Trash

Starring:Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Geri Miller, Andrea Feldman, John Putnam, Jane Forth, Bruce Pecheur, Diane Podel, Roberto D'Alessandro, Michael Sklar, Sissy Spacek
Director: Paul Morrissey
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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"Why do you have to be unconscious?" asks Holly (played by Holly Woodlawn) while fingering the unresponsive crotch of her passed-out junkie boyfriend, Joe (Joe Dallesandro). Joe passes through a series of flaccid sexual encounters until, on account of his drug habit, he hits rock bottom as Holly is forced out of frustration to consummate with one of his discarded beer bottles. A radical and infinitely more compassionate departure from producer Andy Warhol's art-as-commodity (or commodification) discourse, director Paul Morrissey set out to make a reactionary antidrug film (originally titled Drug Trash), but the film instead turned into a sweaty, cinema-verité black comedy about the pitfalls of, to use a popular catch phrase of the time, "dropping out" of society and, inevitably, losing all hope of human intimacy. In this case, dropping out is not so much an escape as it is a further complicity: rather than an exercise in free will, one form of mindless consumer addiction has simply exchanged with another. As a time capsule, societal criticism, and cult oddity all in one, grab this from the trash heap of film history on your way out of a burning building. --Christopher Chase
Description
The story of Joe [Dallesandro] and his lover-protector, Holly [Woodlawn], who is something to behold, a comic book Mother Courage who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. Joe and Holly try to make a go of things in their Lower East Side basement, from which Holly goes forth from time to time to cruise the Fillmore East and to scavenge garbage cans, while Joe's journeys are in search of real junk... Trash is true-blue movie-making, funny and vivid.--Vincent Canby, The New York Times. Written & directed by Paul Morrissey, "presented" by Andy Warhol.

Street Trash
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My new favorite

"What's The Matter? Can't Hold Yer Liquor?"

Can't Believe I bought this

wat a trip!!

Ass Clown

Street Trash
Starring: Mike Lackey , Bill Chepil , Marc Sferrazza , Jane Arakawa , and Nicole Potter
Director: J. Michael Muro
Manufacturer: Synapse Video
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ASIN: B000GIXCL0
Release Date: 2006-09-26

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Sure, Street Trash has a convoluted, ridiculous plot, but it also features bums who melt into rainbow sludge upon drinking a fermented relative of Thunderbird, Tenafly Viper. In this '80s B-movie akin to The Toxic Avenger or C.H.U.D., Fred (Mike Lackey) is the main homeless guy who distributes Viper he's lifted from the local liquor store. Once he discovers the alcohol's lethal potential, he wields it as a weapon, eventually fighting head criminal, Bronson, a psycho-killer Vietnam vet who carries a human femur bone handle knife. Side plots, such as one involving a begrudging policeman who seeks to clean up the Street Trash community housed in a junkyard, or the one featuring Wendy, the hot girl who guards runaways from the junkyard's fat, mean owner, are beside the point. Watch Street Trash for its infamous penis scene, in which a member is chopped off and tossed around in a game of keep away, or watch the film to see a man melt down into a blue pile as he's flushed down a toilet bowl. Street Trash's gore isn't so disturbing as it is comic, as are the bums' New Romantic costumes similar to Dexy's Midnight Runners in the video for their '80s hit, "Come On Eileen." Applaud Street Trash for its gaudy, horrendous splendor. Notably, this re-release contains the original Super-8 short of the film, featuring even more homemade special effects and low-grade humor.--Trinie Dalton

Customer Reviews:

My new favorite.......2007-06-16

Street Trash has got to be the best movie I've seen in a long time. It's cheesy, gory, and funny. The fx in this movie are great also. I mean a bottle of booze that makes people explode? How could you not enjoy this movie!?

"What's The Matter? Can't Hold Yer Liquor?".......2007-04-26

In just the first two minutes of the awesomely awful Street Trash, we are treated to instances of bad acting, shaky editing, implausible plot, garish title credits, and horribly hokey, electronic music. And none of it matters, because Street Trash is the most unapologetically glorious and ghoulish film the good folks at Troma never made (but probably wish they did).

With a diabolical sense of humor and hilariously hard-boiled (and highly quotable) dialog, Street Trash is also quite possibly the dirtiest movie ever made - and I'm talking about dirt in the "dug out of the earth" sense, not dirty in a sexual sense (although there is a bunch of nudity, a dash of necrophilia, and a touch of wiener-tossing for good (or bad) measure (the last of which brings a more literal meaning to the word "dismemberment")).

Featuring fantastic sets (including quite possibly the greatest junkyard hideout in cinematic history) and authentic Skid Row New York locations, the grime is so gratuitously applied and supplied to places and faces that some of the actors' lips seem glow-in-the-dark bright by comparison. The grossout effects are also surprisingly good for such a low budget filth fest (they were realistic enough to make me cringe, anyway). For sure, a lot of this film's fun comes from watching each person having their, shall we say, colorful meltdowns...

