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6/13 What are your favorite independent films? Please tell us the title,
your summary or synopsis, and why you like it. Thanks.
\_ Motorcycle Diaries. Really powerful, touching, and funny.
\_ Cemetary Man. Rupert Everitt before he became famous. Italian
horror with an interesting message. Also anything Jim Jarmousch,
though my favorite is Down By Law. Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni and
John Lurie trudging through Louisiana swamps.
\_ I shot Andy Warhol: Fun flick. Lily Taylor is a great actor. She
captures absurdity better than just about any actress around.
\_ Terminal USA, by Jon Moritsugu. Defies explanation. -- !danh
\_ wow did I make you watch that? - danh
\_ Yes. I'm scarred, I tell you, scarred!
\_ Why can't you be like your brother Marvin?
\_ I love anything and everything by him. The one with
the meat industry band and the music video of cow bodies
is my favorite.
\_ If it's a movie that danh advocates, an acurate description
is probably "buckets 'O blood." :P
\_ I'm not a slasher movie fan. Terminal USA is really
odd, I think you can rent it at Reel. I really want
to get the Godzilla rip off that Kim Jong Il kidnapped
a director from Japan to make it. - danh
\_ Pulgasari
\_ http://csua.org/u/cct
\_ http://www.cultdvdzone.com/view_product.php?product=PULDF0LR4
\_ http://csua.org/u/ccu
maybe we should buy a copy for the CSUA.
(Also at Amazon)
\_ Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
\_ That's an independent film?
\_ It sure is! lucas financed it and published it
himself. george lucas's lawyer suggested to lucas
that he ask for the merch. rights to the first star
wars movie since 20th century wasn't paying him very
much to make it, and 20th century agreed, because
they didn't know better and no one, not even lucas
expected the movie to do that well and no one had thought
of tieing a movie to selling pantloads of crap to kids
before. this all made lucas very wealthy and
he has been able to finance his movies himself,
not always with good results.
\_ Cremaster 3
\_ Bad Lieutenant
\_ Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back. It has great action, nice
cinematography, good story and a great follow-up from the first
one.
\_ It had the better ending.
\_ Pi
\_ Run Lola Run -- I think this one counts as "Independent"
\_ Winter Sleepers or The Princess and the Warrior have more
interesting story lines, but still have Franka Potente (hot!).
I think the Princess and the Warrior had the sexiest
traecheotomy ever filmed.
\_ Schizopolis. Defies explanation, with prejudice.
\_ Schizopolis is a lazy rehash of about 10 different David Ives
plays. Soderberg's a hack.
\_ but I wouldn't let that stop me from liking it.
\_ The Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorowsky, mind blowing 1973 sets,
tour of religion and the path of the massiah? Unexplainable really,
just watch it.
I second Cemetary Man. Gummo is funny in that making fun of white
trash sort of way. -scottyg
\_ Good suggestion. The Holy Mountain is one awesome flick, much
better than perennial Jodorowsky favorite El Topo. FWIW, I
also liked Schizopolis. I'll throw in Lars van Trier's "The
Idiots" into the list.
\_ yes. I think Zentropa is also a good introduction to LvT,
though it needs to be letterboxed (pan and scan cuts out
most of the reaaons for watching it). The Idiots is a
really good first Dogma '95 film to see, though, and a
good watch in its own right.
Anything Larry Clark is also good, though guaranteed to be
somewhat disturbing and to involve teen sex. Bully is
amazing and easy to find. Ken Park is amazing and I think
Le Video has a VHS copy.
