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From: etxsahm@eua.ericsson.se (Marten Sahlen)
Subject: Re: Belgian Movies (RESEVOIR DOGS v Man Eats Dog)
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:25:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.082147.28058@lth.se> dat91oto@ludat.lth.se (Ola Torstensson) writes:
>In article <1jka1g$n1e@agate.berkeley.edu> sandyl@soda.berkeley.edu (Sandy Lai) writes:
>>I havent seen either film yet... but in the US release of Man Bites Dog
>>the gang rape scene has been cut.(At least according to a review I have
>>read.)
>
>Luxury!  Here in Sweden, Man Bites Dog has been totally banned.  :-(
>
>Ola
>

Yes, and it is so infuriating with those hypocrits that make up our national
board of censorship. As stated, 'Man Bites Dog' gets totally banned, and 
'Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer' was cut beyond recognition, since they
attempt to depict the true nature of violence.
This while the whole range of Hollywood imports like 'Rambo X' and 'Universal
Soldier', which wallow in fictitious acts of brutality and violence, passes
without anyone raising an eyebrow. To complicate matters further, directors 
like Greenaway and Lynch apparently have no problems whatsoever with their
respective movies, since they can claim a high level of artistic quality.

It just doesn't make sense, IMHO.

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From: bourp00@DMI.USherb.CA (PIERRE BOURBONNAIS)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: The Return Of The Family Man
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:51:45 GMT
Followup-To: alt.horror
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique

Hello out there in the great wide open!

I rented this movie yesterday, THE RETURN OF THE FAMILY MAN. 

Was good, not so bad. I wanted to know if, as the title suggest, it
is a sequel, maybe to THE FAMILY MAN, or something. If it is,
who/when/with/why?! please!

By the way, I had not notice how people in horror movies, low horror
movies that is, are so stupid, so goddam stupid!

Remember DELIRIOUS of Eddie Murphy? In it, he laught of Poltergeist:

"Why do white men stay in the house when there's a ghost. If there were
a ghost in my house, I'd get the f**k out"

They find these skeletons, and a bloodied axe or whatever, and they stay
there! The even go, look the best they can to the skeletons, they know
they are in the house of the killer, they know he is in liberty, and
they stay! Two of their friend have disapeared, and the stay!

Of course, when the run to the car (10 minutes too late) the cars
have been pushed in the lake! Gee, that's too bad. Well, we'll
stay and get killed! They don't even try to run to the nearest
village (which must be at most at an hour away on foot). NO! NO! NO!
They decide to get the f**ker. Of course, he has killed families by
the dozen, he escapes from prison (not exactly but...), nobody
cares about'em, they are lost, and the think they can get him!

Of course! Hey, that's what I do: when there's a killer in the
house, and I have found my father, slithed throath, viscirated
mother, molested sister, decapitated brother, I fight back! Hey,
everybody does just that, don't they? 

Stupid screenplays! I long for a good movie, really good, when
the actors really don't have any escape (EVIL DEAD - (NIGHTMARE ON
ELM STREET - ...)

I need money! Everybody who reads this sends me 5$, and
screenplays that are good, and I'll make the horror movie
of the year. Damn, of all time! (In my dreams... Nothing
beats ALIEN) That's it, I got it! I'l make ALIEN 4, finaly
the title will have something to do with the title. (Alien 3
should have been retitled RIPLEY, she's the b**ch that came
back...) Any Alien fans out there? Got any ideas for ALIEN 4???

Ah! forget all this, I'll never have enough money! But someday,
I promess, maybe in 200 years, but someday, I'll make my own
ALIEN movie, and there are going the be real ALIEN in it.

Ah, the sweet taste of dream!

Gotta got! Sorry if you didn't like this post!

Bonne journee a tous neanmoins! Pierre :^)
From: jsterwillige@acs.harding.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Brandon Lee
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:53:43 GMT
Reply-To: jsterwillige@acs.harding.edu
Organization: Harding University

What's the name of the movie that Brandon starred in with Dolph Lungren (SP?)
and Tia what's-her-face?  Is that "Once upon a time in China"?  Even though
the acting wasn't the greatest (along with the plot, dialogue, etc.) I really
found myself enjoying this movie.  It had just enough good stuff in it to
make it worth watching.  Comments please.
                                                                  Jeffrey
From: pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Ninth Configuration
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:21:16 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: darkpark

mritchie@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael S Ritchie) writes:

> In article <1993Jan24.142828.10128@iscsvax.uni.edu> schebel8133@iscsvax.uni.e
>  writes:
> >Question-
> >      Does anyone consider William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration
> >a cult flick? Is there a comprehensive list of what is considered cult, and
> >what is not?
> >
> Well, I certainly don't feel qualified to try to define "cult
> movie" in front of this crowd, but I would surely think that the
> Blatty flick would qualify.  It wasn't incredibly popular,
> box-officewise, was fairly popular among critics, and damn
> hard to dope out on one viewing.  It's really an
> interesting film that doesn't get talked about much, but
> look it up for something different.
> --Michael


 Agreed. The sequence where we slowly get to see Christ on the moon while 
a slow, deep voice tells us facts almost wiped me out, and I NEVER get 
scared at the movies...

marlowe

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From: masc0374@ucssun1.sdsu.edu.sdsu.edu (Avoid normal situations.)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Life Is Cheap...
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:31:03 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
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 (SYW1@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:
: Wayne Wang is known for the cult films "Where is Charlie Chan?".
: 
  I believe you mean _Chan is Missing_.

