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Eating Raoul, Paul Bartel's Citizen Kane (he wrote, directed, starred) is coming out on DVD Tuesday! With Voyager's Robert Beltran as the "teenager" Raoul...

Produced after Roger Corman gave him his break directing Deathrace 2000, which I also own and like. In the words of another Bartel film, Cannonball, "Sometimes you just have to put your brain in neutral."

Kane ...

Date: 2004-04-12 09:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goldenstag.livejournal.com
Citizen Kane actually has been out for awhile, with tons of extras. I have it on the shelf.

Corman. Sheesh. Blech ...

Re: Kane ...

Date: 2004-04-12 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madbaker.livejournal.com
Yes, I have it too.

Kane was Orson Welles' opus where he wrote, starred, and directed the film. So I was citing it as a reference.

Paul Bartel's Kane was Eating Raoul, much as Ed Wood's was Glen or Glenda.

(Don't let the Corman connection fool you with Deathrace 2000 - it's surprisingly enjoyable.)

Re: Kane ...

Date: 2004-04-12 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goldenstag.livejournal.com
Ah, sorry. Didn't realize (not enough coffee or something) that this was an analogy. Now I feel a bit silly. <g>

As to Corman, I just have a hard time anymore watching anything of his. I have a movie he did based on an Asimov short story Nightfall, and was apalled. It was so bad it was painful (and I have a decent tolerence level ... at least usually ...). After that, his name makes my spine shudder sometimes.

Date: 2004-04-12 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spiderdust.livejournal.com
I just might have to pick up a copy of it. :)

Date: 2004-04-12 11:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madbaker.livejournal.com
How can you resist a movie with such immortal lines as "I'm the host with the most, and I don't mean to boast, but I'm thick as a post and as warm as toast!"

Date: 2004-04-12 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spiderdust.livejournal.com
I've actually never seen it before! I've just heard [livejournal.com profile] nexushoratio talking about it for years. :)

Corman

Date: 2004-04-12 12:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
I recently watched his "Lair of the white worm" and wondered how he got it past the censors....

Date: 2004-04-12 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] farmount.livejournal.com
I'm getting a smile from the memories of watching that with you and your lady one New Year's Eve long ago... :)

Date: 2004-04-12 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madbaker.livejournal.com
It gives '70s swingers a bad name, not that they need the help!

It also was highly responsible for one of my standard character voices: the smarm.

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