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From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Subject: REVIEW: PUSSBUCKET
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Organization: ?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:05:46 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01508
Keywords: author=K.Johnson

105 min., not yet rated, Horror/Musical, 1991, Black & White
Director: Lisa Houle
Cast: Terrence Fleming, Eric Hammer, Brian Sullivan, Gina Cammarota,
      Madeline Virbasius, Walter Prince, Ultra Lavish, Evelyn Rosa,
      Onyx Coale, Dion, Steve Green, Steven Deal

     Two religious maniacs, Judas (played by Terrence Fleming) and
Corned Beef (played by Eric Hammer), are visited by two aliens, Madeline
Virbasius and Dion.  Virbasius, dressed as the Virgin Mary, tells the
two to kill people for Jesus and to drain the puss from their heads and
bring it back to them.  Fleming and Hammer set out to bring "the Virgin
Mary" back as much puss back as possible in a bucket (hence the title).

     I was lucky enough to see an advance showing of this film from
somebody who was involved in its production.  PUSSBUCKET is based on the
Broadway musical and is done by Blessed Elysium Productions.  It is
going to be distributed by Film Threat Video, and I don't know when it
will be made available.  PUSSBUCKET, which is currently not rated, I
expect will end up with an R rating.  On a scale of zero to five, I give
PUSSBUCKET a three (with reservations).  PUSSBUCKET contains explicit
language, adult situations, and violence (it actually contains one scene
of graphic violence with a prosthetic breast, but it is so obviously
fake, it don't count it).

     PUSSBUCKET is an interesting grade Z film.  It is shot in grainy
black and white and is obviously an amateur production with a *very* low
budget.  I think the biggest problems with the film are: it is
amateurishly filmed with a lot of jerky motions; a lot of close-ups that
end up going too close; and the film is about half an hour too long.
Other than that PUSSBUCKET is an interesting film that will reward the
patient viewer with some wonderful moments.

     Two parts of the film that were particularly good was the
television evangelist, Steve Green, with his 1-900-DIAL GOD number, and
the news anchor man, Steven Deal.  The songs in the film, what few there
are, are great.  Unfortunately it doesn't look like all the  songs from
the Broadway show made it into this film (I haven't seen the Broadway
show, but I only remember three songs from the film, and I am sure the
Broadway musical contained more than that).

     Unfortunately for the film, some of the scenes are so badly
photographed and the sound is so poor that it is unclear what is going
on and that drags the film down.  I don't recommend this film for
everybody, but only those with an open mind and a taste for the bizarre.
I don't know what the release availability of this film is going to be.
If it comes to your video store for a cheap enough rate, you might be
interested in trying it.

Ken J.
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Subject: REVIEW: WILD ORCHID 2: TWO SHADES OF BLUE
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:26:20 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01504
Keywords: author=K.Johnson

                     WILD ORCHID 2: TWO SHADES OF BLUE
                       A film review by Ken Johnson
                        Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson

111 min., not rated, Drama, 1992
Director: Zalman King
Cast: Wendy Hughes, Tom Skerritt, Robert Davi, Brent Fraser,
      Nina Siemaszko, Christopher McDonald, Joe Dallesandro,
      Casey Sander, Stafford Morgan, Don Bloomfield, Lydie Denier

     Nina Siemaszko's father Tom Skerritt, an avid drug user, dies.
Siemaszko ends up working at a whorehouse.  Robert Davi, who does odd
jobs at a whorehouse, gets interested in Siemaszko.   Siemaszko sees a
high school boy who she is interested in, but she doesn't know how to
tell him what her profession is.

     WILD ORCHID 2: TWO SHADES OF BLUE is the latest film by erotic film
maker Zalman King, who's past films include WILD ORCHID and TWO MOON
JUNCTION.  WILD ORCHID 2 is not really a sequel to WILD ORCHID, in fact
it has nothing to do with WILD ORCHID.  The only thing that links the
film together at all is the fact that Zalman King directed both.  I
enjoyed WILD ORCHID, but I hated WILD ORCHID 2.  Everything that WILD
ORCHID had, this didn't.  WILD ORCHID 2: TWO SHADES OF BLUE is also
available in a less explicit R rated version.  On a scale of zero to
five, I give WILD ORCHID 2 a one.  WILD ORCHID 2 is unrated and contains
female nudity, explicit language, strong sexual content, and adult
situations.

     The one thing that keeps WILD ORCHID 2 from being a total waste is
that its cast is excellent.  Tom Skerritt, who gets top billing, is only
on the screen for about fifteen minutes.   Unfortunately the story isn't
up to the original, in fact it is far from it.  In WILD ORCHID, I found
the story interesting (as well as erotic).  WILD ORCHID 2 skips the
interesting and just tries to be erotic, where it fails miserably.  My
suggestion is to skip this film and rewatch WILD ORCHID.  The story,
such as it is, is muddled and not everything is explained.  Things that
happen don't always make sense and are often confusing.  This film seems
to have no real reason for existing, and I am not quite sure why it ever
was made.