						Love & kisses,

					The Stainless Steel Moviegoer

		"Okay you primitive screwheads... this is my bonestick!!"

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From: labiche@crchh87b (Maurice LaBiche)
Subject: Re: Belgian Movies - Toto les Heroes 
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:01:31 GMT
Organization: BNR, Inc.
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I saw this film last year and I believe it was Belgian.
Anyway it was a great movie.  About a guy who believes 
he's been seperated from his Rich family at birth and
grows up next door at the middle class families residence.
The movie is about his desire to "get even" with his
usurping neighbor during his life.

--
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Maurice LaBiche   |   labiche@bnr.ca 

"The world is a strange place."
"Someone oughta sell tickets."
"I'd buy one!"
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Stock footage, the hidden costs
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:37:35 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

I was watching 'Rocket Attack U.S.A' the other night (thanks again
Judex!!!) and was struck by something. At the end, the bombing of 
New York City by a small fission bomb is represented by a Hydrogen
Bomb blast in the Pacific. Now, if the people making this turkey had
had to actually blow up some atoll to get the footage it would have
pushed their budget *WAY* over their obvious $24.95 budget. So, what
are the most expensive examples of stock footage that you can think of?
I suppose the Challenger explosion would have to rank right up there but
the only movie I've seen that in was Robo-Cop and as it was used as stock
footage it didn't count. 
Comments?

Bob Church (just an average guy with way too much time on his hands)
From: sobelman@cco.caltech.edu (Steven M. Sobelman )
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Name that Peter Falk movie (second try)
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:26:20 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay) writes:

>Anyone else remember "Murder can Kill You?" Same general plot, but it 
>dealt with tv detectives.

Yeah, but it was a TV movie.  I remember a Baretta character, a McCloud 
(McSkye), a Columbo even.  I remember also that, like in Murder By Death, all
the detective were put in certain death situations, but escaped in funny ways.
Still, discussion should be left for alt.cult-movies.tv :) .


Steve
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From: bourp00@DMI.USherb.CA (PIERRE BOURBONNAIS)
Subject: Communion
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:10:37 GMT

hey, last night I rented COMMUNION for the 3rd time, and I really realised 
how this is a great movie. Weither or not it is based on true experiences,
this film is GOOD! Not the best, but I give it a high rate.

Story is all right, but the filming, camera cuts, etc. give a good mood in
the movie. You should try watching it alone, in a basement, with an open
window...

But, best of all, and that<s why I rented it another time, it stars THE
actor: tadam!

 		**********************
		* CHRISTOPHER WALKEN *
		**********************

Every one out there who thinks Christopher is the best actor around say Viva
Walken!!!!

Pierre BOURP00@DMI.USHERB.CA
From: cainesaj@vax1.bham.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Any Rocky Horror Fans out there?
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:21:26 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.bham.ac.uk

In article <1993Jan25.025813.170@ncsu.edu>, lhschein@eos.ncsu.edu (LAURENCE HOW SCHEINMAN) writes:
> 
> and if not, where the hell are they?  Am I on the right Sig or what?

There are.

-Andrew-
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies,rec.arts.movies
From: conrad@actrix.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock)
Subject: Re: Braindead (More Awards, Info on US, French release)
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:15:06 GMT

In article <+4n3syq@rpi.edu> spinaa@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson) writes:
> In article <1993Jan25.113556.8211@actrix.gen.nz> conrad@actrix.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock) writes:
> >  Braindead is soon to open in America, retitled Dead Alive.
> 
> Will this version be edited down to a G rating or will it be released unrated?
> Also, how wide a release are we talking here? 

