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“Burlesque Lives”
By Raymond Benson
Kino Lorber and Something Weird Video continue their collaboration to present “Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture” with Volume 12—the double bill of Peek-a-Boo and “B” Girl Rhapsody, two documentations of burlesque revues from the 1950s.
The delicious and suitably sleazy pictures in the “Forbidden Fruit” series were made cheaply and outside the Hollywood system. They were distributed independently in the manner of a circus sideshow, often by renting a movie theater for a few nights, advertising in the local papers, and promoting the scandalous title as “educational.” It’s certain, however, that in this case both features in Volume 12 were not educational in any way except to provide the experience of burlesque shows to audiences who were unable to view them in person.
This reviewer, who usually welcomes and enthusiastically supports all the volumes in the “Forbidden Fruit” series,...
“Burlesque Lives”
By Raymond Benson
Kino Lorber and Something Weird Video continue their collaboration to present “Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture” with Volume 12—the double bill of Peek-a-Boo and “B” Girl Rhapsody, two documentations of burlesque revues from the 1950s.
The delicious and suitably sleazy pictures in the “Forbidden Fruit” series were made cheaply and outside the Hollywood system. They were distributed independently in the manner of a circus sideshow, often by renting a movie theater for a few nights, advertising in the local papers, and promoting the scandalous title as “educational.” It’s certain, however, that in this case both features in Volume 12 were not educational in any way except to provide the experience of burlesque shows to audiences who were unable to view them in person.
This reviewer, who usually welcomes and enthusiastically supports all the volumes in the “Forbidden Fruit” series,...
- 8/9/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Our 75th guest! The legendary filmmaker John Sayles joins Josh and Joe to explore some of his favorite movies.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
Django (1966)
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
City Of Hope (1991)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
The Challenge (1982)
Avalanche (1978)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Piranha (1978)
The Howling (1981)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
The Killers (1964)
The King And I (1956)
Time Without Pity (1957)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
Ben-Hur (1957)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Two Women (1960)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Spartacus (1960)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Merrill’s Marauders (1962)
Targets (1968)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Woodstock (1970)
Crime In The Streets (1956)
The Bad Seed (1956)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Fedora (1978)
Dune (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Choose Me (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
El Norte (1983)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Irishman (2019)
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019)
The Thing (1982)
Chinatown (1974)
Manhattan (1979)
Duck Amuck (1953)
Goodfellas (1990)
Humanoids Of The Deep (1980)
Cockfighter (1974)
Dynamite Women a.k.a. The Great Texas Dynamite Chase...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
Django (1966)
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
City Of Hope (1991)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
The Challenge (1982)
Avalanche (1978)
Eight Men Out (1988)
Piranha (1978)
The Howling (1981)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
The Killers (1964)
The King And I (1956)
Time Without Pity (1957)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
Ben-Hur (1957)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Two Women (1960)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Spartacus (1960)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Merrill’s Marauders (1962)
Targets (1968)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Woodstock (1970)
Crime In The Streets (1956)
The Bad Seed (1956)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Fedora (1978)
Dune (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Choose Me (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
El Norte (1983)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Irishman (2019)
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (2019)
The Thing (1982)
Chinatown (1974)
Manhattan (1979)
Duck Amuck (1953)
Goodfellas (1990)
Humanoids Of The Deep (1980)
Cockfighter (1974)
Dynamite Women a.k.a. The Great Texas Dynamite Chase...
- 4/7/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
By Tim McGlynn
Never trust a man who says, “Trust me.”
With those sage words of advice, 15 year-old Fannie Belle Fleming leaves her home in the backwoods of West Virginia in 1950 to pursue a career in show business. What happens next is not exactly what the aspiring country singer had in mind.
Blaze (1989 Touchstone/Disney), recently released on Blu-ray by Kino-Lorber, is based upon the true story of the vocalist- turned- stripper who changed her name to Blaze Starr and became scandalously involved with Governor Earl Long of the Great State of Louisiana.
Blaze, played by Lolita Davidovich, is persuaded by sleazy club owner Red Snyder (Robert Wuhl) to try stripping, which he assures her is a form of dancing. “Trust me,” he tells her. After a timid start, Blaze becomes a star on the Burlesque circuit moving from New York to Baltimore and finally landing in New Orleans in...
Never trust a man who says, “Trust me.”
