I think exploitation can be seen more as like the adolescent phase of the development of the film medium. there are films that float in and out of this definition but is part of the process of defining genres, and might be furthest from art but has an emphasis on making money and figuring out what people like. in my opinion it may have peaked in development of the 80s where the formula of a movie as a roller coaster ride comes into maturity (and apparently gets forgotten again at some point)
Very interesting fact that you pointed out. Sequestering the servants, basically making them invisible in the home, really says a lot. Like you said, things got done, but it’s almost as if the owners of the estates wanted to believe in their mind that things just magically happened, The meals got magically cooked. The rooms got magically cleaned. This way they didn’t have to feel beholden to the servants. Great video!
Liz, if you're truly going to talk about performers of classic Hollywood, be mindful of the word, "starlet". The performers you mentioned were stars. Starlets were actresses signed to contracts that studios believed to have the charisma and talent to become tars of their own films. The performers you profile were headliners, "stars", not starlets.
One of his first bit parts was in Hallelujah Trail, as a typesetter, who knows everything about a temperance marcher. One of his later films where he stole most of the scenes he was in was Crossfire Trail. If you haven't guessed I was a fan.
You skipped the British exploitation movies. For those who don't know, during the 60's, we had Hammer and the Carry On movies (comedies that starred a group of rep actors in numerous films, Carry On Cowboy, Carry On Constable, Carry on Doctor, Carry on Screaming, etc.) But by the early 70's both Hammer and the Carry On had started including a little bit of bare flesh. T&A. This lead to a whole slew of terrible British sex comedies. Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Confessions of a Taxi Driver, Adventures of a Private Eye, The Amorous Milkman. There were lots of them. Mostly unfunny and unsexy. (Unless you were a teenage boy, at the time, as I was). However, they did help bring about the Feminist debate to the surface. Were these films liberating and revolutionary (as the actresses claimed), in up-tight Britain, or insulting and demeaning, as feminists claimed? They certainly lead to more nudity on British TV, and slowly helped loosen up the British a little bit. Of course, in these woke times, Victorian values seem to once again have a strangle hold on British film and Television.
59:01 akk, Stark - who refused Federal subjugation- would roll in his grave being compared with Lincoln, the worst president in US history, who abolished state sovereignty and massacred more of his own countrymen than ever before or since
You guys have done a good job of covering a big name in the Japanese cinema and even world cinema that doesn't have a good in depth documentries like Toshiro Mifune.
How is this just now being served in my recommendations? I'm pretty sure RU-vid/Google is aware I'm both from Derry and watch a lot of media analysis/discussion videos. I can't wait to go through this channel!
Okay, good, even-handed overview from someone with an affinity for the form. I would add that Mario Bava is probably the godfather of Italian exploitation, and a superb cinematographer/director. Mostly but not exclusively horror: titles of interest include Black Sunday, Blood and Black Lace, Danger:Diabolik, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Lisa and the Devil, etc. Also, when Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert were wrote the first draft of the screenplay for Beyond the Valley, the Manson murders had happened, but no one knew who did it. It was something at the forefront of everyone in Hollywood's mind. Sharon Tate had also been in the original Valley of the Dolls. And BVD is basically a satire of how divorced from reality Hollywood had become at the time. It would have been very difficult, and kind of dishonest, for them not to comment on the murders in some way. I would also add Michael Weldon's original Psychotronic Encyclopedia as a must own for fans of fringe filmmaking. There are some inaccuracies due to the fact that it was written in 1983-- a time when very little of this stuff was even on VHS. But the writing is sharp and funny, and it really shaped my own perspective on these films.
What a co-incidence. I am watching my first Ozu movie, newly discovered [everybody's heard of Kirosawa and others, but not Ozu as much]. Early Summer. I am madly in love with Ms. Hara's character and this amazing film. I had no idea she had that kind of stature, looking forward to your presentation.
This was a very well articulated analysis and biography. Thank you for making this. I can't get enough of Setsuko Hara. And you're right, Grave of the Fireflies was a tearjerker. Great example of how great anime can be though. Would be great if you did a documentary like this on Satoshi Kon's films
Many thanks for this rare but essential documentary. Could you do one for the other great Japanese actress Takamine Hideko (who you briefly mention) star of Naruse's films?
I am a film student in the process of defending my thesis on body-horror cinema, your video was VERY important for the research. I came here just to thank you for having made this content public <3
Youve done a great service to art and cinema, taking the time to focus on this amazing actress. Im just watching the Ozu films again, and newly focused on the fine actors , portraying such subtle characters and drama, that define his work. Suddenly the answer to my questions, magically show up in my YT feed. Kudos to you, Derry Public Library.
A few additional and interesting things I found out about Left Tyler .. 1/ saw a newspaper clip that talked about Lefty Tyler purchasing the old Robie Farm house in Nashua. The old farm house remained standing for many many years near Spit Brook rd Nashua. Anyone who's lived in Nashua back in the 80's and before will remember seeing this abandoned house on the hill-side next to Spit Brook rd. Sadly it was finally taken down and now there is a beautiful childrens park that is fittingly called Robie Park (across from the Spit Brook fire station). Lefty Tyler may have lived in this very same house during his... fact number two.. 2/ (cont.) pitching performance in the very last game of the 1918 World Series (currently he was playing for the Chicago Cubs) against the Red Sox and lossed in a tight pitching battle which led to the Red Sox World series victory and the last WS victory for the Red Sox for the next 86 years.. 3/ I Believe the Red Sox WS drought curse is NOT from the Bambino of which we are all led to believe.. but rather a LEFY TYLER curse!!!!!!! He was so angry that he loosed in that faithful last WS game in 1918 that he cursed the Red Sox!! well that's my take anyway, Lefty Tyler may have lived that same Robie farm house that so many people have known about but i often wonder if they know.. "the rest of the story..? and lastly... 4/ Lefty Tyler apparently had an unusual but incredible talent for shooting "bird shot" out of his mouth using a combination of a chewed tooth-pick and his own teeth, he could shoot these little lead balls up to 60 feet with deadly accuracy but no one could ever catch him in the act he was so good at it!? It was said he would shoot these things across the baseball diamond at base runners who weren't payin attention to the game.. he would hit umpires in the neck when he thought a bad call was made.. eventually he was banned from being a base coach despite never ever catching him shooting the bird-shot with his mouth. I have coined a new nursery rhyme in his memory, "Lefty Tyler, Lefty Tyler.. shoots bird shot.. stings your neck but never gets caught!" Anyway hopefully entertaining at least..
JOHN STARK was our 6th Great UNCLE , the brother of JAMES who was our 6th Great Grandfather & his wife , Our 6th Great GRANDMOTHER “ELIZABETH ( THORNTON ) STARK “… John & his bother James & another brother were born to ARCHIBALD STARK who was the first STARK born in AMERICA to the First STARK in AMERICA after his Father JAMES Immigrated from SCOTLAND !!! ☺️ 👍
