The American Astronaut

[El Dingo]

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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.

[thatguy]

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

[Drunk Monk]

your forum fu has improved.

[thatguy]

Correction: James Caan





--tg