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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Posted on August 16, 2013 at 9:05 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

There’s a scene early in Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) which deserves to stand alongside the diner scene from Five Easy Pieces in iconic stature. A bumpkin working the pump at a gas station is making innocuous small … Continue reading →

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Lifeforce (1985)

Posted on June 15, 2013 at 4:25 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Earlier this year Chicago’s Music Box Theatre hosted the “70mm Festival,” projecting in gorgeous 70mm prints of Vertigo (1958), West Side Story (1961), Lord Jim (1965), Playtime (1967), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Hamlet (1996), … Continue reading →

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The Vampire Lovers (1970)

Posted on May 25, 2013 at 9:41 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Since 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein, Hammer Films became associated with pushing the envelope of sex and violence, and initiated a long series of skirmishes with the moralistic British Board of Film Classification that would last until the studio ceased … Continue reading →

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