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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
LITTLE SISTERS
Much weirder-than-average pornographic lunacy from the 1970s
SUPERBMAN: THE OTHER MOVIE
The cinema of spoofery had one of its highpoints in this 1981 dismantling of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
PINK LADY’S MOTION PICTURE
Pink Lady was the 1970s Japanese forerunner to the Spice Girls, and this was their unimpressive film debut
FREAKS
A milestone in film history, and a must for any cult movie buff
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
Another example of the “__ from Hell” cycle that proliferated in early nineties Hollywood
GRIMM MEMORIALS
If there’s one thing to be said in this 1990 splat fest’s favor, it’s that it definitely won’t leave you wanting more.
THE LUNAR TRILOGY
Another example of a publication that should have received far more attention than it did: the premiere English version of Jerzy Zulawski’s LUNAR TRILOGY (1901-11)
THE TWILIGHT WORLD
The first novel by filmmaker Werner Herzog (need I say more?)
THE VANISHING
The first and only English translation of Tim Krabbe’s 1984 Dutch language masterwork THE GOLDEN EGG, a.k.a. THE VANISHING
LUDA
The first novel by comics legend Grant Morrison, LUDA is everything I was hoping for: a challenging and phantasmagoric piece of work that follows no set perimeters of any sort
THE BIG GOODBYE: CHINATOWN AND THE LAST YEARS OF HOLLYWOOD
This book is ostensibly about the making of CHINATOWN (1974), but its true concerns are Hollywood in the early 1970s and one of that milieu’s most contentious figures: one Roman Polanski
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE STORY OF NASTASSJA AND KLAUS KINSKI
With this self-published book author W.A. Harbinson has hit upon a topic of unquestioned dramatic intensity: the story of actor Klaus Kinski and his daughter Nastassja
THE MAGIC: THE STORY OF A FILM
First off, this is not, as is misleadingly proclaimed, “the book of” Christopher Nolan’s THE PRESTIGE. Rather, it’s a book about that film.
FEAR
This is the long awaited autobiography by Dario Argento, and (for once) it doesn’t disappoint
THE BIG LOVE
If nothing else, this outrageous showbiz memoir serves as a fitting footnote to HOLLYWOOD BABYLON
The Dollar Babies
All about Stephen King’s Dollar Baby program, and the festival it inspired
The Cinerama Dome: A Personal History
The Cinerama Dome, LA’s greatest and most unique movie theater, is now closed.
Performer Profile: Elina Löwensohn
The fabulously exotic Elina Löwensohn, who for a time was the indie “it” girl, and remains an actress to watch
1981: The Year in Bedlam
Just what the title says.
CRUST and THE CALAMARI WRESTLER
An example of the type of filmic simultaneity that I enjoy investigating: two films released within a year of each other headlined by man-sized aquatic critters