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my room may appear as some nightmarish failure of adulthood, but I find a cocoon of smut, VHS, scholarly monographs, & surly cats very comforting.
for December, making a thread of forgotten low-budget (but non-exploitation) 1980s films to get better organized, here goes...
for December, making a thread of forgotten low-budget (but non-exploitation) 1980s films to get better organized, here goes...
#1: LANDLORD BLUES (1987)
Made by Jacob Burckhardt (son of Rudy), so forgotten it only showed up on IMDB a few years ago, but vivid tale of gentrification & resistance on Lower East Side
bought this in a Philly porn shack & blogged about its cats: https://omgcatrevolution.tumblr.com/post/139062271976/jacob-burckhardt-landlord-blues-1987-when-we
Made by Jacob Burckhardt (son of Rudy), so forgotten it only showed up on IMDB a few years ago, but vivid tale of gentrification & resistance on Lower East Side
bought this in a Philly porn shack & blogged about its cats: https://omgcatrevolution.tumblr.com/post/139062271976/jacob-burckhardt-landlord-blues-1987-when-we
#2 SLIPPING INTO DARKNESS (1987)
What if RIVER'S EDGE had been shot in Nebraska without any talent? And yet, something about this film & its weird cover art has haunted me since I shoplifted it from a grocery store in Wasilla, Alaska c. 1992
Not on DVD cuz War soundtrack maybe?
What if RIVER'S EDGE had been shot in Nebraska without any talent? And yet, something about this film & its weird cover art has haunted me since I shoplifted it from a grocery store in Wasilla, Alaska c. 1992
Not on DVD cuz War soundtrack maybe?
#3 STRANGER'S KISS (1983)
Really wanted to love this: based on young Kubrick & director Matthew Chapman's later HEART OF MIDNIGHT is prime Jennifer Jason Leigh creeper-noir. Will watch Peter Coyote in anything.
And yet, alas: meh. Still, deserves to move beyond VHS.
Really wanted to love this: based on young Kubrick & director Matthew Chapman's later HEART OF MIDNIGHT is prime Jennifer Jason Leigh creeper-noir. Will watch Peter Coyote in anything.
And yet, alas: meh. Still, deserves to move beyond VHS.
#4 THE SUICIDE CLUB
IMDB lists 295 Robert Louis Stevenson adaptations, 1908-2020. This must be the worst. Just excruciating. But between Mariel Hemingway's catatonia & bizarre lack of set design in big empty houses, quality of the dreariest dream ever dreamt. No other virtues.
IMDB lists 295 Robert Louis Stevenson adaptations, 1908-2020. This must be the worst. Just excruciating. But between Mariel Hemingway's catatonia & bizarre lack of set design in big empty houses, quality of the dreariest dream ever dreamt. No other virtues.
