HeadPress 27 - Softcover

Nicanor Loreti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190048658X ISBN 13: 9781900486583

Publisher: Headpress, 2008

Synopsis

Ted Raimi has appeared in Spider-Man 1 and 2. His former babysitter is Bruce Campbell. Bill McKinney was a redneck in Deliverance. Anthony Taylor produced Incubus, the only horror film spoken in Esperanto. David Carradine was Kwai Chang Caine before Kill Bill. Before creating Replicants in Blade Runner, William Sanderson was a psycho-bigot in Fight for your Life, "easily the most racist film ever made," according to one review.

Cult People contains wildly entertaining interviews with the most influential actors, directors, and producers in the movie industry today-mad, bad, dangerous, and cool cult people.

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About the Author

Nicanor Loreti is a journalist and filmmaker from Argentina. He works for the local movie magazine La Cosa, and is also contributing writer for Fangoria, Shock Cinema and Psychotronic Video. His most recent short film, El Kuervo, was produced by James Gunn. He's currently finishing a documentary about Los Natas, the grooviest rock band in the world.

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DAVID CARRADINE Probably everyone has a favourite David Carradine movie. Some people like the Roger Corman production Death Race 2000 the most, others prefer artsy stuff like Bergman's The Serpent's Egg, others Kung fu flicks like Lone Wolf McQuade, but you won't find anybody who hasn't seen him on either the big screen or the TV (probably in the classic series Kung Fu). David is one of many acting brothers (Keith, Robert), all of whom followed the steps of their father, John Carradine. But it was David who became the true American icon. He's worked with some of the world's most influential directors, directed films himself, and has no regrets. Working for Roger Corman taught him everything he had to know about the business, and after that, there was nothing that could beat him. After all these years, he might be that last living legend in Hollywood, the one who didn't sell out, the one who's still in the game and has had ups and downs but has yet to be beaten. David Carradine never gave up and he's still proving his worth in Kill Bill, the two volume film directed by Quentin Tarantino. In Volume 1, you only hear his voice and never see his face. Yet it's enough to light up the screen... In Volume 2, you get to see David in all his glory, and in my humble opinion, that alone makes for a much better film. If you're a fan, I would also recommend the little-seen gem The Monster Hunter (a.k.a. Natural Selection), where he plays an odd FBI agent who can see demons. I did this interview just before Kill Bill opened and was happy to hear back from this guy who is, in his own words, "a fucking legend" - not that I disagree. Oh, my personal favourites are Lone Wolf McQuade and Kill Bill Volume 2, which are yours? What was it like working with Martin Scorsese and Barbara Hershey in Boxcar Bertha (1972)? Well, Barbara and I were in love, and Marty was the new kid in town: fresh, bright, nervous as hell. It was a wonderful shoot. Marty and I got along like blood brothers. We had a lot of laughs. Marty had a hard time staying in control of the picture. He had to fire a couple of cameramen. He couldn't get his way. In the end, though, he got what he wanted. The movie we shot was a better one than what was released after Sam Arkoff´s crowd had messed with it. Mean Streets (1973) was more quintessentially a Scorsese film, but I only had one day on the picture. We had to use Los Angeles for New York, and I could only work on Sunday, as I had started

About this edition

• Publisher: Headpress
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 190048658X
• ISBN 13: 9781900486583
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 100