Malky
09-20-09, 10:53 AM
I've went through a phase of watching movie documentaries such as Not Quite Hollywood, Midnight Movies and Going to Pieces: The Rise and The fall of The Slasher Film.
Not Quite Hollywood is concerned with Australian B Movies and it is really funny a bunch of talking heads most notably Quentin Tarintino wax lyrical about Australian cinema of mid to late 70's. I found this to be highly entertaining as I was completely unaware the movies discussed even existed.
I'd love to see the films discussed but trying to find them on region 2 dvd seems like an exercise in futility.
Midnight Movies is a documentary about 6 films which became midnight movie phenomenons. I really enjoyed this I had seen parts of the movies in discussion but after watching this I felt I missed the point. Either I was too young or not in the right frame of mind. Perhaps watching The Rocky Horror Picture show on my own two days after Christmas was not the right the time. I will however never attempt to watch Eraserhead again.
This documentary made me feel as if I missed out on something specifically the counter culture of the 60's and 70's. Maybe its because I am too weird for today's mainstream culture but not freaky enough for today's counter culture or perhaps because today's counter culture is rather sad ie goth, ned/chav or god forbid emo.
I thoroughly recommend finding Midnight Movies it is definitely worth a watch, as it shows non mainstream film reaching the cinema and finding an audience. Something that would not happen today with focus groups market share and the proliferation of straight to VHS/DVD movies that simply were not an option in the 70's due to lack of technology.
Going to Pieces: The Rise and The Fall of The Slasher Film was concerned with, well you read the title. I found it to be very informative but it lacked the humour of the other two I mentioned. I enjoy a good slasher flick but this was rather dry, however was intersting ot hear from a who's who of the genre such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven and Tom Savini
Not Quite Hollywood is concerned with Australian B Movies and it is really funny a bunch of talking heads most notably Quentin Tarintino wax lyrical about Australian cinema of mid to late 70's. I found this to be highly entertaining as I was completely unaware the movies discussed even existed.
I'd love to see the films discussed but trying to find them on region 2 dvd seems like an exercise in futility.
Midnight Movies is a documentary about 6 films which became midnight movie phenomenons. I really enjoyed this I had seen parts of the movies in discussion but after watching this I felt I missed the point. Either I was too young or not in the right frame of mind. Perhaps watching The Rocky Horror Picture show on my own two days after Christmas was not the right the time. I will however never attempt to watch Eraserhead again.
This documentary made me feel as if I missed out on something specifically the counter culture of the 60's and 70's. Maybe its because I am too weird for today's mainstream culture but not freaky enough for today's counter culture or perhaps because today's counter culture is rather sad ie goth, ned/chav or god forbid emo.
I thoroughly recommend finding Midnight Movies it is definitely worth a watch, as it shows non mainstream film reaching the cinema and finding an audience. Something that would not happen today with focus groups market share and the proliferation of straight to VHS/DVD movies that simply were not an option in the 70's due to lack of technology.
Going to Pieces: The Rise and The Fall of The Slasher Film was concerned with, well you read the title. I found it to be very informative but it lacked the humour of the other two I mentioned. I enjoy a good slasher flick but this was rather dry, however was intersting ot hear from a who's who of the genre such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven and Tom Savini