With those sage words of advice, 15 year-old Fannie Belle Fleming leaves her home in the backwoods of West Virginia in 1950 to pursue a career in show business. What happens next is not exactly what the aspiring country singer had in mind.
Blaze (1989 Touchstone/Disney), recently released on Blu-ray by Kino-Lorber, is based upon the true story of the vocalist- turned- stripper who changed her name to Blaze Starr and became scandalously involved with Governor Earl Long of the Great State of Louisiana.
Blaze, played by Lolita Davidovich, is persuaded by sleazy club owner Red Snyder (Robert Wuhl) to try stripping, which he assures her is a form of dancing. “Trust me,” he tells her. After a timid start, Blaze becomes a star on the Burlesque circuit moving from New York to Baltimore and finally landing in New Orleans in...
- 10/8/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
It’s hard to know much exaggeration is used in movies about crazy Suth’un politics, when some of the serious movies resemble Julius Caesar with mint juleps. This true story is about an old-school populist Louisiana governor who falls for a nationally-known stripper, the famous Blaze Starr, and is told from the stripper’s Pov. Paul Newman is at his late-career best, and Lolita Davidovich lights up the screen. The governor can get away with most anything except what he wants to do most — pass some color-blind laws about hiring and voting.
Blaze
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1989 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 120 min. / Street Date April 6, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain, Richard Jenkins, Jeffrey DeMunn, Robert Wuhl, Garland Bunting, Brandon Smith.
Cinematography: Haskell Wexler
Film Editor: Robert Leighton
Original Music: Bennie Wallace
From the book Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey...
Blaze
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1989 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 120 min. / Street Date April 6, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain, Richard Jenkins, Jeffrey DeMunn, Robert Wuhl, Garland Bunting, Brandon Smith.
Cinematography: Haskell Wexler
Film Editor: Robert Leighton
Original Music: Bennie Wallace
From the book Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey...
- 4/21/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“You like naked ladies huh? “ So I was asked by Hiroko Politz, a good friend of mine and a fellow Sgi member and Buddhist. I was telling Hiroko about my recreational time at Paradise Lakes and Lake Como, two of the many nudist resorts north of the Tampa, Florida area. This was in the 1990s and yes, one of the reasons I moved to Florida was to visit these nudist resorts. Because, to be truthful, yes I do like naked ladies. Ladies in general are my favorite people, undressed even more so.
Raised in a church going family I had a Mother was insisted the human body was never to be seen. Accordingly she burned a good many magazines featuring naked ladies. Not just mine but my three older brothers before me. Likely a good many of those magazines might be worth money now.
Being a typical American male, naturally...
Raised in a church going family I had a Mother was insisted the human body was never to be seen. Accordingly she burned a good many magazines featuring naked ladies. Not just mine but my three older brothers before me. Likely a good many of those magazines might be worth money now.
Being a typical American male, naturally...
- 2/20/2017
- by Sam Moffitt
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Joe Kennedy Sr. is remembered for many things, but perhaps the most scandalous is his infidelity. In a new biography of John F. Kennedy's sister Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth, author Paula Byrne discusses the sexual dynamics of the Kennedy family - which often included philandering males and sexually repressed women, like Kick. Joe was notorious for frequently cheating on his wife, Rose, and it turns out, didn't have much of a filter suggestive comments, either - even when it came to his daughter Kick's friends. As a child,...
- 7/5/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
Joe Kennedy Sr. is remembered for many things, but perhaps the most scandalous is his infidelity. In a new biography of John F. Kennedy's sister Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth, author Paula Byrne discusses the sexual dynamics of the Kennedy family - which often included philandering males and sexually repressed women, like Kick. Joe was notorious for frequently cheating on his wife, Rose, and it turns out, didn't have much of a filter suggestive comments, either - even when it came to his daughter Kick's friends. As a child,...
- 7/5/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
Review by Sam Moffitt
I love strippers! Always have and always will. Having said that I have never been to a real burlesque show. Oh, I’ve been to tittie bars, sure, tittie bars, absolutely! Four years in the Navy and having been a bachelor all my life (I am engaged to a wonderful woman so cut me some slack here) I’ve been to plenty of bars where topless dancers do their shimmy and shake and hang from the pole and all that. But that isn’t really burlesque.
