Sunday, 23 March 2008

A perfect paragraph.

From an essay on filmmaking atrocity:
The worst film I have ever seen is a low-budget 1969 production called Futz. It was about a man who fell in love with a pig, and even by the dismal standards of the era, it was dismal. There is also a special place in my heart for La Grande Bouffe, the 1973 film about four men who eat themselves to death, and for Anjelica Huston's 1969 debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death, which also starred Assaf Dayan, the son of the Israeli general with the flashy eye patch. But these are personal tastes; I would never be so bold as to argue that a 39-year-old film about an arrant porcophile is the worst movie ever made, not only because so few people have seen it but because there may be several other movies about men who rapturously lie down with comely sows that are actually worse than Futz. Though I kind of doubt it.
Porcophile? I almost blew coffee through my nose reading this in a Chadstone cafe yesterday.

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