Street Trash features the first work of such eventual cinematic luminaries as Jim Muro, the cinematographer of Crash (as well as The Last Mimzy!) and X-Men and Usual Suspects director Bryan Singer. Equally notable is James Lorinz' hysterical first acting outing as the outrageously disrespectful doorman. Plus one of the greatest end credits songs of all time, performed by Sopranos' stalwart Tony Darrow.

Stay away from this film if you're weak of stomach, but definitely feel free to use this delightful piece of cinematic grotesquery as a dieting aid, as this movie will do such a good job of making you lose your appetite that you'll be looking for it for days! Ultimately, I think the best indication of the raunchy, sleazy ride you're in for with this flick is expressed by one of the last acknowledgements in the end credits, which reads: "Thanks, Anita, for taking me to see 'I Drink Your Blood' when I was six."

Yup, that about sums it up. Thanks, Anita!

Can't Believe I bought this.......2007-04-17

Folks, if you haven't bought this movie or even seen this movie yet, do not, I repeat, do not waste your time. The movie was more of a comedy than it was horror, and the use of paint for "melting bodies" was atrocious. I can't believe I wasted my money on this garbage. The title of the movie fits it well, at least the "trash" part does. Don't purchase this movie if you value your hard-earned dollar. You were warned. I can't believe that out of 33 reviews, this movie only got two negative reviews. That just goes to show that our culture will watch anything and call it entertainment. Wow, some people are so easily satisfied when it comes to visual and plot entertainment. Not me... I wouldn't have even given this one-star if it hadn't been required in order to post a critique. This movie was worse than awful.

wat a trip!!.......2007-04-11

man dis movie is off da hook. one of tha trippiest movies i've ever seen. get intoxicated & watch this. great horror/comedy. i reccomend this to anyone who likez cheesy old school flicks. itz awesome. a must have for any horror/comedy fan

Ass Clown.......2007-03-29

Street Trash has a lot of hype. and for good reason. lots of great over the top effects and explosions. some good toilet humor and a great nuts bad guy. drags on at parts, the ending is too quick, but if you like dirty hobo's, farts, and melting faces (and who the hell doesn't), then this is a must.

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Grindhouse Trash Collection
Starring: John Holmes , and Uschi Digard
Manufacturer: Secret Key
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ASIN: B000PHW2PE
Release Date: 2007-07-17

Description

The Grindhouse Trash 2DVD Collection presents the ultimate "storefront theater" viewing experience with three rare, gritty, softcore gems from the late 1960s including UTA, LUSTFUL NEIGHBORS and THE PIMP PRIMER. Features adult screen icons John Holmes and Uschi Digard in early screen roles.

Paul Morrissey Collection (Flesh / Trash / Heat)

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TREND SETTING LOW BUDGET CINEMA
great
Classic Paul Morrissey
Let the buyer beware

Paul Morrissey Collection (Flesh / Trash / Heat)
Starring: Sylvia Miles , Joe Dallesandro , Andrea Feldman , Pat Ast , and Ray Vestal
Director: Paul Morrissey
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ASIN: B000BZN1LO
Release Date: 2006-05-23

Description

An icon of the Andy Warhol Factory and one of the most famous figures of the late 1960s and 1970s, Joe Dallesandro shot to fame in this landmark trilogy of underground filmmaking from acclaimed director Paul Morrissey. Raw, charismatic, and unabashed, his performances anchor these unflinching and often hilarious looks at life on the streets where hustling, conning, shooting up, loving, and bickering make up every memorable day.

In Flesh, Joe stars as a dim and sweet-natured hustler who journeys from one client to the next in a quirky odyssey that goes from the clutches of an amorous artist to a pair of beauties including a young Patti D'Arbanville.

In Trash, Joe struggles to provide a living for his demanding girlfriend (Warhol favorite Holly Woodlawn), crossing back and forth between the gutter and the high life in a quest for happiness.

Then Joe hits Los Angeles as an unemployed former child star in Heat, a fast and funny look at fleeting fame where an affair with fallen star Sylvia Miles (Midnight Cowboy) results in hilarious complications.

Now restored and remastered with all-new extras, these masterworks of true independent cinema burn brighter than ever in these sensational new special editions, with an exclusive fourth bonus disc of additional extras!

Customer Reviews:

TREND SETTING LOW BUDGET CINEMA.......2007-06-05

Paul Morrissey was Andy Warhol's resident in house filmmaker and prime mover on his non art related activities, as The Vevet Underground's John Cale said "Paul was the muscle-he made things happen.." His films were the most successful to appear under the Warhol moniker and launched Joe Dellasandro as an international sex symbol and pop culture icon.

