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THE OTHER CINEMA

By | November 2003

San Francisco cinema is organic and unruly; it comes in high and many low forms, but mostly it just keeps coming…

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THE OTHER CINEMA

When I was a film student in Boston a few years ago, my first short movie--an absurd, 16-millimeter scatology starring my best friend, lasting three...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: “DIE HARD” IN TEXAS

Houston, Texas. Late '80s. I was visiting the state with my friend Rodney, who dragged me along to meet his new girlfriend, Sharon. He had met her the...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE JAZZ SINGER”

Bootleg Files 010: "The Jazz Singer" (Inane 1959 telecast with Jerry Lewis playing the role made famous by Al Jolson -- and playing it as a straight...

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE JAZZ SINGER”

For years, bootleg video fanatics have been searching for a phantom videotape of the never-released 1972 Jerry Lewis atrocity "The Day the Clown Cried." ...

TALKING PICTURES: BOAT SHOW

“I love the way the movie opens,” says author and Ship Lit authority Dean King, talking about the new epic film Master & Commander: The Far Side of the...

FOOTAGE FETISHES: “THE WARRIORS”

“You look like you might even like it.” The first obstacle the Warriors encounter on the long trek home are the Turnbull A.C.s: skinheaded toughs who...

FOOTAGE FETISHES: “THE WARRIORS”

“Can you dig it?” As any fan of speculative cinema knows, the future depicted in movies rarely turns out the way it’s shown on screen (I’m not...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: “KILL BILL” IS AMERICA

When Kill Bill Vol. 1 was released there was some controversy generated by the amount of violence in the film. Granted, the movie's mayhem is so over the...

FILM THREAT’S FRIGID 50: THE COLDEST PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD 2003 (41-50)

41. HORROR MOVIE REMAKES The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, “Suspiria,” and so on. What next? “Squirm”? There are original ideas out...

FILM THREAT’S FRIGID 50: THE COLDEST PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD 2003

Power. It's all about perception. But perception is everything in Tinseltown. Hollywood runs on hot air fueled by publicists and the media, which is why...

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