He was the Spielberg of sex, the Kurosawa of carnality, the Orson Welles of mammary-mad cinema. Russ Meyer, who died last weekend at 82, was a Hollywood outsider who crafted a formula for soft-core ...
Given the fact that ’80s nostalgia has never really seemed to die, the numerous film classics (and class-sicks) celebrating their 40th (or more) anniversaries are flexing all over the high-resolution ...
Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. It’s been six months since Roger Ebert passed ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three films by Russ Meyer, the sexploitation director film critic Roger Ebert described as “the ultimate auteur,” are coming to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the pantheon of 1960s B-movie filmmakers whose work later became reappraised and celebrated for its progressive themes, Russ ...
Though legendary film critic Roger Ebert sadly passed away earlier this year, his legacy lives on in his impeccable film criticism and writing about the art of cinema. But the critic will also live on ...
LYON, France — Presenting Russ Meyer’s “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” part of his 1970 retrospective at Lyon’s Lumière Festival on Sunday, director Quentin Tarantino outlined a bizarre attempt, led ...
Russell Albion “Russ” Meyer was born in California in 1922 and spent WWII as a combat photographer. In 1953 Playboy magazine debuted and Meyer was one of its first centerfold photographers. Meyer had ...
Russ Meyer is a tit man. He sings the female form divine. For 56 years and counting, he has photographed it, parodied it, made love to it, made fun of it. The man who directed such deathless ...
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 ...