The doco 'Factory Days' is a fascinating look back at Morrissey's time with Warhol. It's full of never before seen photo's and entertaining anecdotes and info. Much has been said of the filmmakers bitterness and distancing of himself from Warhol over the years, and it's hinted at in the by the cumugeonly New Yorker's narration, But it's still a must see for Warhol fans.

great.......2007-05-12

For a fan of the Factory-era works of the artists of the Warhol Underground this is a great item. The movies all speak for themselves and to Paul Morrissey's avant-garde(for its time) film-making. They also speak to Joe Dallesandro's talent for getting points across with little dialogue and mostly action.

Classic Paul Morrissey.......2007-04-04

These films are classics of the Paul Morrissey/Andy Warhol era. A great set. Get them before they go out of print again!

Let the buyer beware.......2007-03-09

Perhaps I should have done some research before I bought the 4 disc set, but I was surprised to find these to be so disappointing. I had read Holly Woodlawn's book, "A Low Life in High Heels", and thought I would get more of a feel for all of the book's hype about Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol and the movies they made. I just didn't know what I was getting. I wasn't misled by anyone. I suppose if you are a cult fan of PM & AW, you should have these for your collection. I'll make you a really good deal.

42nd Street Pete's Euro-Trash Collection

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42nd Street Pete's Euro-Trash Collection
Starring: 42nd Street Pete
Director: 42nd Street Pete
Manufacturer: After Hours Cinema
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ASIN: B000IJ6V5G
Release Date: 2006-09-12

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Back in the early dawning of the sexual revolution, you heard quite a bit about sexual freedom in certain European countries. Sweden and Denmark to be exact. A lot of 8mm stuff was imported for sale in U.S. book stores. Your ever-trustworthy, loop-peddling 42nd Street Pete presents this collection of authentic and outrageous, rare European loops of the variety you would never take home to mom!

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Great movie, DVD quality is fine.
I needed this in my library... the other reviews are WRONG!
Bad Movie & Bad Transfer
Great Movie/Cheezy dvd.
Great Movie - Garbage DVD

Bad
Starring: Carroll Baker , Susan Blond , Mary Boylan , Stefania Casini , and Richard Cummings
Director: Jed Johnson
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ASIN: B0006UFZSQ
Release Date: 2005-10-25

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A possible prelude to Natural Born Killers, Andy Warhols Bad is as low as it goes. Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the local cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he's actually doing his job, but she doesn't want to sacrifice any of her "associates." Several other side plots are woven in, populated with characters from the sleazy side of life.

Customer Reviews:

Great movie, DVD quality is fine........2006-07-18

Since most reviews here are negative towards the CheesyFlicks edition of Andy Warhol's Bad and not the content of the film, I thought I should chime-in to say that the quality is just fine. This is an underground movie and has an underground movie "look." The quality is acceptable and looks better than the VHS editions out there.

I also did not experience any technical difficulties with this DVD, nor did I have any delays in service from the seller "CheeezyFlicks." I'm grateful to finally have this film on DVD.

I needed this in my library... the other reviews are WRONG!.......2006-02-25

Okay, I have to say that I am a true believer in the fact that there is a time and a place for films in bad taste that taste good. I saw this movie in 1985 and even then it was hard to come by. But I have never laughed as hard as when the lady threw the...oops, almost gave up a punchline.

I read the other reviews regarding the sound and transfer of this sick gem and for the last 8 months I hesitated... but last week I took the chance and ordered it. I AM VERY HAPPY I DID! This film wasn't in Cinemascope to begin with. It had a relatively low budget as well. What did these folks want?

I will say this. The transfer on MY copy was identical to the release I originally saw.
The sound was equally identical. Have any of these people seen any of John Water's films pre-POLYESTER? I think not. They're probably REALLY proud to have seen HAIRSPRAY upon it's original release. They must think that THAT makes them really "cutting edge".

Now granted, Cheezy Films may have gone in and done some fix-it work if they received enough returns and/or complaints. If so then at least they got the hint and corrected their mistakes.

Let me sum it up like this....

If you know this movie, and need to own it... you'll get exactly the film you have in your mind's eye.

If you are a fan of films like FEMALE TROUBLE or THE FORBIDDEN ZONE... you're gonna LOVE THIS.

Carroll Baker is Awesome! SuSu (Susan tyrrell) is unforgetable. Brigid Polk (Berlin) is in a class all by herself. If you adore "CIAO MANHATTAN" then you REALLY should order up a serving of "BAD" chow... it taste's so good! Then take a Howard Hughes sponge bath!

Bad Movie & Bad Transfer.......2005-10-29

I will go a step further from the other reviewers and state that not only is this a bad DVD transfer but also a bad film. I have no problem with dark humor but a little irony would be helpful. The acting, direction, and writing here are strictly amateur hour. When the high point of a film is Susan Tyrrell's account of a depressive welfare mom then you are in trouble. As for the aforementioned problems with the images breaking down at the film's midway point and then stopping altogether it's all true. Don't waste your time or money on this DVD because it's not worth the aggravation. Cheezy Video, indeed!

