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July 21, 2005
DVD Savant - Hukkle, Crazed Fruit and The Karate Kid
This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - the true tale of an unjustly convicted man pursued and tormented by the pitiless and corrupt Chain Gang politics of Depression-era Georgia; The Olive Thomas Collection - a recovered silent feature The Flapper and a new documentary illuminate the amazing but short life of a Ziegfeld Follies star - turned movie star, Olive Thomas; Hukkle - a bizarre Hungarian documentary that turns into a strange murder mystery ... or does it; Crazed Fruit -
A real freak-out: A teen angst film that defines everything about youth rebellion, made long before American movies got around to asking the right questions; Hiroshima No Pika &
Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima - two films highlight the careers and macabre artwork of two Japanese activist-artists, who witnessed the aftermath of Hiroshima and started campaigning for peace through their art;
The Karate Kid - Ralph Macchio gets a surrogate dad who teaches him how to lick the pidoodles of mean baddies in this hugely popular, infinitely infantile 80s moneymaker. Read all this and more in this week's DVD Savant.
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