Bollywood and Hollywood

As a film student I'm ashamed to admit I've never seen a Bollywood film. The emphasis on dancing and music sequences isn't exactly a big sell for me. But, this distribution model over the internet, I must admit, is getting me interested. They make more films than Hollywood each year and I'm sure each film is much cheaper and therefore more able to take risks. Maybe I'll go over there after graduation and try to make movies. Wouldn't that be a trip?

PS - The New Beverly is the best deal in town. $5 for a student to watch a double feature. Last night was Collateral and To Live and Die in LA. Great double header....to Live and Die is a William Friedkin film (French Connection), basically a coked-up fascist cop 80s action flick, a mix of Beverly Hills Cop and Miami Vice, with major homo-eroticism going on, including tight jeans, plently of gratuitous ass shots, and even a silhouetted cock-shot. The plot had plenty of holes, but more than made up for it with some insane sequences - a car chase that certainly endangered lives - a chase sequence in an airport at 30mph - and a great scene when John Turturo is about to be attacked in prison and he sits around pondering who the fuck is going to get their ass kicked - and unheard-of plot devices.

The popcorn costs $2 for a small. The soda, $2 for a big medium. Candy is $1. And the crowd is a bunch of winos and weirdos and ugly chicks and interracial couples and homeless chain smoking Schwin riding musicians and irreverant film students and lonely newcomers to LA.