Great Movie/Cheezy dvd........2005-03-27

I originally saw this movie at my colleges student union hall in 1977 and loved it.As cult movie fan I always wanted to own it and was very happy to find and purchase a dvd version on Amazon in early Dec.04.However,3 defective dvds later(shipping the first 2 back at my own expense),and numerous unanswered emails.It's now Mar.05.Thank you Amazon for refunding my purchase.One reviewer suggested that Cheezy Flicks is missing a quality control dept,I feel they may be lacking a cutomer service dept as well.Buyers please check the feedback on this seller before you make a purchase.Once again this is a great movie and I would love to see a vialbe dvd version available.

Great Movie - Garbage DVD.......2005-01-29

These DVDs are corrupted and do not play properly. I received the first defective DVD on Fri, 14 Jan 2005 and contacted the Seller. The Seller told me I needed to return the defective DVD before they would ship a replacement. I noticed on the Amazon merchant reviews that several people have had this same problem and I asked the Seller if they did indeed have copies which worked. They promised that they did have working DVDs and that they would ship one as soon as they received the defective DVD. Reluctantly I spent an additional $3 to ship the DVD back to the Seller. Today (Fri, 28 Jan 2005) I received the replacement DVD. This DVD is also defective with the identical manufacturing flaws. Evidentially Cheezy Flicks has no QC department to check their products. The DVD is quite obviously a bootleg/DVD-R copy of a worn out VHS tape. We play DVD-R's quite frequently on both our DVD systems, so it isn't a compatibility issue. The DVD will not load automatically when placed in the machine. When inserted into the machine, the DVD freezes and the number "9" appears on the DVD player. After pressing Play many times, the menu eventually appears. We were able to play the movie about 2/3 of the way through but there were constant pixilation and corruption problems all the way through. Then around Chapter 10 the DVD stops completely. Also, none of the other options on the menu work. For example, pressing "Other titles offered by Cheezy Flicks" causes the DVD to stop. The DVD and the replacement were both defective. Wait for the legitimate release. Don't waste your money on these.

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Stange but fun movie
Dallesandro Has A Beautiful Smile - Who Knew?
Flesh
Warhol Produced, Morrissey Directed
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL

Flesh
Starring: Joe Dallesandro , Geraldine Smith , Patti D'Arbanville , Candy Darling , and Jackie Curtis
Director: Paul Morrissey
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ASIN: B000AYEIA4
Release Date: 2005-10-11

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This 1968 production from Andy Warhol's Factory found director Paul Morrissey still defining his style and particularly open to Warhol's own process of shooting extended takes with minimal editing. Factory star Joe Dallesandro plays a hustler working to earn money for his wife's girlfriend's abortion. The long trail of transvestites, drugs, and debauchery doesn't just drag a viewer down but rather adds up to a kind of transcendent curiosity about itself. Intelligent, well-constructed, and at times lyrical, this is one of the best of the Morrissey-Warhol collaborations. The cast includes a couple of actors in Warhol's orbit who later broke into mainstream movies and television, including Patti D'Arbanville. --Tom Keogh

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Stange but fun movie.......2006-11-03

Flesh is a strange but fun movie. It's a product of it's time and very charming. If you are a Joe Dallesandro fan it's a must. Lot's of him running around nude.

Dallesandro Has A Beautiful Smile - Who Knew?.......2006-08-11

All I can say is, wow! Blame it on my having watched the Dallesandro movies in "reverse" - having viewed Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein, I was prepared for another stone-faced portrayal by Dallesandro...the perpetual sneer worn over the rigid, blank expression that was Dallesandro's "trademark" in both films. Instead I was blown away by a fresh faced boy, with a beautiful smile, expressive face and dancing eyes. WOW! This film is a must for any Dallesandro fan.

The quality of the film is grainy, the sound is equally grainy and a little jumpy- but once you get used to these deficiencies, you quickly get caught up in the story. And I use the term "story" loosely since, from what I understand, the entire thing was shot without a script - allowing the actors to simply ad-lib. Be that as it may, the story line unfolds in a fascinating manner.

Once again, I was disappointed to find no commentary or interview with Dallesandro was included in the special features. Instead you get a commentary with Morrrissey that's only slightly interesting. I highly question his assertion that he was making some grand statement with this movie. I think that now, he wants to looks back in history and pull a grand statement from, what was then, only meant as entertainment. But then I've always found Morrissey to be a little egotistical. (Besides which, I think Morrissey should be kicked for turning Dallesandro into that stone-faced actor who wasn't allowed to smile.)

People should know that while this is by no means pornography, graphic male nudity makes this unsuitable for young viewers.

Flesh.......2006-03-15

Joe Delesandro is great in this Andy Warhol movie. I watch it over and over. Not your ordinary theater movie.

