08-20-2006, 08:08 AM
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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.
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.
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