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Although they are far apart stylistically, both “Late Bloomer” and
“Spinning into Butter” deal with social pariahs. The first movie, now
available from Netflix, is a low-budget Japanese shocker about a
severely disabled man, played by just such a person, who becomes a
serial killer. When the publicist wrote me about the DVD screener
becoming available, I said “Great, send it along. It has to be better
than the latest idiotic Batman movie”. The other movie is far more
conventional and deals with racial incidents at Belmont, a snooty
private college in Vermont. It opens at the Landmark Sunshine Theater in
New York on March 27th, as well as Washington and Los Angeles. While
there are major flaws in “Spinning into Butter”, I can recommend it as a
serious attempt to deal with liberal racism at a school with an
administration almost as boneheaded as my employer, Columbia University.
- [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter Louis Proyect
- RE: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter Max B. Sawicky
- Re: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter Louis Proyect
- Re: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter Carrol Cox
- RE: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning into Bu... Max B. Sawicky
- Re: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinning in... Jim Devine
- Re: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spinnin... Carrol Cox
- Re: [Pen-l] Late Bloomer; Spi... Doyle Saylor