Sorry, I know very little about it. However, I seem to recall that the
film is being distributed in the US by Tri-star Pictures - I don't
know what conclusions you can draw from that. You may like to contact
them and find out.
-- 
The contents of this article in no way represent the views of the NSA.
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From: donnell@squid.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: Name this movie
Keywords: lathe of heaven
Organization: none
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:47:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.204045.811@news.columbia.edu> mcp4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Marco Claro Pineda) writes:
>Greetings all.  I remember seeing a film quite a while ago that involved a
>main character whose dreams came true.  I remember the title as being some-
>thing like "The Lathe of Heaven" or something like that.  It was kind of sci-
>fi in feel (at least that's how I remember it) but it's been 10 years or
>so and I don't remember much else about it.  I do remember that at one point
>the main character, in response to racial prejudice, dreams that
>everyone is turned gray.  He wakes up from the dream an lo and behold everyone
>is that same color.  I believe part of the plot is that he goes through
>several of these dreams in order to find a solution for the problems of
>the world and fails.  I'm afraid I can't even remember how it ended (whether he
>was successful or not.)
>
>For some reason it made a strong impression and search as I might through movie
>guides and such I can find no mention.  Perhaps it was a european rather than
>an american release, or perhaps it was a TV movie.  Can anyone help me out, I'd
>really like to get my hands on a copy and see what it is that made such an 
>impression on me.
>
>Thx
>
>

You remember correctly. It was "The Lathe Of Heaven", based on a novel
by Ursula K. LeGuin. It was the first "made for PBS" movie and was
quite good. I do not know why it has not been released on video or 
re-run in recent years, but it is a high point in original PBS
programming, if a bit slow at times.

Pax
					--Judex--
.

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From: ANDREW@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (WEISS,PATRICK ALAN)
Subject: BLADE RUNNER
Organization: ETH ZUERICH
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:13:43 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24


Finally the Editor's cut made it to Switzerland !!!!

I think it is really great, because it leaves more subjects open...

But... I've got a few questions.

(I don't want to bore you guys (you probably have discussed these months ago)
but I have to know !!!)

QUESTIONS:

-Is Deckard a REPLICANT ????
(One of the indications are that the police chief says that D. WAS one of the
best Blade Runners. WAS and ins't anymore. Speculation: He was one of the best
Blade Runners because he is a Replicant and had no feelings in the beginning
and no problems killing people. Time passed and he developped feelings, started
drinking and thinking about wether he is a replicant (Unic Horn scene). Why
does the spanish looking police man (I forgot his name) know about his dream ??
(by making this unic horn out of paper in the very end of the film).

-Are the red eyes a symbol for a Replicant ???
(In that case even the spanish looking police man would be a R. !!!)

-How long will he live ?????

Please help me !!! (I need the answer !!!)

Thanks,
		PAW (andrew@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch)

++++++++++++++++++++ May the holy 42 protect you !!!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Name that Peter Falk movie (second try)
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:41:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 


> This question may not have reached the right people (I recently changed some
> distribution options), so here it is again. Last week I ended up in a "name
>that Peter Falk movie"-competition after a discussion on "The Princess Bride".
>I lost and one of the reasons was that I couldn't remember a movie in which he
> is invited (as Lt. Columbo), together with a bunch of other famous book-TV-
>detectives to a castle or mansion. I remember Peter Sellers playing inspector
> Clouseau, and a Miss Marple (not played by Margaret Rutherford) and a Hercule
> Poirot (not played by Peter Ustinov). Maybe there was also a Philip Marlowe
> and (this may be wishful thinking) the host of the party might be Christopher
> Lee. Of course a murder is comitted and all detectives have different theories
>about the murderer. Can anyone tell me the title of this movie??

Murder by Death?  Sounds right, anyway.
                                                                          
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From: dxg6476@hertz.njit.edu (David Gray)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Name that Peter Falk movie (second try)
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:39:47 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <C1F05s.8su@sci.kun.nl> grimbergen@macpost.kun.nl writes:
>
> This question may not have reached the right people (I recently changed some
> distribution options), so here it is again. Last week I ended up in a "name 
>that Peter Falk movie"-competition after a discussion on "The Princess Bride".
>I lost and one of the reasons was that I couldn't remember a movie in which he
> is invited (as Lt. Columbo), together with a bunch of other famous book-TV-
>detectives to a castle or mansion. I remember Peter Sellers playing inspector
> Clouseau, and a Miss Marple (not played by Margaret Rutherford) and a Hercule
> Poirot (not played by Peter Ustinov). Maybe there was also a Philip Marlowe
> and (this may be wishful thinking) the host of the party might be Christopher
> Lee. Of course a murder is comitted and all detectives have different theories
>about the murderer. Can anyone tell me the title of this movie??
>
>Reijer Grimbergen
> 

I think the movie you are referring to is "Murder by Death."  If I'm not 
mistaken, it was the the last movie to star Truman Capote.  I believe it also
starred David Niven and Brenda Vacarro, but I'm not positive.

