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This unlikely partnership between the modern American minimalist and the chain-smoking Gallic dandy has resulted in 1993's Orphee, 1994's La Belle et la Bete and now Les Enfants Terribles, each based on a film of the same name by Cocteau. Distinguished not only by Glass's familiar...
* Insignia items, for one, which are quite easily hawked to tourists with a psycho-erotic attraction to Harvard. Still, the Coop doesn't turn a profit. Don't you think J. August and the Harvard Shop might be willing to pick up the slack as replacement retailers for those products...
The genres: action, horror and erotic thriller. The icons: muscular folks like Michael Dudikoff and Cynthia Rothrock, curvy sirens like Shannon Whirry and Monique Gabrielle. The plot: some nasty person is spying on and terrorizing some pretty person. The basic props: knives, candles, swimming pools, satin sheets. And everywhere bosoms...
Many DTV veterans are frustrated. "The market has gotten tougher and tougher," says superhack Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Bad Girls from Mars), who last week started directing his sixth film this year. "Nowadays, you have to do more for less money to make less money. Genres like vampire...
The medium used to be a refuge or a launching pad. As Maitland McDonagh writes in her excellent book Filmmaking on the Fringe, "Direct-to-video movies are made by people who once made--or, in the case of the younger generation, would have made--theatrical features." But that thrill...