\_ not so independent but good: Chinese Box. Jeremy Irons facing
mortality along w/ British Hong Kong. |
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| csua.org/u/cct -> www.computercrowsnest.com/features/arc/2004/nz5518.php featuring a beast which was a North Korean giant monster who ate iron and grew to hundreds of fe et high. It's director was kidnapped from South Korea, taken to North Ko rea, imprisoned for four years with no explanation, and then forced to m ake the only Marxist monster movie. I have always liked one line in the original Godzilla film GOJIRA (here c alled GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS). One scientist has a weapon that m ight kill the monster, but is hesitant to release this new weapon on the world. A military man tells him, "Then you have your fears, which may b ecome reality, and you have Godzilla, which is reality." I always wanted to make up a button that said, "Godzilla is reality." The simple fact is that giant monsters rarely show up in serious news. This beast is a North Korean giant monster who eats iron and grows to hundreds of feet high. The whole Pulgasari incident shows just how weird politics in Korea real ly is. The details of the story, mostly rumor until now, were just relea sed early in April. Kim Jong-il, dictator of North Korea, produced the f ilm. It was directed by Shin Sang-ok, formerly South Korea's premiere di rector. Shin was kidnapped from South Korea, taken to North Korea, imprisoned for four years with no explanation, and then forced to make a Marxist monst er movie, with the aforementioned Pulgasari. Shin really was kidnapped so that he cou ld be forced to make a bad monster movie for Kim Jong-il. The story appe ared in the Manchester Guardian, taken from Shin's recently published me moirs. In 1978 Shin Sang- ok fell from grac e with the South Korean government and was forbidden to make any more mo vies. Meanwhile in North Korea dictator-to-be Kim Jong-il, son of the th en-dictator Kim Il-sung, decided to try to show the world the power of N orth Korean cinema. He had his own ideas how to make convincing propagan da films and he wanted to build a film industry around Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee. Shin first noticed something was wrong on a trip to Hong Kong with his wi fe when Choi went to a meeting to talk about an upcoming film role and t hen never returned. Shortly after that when he was going to dinner one n ight someone pulled a sack over his head. There was something inside the sack that knocked him out when he breathed it. When he woke up he had been smuggled over the border into North Korea. Sh in says in his memoir that he tried to escape but was caught and thrown into a prison camp for four years. While in the camp he as fed nothing b ut grass, rice, and salt. Meanwhile he was forced to undergo Marxist bra inwashing. During this period he had no idea what all this was being don e to him. In 1983, again with no apparent reason, the imprisonment was ended. Shin was treated like a VIP and was taken to a reception with Kim Jong-il and with his kidnapped wife. Shin expected an explanation but instead heard Kim complain to him about how disappointing and bad the filmmakers were in North Korea. Kim had written his own book on cinema that helpfully e xplained how films should be made. But North Korean filmmakers had not f ollowed his guidelines. Then Kim heard that the great filmmaker Shin was forbidden to make films in his own country. Shin and North Korea seemed like a perfect match to Kim and so he arrange d that Shin and his wife would be "brought" to North Korea, educated in Marxism, and then would make films for the government. As for the fact t hat they were not to be given a choice in the matter, well nobody is giv en a choice in North Korea, why should the Shin and his wife object that they were assigned to a task? Particularly since Shin was to be given a salary of $3,000,000 a year and lived in luxury. Shin made several films in North Korea, but the best known is PULGASARI. About the only thing really remarkable about the film is the use of multitudes of people from the N orth Korean army. Shin was not given a lot of resources, but he was given the army. The cre ature starts about two inches high and grows to something like a hundred feet on a diet of pure iron. The article says his design owes a lot to Godzilla, but he looks more like a huge bipedal water buffalo with fierc e fangs and spurs on his shoulders. In the film, an artist who made Pulg asari about two inches tall forms the creature from rice. But the little nipper likes to chew on iron weapons and farm implements. On this diet he grows really big and fights for the people against the evil King. Kim Jong-il even managed to get Toho people to help with his film. Kenpac hiro Satsuma who played the Smog monster in GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTE R and later played Godzilla in the Toho films from 1984 to 1995 plays Pu lgasari. Kim wanted to market his Marxist monster movie to the world and even sell plastic toy Pulgasaris much in the way that Godzilla toys are marketed. Sadly, the film did not appeal to people like a Godzilla film does. Kim will have to peddle his propaganda parable to his own people. Kim Jong-il began to believe that Shin was actually loyal to North Korea. He allowed Shin and his wife to go to business meetings in Vienna--unde r heavy guard, of course. Shin was supposedly trying to get a European r elease for his next film, but actually he arranged that the release woul d be for him and his wife. After help from a Japanese movie critic and a taxi chase, the Shin and his wife escaped to an American embassy. After ten years Kim Jong-il had PULGASARI released, but the film has gene rated little interest beyond curiosity. However as a curiosity, the stor y of its making is one of the strangest in cinema history. |
| www.cultdvdzone.com/view_product.php?product=PULDF0LR4 Description: The North Korean giant monster movie made by kidnapped South Korean film director Shin San-Ok! |
| csua.org/u/ccu -> www.cultdvdzone.com/view_product.php?product=PULDF0LR4 Description: The North Korean giant monster movie made by kidnapped South Korean film director Shin San-Ok! |