#Aaron Lipstadt

[moviemosaics]

The Slumber Party Massacre

directed by Amy Holden Jones, 1982

#The Slumber Party Massacre #Amy Holden Jones #movie mosaics #Robin Stille #Jennifer Meyers #Michael Villella #Andree Honore #Michelle Michaels #Debra Deliso #Joseph Alan Johnson #David Millbern #Gina Mari #Aaron Lipstadt

[gurumog]

Android (1982) New World Pictures Dir. Aaron Lipstadt

Klaus Kinski as Dr. Daniel Kendra Kirchner as Cassandra

#android #klaus kinski #kendra kirchner #1980s science fiction

[biketalkla]

00: MassBike Minute with MassBike Executive Director/Cohost Galen Mook.

3:42: Handbuilt bike collector Aaron Lipstadt shows his favorites to Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols.

27:42: Stacey Randecker, San Francisco street activist, on "Just A Minute" protests and the work of the SF Bike Coalition. With Nick Richert.

41:29: Chicago Bike Grid Now: Rony Islam and Emily Wilson with Nick Richert.

50:01: Plotting data to for Canadian bike lanes: Theoretical Physicist Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, with Nick Richert.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/jg_i45oHFnoZ6gKUWRp3y9zzDdI

#SoundCloud #music #BikeTalk #bike #people #bikes #cars #soundcloud

[ozu-teapot]

The Slumber Party Massacre | Amy Holden Jones | 1982

#Amy Holden Jones #The Slumber Party Massacre #1982 #The Slumberparty Massacre #Slumber Party Massacre #Michael Villela #Aaron Lipstadt #Michele Michaels #Jean Vargas

[badgaymovies]

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

The Slumber Party Massacre by #AmyHoldenJones , today's review on MyOldAddiction.com

AMY HOLDEN JONES Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5 USA, 1982. Santa Fe Productions. Screenplay by Rita Mae Brown. Cinematography by Stephen L. Posey. Produced by Amy Holden Jones. Music by Ralph Jones. Production Design by Francesca Bartoccini. Costume Design by Janet Scoutten. Film Editing by Sean Foley. The concept is simple, but Amy Holden Jones’s ironic direction and the visually inventive…

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#Aaron Lipstadt #Amy Aquino #Amy Holden Jones #Andree Honore #Anna Patton #Brinke Stevens #David Millbern #Debra De Liso #Francesca Bartoccini #Francis Menendez #Gina Smika Hunter #Howard Purgason #Janet Scoutten #Jean Vargas #Jennifer Meyers #Jim Boyce #Joseph Alan Johnson #Michael Villella #Michelle Michaels #Pamela Canzano #Pamela Roylance #Ralph Jones #Rigg Kennedy #Rita Mae Brown #Robin Stille #Santa Fe Productions #Sean Foley #Stephen L. Posey

[trailerparty]

ANDROID (1982), DIR. A. LIPSTADT

Max is the awkward assistant to a reclusive doctor on a lonely space station that does illegal android experiments. When a ship with three convicts takes refuge on the station, Max’s life changes as he meets a woman for the first time…

Don Opper really steals the  show here as Max, in what has got to be one of my favorite Pinocchio robot/nerd coming of age flicks out there. I don’t understand why more people don’t talk about this movie. Max’s sullen voyeurism (a recurring motif) during one scene in particular, while also watching Lang’s Metropolis and listening to James Brown, is an especially great and resonant moment.

#disc 01 #aaron lipstadt #don opper #klaus kinski #0 thru F #science fiction #1981 to 1990 #movie trailer #bad parents

[justfilms]

Slumber Party Massacre II - Deborah Brock 1987

#Slumber Party Massacre II #Deborah Brock #Aaron Lipstadt

[petty-crush]

"Android"

-this is one of those films where the low budget doesn't get in the way of enthusiastic creativity

-it's also one of those methodical character studies in space, where the scenes last longer than usual but is solid throughout

-in this case an android trying to find out love and disobeying his creator

-a person I talked to after the film said this was his first Klaus Kinski film (he plays the creator). He's wonderfully creepy but actually a little restrained; that person ain't seen nothing yet

-one beautiful moment is the android trying to deal with seeing a woman for the first time; at the control room he watches part of "Metropolis" (specifically the scene where female robot turns human) while James Brown's "it's a man's man's man's world" plays

+it's a sublime contrast that brings out the best in both art

-it reminds me of "Moroder's Metropolis", just a few short years later, where he put Queen and such over the film

-another nice touch is the (very very early) video games being played by the android while he listens to 50's rock. Two neat forms of juvenile rebellion

