CineNiche

July 19, 2021 – August 1, 2021 • Phantom Of The Paradise • Liquid Sky • Curse of Frankenstein • Dracula A.D. 1972 • Return To Horror High • Rambo: First Blood • Cobra • Demolition Man • Stripped To Kill • Night Drive • Scary Movie 3 • Blade Runner 2049 • Space Jam • Blow Out • Born For Hell • Killer’s Delight • Looker • Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage • The Green Knight • As a writer with bouts of depression, procrastination, and perfectionism, of course I’ve been working on a book for what feels like forever. I did an ungodly amount of research about Cannon films and Orion films. The characters in my book were curating battling film festivals. One festival was celebrating Cannon and watching New Years Evil, Lifeforce, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Highlander, Missing In Action, and Masters Of The Universe . The other festival celebrated Orion films and the characters watched Silence of the Lambs, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Caddyshack, First Blood...

Prior to Milos Forman's groundbreaking adaptation of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST , he made a wonderfully radical film called TAKING OFF which featured extreme hippy overtones. This film has never received a wide DVD release and thus is holy grail to find. I viewed a VHS of it recently and it still lives up to what it was in 1971. The basic plot is simple: a married couple Lynn and Larry Tyne cope with their runaway daughter. What makes this so interesting is how they cope. The Tynes' have decided that their daughter shouldn't be the only one having fun and seize the opportunity to relinquish their parenting duties to dance, drink, smoke pot, gamble, and be merry. Among the twenty films in Forman's repartee, the Czech born director has achieved international acclaim with only a select few. First with FIREMAN'S BALL (1967), then ONE FLEW... (1975), AMADEUS (1984), and finally MAN ON THE MOON (1999). Each one with its own independent theme and feel. ...