Tag Archives: Drama

Double Feature: White Slaves of Chinatown/Olga’s House of Shame (1964)

Posted on September 1, 2013 at 7:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Throughout September I’ll be spending A Month at the Grindhouse, taking a look at a handful of the disreputable, distasteful, violent, sexy, shocking, and mind-melting films that helped define the term. And really, post-Tarantino and Rodriguez (whose collaborative film I … Continue reading →

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Hey Good Lookin’ (1982)

Posted on April 20, 2013 at 10:22 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Finally available on DVD is one of Ralph Bakshi’s more obscure animated films, Hey Good Lookin’ (1982), his R-rated, semi-autobiographical reflection on street life in 1950’s Brooklyn. It’s a personal enough film to complete an informal trilogy begun with Heavy … Continue reading →

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Trilogy of Life: The Decameron (1971)/The Canterbury Tales (1972)/Arabian Nights (1974)

Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:37 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

For me, these films were a gateway. I was living in Seattle, going to grad school, renting movies compulsively (it helped that I lived down the street from one of the best video stores in the country, Scarecrow Video). I … Continue reading →

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