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The dopey paintings of Sylvester Stallone
05.28.2015
11:09 am
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“Finding Rocky”
 
You’ve only got two more days to do it, but if you’re reading this in Nice, France, and would like to see paintings by the muscular star of Rhinestone, Over the Top, and Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot, then hurry on over to the Galerie Contemporaine du Musée de Nice, which is currently mounting an exhibition of Stallone’s work called “Real Love: Paintings 1975-2015.” The show has been on since May 15 and ends May 30.

Look, I think Stallone gets a bad rap for being a dumb guy, he’s clearly a formidable fellow and more intelligent than it might at first appear. One of the things he’s gotten flak for in Hollywood is his apparent need to mess with the scripts of his movies (check out his voluminous screenwriting credits). That may make him an egomaniac or worse, but the criticism that he wants to write all of his movies isn’t consistent with his occasional depiction as an idiot.

I’m no art critic and I have little way of differentiating good art from bad. But… let’s see—subjects including boxing gloves, Rocky, Joan Crawford, some of it in a loosely abstract expressionist style and other parts vaguely conceptual (one of his paintings, “Backlash,” is half-painting, half-mirror)... I submit that if I told you that Stallone was a painter, this is exactly the type of stuff you’d expect out of him. He’s no better or no worse than Ronnie Wood, which is not necessarily a compliment.
 

“Behind the Mind”
 

“The Arena”
 

“Untitled (Michael Jackson)”
 
More after the jump…

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Posted by Martin Schneider
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05.28.2015
11:09 am
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Bob Dylan, Giorgio Moroder, Rambo: Three names you’d never thought you’d see together
10.31.2013
02:53 pm
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Not exactly buried in Alexis Petridis’ interview with Giorgio Moroder today at The Guardian—naturally he used all three names in his headline—is this amazing anecdote:

Alexis Petridis: There’s a story that you attempted to collaborate with Bob Dylan, which seems a bit unlikely.

Giorgio Moroder: That’s right. It was actually Sylvester Stallone who asked me to ask him to sing a song for a Rambo movie. So I composed a song. I wanted him to write the lyrics, of course. I went to see him in Malibu, where he had a beautiful house. He listened to it about four times. I’m not sure if he didn’t like the music that much, or if he wasn’t interested because of the nature of the movie, which was totally anti-Russian, anti-communist. I think he didn’t feel like being involved with a movie such as Rambo. It was nice to meet him, and it could have worked, but it didn’t work out.

Christ it’s a shame that never happened!

Read the entire thing at The Guardian.

Thank you Chris Campion of Berlin, Germany!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.31.2013
02:53 pm
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Hilarious interview with professional ‘Rambo’ look-alike from the 80s
01.05.2012
12:50 pm
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Here’s an extremely amusing interview with “Rambo” look-alike Wayne Scott on a French TV news show filmed some time in the 80s. There’s even a pretty terrific dance routine towards the end.
 

 
(via Nerdcore)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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01.05.2012
12:50 pm
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The one man, $96.00 Rambo: Flooding With Love For The Kid

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Damn you, Zachary Oberzan—I was just days away from filming my own one man Schindler’s List!  Well, I’ve never seen the Rambo films starring Sylvester Stallone, but something tells me they’re not gonna pack half the charm of Oberzan’s adaptation of David Morell’s ‘72 First Blood novel. 

Beyond adapting, though—and to further simplify the callsheets—Oberzan plays every character to boot, including John Rambo.  He also served as his own director, editor, stylist, caterer, etc.  Working with the exceptionally low budget of 96 bucks, Oberzan shot the whole thing in his 220-square-foot NYC apartment.  Here’s what the fine folks at Cinefamily say of the film (where it screens in L.A. this Saturday):

Eschewing Stallone-style spectacle for a YouTube-esque zen, this feature-length no-fi epic ambitiously re-imagines the novel as a ludicrous, exhibitionist fever dream.  Imagine if a Max Fischer play from Rushmore was imbued with Jean-Luc Godard’s penchant for sardonic realism, only to be filtered through a grade-schooler’s “Let’s build a fort!” sincerity.  Sound crazy? It is—wonderfully so.  Yet, the impressive, good-humored gusto with which Oberzan presents himself surprisingly makes the film gel into an affecting, emotional whole.

The Flooding With Love For The Kid trailer follows below, but you can purchase a copy of the entire film here.

 
The SlashFilm interview with Zachary Oberzan

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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05.26.2010
03:34 pm
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