Ator the Fighting Eagle (1982) / Red Sonja (1985) – 35mm -B-TO-Z DOUBLE BILL AT CINEMATEK

The  Sword and Sorcery Double Bill

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Ator the Fighting Eagle (1982) – directed by the man who partially produced ‘Troll2‘,

The son of Torren – Ator – follows his prophesied destiny to bring the end to the ‘Temple of the Spider’. On the way to meet it he fights witches, un-dead warriors, some kind of female warriors and of course a giant spider. Before his journey starts he manages to marry his sister. A cheap ‘Conan the Barbarian’ ripoff with a touch of feminism.

A mention worth is the fact that they wasted about 20 minutes of the movie to show the birth of Ator, which could be done in 2 scenes, and there is an almighty bear as well.

 

Red Sonja (1985) – Brigitte Nielsen’s the greatest film (for me); she looks great in this film (even greater in 35mm), unfortunately by the time of  shooting she posses same acting skill as A.Schwarzenegger, who co-stars in it. That makes them a perfect match of physicality and acting skills. [Did I mention that she looks great on film]. The support actors (Paul L. Smith and Ernie Reyes Jr.) compensate for the lack of acting skills at the  top 2.

The film itself has great cinematography (amazing landscape shots)  and impressive sculptures and sets. Similar as in ‘Ator…’ the dialogues aren’t to smart and deep , but the story does not require that. A great 35 mm experience.

White Dog (1982) | Eureka!

Last Time I have seen it, it was from a VHS-rip;

the Eureka! blu-ray presentation is a nice to-digital transfer, the booklet of the issue is quite thick, unfortunately there is only the movie on the disc without any extras.

This film still has it, and like every Sam Fuller movie, it has an interesting Story.

Pieces… It’s exactly what you think it is!

Let the qoute from one of my favourite grindhouse websites be the comment on my yesterday’s movie:

To take Juan Piquer Simon’s Pieces at face value (as a slasher/giallo hybrid) is not to appreciate the true work of demented genius that it is. In recent years, Pieces has gained a pretty large cult following and I’m glad I had the chance to see it when I still hadn’t heard too much about it. There really is no way to describe it. I don’t mean in an Eraserhead kind of way, I mean in a holy-shit-I-can’t-believe-I-just-saw-that kind of way. Sure there are gorier, nastier films (Murder-Set-Pieces, August Underground), but Pieces has a sort of cheerful naivete that carries the film right from the screen in to your heart. Don’t believe me? Read on…

 

Shaw Bros.

3 DVD wypuszczone przez niemieckie wydawnictwo, filmy zawierają oprócz znienawidzonego przeze mnie niemieckiego dubbingu, także oryginalną ścieżkę audio z angielskim napisami. Szkoda tylko, że nie każde wydanie mam poprawnie zsynchronizowane napisy.

Najsłabszym z trzech okazał się The Magic Blade a.k.a.Tien Ya Ming Yueh Dao.

Pod względem rozplanowania rozwoju akcji najlepszym okazał się Ma Wing Jing, a nagrodę w kategorii The Goriest Shaw Brothers Movie of the evening zdobywa Ren Pi Deng Long.

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