Warhol Produced, Morrissey Directed.......2006-01-01

Some reviewers are clearly unaware of the backstory to this film. Andy Warhol only participated in this film and those produced after it has Producer. Warhol only was only involved with the stars who were close friends, such as Candy Darling. Of course it is very easy to understand why; this film was shot only weeks after Andy was nearly murdered by SCUM founder Valerie Solanas (Salonas only starred in one of the infamous Audition reels, and had a brief role in I, a Man so I don't think she's deserving of the title Star). The closest that Andy ever came to directing after the incident was fueling the tension between his three Beauty Queens in Women in Revolt over the phone.
But making Joe a Street Hustler was Andy's idea. Andy was greatly dissapointed that the film Midnight Cowboy became so successful, he felt that it stole its plot from his film My Hustler starring Paul America. Joes original profession in this film was a Boxer, but Andy remembered hearing Joe talk about his days working the streets and asked Morrissey to make the change.
The Plot Synopsis that Amazon has given is inaccurate, Joe and his Wife are not Junkies. The real reason he is trying to earn money that day is to pay for his Wifes lovers abortion. You following me?
Flesh is best remembered for pushing the boundaries of male full-frontal nudity, but it has a great story to. The most obvious problem that I think people will encounter is the in-camera editing. This editing style gives a flash effect that does become a bit annoying, but it was done by Morrissey to reming the audience that they are only watching a film and probably to make them annoyed because you end up missing entire conversations. Also there are entire sequences done with no dialogue, and there is really no musical soundtrack to accompany the film.
My favorite part of the film is the characters who Joe encounters. This includes a hilarious artist with the habit of talking to himself, whom Joe models for, Joe's ex-girlfriend, a topless dancer, and her friends (one is a drag queen and the other is a pre-op in real life, but this isn't stated in the film), and Joe's friend, the dialogue hints a lover or regular customer, who was badly burned by a flamethrower.
In the end, I do believe that this film was made for a certain crowd. But it's not necessarily a "gay" film, and it's not just a nudity fest; there is a real and touching story to the film. For example, there is a very moving sequence where Joe is feeding his young daughter, it's moments like these that make the Warhol/Morrissey Films so great.

SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL.......2003-07-31

The movie as well as the hunk are beautiful! I fell in love with Joe as soon as I saw his body that no other guy can compete with.
The story is very good. Sensitive, fragile and desperate. We do not loose any minute with this film as Joe keep us under his spell all the way.

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A Monumental Film
Trying to be all things to all people
Just short of perfect
Very Different
A film that borderlines on greatness.

Swoon
Starring: Daniel Schlachet , Craig Chester , Ron Vawter , Michael Kirby , and Michael Stumm
Director: Tom Kalin
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ASIN: B0002QO1MK
Release Date: 2004-08-24

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Swoon was the rage of the 1992 film festival circuit, as well as part of a wave of gay-themed films that used independent channels to reach the mainstream audience. Written and directed by Tom Kalin and with a cast of mostly unknowns, the movie looks back at the Leopold-Loeb thrill-killing of 1924. Shooting in black and white and using impressionistic imagery, Kalin creates a hallucinatory mix of dream and drama, while giving the story a homosexual perspective that makes it seem new. Where earlier films (such as Hitchcock's Rope and Richard Fleischer's Compulsion) only hinted that these characters might be gay, Kalin takes it as a given and examines the pair's treatment by the police and press based on their sexuality. Might be too arty for some tastes, but others find it intriguingly challenging. --Marshall Fine

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A Monumental Film.......2007-01-27

"SWOON"

A monumental film

Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride

"Swoon" (Strand Releasing) is not a new film but it is one that if you haven't seen it, you should. If you have seen it, now is time for you to revisit. "Swoon" ushered in the age of what was called in 1992 the "new queer cinema". The movie is based on the scandalous murder trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb--a trial that had been written about across America in headlines and had already had a book, "Compulsion" and two movies (Hitchcock's "Rope" and "Compulsion") made about it. But the story had never before looked at from the queer point of view. Tom Kalin took the story, studied the facts, and created this beautiful black and white film about what really happened. It stars Craig Chester ("Adam and Steve") and Daniel Schlachet. I finally succumbed to that little voice inside of me that told me to buy it and I am glad I waited because it now comes as a director's cut with lots of extras.
This is such a compelling film that I felt obligated to learn everything about the original case and I found myself sitting in the library looking up old articles and newspaper stories.
Tom Kalin gives the truest account of one of the most notorious and infamous crimes of the twentieth century. How was it possible that two rich genius college students who were lovers as well could murder for thrill? Kalin focuses on the homoerotic subplot of the issue and the film brings it out beautifully. Two good boys, superlatively educated from two good Jewish homes committed a crime that rocked America. The elegance of the film and the subtlety of the performances question the gay elements of the case in a way that was never really done before. He even takes the story past the courtroom to show how the perpetrators of this horrific crime met their deaths. A pretty picture it is not--it is brutal and hard to forget. Kalin does not hold back and is indifferent to the martyrdom of positive images concerning same-sex couples and the two young and gay killers. "Swoon" defies generalization and intelligence and stands alone in the canon of queer film. It is audacious, it is stylish. It is provocative and stunning and seductive. It examines manners as if they had never been examined before. Kalin makes no excuses and this film is his monument. Both visionary and haunting, it is not easy to forget and these are what make a movie great. We don't have many like this and we should be happy that we have "Swoon". It is among the best of the movies I have ever seen and considering that it is and considering that it still holds up some sixteen years after its original release says something about it.

