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Source: The Village Voice
by Michael Atkinson
October 19th, 2004 11:45 AM
Toiling for years on the psychotronic fringes of festival culture, indie gore-meister Jim Van Bebber has never had one of his films released—until now, his nascent 1997 chronicle of the Manson saga saved from post-production oblivion by the sympathetic souls at Blue Underground Video. The Manson Family is cut-rate but surprisingly savvy about its protagonists—particularly Bobby Beausoleil, played by Van Bebber—as well as stunningly evocative of its period. Nearly Maddin-esque in its re-creation of early-'70s exploitation movies, down to the faded-stock cinematography, desert sunsets, and optically printed titles, this version of the paradigmatic anti- Summer of Love saga is a film the family might've made themselves: sophomoric, hagiographic, amateurishly strobe-happy, and thoroughly hippiefied.
Read More (http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0442/atkinson2.php)
Source: The Village Voice
by Michael Atkinson
October 19th, 2004 11:45 AM
Toiling for years on the psychotronic fringes of festival culture, indie gore-meister Jim Van Bebber has never had one of his films released—until now, his nascent 1997 chronicle of the Manson saga saved from post-production oblivion by the sympathetic souls at Blue Underground Video. The Manson Family is cut-rate but surprisingly savvy about its protagonists—particularly Bobby Beausoleil, played by Van Bebber—as well as stunningly evocative of its period. Nearly Maddin-esque in its re-creation of early-'70s exploitation movies, down to the faded-stock cinematography, desert sunsets, and optically printed titles, this version of the paradigmatic anti- Summer of Love saga is a film the family might've made themselves: sophomoric, hagiographic, amateurishly strobe-happy, and thoroughly hippiefied.
Read More (http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0442/atkinson2.php)