I went to an all nighter triple bill of the
Female Prisoner films at my local cinema (Rio, Dalston) courtesy of
Cigarette Burns Cinema and these chaps:
Scala Forever.
Well it was amazing to see these beauties on the big screen with a hardcore bunch of all nighter peeps.
The films were absolutely fantastic and I loved them all, but the first:
Scorpion impressed me the most and I can't believe that Nicolas Winding Refn wasn't in some way informed by it before he made
Bronson.
Jailhouse 41 went down a slightly more eccentric, surreal route, but also had a big impact.
And in retrospect I think that
Beast Stable was probably the oddest of the bunch. Opening with the heroine running through the crowded streets of Tokyo with a severed arm handcuffed to her was a masterful stroke of 'Eh?'.
Feeling pretty knackered though as my little boy didn't want me to have any sleep - he woke me up an hour after I got back at 7am
