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“…[a] spontaneous creation without thought to logic, reason or consequences.”–Richard Elfman on Forbidden Zone DIRECTED BY: Richard Elfman FEATURING: Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Phil Gordon, Matthew Bright (as “Toshiro Baloney”), Viva, Danny Elfman PLOT: A curious girl wanders into the surreal “Sixth Dimension” located behind a door in her basement. There she . . . → Read More: 135. FORBIDDEN ZONE (1982) DIRECTED BY: Monte Hellman FEATURING: James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird PLOT: Two men obsessed with illegal street-racing race another equally obsessive driver across America. Along the way, all three become increasingly involved with a fickle hippie chick, and inevitably their motivations change.
WHY WON’T MAKE THE LIST: All . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (1971) Reviewing Edgar G.Ulmer‘s Detour (1945), critic Dennis Schwartz wrote: “For some, being outside the system is as natural as walking in the fog.” That about sums up Ulmer. It also sums his Detour star, Tom Neal. Ulmer was an aesthetic outsider who made poor choices in his personal life but tried, sometimes in vain, to bring . . . → Read More: EDGAR G. ULMER’S DETOUR (1945) QUESTIONER: What are the most common comparisons to other films that you hear? CORY MCABEE: There’ve been a few. Because it’s in black and white people sometimes say Eraserhead, but other than the fact that it’s in black and white I don’t really see much… [laughter]. I get a lot of “cross-betweens,” like “a cross . . . → Read More: 123. THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT (2001) “Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?”–W.D. Richter, explaining why there is a watermelon inside the Banzai Institute DIRECTED BY: W.D. Richter FEATURING: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher . . . → Read More: 112. THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION (1984) “I fear that in the speech which I am about to make, instead of others laughing with me, which is to the manner born of our muse and would be all the better, I shall only be laughed at by them… the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were . . . → Read More: 107. HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) DIRECTED BY: Jim Sharman FEATURING: Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young, Barry Humphries, Richard O’Brien, Charles Gray, Ruby Wax, Patricia Quinn PLOT: A young married couple end up in a town that’s actually a giant television network; Janet is groomed as a celebrity, while Brad becomes a mental patient in a hospital show. WHY IT WON’T . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: SHOCK TREATMENT (1981) * This is the second installment in the series “Karloff’s Bizarre and Final Six Pack.” Boris Karloff‘s series of Mexican films is anything but routine. Of the entire ill-reputed group, House of Evil (1968) has something that most resembles a traditional plot. It is orthodox only in that it is a retread of the old dark . . . → Read More: HOUSE OF EVIL (1968) “What is this, a freak out?”–Violet Beauregarde DIRECTED BY: Mel Stuart FEATURING: Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson, Julie Dawn Cole PLOT: Charlie is a poor boy supporting his mother and four bedridden grandparents with the earnings from his paper route. When eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka announces he will be awarding a lifetime supply . . . → Read More: 104. WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) Guest review by Kevyn Knox of The Cinematheque Directed by Nicholas Ray “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforward there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray.” – Jean-Luc Godard Johnny Guitar is one of those films one must not take too seriously. Now don’t get me wrong, the . . . → Read More: GUEST REVIEW: JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) |
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