In the pantheon of 1960s B-movie filmmakers whose work later became reappraised and celebrated for its progressive themes, Russ Meyer has the kind of legacy that rivals Roger Corman. Best known for a ...
When Severin co-founder and CEO David Gregory signed the deal to release five Russ Meyer movies, he had caught his white whale — and it has one hell of a rack. For years, the filmography of Meyer has ...
Three films by Russ Meyer, the sexploitation director film critic Roger Ebert described as “the ultimate auteur,” are coming to physical media in December. The estate of the pioneering independent ...
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Francesca “Kitten” Natividad, the go-go dancer who became a cult pop culture figure when she was cast by sexploitation film director Russ Meyer in “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens,” died ...
There are opportunities you just don’t pass up. As the great philosopher Tom Jones once said, “Tomorrow is promised to no one,” and when a chance at joy comes your way, especially at this moment in ...
Russ Meyer, who died Saturday of pneumonia at his Hollywood home, was a self-described “lust-crazed filmman” who pioneered the cinematic genre that came to be called “sexploitation.” He is remembered ...
She was top-billed in his final feature, “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens.” She was also his paramour and, he said, his favorite leading lady. By Neil Genzlinger Kitten Natividad, who brought ...
Restored from Meyer's original camera negatives, Meyer's landmark sexploitation films will be available for cinephiles to own on physical media for the first time. Meyer was fiercely independent and ...