By: greasepig
San Francisco is having a film festival, too. It will give us Americans a chance to see, IMHO, the greatest movie of all time.
View ArticleBy: DyRE
Interesting. Happy birthday, big guy. And that Lansdale story totally rocks. In honour of Godzilla's big five-oh, there's also an art show in San Francisco, California and a film festival in Portland,...
View ArticleBy: MrBadExample
Oh, no, there goes Tokyo... I was lucky enough to catch the restored version of the original Japanese film a couple of months ago. You all are right--that film is deep. It was an odd experience to see...
View ArticleBy: Quartermass
It is interesting to compare the Japanese version of the Godzilla and the way that they were edited to be American movies for the North American market. Stripped of its social commentary, the American...
View ArticleBy: Miles Long
yeah. i think because the original was such a heavy movie, the sequels had to be 'sillified'. That's one of the positive uses of art, working out big cultural fears in the open, instead of hiding them...
View ArticleBy: COBRA!
The original Godzilla's a pretty heavy movie. Less than a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you've got a movie about a giant monster, created by the bomb, kicking the shit out of Tokyo. Imagine a...
View ArticleBy: matteo
Info on the Festival hereJoe R Lansdale's masterful story, Godzilla's Twelve-Step Program
View ArticleMY NEW MONSTER-FIGHTING TECHNIQUE IS UNSTOPPABLE
INCREDIBLE, UNSTOPPABLE TITAN OF TERROR! He's attacked other monsters and terrorized Japan for decades. Now Godzilla is confronting academics who want to wrestle with his legacy. The University of...
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