As of April 2013, it has a rating of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critical consensus "Featuring an atmospherically grimy futuristic metropolis, Escape from New York is a strange, entertaining jumble of thrilling action and oddball weirdness".
Additional inspirations include Burial's 'Moth,' lots of strange records from jumble sales, and going out".
Slant Magazine critic Matt Brennan found the episode "jumbled and strange" but felt that the introduction of Tony was a "delightful twist".
Part memoir, part travelogue, "Tales From the Torrid Zone" is a pleasing grab bag of a book, a jumble of funny encounters, strange sights, forgotten history and really bad food.
These strange, exquisite prose poems — a "crystalline jumble," as John Ashbery calls them in the preface to his new translation (Norton; $24.95), which, like the work itself, is sometimes willful but often has its own crystal purity — are intensely visual, bringing before your eyes fleeting images that have the oddness, the intensity, and the subterranean logic of dreams.
The gallery was as much an artwork as the pieces it displayed she hung paintings at strange angles on huge jutting poles, jumbled in with sculptures and vitrines, so visitors could walk right round the exhibits.
The sensory jumble of her surroundings provoked strange outbursts of rage and "shutdowns," as she calls them, times in which she would just forget thoughts and words.
Who knows, cMoney could have a brillant project underneath the jumble, but at the very least, this strange constellation of facts and questions paints a dubious picture.
The Washington-based Steinhilber, whose inventive works have been displayed by the BMA, the Hirshhorn Museum and many other venues, has an uncanny ability to jumble together unlikely items and make a strange kind of sense out of them.
There is so much jumbled and spit out of this hot, strange, sloppy mess of a film that it would be a sin of sorts to spoil it all, if those reading decide it's still worth a watch.
