Assignment 9: This is Atrocious
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
What makes a horrible film?
So, this is Austin Cinephile, a place for the collection [...]
Madames are made in MOONLIGHTING WIVES (1966)
Dir. Joseph W. Sarno
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 5/12/10, 11:59pm
As I noted a few weeks ago, famed sexploitation filmmaker Joe Sarno passed away on April 26. The Alamo and Weird Wednesday hosted a memorial screening for the director this week, showcasing one of his best loved films, Moonlighting Wives. Unfortunately, the mechanical and proletarian Iron [...]
Ever made it with a chick in a trance before? Then you’ll love DELINQUENT SCHOOL GIRLS (1975)
Dir. Greg Corarito
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 2/24/10, 11:59pm
This week, we were lucky enough to experience one of the all-time great Weird Wednesday presentations. For those of you keeping track, our last trip to perfect exploitation was one month ago, the fabulous and madcap Lord Love a Duck. Well, ten years after that film, schlockmeisters [...]
I love, you’ll love, LORD LOVE A DUCK (1966)
Dir. George Axelrod
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 1/20/10, 11:59pm
Holy shit, everybody! If there was a plug-in that automatically placed a movie on the top of a reader’s Netflix queue the second they clicked on the link for that film’s review, I would use it for this post. Because I know that nothing I say here [...]
Quacks can’t express how much I love LORD LOVE A DUCK (1966)
Dir. George Axelrod
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 1/20/10, 11:59pm
Weird Wednesday is probably the greatest thing Austin, Texas has going for it. It is a unique film experience and it highlights a cinema that most have never heard of and almost no one gets to see regularly. As a matter of fact, I actually moved to [...]
