Fwak Grab Bag

Skinhead movie

Review/Link: Cinedelica: Big screen: This Is England (2007).

Will this ever be screened in LA? Will it be on DVD? When? Where? How?

Rockers

From "Rockers" ...

Coonskin

Screengrabs from Ralph Bakshi’s COONSKIN… design/staging reference.

 

 

50s teenagers

Monster at the Soda Shop: Teenagers and Fifties Horror Films

Rock n Roooolllll!!!

Guitar Wolf is playing at the Knitting Factory, Hollywood MARCH 15, 2005! We have to go. One day we’ll also have to play the Drinking Game (Special Feature of Wild Zero DVD).

The romance is twistedly charming. A young rockabilly falls in love with a … OK, no spoilers :-D Two zombies pledge undying love to one another. The heroes (Guitar Wolf & Co.) have superpowers fuelled by their faith in ROCK N ROLL!!!!

Kamikaze Girls

The Movie Blog - Kamikaze Girls Trailer, Website and Review.  I want to see this!

The Warriors

A fashion shoot from Swindle magazine, where the gangs of NYC are women. Clockwise: The Warriors, The Orphans, The Rogues, The Warriors (again), The Baseball Furies.

The Riffs:

The 1979 Warriors movie links: 

• The Warriors Movie site (Uk) - everything you need to know plus GANGS
• 70s.fast-rewind (select from sidebar menu)
• krofunk.com review
• Virtualfools.com 
• Badmovieplanet.com review
• Allwatchers.com -The Warriors 

From the Warriors Movie site:

The Warriors is a brilliant film if you like violence! Everything about this film is cool from the costume to the music. The film starts out where there is a meeting of all gangs in New York City and the leader of the largest gang gets shot. The Warriors get blamed and so every gang in the city is out to get them. The Warriors then have to get back home to Coney Island - alive!

Sorry, but the costumes are NOT cool. The hairstyles are unwatchable, and I wouldn't buy the soundtrack. But we like the "gangs" premise.  Word on the street is that there's going to be a  remake.  GGGGRRRRRRRRRR.

History of Electronic Music

I've started reading Modulations: History of Electronic music - a Caipirinha publication. This is a great book though it feels odd to be reading about different beats and rhythms and trying to differentiate this stuff in my mind as opposed to listening to it... which is why I'm looking forward to receiving the DVD. And also hassling DJ Mort.

Although Eddie would argue that Ishkur has got it all wrong, I find Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music pretty useful even when taken with a grain of salt. It helps to have a big ass flowchart like this which generates snippets of sounds. Problem is, this guy obviously *hates* Jungle/Drum & Bass.

Absolute Beginners

This movie-musical is full of inaccuracies. Or should I say blatant overblown lies. 1958 London was NOT a neon-lit swinging bacchanalic street scene. 1950's teenagers did NOT wear mini skirts and look like they're from the wild and swinging sixties. The English working class did NOT have middle-class accents.

And the music! Sade? David Bowie? Style Council? It wouldn't have been so bad had they even tried to sound like fifties musicians. But the music is pure eighties pop. The dancing is sickeningly modern jazz a la West Side Story. Thugs do synchronized pirhouettes on mean streets - that sort of thing. And so you have a period piece that's just so overly candy-coated and razzle-dazzled up that what you see on screen bears no resemblance to that period at all.

I've read that the book by Colin MacInnes (upon which the film is based) is entirely different. I wonder what HE thought of the film.