Ken J.
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu

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From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Subject: REVIEW: HEAR MY SONG
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:01:51 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01501
Keywords: author=K.Johnson

                               HEAR MY SONG
                       A film review by Ken Johnson
                        Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson

100 min., R, Drama , 1991
Director: Peter Chelsom
Cast: Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Shirley-Anne Field, Tara Fitzgerald,
      William Hootkins, David McCallum

     Adrian Dunbar is going to be evicted from the building where his
club is located.  He promises the landlords that he is going to get
Irish tenor Ned Beatty to sing at the club, and they let him stay open.
Instead of Beatty, Dunbar ends up with an impersonator.  Dunbar loses
the club, his girlfriend Tara Fitzgerald, and his friends.  He sets out
on a voyage to Ireland to try to locate Beatty so he can get Fitzgerald
back.

     HEAR MY SONG is a wonderful film, is well written and beautifully
filmed.  It is well worth going to see if it comes to a theater near
you.  Personally, this film didn't sound the most interesting to me, but
it was playing as a double feature to the other film I went to see, so I
figured I might as well watch this film too.  I was surprised at how
much I liked it.  On a scale of zero to five, I give HEAR MY SONG a
four.  It is rated R for female nudity, adult situations, and explicit
language.

     The locations used for this film were great.  The Irish country
side where Beatty was living looked beautiful.  Ned Beatty, who is
really starting to get old (53, I think) did a great job, even though he
didn't do his own singing.  Some opera singer, I think, did all of the
singing for him.  Dunbar, who I don't think I have ever seen before in
the movies, did a wonderful job and has a potential in movies, at least
in alternative cinema.  Tara Fitzgerald, although she wasn't on the
screen very much, did a memorable performance.  The rest of the
supporting cast also did a great job.

     The film was interesting.  I fully enjoyed watching it and never
got bored.  This is alternative cinema almost at its best.   I highly
suggest that if you have not yet seen this film that you attempt to.  I
don't think that you will be disappointed.  I certainly wasn't.  I feel
that this film should have gotten more exposure than it did.  At least
in my area it only played for four days, and I don't think that that was
near enough time.  I feel that this film probably would have done very
well at a mainstream theater which would have allowed more people to see
it.

Ken J.
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu

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From: Sarah_M._Elkins.Wbst139@xerox.com
Subject: REVIEW: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
Reply-To: Sarah_M._Elkins.Wbst139@xerox.com
Organization: IBM
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:47:01 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01512
Keywords: author=Elkins

			 TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
		       A film review by Sarah M. Elkins
			Copyright 1992 Sarah M. Elkins

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME:  "Prequel" to David Lynch's TV series
"Twin Peaks."

Plot/kick-off: An FBI agent investigates the death of a woman.  FBI
Special Agent Dale Cooper investigates this later on, and then the FBI
aspect is dropped almost completely as we turn up in the little
northwestern town of Twin Peaks, leading up to almost the very start of
the TV series.

Characters/acting:  Sheryll Lee turned in a very good performance as
Laura Palmer.  More than just the "woman in jeopardy," she was complex,
sometimes subtle and sometimes "out there" as the role demanded.  Other
Peaks returning regulars included Kyle MacLachlan as Coop, James, Miguel
Ferres as Albert, Leland, Shelly, Bobby and Norma.  Chris Isaak, Kiefer
Southerland, David Bowie in early scenes.

Cinematography/FX:  Some beautiful scenes, and some really weird scenes.
More of the red-curtained room and "The Lodge."  How do they make
Douglass firs look frightening?  Probably would lose a little on the
small screen.  Again very effective in the blend of supernatural with
reality.

Score/Sound: Similar to series.  New song by Julee Cruise.  Pretty gross
sounds during one autopsy.

Violence/Gore:  Dead bodies, bloody/split foreheads, most kill/scare
scenes imply rather than show directly.

Language: Oh, probably some, nothing really strong that I recall.

Skin/situations:  Lots.  Lots and lots.  Steamy in parts, and
non-traditional in others.  Topless dancing/foreplay, but not actually
much sex per se, not graphically shown anyway.  Not as wild as the
diary.

Analysis:  What *is* it with the creamed corn?  Yep, we're still left with
questions after seeing the movie.  It will answer a few of the ones we
had, but definitely not all.  That's okay with me, but it probably won't
be with some other viewers.  It's hard for me to make a call on whether
anyone who doesn't like Lynch or didn't watch "Twin Peaks" the series
would like the movie, but as a wild guess I will say, "Probably not."  I
thought it was a pretty good ride, though it was less scary as the end
drew near, since I had a better idea of what was going to happen near
the series start.