Trying to be all things to all people.......2005-05-12

It turns out to be mediocre to everyone.

Swoon feels something like a rather lavish PBS documentary with some stylized, artsy murmuring and elaborate costumes and sets (except for the rather glaring touch-tone phones.) As a documentary, it feels forced, and needs lots of narrative ("On July 15, we this or that and I felt this or that.") However it leaves out any attempt at an examination about why these two men behaved the way they did and what the shaping forces were that created these arrogant, outwardly-polite murderers.

As a presumably entertaining movie, it lurches from one scene to another and lacks congruity and basics of story-telling (like a beginning or an end.) It is interesting, and there are glimmers of excellence, but mostly they get drowned out by costumes and smoking and narrative.

Worth seeing, but not entirely successful.

Just short of perfect.......2003-07-27

This film takes a look at the leopold/loeb case that is often glossed over in other films and even books on the subject. The focus is obviously on Leopold and Loeb rather than the crime itslef and the importance their personalities play in their connection to each other. The film seems rushed at times but it just seems to add to the intensity of it all. It's rushed but you can't seem to think of it being any other way. You're not left thinking one of the two boys is any more 'evil' than the other (which is perhaps the best thing about the film).

However, if you're not familar with the leopold/loeb case much of the movie could potentially be confusing and while many of the lines are actual things said by the two boys they are often placed in a different context or said to different people. If you've previously read Hal Higdon's book on the subject the movie makes much more sense than it would otherwise. However, if you have not, it is still a disturbing yet touching story. You'll realize the complicated nature of the boys' relationship and question who really contributed to the crime.

Very Different.......2002-07-31

This is a great film. Its prospective is very different from the two previous films(Rope/Compulsion) made on the Leopold/Loeb case. These other movies were both highly fictionalized versions of the case. This film is considered the most historically accurate to be made so far on the case, the trial scenes were taken directly from the actual trial transcripts. For this reason the film is often shown in Criminal Justice, Law and History classes.
This movie is also the first to boldly examine the homosexual relationship between the two killers.
Actors Daniel Schlachet (Loeb) and Craig Chester (Leopold) do an excellent job in the very diificult roles of two child killers.

A film that borderlines on greatness........2001-11-26

In my 11th grade English class, we were given a study on the case of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, two college students who came from well-to-do families, who committed a most gruesome act of murder against a small boy by the name of Bobby Franks. The question throughout our studies: why would two well-off young men, with everything going for them, do such a thing to ruin their futures?

Tom Kalin's "Swoon" answers that question in gritty detail, using an unrelenting style that is admirable but brings little emotion to the film's central story. Told in black and white, with small bits of narration cast into the sequence of events, the movie provides us a look we've never seen before at the duo, one that is intriguing at times, though becomes tedious and dismal in others.

Daring in its approach to reveal the truth behind the scandal, Kalin's script goes into the relationship of Loeb and Leopold, whose sexual relationship with one another serves as the drive for their crimes and grievances against others. Their murder of the Franks child, to them, was little more than a promise kept by Loeb to Leopold, while to the rest of the community, it was a sheer act of horror for which, everyone hoped, they would pay with their lives.

But this new theory that becomes the center of the story is never quite full of the energy it needs to make it more engrossing. There is a certain amount of gratification with the exploration of the relationship between the two; in one scene, Leopold tells a shrink of a slave/master fantasy, which describes his views of his relationship with Loeb. The two find themselves together not out of want, but out of a need for one another, which makes for some very twisted yet intriguing mind games between the two.

The way the material is handled creates a problem: there's no energy to it. Throughout the second half of the film, primarily after their arrest and imprisonment, the movie loses what little momentum it had reserved, settling into stages of boredom without becoming absurd or redundant. The black and white photography is in the film's favor, placing us in Chicago during the mid-20's with an authenticity that accentuates the time and setting. Actors Daniel Schlachet (Loeb) and Craig Chester (Leopold) are convincing in their portrayal of Loeb and Leopold as emotionless, and without remorse for the crime.

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Unfunny, with bad acting.......2006-06-12

Even a big George Carlin fan will be disappointed. Unbelievable that he got involved in this turkey. Badly written, badly acted, badly directed - boring. Couldn't watch it all. Luckily it was on TV.

