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THE BOOTLEG FILES: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL

By | August 2009

Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can be found only on bootlegged videos and DVD. This week, Phil heils right in Der Fuhrer’s face!

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL

BOOTLEG FILES 297: “Triumph of the Will” (Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 propaganda landmark). LAST SEEN: It is available on several web sites. AMERICAN...

THE HEADLESS WOMAN (LA MUJER SIN CABEZA)

Verónica's life seems to move fast – she goes from work to home, friends come and go, everything has its place in the routine day-to-day. Argentine...

THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD

For me, the path to movie criticism began at the Boston Phoenix newspaper where I sold advertising space to transsexual prostitutes. These entrepreneurs of...

PERFECT HIDEOUT (DVD)

Nick is a dim-witted, petty felon in the German crime biz. All he wants is to take his equally dim girlfriend, Celia, to the States for a fresh start. But...

IN SEARCH OF MARION DAVIES: INTERVIEW WITH NICK LANGDON

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the daring, risque films of pre-Code Hollywood. Prior to being self-suffocated by heavy handed...

HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD (DVD)

Steve Webb’s film, which was produced in association with Bruce Lee Enterprises and was originally broadcast on The History Channel, presents one of the...

HICK TREK/STAR WARP’D (DVD)

The parody film is rarely necessary and the results almost never approach biting or witty satire. But there is obviously an audience for it somewhere....

MUTANTS

To say that the zombie film has been played out is, in itself, a somewhat played out statement. Riding a wave of resurgence brought on largely by Danny...

TELEVISION UNDER THE SWASTIKA (DVD)

From 1935 through 1944, Nazi Germany took the unexpected lead in the development of television broadcasting. While the reach of the Nazi television was...

I SELL THE DEAD

“I Sell the Dead” is an awesome little horror throwback that is done extremely well considering what must have been a fairly small budget. And by...

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