I can remember growing up in St. Louis in the 60s and 70s and looking at ads in the Globe Democrat and Post Dispatch for the Grand Burlesque downtown (was it on Washington?) and the Stardust Burlesque on DeBaliviere. How I wanted to go to those theaters, how I wanted to see Evelyn West and her $20,000 (was that the dollar amount?...
I love strippers! Always have and always will. Having said that I have never been to a real burlesque show. Oh, I’ve been to tittie bars, sure, tittie bars, absolutely! Four years in the Navy and having been a bachelor all my life (I am engaged to a wonderful woman so cut me some slack here) I’ve been to plenty of bars where topless dancers do their shimmy and shake and hang from the pole and all that. But that isn’t really burlesque.
I can remember growing up in St. Louis in the 60s and 70s and looking at ads in the Globe Democrat and Post Dispatch for the Grand Burlesque downtown (was it on Washington?) and the Stardust Burlesque on DeBaliviere. How I wanted to go to those theaters, how I wanted to see Evelyn West and her $20,000 (was that the dollar amount?...
- 9/16/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" piece is inspired by the Will Ferrell-Zach Galifianakis political comedy The Campaign.]
Paul Newman struts through Blaze with disheveled hair and a crazed glint in his eye, looking like a man who's just awakened from a nap still half-drunk. Booze, however, isn't the problem for Newman's Earl Long, the notorious 1950s governor of Louisiana; accusations about insanity are, courtesy of his staunch belief in voting legislation aimed at helping African-Americans, as well as his fondness for carousing with the ladies of New Orleans' hot night spots. "Looks like a fine night for prowling around," opines Long as he exits his car in front of the ShowBar, and it turns out he's right, as that particular evening brings him into contact with Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovich), a busty redheaded beauty who entrances Long from the moment go. As the intro of Ron Shelton's film (based on Starr's memoir) lays out with hokey conventionality, Starr is a country girl whose...
[This week's "Retro Active" piece is inspired by the Will Ferrell-Zach Galifianakis political comedy The Campaign.]
Paul Newman struts through Blaze with disheveled hair and a crazed glint in his eye, looking like a man who's just awakened from a nap still half-drunk. Booze, however, isn't the problem for Newman's Earl Long, the notorious 1950s governor of Louisiana; accusations about insanity are, courtesy of his staunch belief in voting legislation aimed at helping African-Americans, as well as his fondness for carousing with the ladies of New Orleans' hot night spots. "Looks like a fine night for prowling around," opines Long as he exits his car in front of the ShowBar, and it turns out he's right, as that particular evening brings him into contact with Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovich), a busty redheaded beauty who entrances Long from the moment go. As the intro of Ron Shelton's film (based on Starr's memoir) lays out with hokey conventionality, Starr is a country girl whose...
- 8/14/2012
- GreenCine Daily
DVD Playhouse—April 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood’s spiritual thriller follows a trio of characters whose seemingly disparate paths converge: Matt Damon as a blue collar Joe who tries to fight against his psychic powers that see “the other side,” Cecile de France as a journalist who somehow survives the tsunami that crushed Indonesia, and a London schoolboy (Frankie and George McLaren) who seeks answers after losing his twin brother. Like all of Eastwood’s films, the narrative construction is tight as a drum, with solid work by all involved. That said, “solid” would have to be the operative word to describe the proceedings here, as well as “unremarkable” and “uninvolving” on an emotional level. Perhaps we expect too much when we see Clint’s name on a film these days, but that’s the flip side of being one of the best. Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.
By
Allen Gardner
Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood’s spiritual thriller follows a trio of characters whose seemingly disparate paths converge: Matt Damon as a blue collar Joe who tries to fight against his psychic powers that see “the other side,” Cecile de France as a journalist who somehow survives the tsunami that crushed Indonesia, and a London schoolboy (Frankie and George McLaren) who seeks answers after losing his twin brother. Like all of Eastwood’s films, the narrative construction is tight as a drum, with solid work by all involved. That said, “solid” would have to be the operative word to describe the proceedings here, as well as “unremarkable” and “uninvolving” on an emotional level. Perhaps we expect too much when we see Clint’s name on a film these days, but that’s the flip side of being one of the best. Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.
