All Bout Money...
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 30 09Shot on video and doomed with drab titles, STATE PROPERTY 1 (2002) & STATE PROPERTY 2 (2005) are actually very interesting little works in the BATTLE OF ALGIERS vein of faux-verite. With their focus on overlapping dialogue and street economics instead of the usual pumped up meaningless sex and violence (though there is that too) and a canonical knowledge of the genre (beyond mere Scarface remake quoting) they bring to mind Howard Hawks and the nouvelle vauge, I kids thee not. These little gems are worth dusting off as evidence of a semi-invisible African American new wave that reputable film journals ignore outright, just on the basis of the trashy company it keeps. Full story...
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I just learned, via Peter Nellhaus, of the passing of one of America's most obscure-but-talented directors, Paul Wendkos.
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Bright Lights issue 66 now online
Bright Lights After Dark Nov 01 09Issue 66 of Bright Lights Film Journal is now online.
From the editor
Keep watching the lights.
Have a Blaisdell Halloween!
Bright Lights After Dark Oct 31 09
Paul Blaisdell (July 21, 1927 - July 10, 1983) was a science fiction illustrator (The Ant Men, above), a special effects artisan, and an inspired designer of imaginative costumes and props for a series of low-budget horror, monster, and sci-fi films released by American International Pictures and Allied Artists in the 1950s.
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