“Fukasaku orchestrates the mayhem with a button-pushing, Nintendo-fried glee: The class of 42 boys and girls rapidly depletes, and not a single death takes place offscreen.”– Dennis Lim, the VILLAGE VOICE I guess we’re so used to movies not being…
An incomplete education
“Surely Anybody Can Understand That”: WALKABOUT “I can’t make it any simpler,” says the white girl. (And, yes, her character’s name is “white girl,” according to the end credits.) She’s talking to the black boy. (And similarly, “black boy” is…
DVD Review: STALKER (1979)
Stalker (1979) Directed by Andrei TarkovskyWritten by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, based on their story “Roadside Picnic”Starring Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Alissa Freindlikh, Natasha Abramova, F. Yurna, E. Kostin, R. Rendi For his innovative low-tech science fiction film Stalker (1979),…
VHS Review: THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL (1976)
THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL (1976)–Directed by Mark Haggard and Bruce Kimmel. Stars Bruce Kimmel, Cindy Williams, Diana Canova, Stephen Nathan. SOUTH PARK fans would probably love this funny yet surprisingly sweet parody of both Busby Berkeley-type musicals and porno films.…
Review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s GEMINI
Shinya (TETSUO, TOKYO FIST) Tsukamoto’s newest film GEMINI was shown as part of the AFI Fest at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood last night. I was fortunate enough to see it, so here’s a brief review. GEMINI is Tsukamoto’s most…