- 4/6/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
DVD Playhouse—April 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood’s spiritual thriller follows a trio of characters whose seemingly disparate paths converge: Matt Damon as a blue collar Joe who tries to fight against his psychic powers that see “the other side,” Cecile de France as a journalist who somehow survives the tsunami that crushed Indonesia, and a London schoolboy (Frankie and George McLaren) who seeks answers after losing his twin brother. Like all of Eastwood’s films, the narrative construction is tight as a drum, with solid work by all involved. That said, “solid” would have to be the operative word to describe the proceedings here, as well as “unremarkable” and “uninvolving” on an emotional level. Perhaps we expect too much when we see Clint’s name on a film these days, but that’s the flip side of being one of the best. Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.
By
Allen Gardner
Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood’s spiritual thriller follows a trio of characters whose seemingly disparate paths converge: Matt Damon as a blue collar Joe who tries to fight against his psychic powers that see “the other side,” Cecile de France as a journalist who somehow survives the tsunami that crushed Indonesia, and a London schoolboy (Frankie and George McLaren) who seeks answers after losing his twin brother. Like all of Eastwood’s films, the narrative construction is tight as a drum, with solid work by all involved. That said, “solid” would have to be the operative word to describe the proceedings here, as well as “unremarkable” and “uninvolving” on an emotional level. Perhaps we expect too much when we see Clint’s name on a film these days, but that’s the flip side of being one of the best. Blu-ray/DVD combo pack.
- 4/6/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Exclusive: Showtime has picked up the documentary Behind the Burly Q, from first-time filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis, which is executive produced by her husband, Robert Zemeckis. Behind the Burly Q, which chronicles the art of burlesque's golden age through the stories of the performers who lived it, will debut on Showtime on March 31. Featured in the docu are interviews with Alan Alda, whose father was a straight man at burlesque performances, journalist Nat Bodian, who wrote about the shows in the 1930s, Lorraine Lee, who danced for the likes of Bonnie & Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd, Abbott & Costello, Tempest Storm, who still performs today, and the notorious Blaze Starr. Below is a trailer:...
- 2/8/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
In 2008, a performer named Runaround Sue told me she made a call to 150 burlesque artists in NYC and got Jonny Porkpie, Legs Malone, and Nasty Canasta to join her for a raunchy romp: tassels spinning from every body part, stripping down past the bikini line, peek-a-boo fan dancing, and serious body contorting illustrating that sound business advice from Gypsy: "You Gotta Have a Gimmick." Remember, Mama Rose resisted the degradation of her child vaudeville act into burlesque. Now, a new documentary directed by Leslie Zemeckis, Behind the Burly Q, reveals a history of this corner of show business. Gypsy Rose Lee gets a moment or two in this film, noted for her oratory skill, but the film's real stars are the flaming red-head Tempest Storm, the demure Blaze Starr, Kitty West who was in her heyday Evangeline the...
- 4/24/2010
- by Regina Weinreich
- Huffington Post
Getty Images Actress Sharon Stone attends a special screening of “Behind the Burly Q” in New York City.
It’s been a while since Sharon Stone’s ice-pick-wielding turn on the big screen, but it’s still strange to hear about the icy-cool actress playing on the other side of the law. Stone’s four-episode arc on “Law & Order: Svu,” in which she plays an assistant district attorney and former cop, begins April 28.
“I went out on ride-arounds with individual women policemen who are now riding alone in cars, and their partner is alone in another car, out in some of the more difficult and dangerous communities in Los Angeles,” said Stone of her in-the-field research for the show.
She was at the Celeste Bartos Theater at the Museum of Modern Art last night, introducing a special screening of Leslie Zemeckis’ new burlesque documentary, “Behind the Burly Q.” “And then...
It’s been a while since Sharon Stone’s ice-pick-wielding turn on the big screen, but it’s still strange to hear about the icy-cool actress playing on the other side of the law. Stone’s four-episode arc on “Law & Order: Svu,” in which she plays an assistant district attorney and former cop, begins April 28.
“I went out on ride-arounds with individual women policemen who are now riding alone in cars, and their partner is alone in another car, out in some of the more difficult and dangerous communities in Los Angeles,” said Stone of her in-the-field research for the show.
She was at the Celeste Bartos Theater at the Museum of Modern Art last night, introducing a special screening of Leslie Zemeckis’ new burlesque documentary, “Behind the Burly Q.” “And then...
- 4/20/2010
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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