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THE BOOTLEG FILES: "BAAL"

By | September 2005

Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the funky world of rare, classic and hard-to-find films which can only be obtained via bootleg video channels. This week, Phil gets heartburn as David Bowie chews the scenery…

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Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: "BAAL"

BOOTLEG FILES 094: "Baal” (1982 BBC adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht drama starring David Bowie). LAST SEEN: In a British Film Institute retro screening...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: FLYING TOAST AND MORONS IN LINGERIE

The audience, myself included, stood in the aisles. Then, as if on cue, everyone but me fell to the floor. I was left standing, shaking my head in...

ENTER THE DEN OF SIN: DAMN YOU STINKING HIPPIES!

Right from the get go things were looking up. To start with, being made by an American director who was actually affected by the things he was examining,...

MOVIE MARKETING MADNESS: THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE

Late summer and early fall always brings out the inner boogeyman in the major studios. They pounce upon Halloween like a fat kid on a cupcake. It's the...

ENTER THE DEN OF SIN: DAMN YOU STINKING HIPPIES!

As mentioned in previous columns, we’d been having a bit of a problem getting people to shut the hell up during the films. And being that I’d decided...

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Word of the week: Port MINORITY REPORT * * * 1/2 Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Scott Frank and Jon Cohen Producers: Jan de Bont, Bonnie Curtis,...

MPAA ON TRIAL: TAKE THE NC-17 AND SHOVE IT

Usually when I aim an article towards the Motion Picture Association of America and their ridiculous standards toward giving certain films a particular...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “CAROL CHANNING AND 101 MEN"

BOOTLEG FILES 093: "Carol Channing and 101 Men” (1967 TV special co-starring Walter Matthau and the US Air Force Cadet Chorale). LAST SEEN: Broadcast in...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: THE CURE FOR THE COMMON AUDIENCE

I’ve been thinking a lot about Hollywood lately. In particular, why the movies coming from its diseased loins have been so mind-numbingly bad. I’ve...

TALKING PICTURES: SUPER TANKER

If superheroes were real, would they ever read comic books, or would they, rather, avoid them like a Universal nuclear holocaust? On the same note, would...

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