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matysse
Reviews
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
How many versions of this movie are there???
Back in 1989 or so, I found a VHS copy of WUTL from a library in Columbus, Ohio, and watched it often (okay, with the help of my sis I bootlegged a copy, but I won't get arrested for that now, will I? It's long since been erased after I got tired of it) and although there were a lot of 60's style sexist jokes to put up with, I loved the film and remember many lines from it.
But last year I moved to NYC, where we can watch the Independent Film Channel on cable. I just watched WUTL on cable this morning. And they changed a LOT of dialogue! Some were improvements, some were a lot worse than before, and some I couldn't even understand why it was changed or deleted. I can only conclude that Woody, in the experimental spirit of the early decades, made a few different versions and that there are at least two different Tiger Lilies out there...for all I know, maybe three! It's a crazy world we live in.
Pinwheel (1976)
Chapo and Chapi were so cute!
For some reason, I started remembering seeing the show on the "Nickelodeon" channel back when I was eleven and babysitting my cousins. I particularly remember the French animated short about "Chapi and Chapo", but I wish I could find some more info about it here on imdb, or if it still plays anywhere in Europe, or if the animators did anything else. Anyone know anything? If so, post a comment.
Bamboozled (2000)
Disturbing and amazing
This movie was so intense and angry it made my stomach twist in real pain...for that reason alone, I found it more worthwhile than any movie I've attended for the past five years at least. Spike Lee was wonderful at expressing his rage, not just at African-American stereotypes of the past but of the present day. It managed to be funny at times before the story turned more serious. I've noticed some well-respected critics were not pleased, saying that watching two modern black actors donning blackface makeup is not funny. Of course it isn't, and that's the point. I found the movie's message very simple; there were many, many icons of Black Americans (depicted here by figurines of "mammies" and "pickaninnies") that were considered perfectly acceptable in the early 20th century, which is not really that long ago. And they could be again.