Dave
From: lonewolf@muse.Corp.Sun.COM (Peter Pak)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Latest Tsui Hark Movie (East&West aka Swordsmen III) at the Great Star (SF)
Date: 26 Jan 1993 23:07:41 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lonewolf@muse.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: muse.corp.sun.com

For all of you Tsui Hark fans out there, the Great Star in San Francisco
is showing his latest movie "East & West".  Unfortunately I don't have
the show times.  Since the San Francisco Chronicle has stopped
listing the Chinese Theaters showtimes you'll just have to take your
chances.  Wondering around Chinatown munching out on Dim Sum and Chow-Shu Bao
is not a bad way to pass the time while waiting for the next showing.

We caught the 6pm showing on Saturday.

If you've seen Swordsman I and Swordsman II you've gotta see this
one.

Prepare yourself for a gravity defying experience!

=B^)

P.S. The other feature that they are showing is Casino Tycoon II which
     was actually pretty enjoyable.  (That is if you're a Hong Kong
     Cinema fan... ;^)
From: blu@cellar.org (Dan Reed)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: _Hell Comes To Frogtown_ - Yes, I BROUGHT it on LD!
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:36:24 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

Well, see there is this place, and for $10 they have abour 200 REALLY bad 
movies on laser disk.  Now, with three of us at the house, we can _buy_ a 
disk for what it costs us to each rent _one_.  Out first pick -

_Hell Comes to Frogtown_, actually, it *really* was not *that* bad.  I mean, 
shure it was stupid (actually, *where* did they get the money to make this?), 
but it was fun.

Just thought I should all let you know..

     Dan Reed - blu@cellar.org - AutoCAD Geek -Industrial Music Lover
      68'Cougar, 89'VW Golf, 74'Honda Cb360, 89'Rollerblade Zetras'
  "Anyone can get a gun Otis. You can make a phone call and get a gun."
From: upham@cs.ubc.ca (Derek Upham)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Latest Tsui Hark Movie (East&West aka Swordsmen III) at the Great Star (SF)
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:11:53 GMT
Organization: Raven's Auto Body Repair Shop, Mega-Tokyo.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cascade.cs.ubc.ca

lonewolf@muse.Corp.Sun.COM (Peter Pak) writes:

>For all of you Tsui Hark fans out there, the Great Star in San Francisco
>is showing his latest movie "East & West".

Sheesh.  New York has "City Hunter"; San Francisco has "Swordsman 3";
Vancouver has "Fight Back to School 3".  :(

>If you've seen Swordsman I and Swordsman II you've gotta see this
>one.

Is it true that Hark got yet another actor to play the lead?  What's
the storyline like?

>P.S. The other feature that they are showing is Casino Tycoon II which
>     was actually pretty enjoyable.

Eeeek!  Andy Lau was good in the lead role, but this is not a film to
watch if you have a low tolerance for TV miniseries...

Derek

-- 
Derek Lynn Upham                               University of British Columbia
upham@cs.ubc.ca                                   Computer Science Department
=============================================================================
"Ha!  Your Leaping Tiger Kung Fu is no match for my Frightened Piglet Style!"
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From: afcondon@maths.tcd.ie (Andrew Condon)
Subject: Re: Harvey Keitel
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:40:50 GMT

bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
>Ok, dumb question but it's been bothering me for some time. There is a 
>pathetice excuse for a 60s biker movie called 'Hellcats'. In it, during the
>famous unseen bike race seen, a bit player pulls a swithblade to forshadow
>a fight. He really looks like a young Harvey Keitel. Anyone know if this was
>him or not?

There is a filmography for Keitel in the issue of _Sight and Sound_ that has
Gary Oldman as Dracula on the cover. It doesn't mention this film, starting 
instead with _Who's That Knocking at my door?_ in '69, and the next refers to
this as his first film, so...
--
Andrew
From: pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: VIDEODROME: the flesh bit.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:46:07 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: darkpark

> By the by, to the guy who mocks (did you mean to mock?) William S
> Burroughs:  Will is a GOD.  Read Naked Lunch, his best novel by far.
> (Everything else is just too wacko, even for me, a big fan of will...)
> Plus there's DEAD CITY RADIO, a great recording of Will reading some
> fine works: including passages from the bible, naked lunch, and many
> interesting stories.  Creepy and neat, well worth seeking out.

 Uhhh...I think you mean me, but I don't know what you're talking about. 
I LOVE Big Billy B., and all I said was that his books are BRILLIANT 
gibberish. This is not a put-down; I LOVE meaningless anbd strange 
narratives.

>                                         Nik

marlowe

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From: chand@netcom.com (Charlie Hand)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Looking for Walkabout on tape
Summary: Looking for Walkabout on tape
Keywords: Walkabout
Date: 22 Jan 93 07:06:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film about two children finding their way back
home through the outback after being abandoned by their father. It's
a marvelous film with a very young Jenny Agutter, two other child actors,
and no music. It used to appear on TV occationally but I haven't seen 
it in over ten years. I would love to obtain a copy of it.

Does anyone know whether it was ever available commercially on tape?
How about in Austrailia?

-charlie hand
chand@netcom.com
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