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Bright Lights Film Journal
Issue 26 | November/December 1999
features
The Day the Bronx Invaded Earth: The Life and Times of Mike and George Kuchar — Jack Stevenson turns his searchlights on New York’s legendary underground kitschmeisters
Poets of Everyday Life: Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin — Two more 1950s New York indie pioneers, but so sweet
interview
Chatting About Other Things: An Interview with Federico Fellini — The Master on life, death, and a vision in a forest at Gamboletta
dvd reviews
Maverick Metzger: Dark Odyssey and Little Mother — A tormented Greek Fury and an ersatz Eva Peron in Radley’s latest DVD releases
Radley's Metzger's The Dirty Girls; Carmen, Baby; The Princess and the Call Girl — Will Metzger mania never end?
Mario Bava's Baron Blood — This middle-range Bava looks better than ever on DVD
Antonioni's Red Desert — The Italian maestro's stroll through the modern wasteland
Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin’s Little Fugitive Escapes to DVD — This time the print is crisper and the director’s commentary speaks volumes
Tragic Poignancy: Mizoguchi’s The Loyal 47 Ronin — The great Japanese director’s landmark version of Chushingura sparkles on DVD
Lonesome Leni: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl — The definitive filmic study of the eternally controversial, apparently immortal Riefenstahl
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Fred and Ginger Take Off in Flying Down to Rio — The inimitable duo’s first, with a guest appearance by a great big plane
Pre-Code Follies: Murder at the Vanities — Marihuana isn’t the only sweet thing in this raunchy pre-Code musical
Forgotten and Fantastic: The King of Jazz — Revisiting a rare early musical
reviews
Beatnik Chic: Chuck Workman’s The Source — The Beats, meet the Gap; the Gap, meet the Beats
American Beauty: Why It Sucks and Why the Critics Love It — Beautiful it ain’t, says an outraged Alan Vanneman
homo corner
Shifting Sexualities: Bedrooms and Hallways — Even an eleventh-hour hetero conversion doesn’t capsize this fun farce
All Roads Lead to Love: Tanya Wexler’s Finding North — Big-haired bimbos and bitter gay boys apparently do mix
Draining the Drama: Simon Shore’s Get Real — Give it points for sincerity; take them back for all that damn sunshine
Unhappy, Critic on Happy, Texas — Isn’t this put-on homo dramedy a few decades too late?
Deadly Crawl: The Velocity of Gary — This one needs a little more speed — and sense
book reviews
Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew, by John Oller
VideoHound’s War Movies: Classic Conflict on Film, by Mike Mayo
100 Years of Oz: A Century of Classic Images from The Wizard of Oz collection of Willard Carroll, by John Fricke. Stewart
Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir, by Foster Hirsch
Eccentrics of Comedy, by Anthony Slide
The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers, by Billy H. Doyle
