Part time capsule, part black satire, part junked-up party pic, the little-known drug crime-caper was called ‘the most evil film ever’
Every once in a while, behind-the-scenes stories about problems beleaguering a feature film production are so dramatic or weird they deserve a movie unto themselves. The classic example is Francis Ford Coppola’s disastrous experience making Apocalypse Now and the jaw-dropping documentary that captured how wrong everything went for his Vietnam war epic, 1991’s Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.
Australian cinema’s most sensational case study of a film that went bizarrely off the rails is also one of its least well known. There will never be another film quite like writer/director Bert Deling’s once-lost racy 1975 drama Pure Shit, and nor could the strange circumstances that beset its production and release ever be repeated.
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Every once in a while, behind-the-scenes stories about problems beleaguering a feature film production are so dramatic or weird they deserve a movie unto themselves. The classic example is Francis Ford Coppola’s disastrous experience making Apocalypse Now and the jaw-dropping documentary that captured how wrong everything went for his Vietnam war epic, 1991’s Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.
Australian cinema’s most sensational case study of a film that went bizarrely off the rails is also one of its least well known. There will never be another film quite like writer/director Bert Deling’s once-lost racy 1975 drama Pure Shit, and nor could the strange circumstances that beset its production and release ever be repeated.
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- 6/20/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
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