Filmmaker Noribumi Suzuki has died. Suzuki was probably best known for School of the Holy Beast (1974), Sex and Fury (1973) and his Torakku Yarõ / Truck Yaro / Trucker Guys films starring Bunta Sugawara. Here Suzuki talks about working with actresses Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto, who […]
Last month, I wrote about British (and a little pre-People’s Republic Chinese) censorship of Hong Kong movies and the ways that wuxia and kung fu movies in particular got around British control of political speech. And now, with wuxia and kung fu movies seemingly all nationalistic, dissent has […]
The Gutter’s own Keith writes about No Wave, Black cinema, ninjas, kung fu, cultural sharing, cultural appropriation, music and New York in a piece on The Deadly Art of Survival for Teleport City. “Its curious place in the history of cinema, for instance, [is] as this weird amalgamation […]
Drive-In Mob Capos Brian and Carol (aka, “The Gutter’s own Carol) each share ten of their favorite soundtrack tracks by composer Akira Ifukube.
Artist H. R. Giger has died. Rolling Stone, Swiss Info and The Guardian have obituaries. The Verge has a gallery of Giger’s paintings and sculpture. Factmag has a gallery of twenty Giger-designed album covers. Giger and Alejandro Jodorowsky discuss designs for Dune. Here’s an interview with Giger and […]
Actor, producer and musician Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. has died. Zimbalist starred in the tv series FBI and 77 Sunset Strip. He had roles in Airport 1975 (1974) and Wait Until Dark (1967). He had recurring roles in Remington Steele and Babylyon 5. Zimbalist was the voice of Alfred […]
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