Thursday, December 16, 2010

Out of the Blue






Watched this the other night. Dennis Hopper film from 1980 -- kind of similar to Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains! Linda Manz is the kid who does the haunting narration in Days of Heaven.
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  1. AndrewDecember 19, 2010 at 4:04 PM

    Ben, really pleased to see this here. I saw it last month and wasn't sure what to make of it. Hopper attempting to crawl out of his acid-fried 70s wilderness with some worthy social commentary but clearly still under pharmaceutical influences?
    I guess I'd place it in the intriguing sub-category of 70s/80s US alt-teen cinema, alongside others such as 'Over the Edge', 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore','Suburbia', 'My Bodyguard', probably culminating in 'Rumblefish'(though that's considerably more mainstream!)

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  2. BenDecember 19, 2010 at 8:56 PM

    Ha, that's a great way of describing what Hopper is doing. Over the Edge scared the shit out of me as a kid. Classic moral panic film. I don't think I've seen Alice... Will have to track it down. I think my favorite in this genre, though a little later in the game, is River's Edge.

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  3. Kate JinxDecember 21, 2010 at 10:34 PM

    all o'these + Times Square + Ladies & Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains and in circa Over the Edge Matt Dillon time, Little Darlings.

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  4. DougJuly 6, 2012 at 7:11 AM

    Haha I remember see that film once, pretty odd!

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