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Hunting Season
ED WOODS HUNTING SEASON
Nothing original but an improvement on 'Camp Blood'

Hunting Season
Starring: Ken X Cindy Pena
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Hunting Season.......2007-04-12

Low-quality movie, but the 3-D works pretty well in some scenes and very well in other ones (a lot of flicker and some blurriness, however). There are some excellent 3-D scenes, including one where the star is preparing a poison arrow for revenge. This is a good movie to get if you are a field-sequential 3-D movie buff and don't mind some eyestrain...

ED WOODS HUNTING SEASON.......2006-01-26

This is by far thee worst picture I've seen in weeks! (hey,
I watch a lot of movies so shoot me,pardon the pun.)I spit
on your grave was low budget,but this made it look like
James Cameron's TITANIC,I mean I am so speechless when
I saw the trailer(and that's all I've seen,sorry could not
get passed that)I thought OH! NOOOOO! You are kidding!
I mean this is lower then the T&A movies 12yr olds stay
up for on USA friday nights.I can't even begin,I really
really can't I'm sorry I know I'm suppose to give a review
but I just can't!All I can say is I bought this at a local
used mom & pop's CD/DVD store it was already viewed in the
bargin bin pink labled for .27cents and I feel I've been
ripped off.

Nothing original but an improvement on 'Camp Blood'.......2004-11-18

I was stuck between 2 or 3 stars and gave 'Hunting Season' the benefit of the doubt. This is a double-sided DVD with a field-sequential 3D version on one side and a regular 2D version on the other. If you are not familiar with field-sequential 3D, it is a system which uses LCD shutter glasses which alternate left eye, right eye, in synch with the image on your TV screen so each eye only sees the perspective image for that eye which produces an illusion of a 3D image (all 3D images cause the brain to produce an illusion of depth when each eye is presented with the same image from a different perspective). I have recently acquired a set of shutter glasses since I wrote this review and must say that I am quite impressed with the 3D effect. It produces quite a bit of depth with a clean image (of course depending on the quality of the video) and out-of-box effects (the 3D effect of an object coming out of the screen). I must say that I am much less impressed with the headache inducing flickering of the glasses, but that effect may vary by manufacturer (since this is the only set I have, I do not know if there is any variance or not). Manufacturers and sellers of the field-sequential equipment like to have people believe that this is a recent cutting edge technique. This, however, is just a revamping of the Teleview system which was introduced in 1922 to selected theatres and died the same year due to the expense of the equipment. The expense of the shutter glasses makes it impractical for all but solo viewing. The DVD of 'Hunting Season' introduces a lie right on the DVD package: filmed in true stereoscopic 3D. This video was shot using either a special camcorder to capture field sequential video or a camcorder fitted with a field-sequential lens; it was not done on film. 'Hunting Season' was made by the same people who made 'Camp Blood' and is an improvement in many ways. The first noticeable improvement is in lighting and contrast. Either by accident or design, this video was shot mostly on overcast days, which produces a much better image than direct sunlight. Their interior lighting is much improved. The quality of the video is much better than 'Camp Blood' which was quite pixilated. The quality of the acting is about the same, but better than I would expect from such a low budget production. They learned a few things about camerawork. Although there are still quite a few jumpy handheld shots, they do experiment with some better techniques. Where 'Hunting Season' picks up is in its pace and its action sequences. It is much better paced and does not drag like its predecessor. The special effects pretty much varied from good to crappy (the scene where a CPR dummy is thrown down a hillside is absolutely hilarious). Where they have not improved is in the consistency of their audio level (they need to learn how to record background noise and dialogue seperately). 'Hunting Season' is a simple story of a woman who is raped and her boyfriend beaten by hunters in the woods. While her boyfriend is in the hospital, she decides to become Rambo and effect revenge. Although some would say this is a copy of 'I Spit On Your Grave', it is not. This was most likely inspired by the 1976 movie 'Revenge for a Rape' which starred Mike Connors, since it apes a good bit of the plot of that movie. 'Hunting Season' is not by any means great, but it does maintain a good pace and entertain for its 72 minute runtime.-Bob

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the most depressing movie ever made
Proverbial Van Down by the River
TRASH,TRASH,TRASH!!
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Visual Heroin

