The four-hour hentai epic that the world didn't ask for but sorely needed. The son of a Catholic priest becomes obsessed with sin, while a religious cult starts to become a social problem in Japan.
Is it about sex? Pornography? Religion? Insanity? Yes! If this film doesn't have it, you don't need it.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Ai no mukidashi (IMDB)
Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [****_]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [*****]
Beerequisite : [*____]
Pornability : [**___]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [****_]
Extra Points: The shortest four-hour movie in history. At last year's NYAFF, the 90 minute film Dream was twice as long as this.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
The District
From out of nowhere comes this animated piece of Eurosleaze: a Hungarian interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, with (to paraphrase Troma) all of the time travel, nukes, and streetwalkers that Shakespeare would have wanted.
The Montagues are gypsies and the Capulets are pimps. Lecherous grandfather Montague tells Romeo the secret of life: Money cures all ill. Romeo takes this to heart, and concocts a scheme to travel back in time, kill a bunch of dinosaurs, dig the up in the present, upset the global oil market, and get nuked by George Bush. Somewhere in there, he is supposed to get the girl.
As tragic in its own way as the original, propelled by Hungarian rap (with surprisingly entertaining translations), this gem is entirely inventive and entertaining. The Hungarians have figured out a truth that escaped even The Bard: the best way to resolve a feud between two stubborn men is for them to fight on the same side in a street brawl against the cops and get drunk afterwards.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Nyócker! (IMDB)
Wince : [*____]
Flinch : [*____]
Retch : [_____]
Gape : [***__]
Beerequisite : [***__]
Pornability : [*____]
Obscurity : [***__]
Explicability : [***__]
The Montagues are gypsies and the Capulets are pimps. Lecherous grandfather Montague tells Romeo the secret of life: Money cures all ill. Romeo takes this to heart, and concocts a scheme to travel back in time, kill a bunch of dinosaurs, dig the up in the present, upset the global oil market, and get nuked by George Bush. Somewhere in there, he is supposed to get the girl.
As tragic in its own way as the original, propelled by Hungarian rap (with surprisingly entertaining translations), this gem is entirely inventive and entertaining. The Hungarians have figured out a truth that escaped even The Bard: the best way to resolve a feud between two stubborn men is for them to fight on the same side in a street brawl against the cops and get drunk afterwards.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Nyócker! (IMDB)
Wince : [*____]
Flinch : [*____]
Retch : [_____]
Gape : [***__]
Beerequisite : [***__]
Pornability : [*____]
Obscurity : [***__]
Explicability : [***__]
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Divorce, Italian Style
Ah, those wacky Italians and their strange customs.
An aristocrat in a small Sicilian town has tired of his wife and fallen in love with his jailbait cousin. Given the impossibility of divorce under Roman Catholicism, he decides he should catch his wife in an affair and murder her on the spot in order to escape his marital woes and win the girl of his dreams. A dry and rather cynical comedy of errors inevitably ensues.
Marcello Mastroianni is of course fantastic, gradually developing a nervous tic as his plans come closer and closer to failure. The film abounds in details that are understated yet poignant: the pencilled-in unibrow and moustache of the wife that only appear during moments of intimacy, the conveyance of respect or scorn by the townspeople through their background actions, even the husband's occasional fantasies of his wife's untimely demise. And who can forget the maid-groping grandfather?
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Divorzio all'italiana (IMDB)
Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [_____]
Gape : [**___]
Beerequisite : [**___]
Pornability : [_____]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [****_]
An aristocrat in a small Sicilian town has tired of his wife and fallen in love with his jailbait cousin. Given the impossibility of divorce under Roman Catholicism, he decides he should catch his wife in an affair and murder her on the spot in order to escape his marital woes and win the girl of his dreams. A dry and rather cynical comedy of errors inevitably ensues.
Marcello Mastroianni is of course fantastic, gradually developing a nervous tic as his plans come closer and closer to failure. The film abounds in details that are understated yet poignant: the pencilled-in unibrow and moustache of the wife that only appear during moments of intimacy, the conveyance of respect or scorn by the townspeople through their background actions, even the husband's occasional fantasies of his wife's untimely demise. And who can forget the maid-groping grandfather?
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Divorzio all'italiana (IMDB)
Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [_____]
Gape : [**___]
Beerequisite : [**___]
Pornability : [_____]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [****_]
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
Do you like Concept movies? Symbolism for symbolism's sake? A dwarf dressed in women's underwear? Homoerotic tension between civilization and nature? Pretentious scat films? Skeletons? Then what are you waiting for, rush out and see this!
Aden Rey, oedipal epileptic, has run off to the desert after the death of his mother, turning his back on civilization and the image-conscious upper-crust society he was raised into. He soon encounters a preternatural runt of a man (too tall and properly-proportioned to be a dwarf, yet abnormally short) eating sand. This is Marvel, tens of thousands of years old yet entirely innocent of the ways of humans. He feeds Aden some goat-turd pie, and we're off!
Marvel is the yin to Aden's yang, the nature to his nurture, the Abbott to his Costello. Naturally Aden, quite taken with Marvel (who apparently reminds him of his childhood), decides the best thing to do is to introduce him to society by taking him to the big city to meet chicks. A series of what should be slapstick gags ensues where Marvel predictably fails to interact with society properly. It's all fun and games until someone loses a prostitute, then suddenly the two are on the lamb and the film transitions into some kinds of Jesus-buddy-road-movie. Well maybe not so much 'buddy' as 'unconsummated same-sex love interest'.