- Sarah
elkins.wbst139@xerox.com
From: rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:53:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: sio
NNTP-Posting-Host: lutherlab.ucsd.edu

Lazlo proclaims: 

>If you think these scenes are too explicit for you, don't go to "R"-rated
>movies.  You don't get to make those decisions for everyone else. 

You're missing the point.  The argument is not about certain people
not seeing certain movies.  The argument IS about the effect on a 
film of leaving out certain material or depictions.  

Jeff Bytof
rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu
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From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:59:27 GMT

In the category of minimal cast movies, special mention has to be made of
both _Sleuth_ and _Give 'Em Hell, Harry_.  Every actor in those films was
nominated for an Academy Award for their performances.

-- Herb Huston
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From: gckchin@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Kelvyn Chin)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:00:23 GMT

sboiarsk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean L Boiarski) writes:
: Either Warlock, or High Lander II. Both because of the anticipation factor 
: involved, and because I had to drag other people to see both movies. Boy was I 
: red. I had seen trailers for Warlock years before it came out, and asked all my
: friends to join me for the ritualistic first showing in town. I almost lost 
: some friends. Same with HL II, fortunately, I was only one of many shmucks in 
: the theatre who had been led in like lambs to slaughter.
: 
: Sean Boiarski

You can say that again! I can't imagine Sean Connery (of all people) 
running around muttering crap like .." Warriors of the planet Zoist.."
Can't they find a more dignified name for a planet ?!! But my ultimate
worst movie was a cheap Z-grade piece of shit which I can't even re-
member the name. It was about an Egyptian curse (or something) and
the bad guy (or girl, can't recall) places a beetle on the good guys
chest and the beetle burrows its way into the guys chest. That's all
I remember.

The one that comes pretty close is Poltergeist III.

kelvyn
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From: teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (A. Lani Teshima)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:39:49 GMT

In article <25406@castle.ed.ac.uk>, cs@met.ed.ac.uk (C Smith) writes:
:  What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
:  embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
:  up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
:  who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
:  your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)

Uh---could I assume that "Split Second" with Rutger Hauer has already
been mentioned here? He's one of my favorite actors, but I was sure
embarrassed coming out of the theater after -that- one! Embarassed and
confused, actually!
  


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From: howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Request for title of exceptionally bad 70's film
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:34:14 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035

spb0457@zeus.tamu.edu (SubGenius) writes:

<Apparently, there's this chick named Candy (this may be the title of the
<movie) and what she does is schtup every male in the film, more or less.

Yep, that's the title of the movie, alright - "Candy". What a wasted
cast! Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Ringo Starr, etc.

<Buck Henry wrote the screenplay.

I thought it was Terry Southern? He wrote the original novel, at any
rate. Truly awful movie, but then I think it was actually trying to be.

--
                                        John Howells
                                        howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov 
                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov
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Subject: Re: Mackenzie Bros. == Waynes World?
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:15:31 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

maureenw@sco.COM (Maureen Wilkes) writes:

> In article <1992Aug20.121748.885@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohi
> >
> >I haven't seen Waynes World but everything I hear makes it sound like a 
> >Mackenzie Brothers ripoff. Has anyone who's seen both noticed this?
> >
> 
> 
> Wayne and Garth are to Suburban Southern Ontario as Bob and Doug are to
> Northern Ontario.

Southern Ontario??  Aren't they from Aurora, Illinois??  Maybe I just didn't
get your joke.  On the other hand, they seemed to speak and act more like
Bill and Ted, with the surfer accents.  Or maybe sort of a combination of
Bill and Ted, and Bob and Doug.  Well, not being from the Midwest, I can't
say how close they were to Midwest speech.
  
> 
> They are satires of different "types" of hicks.

Well, I wouldn't call them "hicks" either.  More like suburbanites.  But that
is just arguing semantics.  :)


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"Do you want to argue with a can of deodorant that registers
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From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: WOODY ALLEN MOVIES
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:48:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: huxley.5979
Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes:

> Also, his next movie, MANHATTEN MURDER MYSTERY, begins shooting in two weeks.
> It was slated to star Mia Farrow, but [surprise] she was replaced-- by Diane
> Keaton.

Soon-Yi didn't get the part!?

John
Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:25983 alt.cult-movies:7125
From: steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Time of the Gypsies
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:40:42 GMT
Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group

In <1992Aug24.214909.11290@bnr.ca> labiche@crchh561.BNR.CA (Maurice LaBiche) writes:
>slight SPoilers follow: more like basic story line.























>The main character has tele-kinetic powers

What? Where? Did I blink when I was watching this or something?


