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Over at IndieWire, Peter Knegt asks Why Don’t Lgbt Movies Make Money At The Box Office Anymore?
Last week, Pedro Almodovar’s “I’m So Excited” crossed the $1 million mark in North America. That’s not so exciting as far as Almodovar films go — every one of them has crossed that milestone since 1988′s “Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (most of them going on to make considerably more). But it is indeed rare for a film to feature lead gay or lesbian characters — as “Excited” does — to cross that mark, at least these days. Read More
At The Dissolve, Nathan Rabin writes about The poisoned, almost subversive...
Over at IndieWire, Peter Knegt asks Why Don’t Lgbt Movies Make Money At The Box Office Anymore?
Last week, Pedro Almodovar’s “I’m So Excited” crossed the $1 million mark in North America. That’s not so exciting as far as Almodovar films go — every one of them has crossed that milestone since 1988′s “Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (most of them going on to make considerably more). But it is indeed rare for a film to feature lead gay or lesbian characters — as “Excited” does — to cross that mark, at least these days. Read More
At The Dissolve, Nathan Rabin writes about The poisoned, almost subversive...
- 8/16/2013
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
Haji, an actress best known for her work with Russ Meyer in the 1960s and ‘70s, has died at the age of 67. The news was first announced by fellow Meyer leading lady Francesca “Kitten” Natividad at Natividad’s Facebook page. Born Barbarella Catton, Haji was working as an exotic dancer when she was discovered by Meyer. As she later recalled in an interview with David Michael Brown, “Russ saw the show and said he was a director with a small part in a film, and would I read for it. I read the opening of Motor Psycho and ended ...
- 8/12/2013
- avclub.com
Today is Russ Meyer’s birthday, so what better way for us to celebrate than to re-publish our special on the director. What Herschell Gordon Lewis is to gore, Russ Meyer was to big breasts. And also sometimes gore, which made him a bit like a walking version of that Hustler cartoon with the naked lady in the meat grinder. Tonight, Sordid Cinema, the younger, less popular cousin of Sound on Sight—you know, the one that always sticks its hand in its pocket whenever a girl in high heels walks by—takes a look at two of Meyers’ classics; Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Motor Psycho, both from 1965.
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- 3/21/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Fox Searchlight is in negotiations to buy a pitch package with David O. Russell directing a biopic about Russ Meyer, the maker of B-movies.
The pitch package also involves buying the rights to the book Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. The book was penned by Jimmy McDonough and first published in 2005.
Here is a part of the book’s synopsis:
In a career that spanned more than forty years, Meyer created a body of work that has influenced a legion of filmmakers, fashionistas, comic book artists, rock bands and even the occasional feminist.”
Meyer died in 2004 and made over twenty films since the 1950s. He wrote, directed, produced, financed and often distributed his own pics—and placed with beautiful big breasts women in central roles, during the height of the sexual revolution. Some of his flicks include Faster, Pussycat! Kill!
The pitch package also involves buying the rights to the book Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. The book was penned by Jimmy McDonough and first published in 2005.
Here is a part of the book’s synopsis:
In a career that spanned more than forty years, Meyer created a body of work that has influenced a legion of filmmakers, fashionistas, comic book artists, rock bands and even the occasional feminist.”
Meyer died in 2004 and made over twenty films since the 1950s. He wrote, directed, produced, financed and often distributed his own pics—and placed with beautiful big breasts women in central roles, during the height of the sexual revolution. Some of his flicks include Faster, Pussycat! Kill!
- 3/18/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Fox Searchlight is in talks for a biopic pitch package about exploitation B-movie director Russ Meyer for David O. Russell to direct. The pitch package also involves acquiring the rights to the book “Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film." The book was written by Jimmy McDonough and first published in 2005. Here is the book’s synopsis: “Russ Meyer, cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the Wall Street Journal called the King Leer of Hollywood, made movies that filled the big screen with ‘big bosoms and square jaws.’ In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator’s life, Jimmy McDonough shows us how Russ Meyer used that formula to turn his own crazed fantasies into movies that made him a millionaire and changed the face of American film forever. “This former WWII combat photographer immortalized...
- 3/18/2011
- LRMonline.com
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