Synopsis
The street where starlets are made!
A Midwestern ingenue moves to Hollywood and rivals a B-movie queen in low-budget quickies.
1976 Directed by Joe Dante, Allan Arkush
A Midwestern ingenue moves to Hollywood and rivals a B-movie queen in low-budget quickies.
Candice Rialson Mary Woronov Rita George Jeffrey Kramer Dick Miller Richard Doran Tara Strohmeier Paul Bartel John Kramer Jonathan Kaplan George Frayne George Wagner W.L. Luckey David Boyle Glenn K. Shimada Joseph McBride Barbara Pieters Shawn Pieters Sue Veneer Charles B. Griffith Miller Drake Robert Short Roberta Dean Milton Kahn Todd McCarthy Forrest J. Ackerman Allan Arkush Joe Dante Danny Opatoshu Show All…
星光大道, In Hollywood ist der Teufel los, 好莱坞大道
Is this the best movie about Hollywood EVER?
NO.But it's the best one that I ever Co-Directed.
Are you interested in how Drive-In movies were made in the 70's?
Are you not offended by Nudity and bad jokes?
Do you love Roger Corman movies?
Do you wish you had been there?
If your answer is YES then this IS the best movie about Hollywood EVER?Can I rate it higher than 5 Stars?
One director’s trash is another director’s first motion picture.
Joe Dante and Allan Arkush’s first feature film, “Hollywood Boulevard,” is a dumpster dive in movie format. The rubbish that the two men raided though, was taken from the best bins in town; the ones behind Roger Corman’s New World Pictures.
Captured on “short ends” - essentially the discards of film stock - “Hollywood,” shot in ten days and using interspersed clips from other New World films, was the cheapest movie the budget production company ever made.
It shows. And, in a good way.
Whether by necessity or design, “Hollywood,” which follows a struggling actress roped into a low cost film that might actually be a crime, is a pastiche of…
Action! – Three Auteurs: Dante’s Zany Inferno
So I am not gonna lie, finding my third director this marathon wasn’t an easy task. Not because I couldn’t think of it as I indeed come up with so many names lets just say I am already set for marathons til the end of summer. Some of the candidates were Samuel Fuller, Von Triers, Shyamalan, May, Spike Lee, Nolan, Wilder and Cameron was a close frontrunner – but by the end, and looking at his filmography, I went in with our manic Renaissance Man Joe Dante.
And starting up, we get Dante starting up his film career with a movie that pays tributes and at the same time pokes fun at the…
Having the distinction of being the cheapest film ever produced by Roger Corman's New World Pictures, I would've rated this much higher if not for the two - count 'em - two attempted gang rapes* on our leading lady in this "tits & ass" exploitation spoof of what it was like to be a New World Pictures movie actress during the "Three Girls With Amazing Racks Go On An Adventure" era of the production company. (Here New World is called Miracle Pictures, "If it's a good movie, it's a Miracle!")
Also, if the movie had way more Paul Bartel in it, that would've really knocked this into the stratosphere. He's genius in this. ("In this film we've taken the myth of…
This is not a film about the human condition. This is a film about tits and ass.
Hollywood Boulevard is extremely cheap. It's the cheapest movie New World Pictures ever made and there's a good chunk of footage repurposed from other Corman-produced or owned films. It's also narratively uneven, focusing more on gags and silly situations for most of the first hour before the plot finally kicks in for the last third. I kinda loved it despite all that. The cheapness and use of old footage, plus the backstory of how the movie came to be, was actually part of its charm to me. The bulk of the movie acts as a parody of how chaotic the making of exploitation…
Hollywood Boulevard wasn’t created to be a movie that required context, but I recommend the context. Made on a bet (about how cheap a film could be produced), Roger Corman gave rein to producer Jon Davison and first-time directors Alan Arkush and Joe Dante, who had been creating the trailers for New World Pictures.
Arkush and Dante’s familiarity with the New World flicks, already cutting trailers with materials from other movies, cut Hollywood Boulevard with 12 other Corman production scenes, crafting a super-meta parody of a New World production and a send-up of the naïf in Hollywood storyline.
Candice Rialson stars as Candy, small town girl, trying to make it in showbiz. The film also offers plum roles for Paul…
Candice Rialson made 12 movies between 1969 and 1979, most of them exploitation pictures. With Hollywood Boulevard checked off, I've now seen half of them, and feel confident saying that she elevates each one in which she plays a starring or major supporting role. There's something extraordinarily disarming about Rialson's presence — no matter how calculating or seductive her character's behavior, there's a genuine charm to her that never leaves, and it's impossible not to invest in her onscreen, no matter how pointless the stories or the roles she's asked to play.
In Hollywood Boulevard, Rialson plays a sweet, gorgeous kid named Candy who leaves her Indiana home behind and heads for Hollywood to become a big movie star. (There's…
Rewatched with commentary by Joe Dante, Allan Arkush and Jon Davison. One of the better commentaries tracks I've heard, these three are are old friends and their chemistry comes through. They also have impressive memories and point out many minor details about the making of the movie. The movie uses a lot of footage from other films so the most interesting parts were the discussions of the which movies they stole from and how they tried to make their scenes match. They also poke fun at themselves such as Dante calling out the absence of style in a scene he directed. They're a little too dismissive of the movie. I think it's better than they give themselves credit for. But…
“From the directors of THE HOWLING and CADDYSHACK 2”
What more do you need???
This mishmash of previously used Corman produced footage (mostly from BIG BIRD CAGE and DEATH RACE 2000) edited with cheaply shot new footage with plenty of boobies is a lo-fi camp treat, especially knowing where the filmmakers were headed to Hollywood.
Knowing what they had to work with, these former New World editors made something kinda genius.
Candice Rialson as Candy seems to handle all the abuse on-set and off.
Always fun to see Bartel And Woronov ham it up as always.
Hey, Dick Miller’s here too (big shocker)!
The “comedic” rape scenes may be very triggering in today’s climate, to be fair.
Overall, a lot of goofy fun if you love early Corman, Dante & Arkush and that whole scene of B movie mavens making more for less.
This film isn't about the human condition, it's a film about tits and ass.
Setting THE MOVIE ORGY aside—I don't know how to see it, and I probably wouldn't know how to sit through it—this is Joe Dante's debut, and I'm reeling. Sketch movies usually don't do it for me, but HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD's hard-R, madcap insanity certainly did. You have to be truly drunk-in-love with cinema to skewer its creation as thoroughly as Dante and Allan Arkush do here, roasting everything from specific genres to the behind-the-scenes process to on-set romances and rivalries to the celebrity-making machine to the wholly repugnant culture of the casting couch (this frequently unpleasant material proves that people were quite aware of what was going on long before the #MeToo movement brought it to light). It would be a…