The Eclectic Screening Room #16

Winter 2005
40 pages tabloid-sized


Grey Matters
A case for and against grey market DVDs.

Notes from the Underground 
The collage films of Bruce Conner (Cosmic Ray; Report).

Apocalypse Then
How cinema tried to make America to stop worrying and love the bomb.  A look at educational films like Duck and Cover that offer wrong-headed advice about surviving a nuclear attack.

Review Midsection
Reviews of two dozen interesting recent releases, DVD rentals, as well as some choice titles found in the good old grey market: The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954); After School Specials 1974-76; Amon Duul II: Phallus Dei (1969); The Apple (1980); Blast of Silence (1961); Blood of the Zombie (1961); The Brave (1997); Bunny Lake is Missing (1965); Che! (1969); Contraband (1980); The Cry of Jazz (1959); Derek Jarman’s Super 8 Programme Volume 1; I Fidanzati / The Fiances (1962); Forty Guns (1957); Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971); Fuddlebe (2003); God’s Angry Man (1980); If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971); It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s Superman! (1975); Japanese Spiderman (1978); Je t’aime, moi non plus (1976); Law and Order (1969); The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971); Necromania (1971); The Ski Bum (1971); Song of the South (1946); Titanic (1943); The Unholy Three (1925); The Wedding Party (1969)

49th Parallel
The early films of David Cronenberg: Stereo; Crimes of the Future.

Bell Bottom Bijou
Robert Altman’s masterpiece California Split.

Midnite Movies
Turkish rip-offs of American movies: Turkish Star Trek; Turkish Star Wars; Turkish Superman.

Tail Slate 
Larry Buchanan, RIP.


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