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* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).
* White asterisk:
expanded format.
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Blue asterisk: not mine.
No asterisk: it probably
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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The New York Ripper
(1982)
Lo Squartatore di New York is a
Lucio Fulci giallo which people remember for two things: (1) the killer
quacks like a duck; (2) a woman's nipple is sliced in
half with a razor blade.
Fulci puts us on notice from the opening credits, which show a man
playing fetch with his dog near the Brooklyn Bridge. The dog retrieves
a severed hand from the bushes. Later, a girl (Cinzia de Ponti) is
riding her bicycle in the lower west side. She runs into a red VW, and
the owner is quite rude. She boards the Staten Island Ferry, sees the
Volkswagen and decides to leave a message for the jerk on the inside
of his windshield. Someone catches her there, terrifies her, and she
tries to get out the passenger door, but it is too close to the wall.
The killer slices and dices her. Cut to the morgue, where we see her
with her incisions stitched up. The salty old coroner comments that
"the killer used a blade. He stuck it up her joy trail and slit her
wide open." The coroner then says it is the same killer that did the
model a few weeks before -- the one whose hand was discovered in the
opening scene.
The detective in charge returns to his office to find the chief of
police there, played by Fulci himself. The chief tells him to give everyone
the impression that the department is on top of it, and not to jump to
any conclusions about it being a serial killer. The detective
hires a psychology professor to assist. The killer continues to target attractive
women, and taunts the detective with his phone calls, where he always
quacks like a duck.
This is an accessible giallo that will keep you guessing to the
end, and Fulci masterfully builds suspense in several scenes.
I re-did this project from a
Danish DVD, which is the most complete
version to date. The excellent transfer is all-region, and contains an English sound
track, as well as subtitles for all of the Scandinavian languages. The
disc is loaded with special features.
- H. Ross interview with English Subtitles 25 minutes
- Francesco de Massi forever interview, with English subtitles 51
minutes
- Ti Recordi di L. Fulci (pt 2) 43 minutes (People talk about Fulci).
English subtitles
- Trailers for for the films Torso and Puzzle
- Slide show of publicity material from several countries.
IMDb 6.0
This is a C+. Top of the giallo line, full-featured DVD. Highly
recommended for genre buffs.
This film has more nudity than is the norm for a Lucio Fulci film,
including breasts from an unknown, full frontal and rear from Zora
Kerova, Daniela Doria and Alexandra Delli Colli, and breasts from
Cinzia de Ponti.
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Notes and collages
"Charmed"
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Español
Aprovechando el estreno en dvd de la última película de Marta Larralde
("Hotel Tívoli"), presento su biografía y las capturas de la otra película
en que se ha desnudado:
Biografía: Marta Larralde es una joven actriz gallega nacida en Vigo
(Galicia), el 22 de abril de 1981.
Aunque se formó como realizadora con un Ciclo Superior de Realización
en la Escuela de Imagen y Sonido de Vigo, y empezó trabajando detrás de la
cámara como guionista, directora y ayudante de dirección, se sintió
atraída por la interpretación y se ha convertido en una de las actrices
gallegas de mayor proyección tras ser elegida de forma casual en 2001 para
protagonizar el largometraje Lena, de Gonzalo Tapia. Desde entonces ha
participado en varias películas, destacando León y Olvido y su breve
aparición en Mar Adentro así como un papel fijo en la última temporada de
la famosa serie española de televisión Hospital Central.
* "Hotel Tívoli" (2006): Siguiendo el itinerario de un mechero que va
siendo perdido por sus sucesivos dueños en diferentes lugares del mundo,
se construye una "historia de historias". El denominador común de todas
ellas son las relaciones de pareja y la aparición de sorprendentes
persnajes portadores de relatos insólitos. Como curiosidad esta película
fue rodada en 6 idiomas: español (60%), danés, inglés, alemán, euskera y
catalán.
* "León y Olvido" (2004): León y Olvido son dos hermanos mellizos -él
con síndrome Down- huérfanos desde hace cinco años y que como única
herencia han tenido el alquiler de la vieja casa en la que viven y un
coche. La relación entre ellos es contradictoria, por un lado les une un
gran cariño, por otro disputan sin tregua. Olvido quiere que León tome sus
propias decisiones, colabore en casa y aprenda a valerse por sí mismo,
pero León sólo desea sentirse protegido y atendido por su hermana. Olvido
ha tenido que dejar sus estudios y ponerse a trabajar; León apenas acepta
algunas pequeñas cuotas de responsabilidad en los asuntos de la casa. Y
las relaciones de ambos con el mundo exterior no siempre son gratificantes.
La desesperación de Olvido va en aumento y la tenacidad de León será
continuamente puesta a prueba, por lo que ambos vivirán situaciones muy
extremas. Situaciones que desafían el amor que se profesan y el marco
moral en el que se mueven.
English
Following up on the DVD release of Marta Larralde's latest
film, Hotel Tivoli, here's her biography to accompany captures from this
film and the only other film in which she showed any flesh.
Marta Larralde is a young Galician actress born April 22,
1981 in Vigo. Although she was trained as a director at the Vigo Academy of Image
and Sound, and began working behind the camera as a screenwriter,
director and assistant director, she was attracted to performing and has
become one of the highest-profile Galician actresses after having been
chosen to play a role in Gonzalo Tapia's Lena. Since then she has acted
in several films, highlighted by Leon and Olvido and a brief appearance
in Mar Adentro, as well as a recurring role in the last season of the
famous Spanish television series Central Hospital.
* "Hotel Tivoli" follows the route of a cigarette lighter that will
be lost by its successive owners in different parts of the world. This
film was shot in six languages: Castillian (60%), Danish, English,
German, Basque and Catalan.
* "Leon and Olvido" are male/female twins. Leon has Down's Syndrome.
They have been orphans for five years, with nothing but an old house and
a car. The relationship between them is contradictory. On the one hand
they are united by great affection, on the other they quibble endlessly.
Olvido wants Leon to make his own decisions, work around the house and
learn to fend for himself, but Leon just want to feel protected and
cared for by his sister. Olvido has had to leave school to go to work;
Leon barely accepts some small responsibilities around the house. The
relations of both to the outside world are not always smooth.
Hotel Tivoli
(2006)
Leon and Olvido
(2004)
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Latin Lover
More from the naughty Peruvian soap
opera
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The Comedy Wire
Comments in yellow...
In news from Oslo, Al Gore and the UN panel on climate change were awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize, which comes with a $1.5 million cash prize. The prize
immediately caused Gore boosters to start raising money and spending tens of
thousands of dollars on ads urging him to run for president, but Gore hasn't
shown any interest in taking on Hillary Clinton.
* Remind me again. Why are Norwegians against warming?
Caren Ann Burke of Seymour, Wisconsin, apparently gave up her attempt to change
her name to "Bin Laden." A judge dismissed her petition when she failed to
finish the paperwork or attend the hearing. She had listed her reason for
changing her name to Bin Laden as "divorce from Rory S. Burke."
* She now realizes how silly that whole idea was, and has
changed her name to "Caren Ann Unabomber."
On this day in 1860, eleven-year-old Grace Bedell wrote a letter to
presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting that he would look better if
he had a beard.
* Sen. Larry Craig would agree that a good beard can come in handy for a
politician.
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