movies and your ads. And to be honest, it would generate good will. If I saw a comment from you on one of my stories it would make me more inclined to buy one of your movies. Just sayin...
 
Just purchased 'the Passion of Isabel'....
And I bloody love it !!☺☺
Full credit goes to the gorgeous Bea for allowing herself to be abused so much !! A beautiful woman indeed !!❤❤
Not giving anything away except. ...GET IT !!
Thanks Margot for posting....
& well done to all involved. ☺☺
 
Isabel Rules!

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Isabel continues to rule! Our newest release retains the top position, closely followed by JUSTINE. It hasn't been long since we sent The Passion of Isabel to the world and in that short time the film conquered hearts at a fast rate and it continues to do so. Some people stated their reasons NOT to get the film, but those who DO GET IT, and who are growing in number, seem to be enjoying the new film and have nice comments:

Baracus (From CruxForum) Just purchased 'the Passion of Isabel'....And I bloody love it !!☺☺ Full credit goes to the gorgeous Bea for allowing herself to be abused so much !! A beautiful woman indeed !!❤❤ Not giving anything away except. ...GET IT !! Thanks Margot for posting.... & well done to all involved. ☺☺

Anyone who saw the film can agree that Bea does a tremendous job as Isabel. What she went through for those many weeks of production work, day after day of torture, hour after hour of putting herself to painful stress, was not only courageous and daring, but it was also passionate. She gave it all for this one film and if I'm not mistaken, that's all she'll ever give for something like this. She had some meetings with Jac where future projects were discussed and she will be part of the team, always, but she prefers not to act for a while. Her ambition is to become a DP. She's also fascinated with sound mix. She will take some not very important roles in the next few productions, but, nothing like she did in The Passion of Isabel.

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HammerTime (From Crux Foundation) I thoroughly enjoyed the The Passion of Isabel. It's old school Red Feline. While I enjoy the full production pieces, I prefer the films like RF on the Cross, Romana crucifixa est, the Seven Days series, ..., ect. They are more intense, from my perspective. BTW, I'm really looking forward to the completion of the Seven Days on the Cross series. I'd given up on seeing Part V.

The Red Feline style production of The Passion of Isabel is very difficult to do, it took its toll on the two participants and it's very unlikely that Jac will want to do it again. It looks like we're all taking a different direction now. Amy has totally gone into different type of movies, with her new short and the feature she's preparing, Jac is considering Maleficarum II but it's getting a bit difficult to get a good daring cast. He thinks it would be easier to make a film like that somewhere else but at a greater cost and he's not willing to leave to unknown parts. He's pretty comfortable where he is. I personally think that as successful as JUSTINE and The Passion of Isabel are, they are limited and if we, as a company, want to grow, we have to expand our reach and explore new things, like Amy is doing now.

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There's something very unusual and weird that I have to share with our fans. Jac received an email from the selection committee for the Oscars here, announcing him that his film, JUSTINE made the short list to represent Bolivia at the Oscars! In all these years of producing films he never received a letter like that. I'm not sure Jac will accept to be included in the final selection, I believe he'll decline in a very polite way. But it's very nice to be asked, don't you think?

 
Some thought-provoking news. Agreed, it wouldn't be good to just try producing more of the same.
But you're such a talented and creative team, I'm sure you'll try something adventurous.
And it's certainly praise of an unexpected kind that you're being taken seriously for the Oscars circus,
though I can understand Jac's reservations!
 
Remembering 9/11/2001


We will never forget that day when so many people died. I lived with Jac in Gold Street, right there, two blocks away from the WTC. South Street Seaport was a few steps down towards the East River. For a year I called that part of NYC my home and my neighbourhood. The towers were there, always. It was beautiful to live there. When the towers came down I felf like I lost a friend, I felt like my home was attacked.

I lost friends in that attack, one was a fireman that I met when our headquarters were in LIC. There was fire station across the house Jac rented for 6 years, where we shot so many movies, including Martyr. The firemen there saw Camille and Gabrielle run out in rags and full of make up to buy ice cream the summer when they were working on the Inquisition series. They laughed and joked. They were friends, some of them we knew by name. One of them died at the WTC.

And then there was Taryn, an artist, who corresponded with me and Camille. She was there when the towers came down.

We always remember that fateful day, we'll never forget.
 
On a site to promoting commercial work I do not understand the pushback I read. Certainly more money (and blood, sweat, and tears) have been invested than most of us would dare to spend if we had it to do so...

I don't get the criticisms aimed here...

Tree...
 
Isabel Rising!

