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Quixote by Bruce Baillie. Finished most likely in 1965, but sources place year range 1964-1967. In Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney says the film was “revised” in 1967; while in his “Movie Journal” column, Jonas Mekas wrote that the “final version” of Quixote was screened in New York City in 1968. An article in the Film Culture triple issue 67-68-69 also makes the claims that the film was “finished” (year not given), then revised in 1967; with the final version finally reaching NYC in 1968.

The version of Quixote embedded above comes via Bruce Baillie‘s own YouTube account; and, according to some new end credits, is a digital remastering of the original.

In the book Canyon Cinema, author Scott MacDonald reprints a letter written by Baillie published in the May 1965 issue of Canyon Cinema’s Cinemanews newsletter in which Baillie discusses the filming of Quixote. He writes about traveling through Nevada; Montana; Alberta,...

Pulp Fiction has become so canonized as a modern classic, it's easy to forget how transgressive it was on its release twenty years ago. But when Quentin Tarantino's film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1994, it thrilled and shocked the audience in equal measures.

'Pulp Fiction,' A to Z

No scene upended more expectations than the pawn shop sequence (Spoiler Alert — if you haven't ever seen the movie, this is the moment when you should stop reading and go do that. Really! It's streaming on Netflix!

Review by Dane Marti

This film rocked my Rock and Roll World. How’s that for an obnoxious way to open a serious film review? I don’t care if I sound juvenile. As I write this, I am listening to Led Zeppelin, to be followed by The Stooges first album.

Anyway, this movie put me in a damn good mood. Of course, having spent years in the local music scene, hanging out with friends dedicated to the lovely pursuit of vinyl acquisition, I was definitely interested in the film, an obsessive and positive interest that would compel many of my generation to enjoy the movie. I collect old records, and I know this unique and obsessive world. Fuzz Track City rings true.

The main character – a Detective named Murphy Dunn (seems stuck in the past. Trapped in a lava light – .no, trapped in a bad 70′s cop show. He...

Year: 2010

Directors: Yorgos Noussias

Writers: Claudio Bolivar, Christos Houliaras

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: projectcyclops

Rating: 7 out of 10

Set just minutes after the ending of the first installment, ‘To Kako: Evil’; To Kako - Evil in the Time of Heroes is a Greek zombie movie directed by Yorgos Noussias, and it’s completely insane. It begins with a group of warriors in ancient Greece, sitting around a camp fire telling jokes (specifically Mrs. Wallace’s ‘Ketchup’ joke from Pulp Fiction – first of about a dozen Tarantino references) before being attacked by bloody zombies. Spin forward two thousand years and we’re in modern Athens and the same thing is going on. Our heroes from the first film are still fleeing the zombie hordes and seeking shelter at the cook’s house, along with a rag tag bunch of survivors including someone we had been led to believe had died in the first film.

DVD Review

Notorious

Directed by: George Tillman, Jr.

Cast: Jamal Woolard, Derek Luke, Angela Bassett

Running Time: Theatrical Version- 2 hrs, 3 mins, Director’s Cut - 2 hrs 9 mins

Rating: R

Due out: April 21st

Plot: The life of rapper Christopher Wallace (Jamal Woolard), famously known as Biggie Smalls, a.k.a The Notorious B.I.G.

Who’s It For? This movie was made for all, but it cares most about pleasing the fans. Outsiders might fall behind at the introduction of characters or events that are skirted through - that or become even more aware of the film’s typicalness.

Movie: Notorious hip-hops from one event to the next, all with the overall feel of a movie that is birthed by the ground of which it dies (Vh1). Key moments of Biggie’s life seem to be told with cheesy imagination - not authenticity. The performances are decent despite originating...

During his short, public life, most people only knew one side of the Notorious B.I.G.-- the showboating, glammed-up rapper, who never smiled behind his big sunglasses and led a raucous, all-too-dangerous life. But there was another man there, a doting father and son, whom his mother Voletta Wallace evoked for the cast and crew of the upcoming Notorious. The woman who buried her son when he was just 24 was on the set nearly every day, helping director George Tillman, actor Jamal Woolard (who played her son) and especially Angela Bassett, who played Mrs. Wallace, capture the essence of one of rap's most influential figures. Wallace joined Bassett for interviews last month to promote the movie, which she had seen for the first time the night before. She spoke forcefully but tenderly about her late son, and wasn't afraid to mention the parts of his life that show ...