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Destructible Man: February 2009
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Shatter (Monte Hellman/Michael Carreras, 1974). From the first burst to the last blast, SHATTER is an action-adventure movie very much of its time: the mid 1970s -. When studio chiefs transformed into studio chefs. In the way they added the taste of the Orient to nearly every exciting cinematic dish they served. To THE AMSTERDAM KILL. Even seasoned Hollywood cooks like Sydney Pollack, John Frankenheimer and Sam Peckinpah stood side-by-side in the kitchen. Was tapped to direc...
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Destructible Man: Gunman's Walk (Phil Karlson, 1958)
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Gunman's Walk (Phil Karlson, 1958). Thanks to a terse (and perverse) screenplay by Frank S. Nugent (John Ford's THE SEARCHERS, TWO RODE TOGETHER) -. Monumental cinematography courtesy of the reliably visionary, poetic eye of Charles Lawton, Jr. (TWO RODE TOGETHER, Budd Boettecher's RIDE LONESOME) -. And director Phil Karlson's unfettered metacinematical. Faith in the thematic complexities of dummy destruction -. GUNMAN'S WALK is another watermark in Karlson's. As both men pursue th...
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Destructible Man: March 2008
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Friday, March 21, 2008. Non si sevizia un paperino/Don't Torture The Duckling (Lucio Fulci, 1972). Rural Italy's cultural morass -. Of ancient superstition -. Political corruption and incompetence -. More repressed sexuality -. The dwarfed and dwarfing evil of Catholic hypocrisy -. And Catholic misogyny -. Are laid bare with an unexpected Gnostic. Twist in director Lucio Fulci. S scathing cultural satire and personal masterpiece - DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING. Sets up Maciara (portrayed by Florinda Bolkan).
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Destructible Man: July 2009
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Saturday, July 18, 2009. Intentions of Murder/Unholy Desire/Akai satsui (Shoei Imamura, 1964). Blanket an isolated, Japanese suburb -. And the stunted lives that play out within it in Shoei Imamura's "Intentions of Murder". In his scathing portrait of Japan's suffocating, traditional, male dominated society, an unlikely hero emerges in the character of Sadako Takahashi (Masumi Harukawa) -. And his cruel, hectoring mother, Tadae (Ranko Akagi). Sadako is a product of her demeaning, abusive upbringing.
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Destructible Man: May 2009
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Monday, May 4, 2009. Click to view enlarged image. 1 Simply right-click on the image and "save image" to your computer's hard-drive. 2 Upload the copied image into a "new entry" on your very own blog or website. 3 Write something glowing and gushing about how much you love BOTH Destructible Man. AND Temple Of Schlock. And urge your readers to scamper pell-mell over to BOTH of these sites and subscribe, follow and leave comments immediately, perpetually and even obsessively. The Flying Maciste Brothers.
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Destructible Man: February 2011
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Friday, February 18, 2011. The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, 1955). There is something vital going on over at Ferdy On Films. And The Self-Styled Siren. Marilyn Ferdinand (Ferdy) and Farran Nehme (The Siren) are in cahoots with the Film Noir Foundation. In trying to raise money for the restoration of classic, essential film noir that are rapidly becoming lost due to vanishing negative elements. The whole desperate, scary story is to be found here. Karlson’s protagonists are usually passionate, s...
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Destructible Man: March 2009
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Monday, March 23, 2009. Destructible Blog-a-thon.1.5 - Arbogast On Film - Black Sunday/La Maschera del demonio (Mario Bava, 1960). Well, he's sure as Hecks gone and done it this time, alright! Never one to spit in the wind and get hit by it, our good friend Arbogast, who lives just a link-click away at ARBOGAST ON FILM. Makes up for his cessation of posting comments here at DESTRUCTIBLE MAN. This was written exclusively for our DESTRUCTIBLE BLOG-A-THON.1. And is quite an effort indeed! So please hop on o...
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Destructible Man: June 2010
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The Green Berets (John Wayne/Ray Kellogg, 1968). Between the time Robin Moore. S "flaming blockbuster" non-fiction book, THE GREEN BERETS. Was written in 1963 to 1964 (published in 1965), and the time the Warner Brothers 1968 release of their film adaptation (of the same name) finished its run on the drive-in circuit, the Vietnam. War had tragically e. Time Magazine October 17, 1969. With America's escalating military in. And, later, revelations about the My Lai massacre. In other ...
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Destructible Man: January 2009
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Monday, January 26, 2009. At first, when we opened our email the other day, the Flying Maciste Brothers' collective heart stopped cold. On an initial, cursory glance, we thought we had been the recipients of something called the Primo Zeglio Award -. Primo Zeglio being the director of (among many things) the psychedelic Italian adaptation of the German Perry Rhodan heftroman. Mission Stardust (1967) -. The muscular 1961 seafaring epic (co-directed by Andre deToth) Morgan The Pirate -. And why would we.
