Out to own on Double Play: January 30th, 2012

A revered revenge classic co-written by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) and acknowledged by Quentin Tarantino as one of his favourite movies when he named his video company after the 70s revenge classic - “Most movies let you down, but this is ass-kicking nirvana!”

Starring William Devane in a stoic performance as Major Charles Rane, a man who has been pushed beyond his limits during an eight year incarceration in the Hanoi Hilton. He returns to his Texas hometown with his friend Sergeant Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones), just a vague shadow of the man he used to be. Finding himself a local celebrity and awarded with a briefcase of silver dollars- one for every day he was a POW, he tries to adapt to civilian life with his wife (Linda Haynes), who is now engaged to another man, and his son, who doesn’t remember him.

But any chance at healing is destroyed when a gang of thugs show up at his house to steal the silver. Tragedy thus descends on Major Rane a second time, stealing whatever shred of humanity was in him, and sending him on a one-way mission: vengeance at any cost.

Extras:

Audio Commentary with Co-Writer Heywood Gould, Moderated by Roy Frumkes

Theatrical Trailer with Eli Roth Introduction and Commentary

Exclusive Interview with Linda Haynes

Original TV Spot

Now check out Hostel director and grindhouse movie lover Eli Roth as he introduces the trailer to Rolling Thunder…

Eli Roth on ROLLING THUNDER - YouTube

The remarkable story of Hollywood’s most prolific and influential writer-director-producer, the legendary Roger Corman, is the subject of director Alex Stapleton’s affectionate, witty and hugely entertaining documentary, Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel, which charts the Oscar winning filmmaker’s career from his early days working in the mail room at 20th Century Fox to the set of one of his most recently produced “creature features”, “Dinoshark”.

Essential viewing for every cineaste, Corman’s World is “a delightful tribute” (Variety) to a true Hollywood great and one that proves to be thrilling, fun, informative and frequently touching (witness a rare and genuinely emotional scene featuring Jack Nicholson that, alone, makes this an unmissable documentary).

Leaving no doubt as to Corman’s seminal influence on modern-day cinema, the film features enlightening interviews with an incredible cavalcade of Hollywood icons, luminaries and A-listers (many of whom began their own careers working under Corman), including Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, Quentin Tarantino, John Sayles, Jonathan Demme, Eli Roth, Peter Fonda, Peter Bogdanovich, William Shatner and countless others.

Combining archival footage with contemporary clips and interviews, Corman’s World chronicles how one man created an empire, cultivating undiscovered talent and pushing the boundaries of what independent filmmakers could achieve when working outside the studio system. From Corman’s original genre-defining works such as “The Fast And The Furious”, “The Little Shop Of Horrors” and his classic film adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories, to his distribution of the art house films of Bergman, Kurosawa, Fellini and Truffaut and his continuing work as one of the world’s leading independent film producers, Stapleton’s superb documentary recounts a career that has spanned an astonishing six decades.

Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (cert. tbc) will be a Picturehouse Culture Shock Presentation on Tuesday 21st February and will be available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray from 26th March 2012.

Trailer, background blogs, stills and clips on the official UK site: http://www.totalfanhub.com/cormans-world/

Now that we’ve moved to a new forum please do not think the old one is lost. It’s still there and can be browsed at your leisure, you just can’t add any new comments to it.

Here it is:

Old forum, same topic

We continue here as usual. Please note that I plan to re-post all the photos people submitted in the previous forum anyway (only fair, considering the effort you all put in in the past), but that might have to wait ehm… until I’ve figured out how to do this. 

The award winning debut feature from director Alex Orr, the pitch-black comedy Blood Car mixes surrealist humour, sharp social commentary, kinky sex and buckets of blood to create “an absolutely hilarious satire that throws in South Park-type perversity and Evil Dead-style splatter while keeping its heart in the right place” (Total Sci-Fi Online).

Winner of numerous awards, including the New Visions Award at the Cinequest Film Festival and the Best Narrative Feature Film awards at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Philadelphia First Glance Film Festival, and starring Anna Chlumsky (best known for her charming starring role in My Girl two decades ago), Mike Brune (Van Wilder: Freshman Year) and Katie Rowlett (her feature debut), Blood Car is an independent horror-comedy gem that fully deserves to be rewarded with the cult status accorded to the films of Roger Corman, Frank Henenlotter, John Waters and Russ Meyer.

It is the very near future and global petrol prices have rocketed so high that the average person can no longer afford to drive. A geeky vegan, Archie Andrews (Brune) is a primary schoolteacher by profession but spends his spare hours trying to develop an engine that can run on the wheatgrass he buys from local stallholder, Lorraine (Chlumsky). During his research, Archie accidentally discovers that his latest prototype engine runs most efficiently not on wheatgrass but on human blood. When his newfound auto-mobility attracts the amorous attentions of slut-about-town and meat stall owner Denise (Rowlett) – Lorraine’s rival in both matters of love and commerce – Archie’s libido prompts him to do whatever it takes to keep his car on the road, even if it means resorting to cold-blooded murder.

Blood Car is “a dark, twisted and damn funny movie which blends bloody portions of horror, humour and political satire” (Twitch) into a story that audaciously and occasionally offensively pokes fun at modern society’s dependence upon petrol, the search for a suitable replacement form of energy and the corrupting nature of power and wealth.

Blood Car is released by Left Films and will open selected cinemas around the UK from 24th February 2012.

Anyone heard anything about TGTBTW?

So Twitchers, are there any other editions out there you’ve come across that’s perhaps a little more catalogue model-ish? A little more neon pink mistral fontly? Let me know!

Case in point: Legend. I love the movie and everything about it. Nobody else seems to.

Another one: Dune. It’s just epic on every scale. Panned by everyone, seemingly.

And a slightly embarrassing one: Karate Kid III. There was something about this and the buildup to the showdown. Most people disliked the third in the chapter, but it was my personal favourite. I thought it had a lot of emotion in it.

And so, others?

Does anyone know if he’s planning to post second part? I discovered few films I’ve never heard about thanks to this list and would love to see more. Is he reading this forum? Or maybe there’s another way to contact him and ask about it?