tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post1508415710887093941..comments2023-11-05T02:01:53.847-06:00Comments on Antagony & Ecstasy: TSPDT #614 - BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLSTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-57386618814234864772016-10-29T05:27:00.155-05:002016-10-29T05:27:00.155-05:00There's a devilishly difficult distinction to ...There's a devilishly difficult distinction to be made between "camp" and camp about camp. I think the former has to be original in its insights and substantive in its targets. If that's so, BtVotD is neither one. <br /><br />Here's an analogy. When Andy Warhol painted the first tomato soup can, he was giving us an original insight about images in marketing. The million painters who followed him were not. So what were they doing, exactly? They were, themselves, exploiting Andy Warhol, not vapid canned goods labels. <br /><br />What Meyer has done here had already been done--by him and by others. There's nothing left to satirize by the time BtVotD comes along. As to Roger Ebert's role, one critic, quoting Ebert about the need to skewer exploitation films, asks whether Ebert revealed these intentions to the director or not. Good question.Dr. Rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17276122445138710778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-10587745100731188282008-02-26T18:58:00.000-06:002008-02-26T18:58:00.000-06:00As a matter of fact Faster, Pussycat! is also on t...As a matter of fact <I>Faster, Pussycat!</I> is also on the TSPDT Top 1000, and it was the Russ Meyer film I'd been hoping to review when the time came. But it's a much harder film to find, and since BtVotD has been on Fox Movie Channel a lot, I figured, "why not?"Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-25452005584190028642008-02-26T01:58:00.000-06:002008-02-26T01:58:00.000-06:00Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a necessity. Esp...<I>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</I> is a necessity. Especially if you manage to find a copy like the one we had at B-Fest where the opening dance number was framed so that the women's heads were cut off, and all that could be seen was the thing they were on screen for in the first place.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316541604903436175noreply@blogger.com