For the next four months I became a regular attendee of a series of vodka-fueled, Woodstock-meets-Moscow-meets-sleepaway camp nostalgia-fests known as slyots, which teem with pre- and post-Soviet transplants and cover after cover of "Hotel California," in both English and Russian.
He filmed there extensively during the Allende era and incorporated footage of abandoned mining camps into "Nostalgia for the Light," so he was not amused by what he viewed as the grandstanding of President Sebastián Piñera, which he said distracted attention from the real issues.
Cult musicals can range from the traditional, such as Singin' in the Rain (1952), which appeal to cult audiences through nostalgia, camp, and spectacle, to the more non-traditional, such as Cry-Baby (1990), which parodies musicals, and Rocky Horror, which uses a rock soundtrack.
For many, these camps sell future nostalgia, the prospect of happy memories, the promise of best friends maintained for decades to come.
Their act now exuded nostalgia and camp in equal measure.
His unconventionality was particularly idiosyncratic, with elements of underground camp, a touch of nostalgia and a subcurrent of tragedy.
Originality, nostalgia, sincerity, camp -- none of these are stable elements in Datarock's world, which may explain why "Red" comes across as well as it does.
Even appreciating the gratification of nostalgia and camp, Disaster! is an odd property to find on Broadway and doesn't seem particularly at home here, with its cheap sets, shabby projections and understaffed chorus.
Indeed, when Jewish adults gather the conversation inevitably turns to Jewish camp memories filled with nostalgia.
