File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1994/aa_4Oct.94, message 12


Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 16:26:38 -0700 (MST)
From: Brian Evenson <EVENSONB-AT-jkhbhrc.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: bootleg of suppressed movie
To: avant-garde-AT-world.std.com


I saw the movie at the Park City Film Festival when it first came 
out.  It's well worth watching--both funny and a piercing critique of 
how the images of male and female beauty that we have can have a 
devestating effect on us. I know that the movie has had several 
clandestine showings since having been legally supressed.  If I were 
you, I might take a look at some of the film festivals that have 
confidential screenings where they show movies that legally speaking 
should not be shown.  I've never seen it on video, but wouldn't be 
surprised if copies of it existed.

Brian Evenson
> 
> 
> I received the following message in my email recently.
> 
> | I wish I had seen _Superstar_, the Karen Carpenter
> | biographical movie done with Barbie doll (but not a joke --
> | one review said, in essence, "When you're watching a bunch
> | of Barbie dolls on screen and you're sitting there with
> | tears running down your face, you know you've really seen
> | something."), before Richard Carpenter had it legally
> | surpressed.  That was the first film by the filmmaker
> | whose second film _Poison_, a reworking of some Genet plays,
> | got the right-wing fundies all a-twitter a couple years ago.
> 
> Obviously it is urgently necessary for me to find this movie,
> and I am sure, if it was in circulation for a year or two,
> there are bootleg videos of it around.  Does anyone know
> know of one?  
> 
> 
> ><  Gordon Fitch  ><  gcf-AT-panix.com  ><
> 

   

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