
I’m guesting on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas. (Plus, announcing a related new section here at the site.)
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas. (Plus, announcing a related new section here at the site.)
Kinda cheap-looking and with a quasi-indie, ‘who gives a shit if we ever make any money’ attitude that Miramax and The Blair Witch Project have all but wiped from the face of studio filmmaking, 1984’s Repo Man reminds us that once, not so long ago, weird-ass movies were not verboten in Hollywood. Deadpan humor, throwaway visual jokes, and oblique political and social satire may have doomed this way-cool flick to the neverland of sci-fi cultdom, but it has good company there, like its similarly themed contemporaries The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and the TV series Max Headroom.