TV is a sales treatment to Fox TV network for a new Television series to be written by Saturday Night Live's Michael O'Donoghue and directed by Mr. Bill's creator Walter Williams. If you are a fan of 1970's SNL, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Airplane type humor, you will like this a lot. The 13 minute pilot is composed of very short and very rapidly paced Mad magazine like parodies of TV shows, TV ads & PSA's, news items, and horror movies. Some of the show seems dated but if you are a fan you will enjoy this. (Now available for viewing at You Tube from the account of Walter Williams.) Stop here if you want to avoid spoilers. Here are some examples of the type of comedy found in TV. Coma is a cop show starring a comatose detective. My favorite is the Time-Life book series "Meaningless Events & Insignificant Events." Least favorite is another fake ad for Old Goat Urine Beer. Its OK if you do not like one bit, the pace is so quick you will see a few skits that will make you smile, maybe even laugh out loud. I did.
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T.V.
(1992 TV Movie)
For fans of 70's era SNL and Kentucky Fried Movie
15 May 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Helga, la louve de Stilberg
(1978)
yet another Ilsa rip off
15 June 2011
Not much to say about this low budget "Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS" rip-off. the women are pretty and seriously degraded just like in Ilsa. If you are familiar with the Women In Prison genre, there are no surprises here. The plot follows the same formula. The inmates suffer violence in various stages of undressed humiliation.
Only 2 things to note:
1. for some reason, there is no Nazi regalia like in Ilsa, but new and original fascist-type uniforms for the guards. I guess the film makers had some sort of moral qualms about using historically genuine authoritarian imagery, yet, they had no problems inflicting simulated torture on nude women.
2. The lead Malisa Longo is no Dyanne Thorne. Marisa Longo is a softer beauty with less charisma than the hardened queen of WIP films, Dyanne Thorne. However, Malisa Longo was in many more films than Thorne, including other WIP films, like Salon Kitty and Captive Women 4. Longo also worked several times with soft core auteur Tinto Brass.
If you have seen all the Ilsa movies and the rest of the more famous WIP and Nazi dominatrix films, you won't go too far wrong with Helga - She Wolf of Stilberg.
Only 2 things to note:
1. for some reason, there is no Nazi regalia like in Ilsa, but new and original fascist-type uniforms for the guards. I guess the film makers had some sort of moral qualms about using historically genuine authoritarian imagery, yet, they had no problems inflicting simulated torture on nude women.
2. The lead Malisa Longo is no Dyanne Thorne. Marisa Longo is a softer beauty with less charisma than the hardened queen of WIP films, Dyanne Thorne. However, Malisa Longo was in many more films than Thorne, including other WIP films, like Salon Kitty and Captive Women 4. Longo also worked several times with soft core auteur Tinto Brass.
If you have seen all the Ilsa movies and the rest of the more famous WIP and Nazi dominatrix films, you won't go too far wrong with Helga - She Wolf of Stilberg.
Stations
(1982 TV Movie)
experimental television
23 May 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Robert Wilson's Stations are beautiful experiments in silent narrative. The plots follow a child's encounter with other worldly things. Made in the early 80s, these short TV episodes use video back drops behind the characters. No dialog is heard. However, the music is very up front. Stations feels like a music video for a contemporary science fiction silent movie. One episode is simply a young boy opening a door. He peers into the door-way which looks into another dimension made up of video imagery. The short ends with the room the child and his father are in fills with sand. For fans of the latest special effects, the technology will seem dated, but the use of older video and computer visuals still works for me. If you can picture an early 80s MTV video meets french visual science fiction, like Metal Hurlant, with a child like sense of wonder. Stations is recommended for fans of surreal films. I was lucky enough to have seen these through USA's Night Flight television bloc many years ago. Anyone encountering these today will be very fortunate to see these forgotten gems.
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