-Brie Howard does a fantastic job as the woman in question

-I especially like her look as Klaus tells her he wants her for his female robot and she goes "I've heard a lot of stories to get into my pants, but that takes the cake"

-in a move decades ahead in cultural devolution, the naive android assumes wearing a fedora will make him cool

+it looks especially ridiculous with his gangly form and non matching space suit (par for the modern course)

-so many of the android's comments are just hilarious in the dead pan way he says them

-I rather enjoy the way the android mutiny in Munich is referred to obliquely thought the film (hence why they must stay on a space ship); it lingers in mind via its oral sketches

-this is the kind of sentimental, slow burn film that makes it stand apart the exploration films it is usually associated with

-huzzah for the female android that refuses to be groped by the doctor

-in a traditional touch nicely played, the doctor himself is revealed to be a robot; not the first time this has been done, but the framing and the emotional bond between the two creations makes it moving nonetheless

-this whole film in its careful and (dare I say) tender approach makes its views on love not just belonging to humans a quiet albeit triumphant sci fi tale

#android #aaron lipstadt #new beverly cinema #klaus kinski #brie howard #don keith opper #new bev #film #art

[el-im]

Play It Again, Seymour - April 14, 1953 (1989) dir. Aaron Lipstadt

- Word on the street is he was fogged by a dropper called Klapper. - A dropper called Klapper? - Why would a dropper be after Phil? - Are you kidding? I bet Phil and Nick put a dozen Hard Harry’s in the slammer. Any one of them could have paid a dropper to fog him. Right, Nick?

#ql #'ya wanna have safe sex with her you better wear a bulletproof vest!' #i love how in this show (pre non-spear lipstick) he justs gets COVERED in pink and red when hes kissed. thats excellent #this kid gives me funny vibes #'my analyst calls it neurotic. of course its neurotic! if you lived with my mother you'd be neurotic too!' and the coke bottle glasses... #remind ya of someone...? -_- #AH I CALLED IT!!! just looked up the cast. thats hilarious. #'dont you ever clean your mustache? you got gunk in there. its yucky.' #this episode was SO good and i had so much fun with it #any good ol casablanca remake/movie chalk full of references to it is good in my book baby!! #oh my gosh. #quantum leap

[itcanbefilmed]

Miami Vice El Viejo (Aaron Lipstadt, 1986)

#miami vice #don johnson #willie nelson #steve buscemi #sonny crockett #1980s

[brokehorrorfan]

Blu-ray Review: Dream Demon

Dream Demon is England's answer to A Nightmare on Elm Street, and it's not shy about its influence. What the 1988 British horror film gets right is the nightmares themselves. Creative, atmospheric, and gory, many of the sequences could be mistaken for scenes from an unmade Elm Street sequel. Director Harley Cokeliss (Black Moon Rising) does an admirable job blurring the lines between dream and reality, often leaving the characters as well as the viewer unsure of which realm is on display.

Where it fails is the story itself, which Cokeliss and co-writer Christopher Wicking (Scream and Scream Again) treat like an afterthought. The plot centers around Diana (Jemma Redgrave, Doctor Who), a young bride-to-be plagued by nightmares. Beyond merely falling short of Elm Street's ingenuity, Dream Demon lacks a distinct antagonist. Playing more like haunted house movie than slasher flick, in site of its title, the evil entity is never clearly defined.

A satirical commentary on Princess Diana, Diana's engagement to a famous military hero (Mark Greenstreet) causes her to be continually harassed by ruthless members of the press, Peck (the scene-stealing Timothy Spall, Harry Potter franchise) and Paul (Jimmy Nail, Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf). She inadvertently befriends Jenny (a charismatic Kathleen Wilhoite, Witchboard), an adopted American whose birth parents died in Diana's new house, and the gal pals have to defeat the evil before Diana dreams everyone she knows to death.

Beyond that, the film plods along with little concern for narrative. What the film lacks in story, it does its best to make up for in aesthetic. From the attention-grabbing opening, the picture is rife with appropriately nightmarish imagery, including ample blood splatter courtesy of special effects technicians Alexander Gunn (Rambo, The Expendables) and Simon Hewitt (1408, Alien vs. Predator). Cinematographer Ian Wilson (The Crying Game, Below) often employs handheld camerawork to capture the madness.

Dream Demon has been newly restored in 2K from the recently-discovered original camera negative, supervised by Cokeliss, with original uncompressed stereo audio for Arrow Video's Blu-ray release. The newly revised, 88-minute director's cut (accompanied by a brief introduction from Cokeliss) - which most notably removes a comedic coda from the end of the film - plays by default, but the 89-minute theatrical cut is also included. Despite the low budget, the dreamy visuals are gorgeous in high definition.