						Steve
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From: pjb4288@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Pete - Toonatic - Boulay)
Subject: Autographed pictures wanted
Originator: pjb4288@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:27:49 GMT

I am a collector of autographed pictures of stars from all forms of media and
entertainment.

So far I have: Brandon Marsalis, Jay Leno, The Four Tops, Elton John, Victor
Borge', and Patrick Stewart.

The people I'd like to get a hold of are: Amy Grant, Barbara Streisand,
William Shatner (out of Trek), Leonard Nimoy (out of Trek), Larry King,
Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Liza Minelli.  Of course, this is only a start.

I have just sent away for one of Dr. Demento. :)

Can anyone give me addresses for the people listed above in my wanted list?

Please give it to me in email...thanx.

Pete
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From: tsui@ils.nwu.edu
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:27:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.181630.6116@cs.ucla.edu> reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter
Reiher) writes:
>>tsui@ils.nwu.edu writes:
>>
>>> If people want to see real filmmaking at its best, check out John Woo's
films
>>> (same goes for Tsui Hark's stuff).
>
>Do you really think Woo and Hark are comparable with the finest films of
>Kurosawa, Welles, Renoir, Hitchcock, Ford, Bergman, Eisenstein, Fellini,
>and von Stroheim?  I don't.  The best I've heard anyone else claim for them
>is that their works are superior to contemporary Hollywood action films.
>Personally, I wouldn't even call them the best, or even the second best,
>Chinese directors.
>
>--
>		Peter Reiher
>		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
>
>


I really should have written "current filmmakers" or "action filmmakers"
instead.  The people you've listed above are not really alive are doing much
these days :->

I do stand by John Woo and Tsui Hark, though.  Their films are well written and
produced, especially Woo's.  I consider action/adventure films as good as any
"serious" dramas by other people.  To single-frame through an action sequence
in a Woo film is like learning what film-language is about.  I'm not saying
that the other directors aren't better (most are, Hitchcock and Ozu are my
all-time favorite directors), just that sometimes modern film-makers don't get
enough respect until they're dead.

John Woo is a "complete" film-maker, he usually writes, edits, and directs his
films.   Unlike some others he doesn't spread himself thin doing this, his
editting is probably the most effective I've ever seen anywhere.  His writing
and directing is very reminescent of the old Warner Bros. gangster films, very
moralistic and emotional.

enough ramblings, if anyone is interested in good action films with good
storylines rent a John Woo or Tsui Hark film.

JOSH TSUI
INSTITUTE FOR THE LEARNING SCIENCES
(the high school after high school)
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From: margaret@infonode.ingr.com (Margaret Wiginton)
Subject: The Buddy Holly Story
Keywords: some background info, please
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:08:49 GMT

I just saw The Buddy Holly Story for the first time, and I
liked it a lot.  I thought Gary Busey did a nice job.  Anyway, 
now I'm wondering ... how accurate is the movie?  And, what
happened to Buddy Holly's widow and child (not a movie question, 
I know, but I'm still curious)?  And, are there any other movies 
about Buddy Holly?

Thanks, 
-- 
___________________
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margaret@msw104i.b24b.ingr.com
From: maureenw@sco.COM (Maureen Wilkes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Mackenzie Bros. == Waynes World?
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:23:12 GMT
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.

In article <ksZ5PB4w164w@kryton.UUCP> ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead) writes:
>maureenw@sco.COM (Maureen Wilkes) writes:
>
>
>Southern Ontario??  Aren't they from Aurora, Illinois??  Maybe I just didn't
>get your joke.  On the other hand, they seemed to speak and act more like
>Bill and Ted, with the surfer accents.  Or maybe sort of a combination of
>Bill and Ted, and Bob and Doug.  Well, not being from the Midwest, I can't
>say how close they were to Midwest speech.

Yes, in the movie they are from Aurora.  But Mike Meyers has made no effort
to hide the fact that the characters and location (even the car) are "lifted"
directly from his teenage years in Scarborough, which is a suburb, which is
in Southern Ontario.  And anyone who knows of Scarborough knew *exactly* who
and what Myers was making fun of.
>  

                        Maureen W.
From: kachun@astro.as.arizona.edu (Ka Chun Yu)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 1 Sep 92 09:34:42 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Sep1.063404.4270@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> MATMNB@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (BRAZIL,Marcus N) writes:
>Actually, it's 8. Apart from the victim, who's only seen for a few seconds
>being strangled there are
>the two murderers,
>the housekeeper,
>the victim's girlfriend,
>the girlfriend's ex-boyfriend,
>the victim's two parents,
              ^^^^^^^^^^^

Actually I think they were his aunt and uncle.

>and the professor (Jimmy Stewart).
>
>....Marcus Brazil....


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