Your Independent Movie Guide
Bootleg Files 007: "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (Todd Haynes' notorious all-doll retelling of the pop star's life and tragic death). Last seen:...
Bootleg Files 006 Film: "The High and the Mighty" (the all-star aircraft-in-peril disaster flick starring John Wayne). Last seen: US television broadcast...
The granddaddy of the all-star disaster movie was William A. Wellman's 1954 "The High and the Mighty," in which an evening's trans-Pacific flight from...
BOOTLEG FILES: 005 Film: "The Eternal Jew" (the infamous 1940 Nazi propaganda tract designed to justify the anti-Semitic edicts in occupied Europe). Last...
The truly remarkable thing about "The Eternal Jew" is that it took so long for the film to be made. Anti-Semitism was a keystone of the Nazi movement, but...
BOOTLEG FILES: 004 Film: "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park" (1978 made-for-television mix of rock and sci-fi courtesy of Hanna-Barbera productions) Last...
Of all the films currently circulating on bootleg video, "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park" holds a special significance for me thanks to an overzealous...
BOOTLEG FILES 003 FILM: "Let it Be" (1970 documentary on the Beatles' ill-fated rehearsal and recording of their never-released "Get Back" album in early...
"Let it Be" is one of the most popular and ubiquitous titles in the bootleg video channels, thanks entirely to the Beatles. While it was initially...
BOOTLEG FILES: 002 Film: "The Zapruder Film of the Kennedy Assassination" (1963 8mm amateur film that captured the fatal shooting of President John F....