Sunday, 30 May 2021

YEAH! Issue 1


YEAH!
ISSUE 1
AUSTRIA 2021
FIRST PRINTING - 20 COPIES

A limited print (just 20 copies worldwide) hand-numbered 36-page A5 fanzine from Austria. This fanzine is a "tribute" to the Star-Club news magazines that were issued in Germany between 1964 and 1965. The original articles it reproduces have all been translated into English and it also comes with a free copy of one of the original Star-Club postcards which has "YEAH!" printed on the back (by way of a Linocut) and is also hand-stamped with "THE STAR-CLUB FANZINE".

Friday, 19 March 2021

Girls In Prison


I KVINDE FAENGSLETS JUNGLE
aka GIRLS IN PRISON
DENMARK 1957

"The shocking story of one man against 1,000 women!"

Starring  Richard Denning, Joan Taylor and Adele Jergens 
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Golden State Productions
USA 1956

In 1956, American International Pictures released this film on a double bill with Hot Rod Girl 

Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys


ANDY WARHOL'S LONESOME COWBOYS
NEUES-FILM PROGRAMM NR. 6182
AUSTRIA 1972

"Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys may be a bit too much for many people, but that's their problem"

Starring Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Tom Hompertz and Louis Waldon
Directed by Andy Warhol (Paul Morrissey uncredited)
Andy Warhol Films
USA 1968

Won Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival in November 1968.

Friday, 5 March 2021

Beat Poets - Selected by Gene Baro


Publisher: Vista Books
Number: Pocket Poets Series - No Number
Publishing Year: 1961
Printing: First 
Cover Price: 
Cover Artist:

Includes poems by Paul Carroll, Gregory Corso, Edward Dorn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Le Roi Jones, Jack Kerouac, Ron Loewinsohn, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen,  John Wieners and Jonathan Williams.

Saturday, 27 February 2021

The Cool World Issue 6

 


THE COOL WORLD
ISSUE 6
AUSTRIA 2021
30 COPIES

A limited printing 36-page A5 fanzine from Austria that features vintage European film programmes from the 1930's to 1990's and sometimes beyond. Text is in English (with film titles in the original country's language as well). Issue 6 comes with 2 covers, both limited to 15 copies. Heavily leaning to the exploitation genre, it's packed with images from the original programmes and printed in colour! This issue's films include Crime In The Streets, Motorcycle Gang, Blackboard Jungle, Beat Girl, The Plague Of The Zombies and a whole lot more ! Grab a copy while you can!

Monday, 25 January 2021

The Losers


VERDAMMT, VERKOMMEN, VERLOREN - THE LOSERS
(Damned, Depraved, Lost - The Losers)
aka THE LOSERS
NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM 5983
AUSTRIA 1971

"Now the Army Has Its Outlaws. . .In the Most Savage Action Picture of All Time!"

Starring William Smith, Bernie Hamilton and Adam Roarke
Directed by Jack Starrett
Fanfare Films
USA 1970

A portion of this movie is seen in the Quentin Tarantino film, "Pulp Fiction." It is showing on the TV in the hotel room the morning after Butch's boxing match.

Monday, 11 January 2021

The Girl Can't Help It


SCHLAGERPIRATEN (HIT PIRATES)
aka THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT
ILLUSTRIERTE FILM-BÜHNE Nr. 3651
WEST GERMANY 1957

IT'S GOT THE HEAT! AND THE BEAT!

Starring Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Fats Domino, The Platters, Little Richard and His Band, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, Eddie Fontaine and Eddie Cochran 
Directed by Frank Tashlin
20th Century Fox
U.S.A. 1956

In this film, Eddie Cochran performs "Twenty Flight Rock". That song's influence was so great 
in Liverpool, that Paul McCartney's ability to memorise the words and perform the song impressed John Lennon enough to ask him to join his group, then known as "The Quarrymen", which later became The Beatles.