Trash
Starring: Joe Dallesandro , Holly Woodlawn , Geri Miller , Andrea Feldman , and John Putnam
Director: Paul Morrissey
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"Why do you have to be unconscious?" asks Holly (played by Holly Woodlawn) while fingering the unresponsive crotch of her passed-out junkie boyfriend, Joe (Joe Dallesandro). Joe passes through a series of flaccid sexual encounters until, on account of his drug habit, he hits rock bottom as Holly is forced out of frustration to consummate with one of his discarded beer bottles. A radical and infinitely more compassionate departure from producer Andy Warhol's art-as-commodity (or commodification) discourse, director Paul Morrissey set out to make a reactionary antidrug film (originally titled Drug Trash), but the film instead turned into a sweaty, cinema-verité black comedy about the pitfalls of, to use a popular catch phrase of the time, "dropping out" of society and, inevitably, losing all hope of human intimacy. In this case, dropping out is not so much an escape as it is a further complicity: rather than an exercise in free will, one form of mindless consumer addiction has simply exchanged with another. As a time capsule, societal criticism, and cult oddity all in one, grab this from the trash heap of film history on your way out of a burning building. --Christopher Chase

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the most depressing movie ever made.......2007-04-08

I was 17 when this film came out. My girlfriend and I had just invented sex. We were enthusiastic about our invention. After sitting through this movie, we didn't have sex for more than a week. We were seventeen years old, had access to a sex partner and didn't have sex for a week!

Pretty typical Warhol/Morrissey stuff: Self hatred, guilt, shame and money. How these people got tagged as the avant-garde is beyond me. Warhol and Morrissey were reactionaries through and through.

I gave it two stars because it is sort of 'interesting' if you've never known people like the characters. They're around. If you're watching the movie to look at Joe D'allesandro, I won't hold that against you.

Proverbial Van Down by the River.......2004-07-07

Despite the gracious full frontal male nudity which is shocking now days, this film is boring! Even though D'Allesandro (the random hung naked guy of many Morissey / Warhol films) is every inch (literally) gorgeous (despite crawling around looking like a homeless man), nothing prevents the crawling creeping restless boredom of this film. (If that was the intent of this film, well then-well done.) If nothing else it serves as a prompting for a liberal's worst nightmare awakening: that hippies and alt. culture are hated for some good reasons. It serves well too as a proverbial "van down by the river": it will deeply motivate you to do something with your life and never end up like this. Nancy Reagan should've thought of this film when she was telling kids to just say no.

TRASH,TRASH,TRASH!!.......2002-02-24

The movie is really trash. The movie starts out showing Joe Dallesandro's [rear] and Geri Miller go-go dancing naked. Later on in the movie we meet Holly Woodlawn a trash collector who is a transvestite and a former prostitute. More graphic nudity and sex come up when Jane Forth and her husband come in the story. An all right beginning,middle, and end but the story is terrible.

Exploring the junky side of the moon.......2002-02-07

This film deals with drugs, very precisely heroin. We are in the post hippy period when drugs became an addiction after having been a life style. The drug addict is reduced in his sexuality, in his thinking and in his social life. He only survives in a hostile environment. But that was in 1970. The environment of the drug addict is either looking for easy kicks by flirting with drugs (high-school students for example), or for sexual kicks among young middle class couples or people who try to use the uninhibited life of the drug addict to have physical contacts with them or to beef up their own boring and fading relations, or for some advantage they can get from them in exchange of some welfare money (social workers for example). This leads to the sad conclusion that drug addicts who look for a certain liberation in a trip beyond limits find themselves entirely trapped in a fake world where alienation is demultiplied by their addiction. The film is of course also a piece of art by the fact that it refuses any kind of special effects or heavy production and the pictures only speak because they are plain, simple, and yet tremendously worked on by the simple technique of the camera, physical acting and voices. The expressivity of the film comes from those simple elements and the realistic revealing dialogue that goes along with it. The feeling we get is that of a totally poignant fatality that pens up the drug addict in a fully lost battle for survival. There seems to be only death at the end of the road.

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Visual Heroin.......2000-06-03

As a fan of cult cinema and gay underground films, I admit, my expectations for this DVD were pretty slim. I knew Dallesandro would be a visual feast, if not a genuine screen presence. Other than that, I can't say that I expected this film to impress me.

Well, it didn't. I've waded through John Waters' early efforts with more mirth than this sad film could hope to inspire. Laughing at this film is like empathizing with the upper-crust couple that Joe has the misfortune of encountering: hollow yucks at squalor and cheap thrills for the terminally jaded.

There IS a story here, of sorts, but Morrissey is determined to ignore it in favor of "moody" shots of Joe looking thoughtful, or just strung-out. The acting has the same over the top quality as that of Waters' 70's films, but the dialogue simply doesn't have the same insanely humorous spark.

There are a few moments that will have even non-fans sitting up in their recliners, though. For me, the scene where Holly gives a nice upstate boy a shot of heroin in the butt was a classic. And though the way she strips him and slavers over his naked body could be described as grotesque, it's also fascinating.

The best that I can say for this film is that it has a strong visual allure, whether it's one of Joe's many nude scenes, or a profile shot of Holly, all overbite and eye makeup. If you're a fan of Warhol or Morrissey, I'm sure you have a deeper appreciation for "Trash." If you're just an interested viewer, like myself, you may find my comments here to be of some use before considering a purchase.

-Mic

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