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| Nancy |
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tire --
I'll have to see if I can find a Russ Meyer film to watch for this. Will look up some titles and check the local rental shops. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:07 am |
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from NY TIMES, DAVE KEHR:
Let Me Die a Woman
Just like the world of fine arts, the movies have their outsider artists, and some of the most interesting work in film scholarship right now is being done by the young, mostly Internet-based critics who have been rooting around the exploitation film archives in search of unheralded and unclassifiable auteurs. One such is Doris Wishman, a Forest Hills resident who directed, wrote and produced 28 exploitation films between 1960 and her death in 2002. Sometimes working under masculine noms de sleaze, Wishman turned out both gentle nudies (including the lovely "Nude on the Moon," a classic for its title alone) and the violent, misogynist "roughies" that drove the exploitation trade through the late 60's and early 70's.
Released in 1978, "Let Me Die a Woman" is at once a sincere plea for tolerance for the transgendered, and a medical porn film that would be unwise to watch after a heavy meal. Alternating interviews with pre- and post-op transsexuals with close-up views of apparently unfaked operating room procedures, "Let Me Die a Woman" finds Wishman indulging in the rare luxuries of color photography and (occasional) synchronized sound, though her notions of cutting and visual composition are as idiosyncratic and oddly expressive as ever. The transfer, from Synapse Films, is from the original negative, and probably makes "Let Me Die a Woman" look a hundred times better than it ever did on 42nd Street. Wishman appears in few of the official histories of women in film, but she was a genuine pioneer and, in her way, a visionary. Priced at $24.95, the film carries an official, and now profoundly nostalgic, X rating. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:01 am |
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Some favorite exploitation film titles (I haven't seen them all-- I just like the titles):
Die! Die, My Darling!
Fanny Hill Meets Lady Chatterley
Fanny Hill Meets the Red Baron
Bloodsucking Freaks
The Love Life of Adolf Hitler
Congorilla!
A Virgin Among The Living Dead
Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:27 am |
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Thanks, Marc and tire for your previous posts.
I'm sure they will inspire HOURS of viewing pleasure. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:35 am |
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Die! Die, My Darling!
The actual title--
Die! Die! My Darling!
--note the extra exclamation point--
is even better. But the movie is not an exploitation film, just a sort of horror flick starring--drum roll--Tallulah Bankhead! |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:50 am |
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I saw it!! It may not be a balls-out exploitationer, but with a title like that, I'd say it belongs with my other titles.
Another which belongs is the Mastroianni film whose title was translated straight into English to become Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand. |
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| dlhavard |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:39 am |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:49 am |
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Wasn't that another fine Troma production? And speaking of Troma, the exploitation studio par excellence, it suddenly occurs to me that our very own Billyweeds has appeared in several of their efforts.
Come on out, Bill! Take a bow and tell us of your adventures in exploitation cinema! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:03 am |
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tirebiter wrote: Wasn't that another fine Troma production? And speaking of Troma, the exploitation studio par excellence, it suddenly occurs to me that our very own Billyweeds has appeared in several of their efforts.
Come on out, Bill! Take a bow and tell us of your adventures in exploitation cinema!
I opened that door at the very beginning of this forum, but no one picked up on it, so I wasn't gonna beg. But, yeah, I star in Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. and have a featured cameo in the immortal Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.
The history of Kabukiman is an object lesson in how an exploitation film should be content to be what it is. Lloyd Kaufman (the director and co-founder and owner of Troma) was being wooed by Brandon Tartikoff into preparing Kabukiman to be a mainstream production. Tartikoff's involvement waned and then he died, and by then Kabukiman was in some nether world. It emerged as neither fish nor fowl, and weaker than it might have been as a balls-to-the-wall bad-taste item.
Citizen Toxie, on the other hand, is so tasteless as to be either hilarious or unwatchable depending on one's mindset. If you want to see me die a horribly gory death with my intestines all over the floor, then by all means check it out. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:07 am |
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You know, I would like to see that.
Is Troma still churning them out? Will we see you grace one of their hits again? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:12 am |
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tirebiter wrote: You know, I would like to see that.
Is Troma still churning them out? Will we see you grace one of their hits again?
Only if they give me a free bag of M&M's on set. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:19 pm |
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You know, I would like to see that.
Available from netflix. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:48 am |
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"Cherry and Raquel. Byproducts of our society, pretty toys to play with, superficial in their makeup but so necessary to our way of life."
That's from the narration of Cherry, Harry & Raquel! I was nosing around to find some transcripts from his film narrations-- nada.
Saw it in 1972 at Northwestern, introduced by Roger Ebert, whose slavish love for Meyer has always been one of his best qualities. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:36 am |
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Alright, goddamnit. Exploitation film is not getting the respect it deserves!
Well, that's not true. It doesn't really deserve much respect, to be brutally honest. But I love it anyway.
Was reminiscing yesterday about one of my favorite explo practitioners, who went deep into the forbidden zone to revive the Old Traditions: Stuart Gordon. About 20 years ago he made Re-Animator on a shoestring and with an NC-17 rating (or its equivalent then), and made HP Lovecraft fans crap their pants with joy. The Beyond, another Lovecraft piece that followed, had its moments, too-- Barbara Crampton falling out of her bondage gear while her enhanced pineal gland burst through her forehead... ah, quality cinema. Gordon wandered away for awhile, but I just caught Dagon the other night on cable-- must be about 3 years old. Another Lovecraft pastiche, with some nifty shock moments: human sacrifice in the Village of the Fish People!
I've always loved "bad" movies more than "good" movies. And that has made all the difference, Robert Frost assures me. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:39 am |
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tire,
I've tried to host exploitation discussions in here and back in the NY TImes forums. It never takes off. The Third Eye crowd is basically a bunch of stiffs. |
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