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The American Astronaut - El Dingo - 08-20-2006 IMDB link: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243759/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243759/</a><!-- m --> Do you like quirky, no-budget, black and white, rock-and-roll space operas? Then have I got the film for you! In the tradition of 'El Mariachi', 'Six String Samurai', 'The Forbidden Zone' and 'Eraserhead' I bring you 'The American Astronaut'. Describing this film is fairly difficult. I can tell you it's in black and white, it features the music of 'The Billy Nayer Show' and revolves around the adventures of a drifter spaceman. It has seedy bars, singing rednecks, an evil scientist, a 16 year old boy in a Flash Gordon outfit and a Gimp. And by Gimp I mean a 'Pulp Fiction' kind of gimp. There is lots of singing and dancing, however, the songs and dances are bizarre and twisted. It's deliberately slow-paced to let the viewer savor the weirdness, but I was never bored. It was produced by Robert Lurie, and the film has a John Lurie feel to it but the biography on IMDB doesn't mention any relation. El Dingo says checck it out. Re: The American Astronaut - thatguy - 10-24-2009 I was going to post a review and I thought I'd better check to see if there was one already and here it is. I think this was posted well before I showed up here. I saw a clip from this movie at a bar the other day. It looked really odd, like Eraserhead or something. I couldn't figure out what it was. The lead looked a bit like James Kahn, but it was a b/w retro space movie with singing and dancing (if you can call it that...let's just call it choreographed scenes). I asked about it and tracked it down. Watched it tonight. ED's review pretty much sums it up: hard to explain. Better to just watch it. --tg nice ttt, tg - Drunk Monk - 10-25-2009 your forum fu has improved. Re: The American Astronaut - thatguy - 10-25-2009 Correction: James Caan --tg