Word: bartel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FOOTNOTE: *Count 'em (in order of appearance): Andrew Marton, David Cronenberg, Richard Franklin, Landis, Colin Higgins, Daniel Petrie, Jonathan Kaufer, Mazursky, Paul Bartel, Don Siegel, Jim Henson, Jack Arnold, Amy Heckerling, Roger Vadim, Lawrence Kasdan, Jonathan Demme, Carl Gottlieb...
...information in weeks or months would be useless," says Norbert H. Bartel, a research associate in the Harvard College Observatory, who studies supernovae-extremely shortlived phenomena...
Like Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles and Paul Bartel, Dante is an honors graduate of the Roger Corman night school of no-budget film making. Working for slave wages at Gorman's New World Pictures in the mid-'70s, Dante learned how to finesse movies on a frayed shoestring. He and Co-Director Allan Arkush shot their first film, Hollywood Boulevard, for a niggardly $60,000 in 1976. Dante's solo directorial debut, the 1978 Piranha, was made for slightly in excess of $1 million. In this fleet-wilted Jaws parody one could...
More tangible assets may be imminent. Bartel's Eating Raoul, a black-and-blue comedy with a ferocious moral sense, is being distributed by real people at 20th Century-Fox after its engagement last weekend at the New York Film Festival and seems sure to recoup its tiny budget quickly, provided by Bartel's parents and friends. The film has some easy and some earned laughs, half a dozen murders and, for those who can't wait for Porky's 2, the requisite Nude Dancing at a Wild Party scene. This devious comic contraption...
Paced at a Wolfman's shamble and photographed in colors as cheerful and sexless as the Blands, Eating Raoul could be read as Bartel's comic revenge on Hollywood: like his protagonist, he profits by axing the System. But perhaps this is too heavy a weight for 87 minutes of soufflé-light surrealism to support. The film is best seen as a canny survivor's notice of current determination and future availability. It would be pleasant to think that what Bartel did for love could be redeemed for money, and a chance next time to make...