Tag Archives: Rock Musical

Giorgio Moroder’s “Metropolis” Re-Released

Posted on August 16, 2011 at 6:52 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Well, now that Kino has released on Blu-Ray the most complete version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis ever to be seen since its original screenings, can the book finally be closed on Rotwang and Robot Maria? Almost. There’s still the problematic case … Continue reading →

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Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)

Posted on July 22, 2011 at 8:51 am by Jeff Kuykendall

There is a single brief shot in Allan Arkush’s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) which qualifies it as one of the greatest rock movies ever made.  A happy accident, as it turns out.  The camera was running at the … Continue reading →

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Night Train to Terror (1985)

Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:32 am by Jeff Kuykendall

There are bad movies, there are movies that are so bad they’re good, and then there are movies that seem to have arrived from another dimension entirely, completely untranslatable to humankind. Such is the beautifully inexplicable Night Train to Terror. … Continue reading →

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