#Allan Arkush

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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)

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HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD (1976)

Director: Allan Arkush & Joe Dante Cinematography: Jamie Anderson

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Rock 'n' Roll High School will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on December 10 via Shout Factory. From executive producer Roger Corman, the 1979 musical comedy cult classic is celebrating its 45th anniversary.

Allan Arkush (Caddyshack II) directs from a script by Richard Whitley, Russ Dvonch, and Joseph McBride. P.J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov, and Paul Bartel star with The Ramones.

The film has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision. Special features for the three-disc set are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio Commentary with Stephen B. Armstrong, Author of I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (new)

Audio Commentary with Director Allan Arkush, Producer Mike Finnell, and Writer Richard Whitley

Audio Commentary with Director Allan Arkush and Actors P.J. Soles and Clint Howard

Audio Commentary with Writers Richard Whitley and Russ Dvonch

Audio Commentary with Executive Producer Roger Corman and Actress Dey Young

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio Commentary with Stephen B. Armstrong, Author of I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (new)

Audio Commentary with Director Allan Arkush, Producer Mike Finnell, and Writer Richard Whitley

Audio Commentary with Director Allan Arkush and Actors P.J. Soles and Clint Howard

Audio Commentary with Writers Richard Whitley and Russ Dvonch

Audio Commentary with Executive Producer Roger Corman and Actress Dey Young

Disc 3 - Blu-ray:

Interview with Musician/Actor Marky Ramone (new)

Class of ’79: 40 Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School - Revised

Back to School: A Retrospective

Staying After Class - Interview with Actors P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, and Dey Young

Allan Arkush's 2019 Sunday Slasher Intro

Interview with Roger Corman Conducted by Leonard Maltin

Interview with Director Allan Arkush

Audio Outtakes from The Roxy

Theatrical Trailer

TV Spot

Radio Spots

Riff Randell (P.J. Soles) is the rockingest rebel at Vince Lombardi High. Evelyn Togar (Mary Woronov) is the strict new principal with plans to rule the school like her own personal dictatorship. And the Ramones are the hottest band around. When these forces of nature collide, Lombardi High will never be the same! Striking back against Togar's record burnings and iron-fisted discipline, Riff leads a revolt that rocks the roof right off the school's hallowed halls!

Pre-order Rock 'n' Roll High School.

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Deathsport (1978)

My rating: 4/10

I've never seen that many horses get evaporated by ray guns, I'll give 'em that.

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Ramones - I Just Want To Have Something To Do

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Legendary hearts

Tearing us apart

With stories of their love

Their great transcendent loves

While we stand here and fight

And lose another night

Of legendary love

Legendary loves

Haunt me in my sleep

Promises to keep

I never should have made

I can't live up to this

I'm good for just a kiss

Not legendary love

Romeo, oh, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo

He's in a car or at a bar

Or churning his blood with an impure drug

He's in the past and seemingly lost forever

He worked hard at being good

But his basic soul was stained not pure

And when he took his bow

No audience was clapping

Legendary hearts

Tear us all apart

Make our emotions bleed

Crying out in need

No legendary love

Is coming from above

It's in this room right now

And you've got to fight

To make what's right

You've got to fight to keep your legendary love

Legendary Hearts / Lou Reed

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On April 20, 1979 Rock 'n' Roll High School debuted in Austin, Texas.

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"Get Crazy" de Allan Arkush - el mismo que unos años antes dirigió "Rock and Roll High School"- completa y con buena calidad, por si a alguien le interesa. Es una mezcla de cine musical y de comedia disparatada de universitarios. Como unos Blues Brothers - ésta anterior, de 1980- más locatis y pasados de vueltas. En ella desfilan entre otros, Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern, Dick Miller, John Densmore (The Doors), Howard Kaylan (The Turtles), Lee Ving (Fear) y hasta la warholiana Mary Woronov o el cantante Fabian ("Tiger").

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HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD:

Struggling actress

Works for sleazy studio

Films endangers lives

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get crazy (1983) dir. allan arkush

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TGIF

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Do you have recommendations for books on Jewish anarchism? Pretty please?

general literature

revolutionary yiddishland: a history of jewish radicalism by alain brossat and sylvie klingberg

east end jewish radicals, 1875-1914 by william j. fishman

there is nothing so whole as a broken heart: mending the world as jewish anarchists, ed. cindy milstein

no masters but god: portraits of anarcho-judaism by hayyim rothman

with freedom in our ears: histories of jewish anarchism by anna elena torres and kenyon zimmer

the jewish anarchist movement in america: a historical overview and personal reminiscences by joseph cohen

horizons blossom, borders vanish: anarchism and yiddish literature by anna elena torres

crisis, revolution and russian jews by jonathan frankel

yiddish revolutionaries in migration: the transnational history of the jewish labour bund by frank wolff

immigrants against the state: yiddish and italian anarchism in america by kenyon zimmer

memoirs, biography, and primary sources

forty years in the struggle: the memoirs of a jewish anarchist by chaim leib weinberg

twenty years with the jewish labor bund: a memoir of interwar poland by bernard goldstein

gustav landauer: anarchist and jew, ed. paul mendes-flohr and anya mali

anarcho-syndicalism by rudolf rocker

the london years by rudolf rocker

anarchism and other essays by emma goldman

an anarchist rabbi: the life and teachings of rudolf rocker by mina graur

emma goldman: revolution as a way of life by vivian gornick

articles

'principled diasporism': folkists, zionists, and the meaning of doikayt by michael casper (this one is hard to find- i can supply a pdf)

"the other invisible hand: jews and anarchists in london before the first world war" by paul knepper (2008)

"zionism and its jewish 'assimilationist' critics (1897-1948)" by robert s. wistrich

"from diaspora natioalism to radical diasporism" by allan arkush

"the bund abroad in the postwar jewish world" by david slucki

"the invitation of doikayt: mystical anarchism and the jewish left" by andy izenson

"retrieving tradition? the secular-religious ambiguity in nineteenth century german-jewish anarchism by carolin kosuch in the book negotiating the secular and the religious in the german empire

this by no means comprehensive, in part because my scholarship on the subject focuses on british and american contexts; this is compiled from the work i have in my own library. bold/italic marks a work i especially like, is especially important, or that makes a good introduction to the topic.

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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979, Allan Arkush)

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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)

My rating: 4/10

It's a 70s teen comedy, so of course it's rapey as fuck in parts, and if the script crawled any further up the Ramones' collective asses they'd be unable to perform due to all the paper stuck in their teeth, but I guess the soundtrack's pretty good.

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An episode of Joe Dante's and Josh Olson's The Movies That Made Me podcast where Dante and his buddy Alan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) tell stories about editing trailers and movies for Roger Corman.

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Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Private Parts Blu-ray, which releases on June 6 via Scream Factory. The 1972 horror-comedy marks the feature directorial debut of Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000, Eating Raoul).

Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio, and Laurie Main star. Philip Kearney and Les Rendelstein wrote the script. Gene Corman, brother of Roger Corman, produces.

Private Parts has been newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive with DTS-HD Master Audio Dual Mono. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and David DeCoteau (new)

Interview with actress Ayn Ruymen (new)

Frivolous Gravitas - Filmmaker Allan Arkush on the movies of Paul Bartel (new)

Still gallery

Theatrical trailer

In the sleaziest corner of Los Angeles, the King Edward Hotel has a new arrival in the form of Cheryl, a runaway teen. She’s hoping to put her life back together – but somewhere in the musty halls of the King Edward lurks another guest who just loves to chop people apart.

Pre-order Private Parts.