Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 13, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Alejandro Jodorowsky, Perry Henzell, David Lynch, Richard O'Brien, John Waters, George A. Romero & Roger Ebert | |
Directed by | Stuart Samuels |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Enjoyable, if blandly celebratory.
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Guardian
Rating: 2/5 --
A documentary about challenging and outrageous films should offer something more provocative than counter-culture filmmakers congratulating themselves on a job well done.
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BBC.com
Samuels' own enjoyment for midnighters comes through in his funky visual design -- visually spunky for a clips-and-talking-heads film -- and in the energetic editing.
Variety
It's a celebration of cinema-going as a 'ritual experience or trip', a communal adventure with no real equivalent in the exquisitely atomised YouTubeverse.
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Time Out
An extremely interesting film.
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Observer (UK)
In this affectionate glimpse into those countercultural times, filmmaker Stuart Samuels has compiled an engaging distillation of those nocturnal filmic emissions.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: B- --
To the film's credit he does manage to get the major participants together, with each film having a representative key creative person talking about the project.
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Product Description:
Startling, provocative, and often unsettling, midnight movies have left an indelible mark on American cinema. Beginning in the 1970s, these late-night cult events offered films that were unlike anything else glimpsed on movie screens. Among the offbeat hits are some of cinema's most unique works. This fascinating documentary explores six midnight movies and their impact: John Water's trashy classic PINK FLAMINGOS; David Lynch's surreal take on fatherhood, ERASERHEAD; cinema's preeminent transvestite musical, ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW; Alejandro Jodorowsky's otherworldly Western, EL TOPO; the reggae-cum-gangster film THE HARDER THEY COME; and George Romero's genre-defining zombiefest, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Packed with film clips and interviews with critics and the filmmakers themselves, MIDNIGHT MOVIES shows how these nocturnal showings offered audiences entry into cinematic worlds which were distinct from typical Hollywood fare, but later seeped into mainstream film culture.
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- UPC: 013138300485
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