Cokeliss sits down for a 27-minute interview about the filmmaking process, from storyboarding to special effects to camerawork, plus he details his journey to track down the negative and the rights holder that allowed for this release to come to fruition. Producer Paul Webster openly admits that Dream Demon was conceived as a rip-off of Elm Street, which his company had distributed in the UK. He also reveals that Aaron Lipstadt (Android) was originally supposed to direct.

In a new interview, Redgrave reflects back on her film debut, highlighting her bond with Wilhoite both on and off screen as well as the special effects. Greenstreet and fellow actors Annabelle Lanyon (Legend) and Nickolas Grace (Robin Hood) also look back on the experience fondly and mention their experiences with the effects. Composer Bill Nelson (of Be-Bop Deluxe fame) discusses his first score, for which he used a 16-track reel-to-reel recorder and a sampling keyboard powered by floppy discs.

Cokeliss and Webster also provide audio commentary on select scenes in which they dig a little deeper into specific moments. Thankfully, the scenes are strung together into a 46-minute piece to avoid viewers having to sit through silence for half the movie. Also included is Foundations of Nightmare, a vintage making-of piece featuring 26 minutes of interviews with Cokeliss, Redgrave, Wilhoite, Spall, Webster, and Nelson. Promotional and behind-the-scenes image galleries and the theatrical trailer round out the extras.

Dream Demon is available now on Blu-ray via Arrow Video.

#dream demon #jemma redgrave #kathleen wilhoite #a nightmare on elm street #horror #80s hororr #1980s horror #arrow video #review #article #dvd #gift #harley cokeliss #christopher shy #timothy spall #jimmy nail

[shesnake]

Lucy Liu in Elementary season 4 episode 19 “All In” (2016) dir. Aaron Lipstadt

#elementaryedit #elementary #elementasquee #lucy liu #lliuedit #lucyliuedit #joan watson #sherlockholmesedit #tv #gif #* #q

[gurumog]

Android (1982) New World Pictures Dir. Aaron Lipstadt

Klaus Kinski as Dr. Daniel Don Keith Opper as Max 404 Kendra Kirchner as Cassandra

#android #klaus kinski #don keith opper #kendra kirchner #1980s science fiction

[movieposters]

Android (1982), Aaron Lipstadt

#Android #sci-fi #movie poster

[cultfaction]

Preview: Quantum Leap - The Complete Collection

Preview: Quantum Leap – The Complete Collection

“Oh Boy!” Get ready to journey back in time with Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and his holographic guide Al (Dean Stockwell) in the 5 time Emmy® Award-Winning Series Quantum Leap.

Enjoy all 97 episodes of this groundbreaking Sci-Fi adventure series now fully restored and sourced from high definition masters! These beautiful new masters are restored from the 35mm negative, the difference is…

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#Aaron Lipstadt #Alan J. Levi #Andy Cadiff #Anita W. Addison #Bob Hulme #Chris Ruppenthal #Christopher Hibler #Christopher T. Welch #David G. Phinney #David Hemmings #Dean Stockwell #Debbie Allen #Deborah Pratt #Donald P. Bellisario #Eric Laneuville #Gilbert M. Shilton #Gus Trikonis #Harvey S. Laidman #Ivan Dixon #James Whitmore Jr. #Joe Napolitano #John Cullum #Joseph L. Scanlan #Mark Sobel #Michael Katleman #Michael Switzer #Michael Vejar #Michael W. Watkins #Michael Zinberg #Paul Brown

[thecraggus]

Craggus Comfort Movies: Battle Beyond The Stars (1980) Review

These are unsettling times so I'm kicking off a series of #CraggusComfortMovies with a look back at a childhood favourite: the buxom battleshipped Battle Beyond The Stars (1980) #Review

There’s something so intoxicatingly comforting about Roger Corman’s sci-fi reimagining of “The Magnificent Seven”, itself a remake of “Seven Samurai” that I’m surprised it’s not regulated by the government. It’s appeal probably lies in its perfect placement at the start of the home video boom in the early eighties when it was available to rent and its only competition was “Star Trek: The Motion…

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#CraggusComfortMovies #1980 #7/10 #Aaron Lipstadt #Adventure #Akira Kurosawa #Allan Holzman #Anne Dyer #Ansley Carlin #Brian Coventry #Charles William Breen #Cliff Raven #Comfort Movies #Dallas Clarke #Dan Thompson #Dan Vincent #Daniel Carlin #Daniel Lacambre #Darlanne Fluegel #Don Keith Opper #Doug Carleson #Durinda Wood #Earl Boen #Ed Carlin #Eric Morris #Featured #Forrest Chadwick #Frank Martinez #Gale Anne Hurd #Galen Thompson