Alright, this is a new feature I’ve got called Arbitrary Lists. Basically, I will take a group of things that are connected in some way and rank them. Some categories will be obvious, some will be dumb, hopefully they’ll all be fun. Today, I’m going to do rankings of five of the most famous “New Waves” in film. Let’s meet the contestants!
Fun Fact: If you Google “New Waves” you get this image and a bunch of images from a fan-service manga.
If you’ve spent anytime on Tickld, I Waste So Much Time, or some similar site you might have seen this guy.
He and his message seem superficially empowering for about 35 seconds before you realize that he’s just telling women what to do via his privileged male position. This image smacks of an insincerity and fundamental failure to understand that women are people who do not exist for his benefit.
I guess what I’m saying is: I know what I’m doing, and I feel very sorry about it.
That said, 60s girls were the best looking and cutest in recent memory. I’m not going to attempt to rationalize this position any farther except to post a picture of my favorite actress of all time.
Oh, Anna. You’re so dreamy.
Enough Rand Paul-ing (I swear this was a topical reference when I started this article), let’s get to what this thing is actually supposed to be about. It stands to reason, for the reasons elaborated above, that I’d probably be a pretty big fan of Russ Meyer, the 60s trash auteur known for his love of campy dialogue, ridiculous plotting and most importantly, his love of beautiful women with giant boobs. So let’s put his two best known films up against each other. Will Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! win, being (in John Waters’ estimation) the greatest film of all time? Or will the Roger Ebert scripted sprawling in-name-only-sequel to a dumb showbiz melodrama Beyond the Valley of the Dolls kill kill it? Find out right now!
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So last year I did a thing on Facebook where I wrote a short list of what I was excited for (or not excited for) at the Cannes film festival (Did Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt ever come out here?). So I thought I’d do a similar thing for the blog this year. Let’s get down to it.
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