When I started working for LA Weekly in the early '80s, the paper was almost as famous for its mistakes as for its cutting edge film reviews, lefty politics and porn ads.
In other words, a cutting edge film, piece of music, or even book release might hit the left and right coasts in the Fall of 1980, along with releases in major markets such as Chicago and Dallas, or high-end niche locales such as Ann-Arbor or Austin, but in Phoenix, you'd be lucky if that high-end item reached us by 1982 or '83.
The producers pride themselves on making cutting edge, unusual films: "We make prototypes," said Ms. Corsi, "in the tradition of the late Cristaldi, of the great De Laurentiis and Ponti.
Similar disappointments awaited South African prodigy Richard Stanley, whose cutting edge promo films for the likes of John Lydon's Public Image Ltd helped secure him a gig directing the futuristic British sci-fi horror Hardware in the Nineties.
Christie adds, "Robert has an unusual acuity about politics, the workings of capitalism, the surreal hypocrisies of that, which contributes a lot to the anger he has and to the cutting edge of his films.
He has unfailing political drive, and he's at the cutting edge of independent film-making.
British pioneers Warp celebrate 10 years of cutting edge, lo-fi film-making with a showcase at BFI Southbank (4 April-30 April), featuring work from Shane Meadows, including his This Is England follow-up TV films shown on the big screen.
True/False exists on the cutting edge of nonfiction film trends, and "Thy Father's Chair" exemplifies a new documentary movement of sorts.
From a scientist who makes it rain meatballs to a gothic hotel run by Dracula and his macabre cronies, Pete Oswald's fingerprints are all over the cutting edge of animated feature films.
