70 years before Lady Gaga, there was Carmen Miranda. In this wild and wonderful clip form The Gangs All Here, Carmen sings her signature tune ‘The Lady In The Tutti Frutti Hat’.
The Gangs All Here was made in 1943 and was Busby Berkeley’s first color film and, like in all of his films, he held nothing back. The colors, choreography and Carmen Miranda all come together in a surreal spectacle. Wow!
Although it screams of rip-off in flashing letters each the size of a New York brownstone, James Cameron’s Avatar is being re-released with eight additional minutes. Eight measly minutes? Shouldn’t there be some kind of ten year rule before “Director’s Cuts” get to pick our pockets again? And then I saw these two words “Na’vi Sex.” From MTV:
“You mean the alien kink scene?” [Cameron] joked. “It’s been restored, every last frame of it. Seriously,” he said, adding that the scene in question won’t break any records — it lasts all of about 20 seconds. “I would say, just so that we correctly manage people’s expectations,” he explained carefully, “it does not change our rating at all. I would call it more of an alien foreplay scene. It’s not like they’re ripping their clothes off and going at it.”
Fan-f*cking-tastic!
There’s a bonus shot of a nude Matt Berry at the end. Blink and you’ll miss it!
(via Nerdcore)
Here’s a fun space helmet collage. Now, can you name all the famous faces?
(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)
A funny and clever student film from 1978, heavily influenced by Firesign Theater, about a paranoiac’s dream device which might actually be useful, if not extremely amusing to wear. This is somehow related to the Orchid Spangiafora LP (but I’m not quite sure how, exactly) which features in the 2nd installment of the Dangerous Minds Radio Hour, coming soon to an internet near you.
Wherever you go, there you are. Wherever you are, there you go… Follow yourself to unknown destinations. Chase after yourself on a mysterious voyage of self-discovery…
The Bangladesh film industry is located in the city of Dhaka and is playfully referred to as Dhallywood. It produces about 100 films a year, a fraction of neighboring India’s Bollywood output.
Here’s a trailer of Dhallywood’s take on The Hulk. The special effects are pretty cheesy, but by Dhallywood standards this is big budget. It can’t be any worse than Ang Lee’s version
I’ve just been discovering all of these gloriously rough old 45s by mysterious Jamaican singer Nora Dean. I just love the production on these sides . Maybe it’s just me, but there seems to be a higher than average amount of really eccentric, even psychedelic production tricks on these songs, not to mention the mostly sexual lyrical subject matter. I could play these all day ! To that end here’s a whole bunch of them lined up and ready to lively up your day and/or warm up your night.
Many more great Nora Dean sides after the jump
Vice online has a terrific piece on ‘Redsploitation’ movies.
Somewhere in the grey area between the noble savage and the savage-savage lies the Redsploitation film. These gems of schlock cinema feature Natives getting off their knees and kicking white ass all over the West.
For the whole scoop on really pissed off Indians in the movies check out the Vice website.
more vengeance after the jump…
(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
When Andy Warhol Died
The Warhol Diet : A Bottle Of Dom Perignon And A Bowl Of Campbell’s Tomato Soup
A pair of interesting Andy Warhol-related items
Dennis Hopper’s screen test for Andy Warhol
Questions for John Waters (and on Andy Warhol’s TV)
Nico (Fashion) Icon
Andy Warhol Pinata Head
Andy Warhol at Fiorucci, Valentine’s Day 1986
Andy Warhol’s TV
Warhol Polaroids of Sports Legends
Andy Warhol: Gift-Giver, Braniff-Flyer
Factory Photographer Nat Finkelstein Dies
Warhol & Basquiat Interview
Long Lost Footage of Musical Play by John Phillips, Produced by Andy Warhol (1975)
The Velvet Undergound Live: Symphony in Sound
The Disappearing Warhol
Thnx William Meehan!