There is no point in calling this film "pretentious"; that would be like calling Plan 9 From Outer Space "bad". All of the usual targets are painstakingly set up for abuse: society, politicians, businessmen, the Church, meat-eating, deforestation, consumerism, television, luxury living, landlords, responsible adults, etc. There was a rather unexpected strike at circuses, probably an attempt at a scathing indictment of greed and spectacle. The film is chock full of the kind of mysticism, healing, sex, skeletons, sex with skeletons (well, close enough), dream sequences, cross-dressing, excrement (all flavors), toenail clippings, cannibalism, crucifixes, genitals, goats, goats' genitals (just kidding, the film doesn't go *that* far), trigger-happy cops, and pompous windbags given comeuppance that one expects from the early 70s surrealist films.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (IMDB)
Wince : [***__]
Flinch : [***__]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [*****]
Pornability : [****_]
Obscurity : [****_]
Explicability : [*____]
Did you know...
... the Virgin Mary was a redhead?
... happiness is a naked boy shot by a firing squad of old ladies?
... dwarf urine and mud can heal all wounds?
... Jesus is Money?
"I didn't need to see that!":
* Genital torture makes baby Jesus cry.
* Male bonding via back-to-back crapping.
* That cleaver is uncomfortably close to those genitals
* So uh, yeh, that's a transexual right.
* Did he really need to put on his mother's lingerie? OK, maybe, but did the *other* guy?
Never seen *that* before:
* Not tongue-tied, but tongue-nailed.
* Was that a phallic candle or a candled phallus?
* Gas masks instead of bondage hoods, hmm...
* Beaten by blind men!
Aden Rey, oedipal epileptic, has run off to the desert after the death of his mother, turning his back on civilization and the image-conscious upper-crust society he was raised into. He soon encounters a preternatural runt of a man (too tall and properly-proportioned to be a dwarf, yet abnormally short) eating sand. This is Marvel, tens of thousands of years old yet entirely innocent of the ways of humans. He feeds Aden some goat-turd pie, and we're off!
Marvel is the yin to Aden's yang, the nature to his nurture, the Abbott to his Costello. Naturally Aden, quite taken with Marvel (who apparently reminds him of his childhood), decides the best thing to do is to introduce him to society by taking him to the big city to meet chicks. A series of what should be slapstick gags ensues where Marvel predictably fails to interact with society properly. It's all fun and games until someone loses a prostitute, then suddenly the two are on the lamb and the film transitions into some kinds of Jesus-buddy-road-movie. Well maybe not so much 'buddy' as 'unconsummated same-sex love interest'.
There is no point in calling this film "pretentious"; that would be like calling Plan 9 From Outer Space "bad". All of the usual targets are painstakingly set up for abuse: society, politicians, businessmen, the Church, meat-eating, deforestation, consumerism, television, luxury living, landlords, responsible adults, etc. There was a rather unexpected strike at circuses, probably an attempt at a scathing indictment of greed and spectacle. The film is chock full of the kind of mysticism, healing, sex, skeletons, sex with skeletons (well, close enough), dream sequences, cross-dressing, excrement (all flavors), toenail clippings, cannibalism, crucifixes, genitals, goats, goats' genitals (just kidding, the film doesn't go *that* far), trigger-happy cops, and pompous windbags given comeuppance that one expects from the early 70s surrealist films.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (IMDB)
Wince : [***__]
Flinch : [***__]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [*****]
Pornability : [****_]
Obscurity : [****_]
Explicability : [*____]
Did you know...
... the Virgin Mary was a redhead?
... happiness is a naked boy shot by a firing squad of old ladies?
... dwarf urine and mud can heal all wounds?
... Jesus is Money?
"I didn't need to see that!":
* Genital torture makes baby Jesus cry.
* Male bonding via back-to-back crapping.
* That cleaver is uncomfortably close to those genitals
* So uh, yeh, that's a transexual right.
* Did he really need to put on his mother's lingerie? OK, maybe, but did the *other* guy?
Never seen *that* before:
* Not tongue-tied, but tongue-nailed.
* Was that a phallic candle or a candled phallus?
* Gas masks instead of bondage hoods, hmm...
* Beaten by blind men!
Monday, August 20, 2007
Mad Cowgirl
Thursday's feature flick.
The fragmented and moving tale of a lovelorn meat inspector, her love of (western) kung-fu movies, her exposure to BSE, and her subsequent killing spree. A film for the most jaded palate, this one has everything: beef, leering priests, more beef, incest, cannibalism (or was that still more beef?), even a flying guillotine!
I'm sending a copy of this to every vegan I know.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Mad Cowgirl (IMDB)
Wince : [****_]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [****_]
Pornability : [****_]
Obscurity : [****_]
Explicability : [*____]
The fragmented and moving tale of a lovelorn meat inspector, her love of (western) kung-fu movies, her exposure to BSE, and her subsequent killing spree. A film for the most jaded palate, this one has everything: beef, leering priests, more beef, incest, cannibalism (or was that still more beef?), even a flying guillotine!
I'm sending a copy of this to every vegan I know.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Mad Cowgirl (IMDB)
Wince : [****_]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [****_]
Pornability : [****_]
Obscurity : [****_]
Explicability : [*____]
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