Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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So, while I was at Kayo Books today scoring...
Anubis Gates by Tim Powers and Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter - two of the earliest steampunk books. (Not counting Verne and Welles, et al.)
...I also picked up an issue of the magazine Cinefantastique from 1974.
Check out the contents:
Cover: Phantom of the Paradise (with in-depth article and interview with DePalma)
Feature on Last Days of Man on Earth, which I didn't even know existed. It's a Jerry Cornelius movie of
The Final Programme
directed by the guy who did the Dr. Phibes movies! Must find.
Feature on The Stepford Wives (w/ Katharine Ross)
Feature on the new Space: 1999
Cool sidebar on how filming has begun on the stage musical Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Reviews of: The Little Prince (the movie. Which I also didn't know existed); the horror movie Seizure, Jaws, Closed Mondays (the Oscar winning Claymation short).
Capsule reviews of: Deafula (?); Trilogy of Terror (creep ass movie with Karen Black and skittery little things under the bed); Escape from Witch Mountain; The Werewolf of Woodstock (?).
Cool beans! So...who's seen this Jerry Cornelius movie?
Oooh, a trailer.
Looks like a Zardoz level flustercluck.
DH and I watched Bottle Shock last night and it was cute! Loved Alan Rickman and Eliza Dushku.
...I also picked up an issue of the magazine Cinefantastique from 1974.
Dude - I also own that issue. Sadly CFQ went steadily downhill during the 80s (where before it was the Film Comment/Sight & Sound of SF/Horror/Fantasy and tertiary genre films) and never got its vibe back. Loved CFQ in its heyday though.
Video Watchdog has been the closest replacement for it that I've found, outside of when the aforementioned FC/S&S cover the same territory.
They also had a lot of classic issues of Sight and Sound at Kayo. I was tempted to pick up the sixties issue with Deneuve on the cover (for Umbrellas).
They also had a lot of Film Comment, American Film, Film and Filmmaking, Film Threat and Filmfax.
Cool beans! So...who's seen this Jerry Cornelius movie?
Oh, missed you saying this, but I did. Don't remember much except FUCKED UP.
I will admit I was seriously drunk at the time.
Speaking of fucked up and movies, I give you the Ursa's World website.
This website is for all those who wish to submit to a cruel, all-powerful, unstoppable, invincible, invulnerable, superhuman Kryptonian Goddess.
That would be Sarah Douglas in Superman II.
Dude, I'm not sure anything tops the carnivorous piano, so I'm thinking that should be your watermark for fucked up.
so I'm thinking that should be your watermark for fucked up.
True, it's only mildly fucked up in a rubber-chicken-on-your-head kind of way.
I'm just wondering if they copped her look in Superman from Servalan.
(She was in the Jerry Cornelius movie, incidentally, which is why I looked her up.)
The Little Prince (the movie. Which I also didn't know existed)
I've seen it! It's not too bad, but definitely not very memorable. Gene Wilder is great as the Fox, and it was Bob Fosse's last feature film song-and-dance performance (as the Snake).
Holy shit! Stanley Donen directed The Little Prince. You don't see that mentioned on his resume a whole lot (less than Saturn 3 and Blame it on Rio even).
Huh, Will Vinton did a claymation version as well in 1979.
Also, Saturn 3's screenplay? Martin Amis. Yes, that one.
