anorakhighst said about 5 years ago or at 12:02AM on Thursday, February 8 2007 in films
There doesn't seem to be a Dogs In Space thread here; time to remedy this...
Does anyone know if/when the Dogs In Space DVD is coming out? Richard Lowenstein said in 2004 that he was working on it and the bonus features (which included a making-of documentary shot at the time of filming), but it doesn't seem to have emerged.
Is it true that the project was scuttled because, under recent changes to censorship laws, the film has become illegal in Australia (as it depicts underage sex)?
...Laika?
Strange, i was going to start one yesterday but couldnt find a good enough image on the net to post with it.
wonder if the house is still for sale, sure there was a thread around here about that.
THERE IS ONE!!
You just have to know where to look!!!
i saw this film when i was 8. I wanted hair like Saskia
isn't there dvd copies around anyhow?
Man, i adore the primitive calculators in this.
Apparently there was a UK DVD, which reportedly had very poor quality (it was apparently made from an old VHS copy or somesuch). As far as I know, this is now out of print.
I was thinking the other day how fucking ridiculous Michael Hutchence’s character is in this movie.
If I knew someone like Sammy I'd give them a stern talking to and tell them to get their shit together!!!
you mean you never knew someone like Sammy?
man i wish it was still the 80's and everyone hated their parents and moved out into crack dens and ate dogfood to get by.
personally, i blame scientific progress.
There were no metal gods in this film, though, Plier, if there were, he might have pulled his socks up and not been a loser smackie that killed his girlfriend and shagged the underage girl.
I was disappointed that Nique Needles' character didn't have a punch on with him after being kicked out of the band. Those keys totally made that band.
It was set in 79, smd
I did a transfer of a friend's VHS copy a couple of years ago to DVD - came out well, better than the UK DVD copy, which was rubbish.
I did read something about copyright release issues - Hutchence related - but can't find the link now.
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Fuck yes Hellza....do you have it? a girl I know has it on VHS and we are both scared to watch it again in case it disintegrates. I want to get it converted to DVD somehow...no one ever talks about this movie so I am afraid it won't get the re-issue treatment that Dogs In Space got. I mean Michael Hutchence isn't in it but so fucking what it's fucking great. The band...man...those guys can really like play. The most committed drummer ever.
I've only ever hired it out on VHS, though I hear there was a small DVD release done in the UK?? But indeed, the movie is grand, one of my personal fav things to watch whenever I happen to come across it. Those final scenes are perfect.
Bloodlust is fucken far from classic.
white city is the pete townshend film? i had that on VHS, it ain't great, should be pretty easy to come by
i saw evictions at the chauvel cinematheque in sydney, from memory it is about 30 mins long and pretty good
neither similar to dogs in space btw
I'm a fan. Mostly cause Ian Rilen is in it. I said it was classic I never said it was good...
Bloodlust
Goths with guns whats not to like
ooh, thanks for this. now I really want to see Smoke em if you got em!
It is a great film.
Strikebound and Evictions are in one respect thematically similar to Dogs in Space but in most nothing like it and not music oriented at all (though as I recall Sam Sejavka is in Strikebound - in a small part). They are docudramas i.e. documentaries using oral history and dramatic recreations, about working class struggles of the 1930s - the first I think in Wonthaggi (this is from memory) and the second in inner-city Melbourne.
Lowenstein's mother Wendy was a well-respected though if I recall rightly not academic historian, her Weevils in the Flour was a particularly popular book in the 70s.
The ABC is airing the movie and a shortened version of the doco in the coming weeks.
We’re Livin’ on Dog Food Tuesday 22 November on ABC1 Artscape @ 10pm (14th anniversary of Michaels death)
Dogs in Space Friday 9 December ABC2 @ 9.30pm
Killing one dog by accident so we can have a global communications network and possibly one day reach the Stars is I think what they call an acceptible loss.
Dogs kill folks all the time.
Fuck you, dogs.
The follow up film 'Smoke 'em if you got 'em' is classic
tonight.
Just in case anyone was wondering...''Whatever happened to that Nique Needles guy''.
The strange and wonderful story, told by the man himself.
Thanks for the link Frankie. He looks like someone who's about to start a military coup or something.
I have often wondered that Frankie. Thanks for the link.
Yeah cheers Frankie
Ha ha. I was thinking the same thing about the military coup. I also liked the fact that he refers to himself as the king of the village.