Kult Film [DVD] (English subtitles)

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Bogdan Balla is a Romanian experimental film director and freelance film critic based in Bucharest. He studies film directing at the National University of Theatre and Film and writes for FILM MENU. Besides directing and producing his own films, he also works as an independent freelance film critic. He reads bell hooks and is passionate about queer cinema. He has a preference for working with archival footage for his films.

With a funny and fast-paced script by Chris Columbus, from a story by Steven Spielberg (who executive produced), this idiosyncratic and very Scooby Doo-like actioner set in Astoria, Oregon, pits a group of young misfit kids (including Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, and Martha Plimpton) against a family of criminals (including Joe Pantoliano and Anne Ramsey) in a race to retrieve the long-lost treasure of fabled 17th-century pirate, One-Eyed Willy.Mladen Pechevski is a film industry freelancer currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2019, he was a jury member of the Giornate degli Autori section at the 76 th Venice International Film Festival and was subsequently heavily involved in organizing the autumn edition of the Sofia International Film Festival for Students. In 2020, he worked as an assistant consultant for the Giornate degli Autori section at the 77 th Venice International Film Festival. Mladen is passionate about European cinema and would like to further acquire first-hand experience covering international festivals as a film critic. No one sets out to make a cult film. Not really, anyway. No matter how low their professed ambitions, if someone is going to go through all the trouble of writing, casting, directing, financing and shooting a movie, somewhere in their auteurist heart, they’re wishing to score a leftfield hit – the next ‘little low-budget indie that could.’ Most of the time, cultdom is the best they can settle for. But hey, there are much worse fates for any piece of art. In fact, as time has gone on, and the phrase has become more commonly understood, filmmakers have started to wear ‘cult’ as a badge of honour. And well they should – especially given the company they keep. O: No, I don’t feel that. I hope they don’t. I know them personally and I don’t feel they were acting. They actually seemed to have forgotten about the camera. I’m also producing their show features and we’ve done 60 of them by now. The first time, they’re like, “Oh, don’t say too much, Olga’s filming us”. But then they slowly forgot the presence of the camera. I didn’t want to fake anything, to have people thinking that there’s something fishy about the movie that it’s not real. I never gave them indications.

More akin to Hill’s comic book colorful, overtly stylish, and extravagantly violent fare like The Warriors (1979), this singular and strange pastiche of 1950s biker films and then contemporary 1980s music videos is a fun, fast-paced, and fist-pumping ride that’s worth it not only for the dreamy Lane, but for Madigan’s tenacious tough girl (she also gets all the best lines), Dafoe’s scenery-chewing, and early roles from Bill Paxton and Ed Begley, Jr., amongst others. Svetlana Semenchuk is anauthor of such publications on cinema as “Seanse”, “The Art of Cinema”, “Cinema TV” and other.The author-composer of the books “S. M. Eisenstein: pro et contra: Sergey Eisenstein in national reflection: anthology” and “E. F. Bauer: pro et contra. Eugene Frantsevich Bauer in assessments of contemporaries, colleagues, researchers, film critics. Anthology”. Teacher of the St. Petersburg New Cinema School, and at the St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television.Leading the way, is vocalist and saxophonist Kazik Staszewski, now in his mid-fifties but seemingly with no intention of slowing down. He co-founded the band with Dariusz Gierszewski and they, plus the other members of the group happily talk about the ins and outs of the band's dynamic as they travel about or socialise between gigs. The emotional heart of the story is provided by one of their most faithful fans, Rafa? "Didi" Diduch, who after following them around to gigs with so little money he even spent a night in the cells found himself taken under Staszewski's wing. With great gags, stunningly silly production design, and overflowing quotable quips, it’s no wonder discriminating audiences ate it up.