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The Passion of Isabel is officially a success for us. It has gone well beyond our expectations for the first month of its release. It is very possible that from now on sales will level to what I consider to be average, the place where JUSTINE is now. A solid and consistent place.

I don't know what the future holds. I know that Jac is going through a difficult process in his life right now and it's not very clear yet where we will go from here. We are having meetings and more meetings.

One person that has become crucial to all of this is Danielle, who spends the most time with Jac right now. She works with him in everything he's doing, from moving furniture in the office or holding the shelves he's setting up on the walls, to discussing the strategy for the film festival we are organizing, or the scheduling of future films, and so on.

She has seen most of our films by now, she is becoming deeply familiar with Jac's work. She's very impressed with Amy, Carmen, Vero, Bea and Mila and their daring and intense performances. She would love to do as well as they do.

The transition for Jac ... and the rest of us... is not complete yet and that's the difficult part for everyone. It is always hard to go from one cycle to the next, it takes, literally, years.

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Bergie14 While we debate the artistic merits of her efforts, I hope we're all appreciating the vision of beauty that Bea truly is. It doesn't get much more stunning than that.

When I worked on the VidCaps, putting those titles and copyright info on them, I was very, very impressed by Bea, her expressions, her body, her beauty. I was also impressed by the quality of the images, the lighting, the atmosphere, the composition, all of which highlights Bea's features in dramatic ways. When I consider that Jac worked alone, setting the lights, the cameras, everything, to such perfection, I'm in awe.

There was a comment a while ago, something about a frame that had some kind of problem... A FRAME! There are 24 frames in each second of the film. There are 60 seconds in every minute of the film, there are 96 minutes in the entire film ... and if we count the hours of footage... you get my meaning. Each picture I post is ONE perfect frame of the 138,240 frames the film has... I saw that ONE frame with the problem, after it was discussed here. It took me a while to find it.

I very much doubt that The Passion of Isabel will ever be in the sights of film festivals, unless we organise our own Fetish Film Festival where Isabel could be well received, specially by the organisers. We're happy that The Passion is having a good, growing audience that fully appreciates Bea's beauty.

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Eulalia (From CruxForum) Some thought-provoking news. Agreed, it wouldn't be good to just try producing more of the same. But you're such a talented and creative team, I'm sure you'll try something adventurous. And it's certainly praise of an unexpected kind that you're being taken seriously for the Oscars circus, though I can understand Jac's reservations!

Jac doesn't think he makes movies that could ever be considered for the Oscars. He makes anti-Oscar movies, I think. If there's something critics and commentators who discuss Jac's films, regardless of which movies, can agree is that he's a transgressor. Maleficarum, Martyr, Krik Krak Tales of A Nightmare, JUSTINE, OLALLA, Sirwiñakuy, they all went to international film festivals and were discussed in mass media, not only in forums such as this one. So, our films are sought after by festivals, JUSTINE has two requests for festivals now, it was already featured in one at the end of las year, and if we add the Oscar's selection, that will be FOUR. Jac will decline politely the Oscar request, that's for sure.

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AND THAT'S FOUR! (No Oscar for JUSTINE)

petelobo Thanks, Margot, for the video of Sounds of Silence. In addition to being a timely remembrance, there are two things that have special significance to me. 1. There's a rule in popular culture--hell, in most of art--that you don't try to cover a masterpiece. But there is no doubt in my mind that Disturbed's version of SOS is whole levels of power above the original. What was a thoughtful song in the original shows the astonishing emotional power that was way beyond the range of S&G. It doesn't work often to take another shot at a classic, but the recent remake of True Grit and Disturbed's version of SOS both prove the value of taking a shot at it. 2. I've read that David Draiman was strongly opposed to even trying the project. He's a heavy metal singer in a heavy metal band (and a rather derivative one at that), but his band-mates pushed him to stretch into something beyond his comfort zone. And thank god he had the balls to go for it.

That song moves me every time I hear it, and I'm in tears when I see the video because the memories of those days come flooding to me. I saw that video for the first time when Jac shared it in FB a year or two ago. I cried. I saw it again when it appeared in my FB memories yesterday, so I had to share it. I too am glad that David Draiman recorded this song, it is powerful. The Simon &g Garfunkel original is extremely beautiful, I heard it for the first time when I was a kid, probably I was 5 or so and I probably heard it on the radio. Later on I learned to appreciate it a lot more. The Disturbed version is now part of those terribly sad memories of the people and all that we lost that day. Something was definitely lost in humanity that September 11, and it was such a sunny morning. The sun was covered by the black smoke and white deadly powder that covered the streets of NYC.

 
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