| | | Heat (DVD) 1972 | aka Andy Warhol's Heat DVD / Region 1 (USA) |
| |
|
| | Directed by Paul Morrissey. Last and most accomplished of the brilliant Warhol/Morrissey/Dallesandro trilogy (with TRASH and FLESH). Andy Warhol meets SUNSET BOULEVARD in this hot and heavy tale of an unemployed actor (Joe Dallesandro) taking up with a faded star (Sarah Miles) Dallesandro's beauty is essential to selling the emotional weight of Miles' traumatic role-reversal, from former object of desire to vulnerable victim of her passion for the younger man. "Even non-fans of the Warhol group might like this." Vastly entertaining and erotic in a potent but unsettling way. Quite European in tone and style. Starring Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman, Pat Ast, Ray Vestal. 100 minutes. "Warhol legend Joe Dallesandro hits Los Angeles as an unemployed former child star in this fast and funny look at fleeting fame where an affair with fallen star Sylvia Miles (Midnight Cowboy) results in hilarious complications." "Wholly original, penetrating and shockingly real." - NEW YORK POST. Starring Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti D'Arbanville, Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis. DVD includes: Outtakes and Still Gallery. |
|
|
| |
| | Gory, sexy and all-around cheeky horror comedy. Full of flaws, but weird enough to offer some rewards. Frankenfurter's lab in ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is heavily influenced by Frankensteins equally weird lad in this film.Maverick filmmaker Paul Morrissey's Flesh for Frankenstein reevaluates the horror film, infusing it with satiric wit and sexuality. Wall-to-wall bad taste-soft core porn, nudity, and splatter. Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron (Udo Kier) and his depraved assistant Otto (Arno Juerging) have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness (Monique van Vooren) dallies with the randy new manservant (Joe Dallesandro) and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre, and hilarious orgy of death and dismemberment. Smart, savage, and satiric, this international box office hit from Paul Morrissey is presented here with all of its uncensored comedic excesses intact, complete with a stunning new transfer. DVD FEATURES: Audio: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) . Newly remastered, high-definition transfer . Commentary by Paul Morrissey, Udo Kier, and film historian Maurice Yacowar . Audio recollections from Paul Morrissey . Screen tests and still gallery |
|
|
| |
| | A surprisingly good movie! BLOOD FOR DRACULA deserves a place in the revisionist vampire story pantheon. This is the first (only?) movie to highlight the "Count" in Count Dracula. The decline of magic in the modern world is offered as a parallel of the decline of aristocracy. Dracula is about the last of his kind, and has almost lost the will to live. He needs virgin blood, but the dawning modern age has cut into the supply of virgins. He goes to Italy where he hopes they take religion more seriously. He muses, "The Italian church requires virgins for their weddings." Lower class socialist Joe Dallesandro has de-flowered all the local virgins, and taunts Count Dracula that all he has is a title, and that "after the revolution" he won't even have that. (The Marxist view of the aristocracy as blood-suckers is delightfully literal here.) Amusingly, Dallesandro is so outraged that Dracula is an aristocrat that when the discovers he's also a vampire it's merely one more crummy aristocratic trait.Director Paul Morrissey (Heat) upends the horror genre with the grisly, hilarious, and strangely poignant story of Count Dracula (Udo Kier), forced to vacate his home and family to search for the blood of noble Italian virgins. He gets more than he bargained for with the Di Fiore family, whose patriarch (legendary director Vittorio De Sica) schemes to pawn off one of his daughters to the count in order to revive the estate's crumbling fortunes. Meanwhile, the communist gardener (Joe Dallesandro) satisfies his urges with the young daughters, turning the Count's quest into an ordeal of thwarted bloodlust. One of the most popular cult films of all time, this witty collision of high art cinema with outrageous sex and violence is presented in its original, full-length, uncensored version with a brand-new high-definition transfer. DVD FEATURES: Audio: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) . Newly remastered, high-definition transfer . Commentary by Paul Morrissey and Udo Kier . New audio recollections from Paul Morrissey . Screen tests and still gallery |
|
|
| |