Notes
Everything That’s Great About Indonesian Movies
From Barry Prima and H. Djut Djalil to Suzzanna and Hans Jaladara adaptations, 4DK has been examining everything that’s great about Indonesian action movies (mostly from the 1980s) and the ” brain-chemistry-altering pleasures that watching movies [without subtitles] has given me — the very pleasures, in fact, that made me
want to write about watching movies in the first place.”
Categories: Notes
Tagged as: 1980s, 2010s, action, adaptation, Barry Prima, colonialism, H. Djut Djalil, Hans Jaladara, horror, Indonesia, martial arts, movies, mysticism, Suzzanna
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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