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I'll have to agree with James Broder 100%, this is neither a serial killer film nor a horror flick, it's a political thriller, guys, and one that's actually got brains, that's why those who expect something else will be utterly disappointed. Ken Foree is awesome in this film, the screenplay, which he co-wrote, is superb and very smart and subversive. For anyone with a truly open and thinking mind this is a film I highly recommend. I saw it at the Ulli Lommel retrospective last year in December in Munich, Germany, where I spent Xmas vacation. Lommel was there in person and introduced the film and did a Q&A after the screening. I am beginning to understand the controversies surrounding this extraordinary director, who has worked with German genius Rainer Werner Fassbinder for ten years before joining forces with Andy Warhol in the late 70s. DC SNIPER is well made, a political docu-drama and I enjoyed every minute of it.

This late 70s pop flick has Warhol written all over it. Directed by his protégé Ulli Lommel, who later went on to become the infant terrible of Hollywood, after he spent almost ten years making twenty-one films with his former mentor and friend Rainer Werner Fassbinder, COCAINE COWBOYS rocks. The music is super cool, the story, featuring Hollywood legend jack Palance as controversial manager of a cocaine smuggling rock band, zips along like a comic strip of the 70s. Elliot Goldenthal, who later scored an Academny Award for his music for FRIDA, created an inspired score. The camera work by Jochen Breitenstein is flawless and reminds me of the films Peter Fonda made, such as EASY RIDER, which seems like a forerunner to COCAINE COWBOYS. Totally underrated so far, this film deserves a brand new transfer from the original 35mm negative to an HD master, so that the whole world may enjoy this gem. Warhol was right: Ulli Lommel has become a highly fought over director, with countless enemies and many more hard core fans. Yes, Warhol was right, when he picked Lommel in the late 70s as his soup du jour, his new pet artist.

I'll have to agree with Mary Bogens, who reviewed this film: It's a masterpiece. Fassbinder (who produced and starred in the film) and Michael Ballhaus (the Director of Photography of great films such as Coppola's Dracula and Scorcese's LAST TEMPTATION )F Christ) have assisted Lommel in making a movie classic, that really needs some serious distribution now and DVDs so anyone who's interested in true magic on the screen will be able to view it. Shot entirely on location in Germany in 1976, six years before the untimely death of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and one year before Ulli Lommel went to America to work with Andy Warhol, this great motion picture team rose to the occasion and came up with an unbelievable inspired film, a film noir about Hitler's obsession with bringing Marlene Dietrich back to Nazi Germany (a plot that fails dismally and hilariously funny. Kurt Raab in the lead role of Adolf Hitler is awesome and in a class by himself.