[Makes A-OK hand gesture] It STINKS! Like anchovies.

[albadger]

Juan Piquer Simón died last year, and how did I miss this? The creator of Pieces, Pod People and the marvelous gem Slugs - which somehow escaped my attention until today, and is actually based on a novel. I have now replaced my lifelong goal of driving over all 8 Bay Area toll bridges in one day with starting a Juan Piquer Simón film festival in San Leandro.

Okay, that's over, I'm back to the bridge thing.

Comments

[dhpbear.livejournal.com]

Wut?

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Since these movies are actually Spanish productions with American lead actors, the appropriate question would be ¿Por Que? which would then be dubbed into English as Wut? during post-production.

[dhpbear.livejournal.com]

Okay, I read it too quickly - I originally thought your 'bridge thing' was a topic in one of this director's fill-ums :)

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, we need to see Supersonic Man and Mystery on Monster Island now.

I have still not seen Slugs and have only seen the Cinema Snob review of Pieces. So there’s those gaps in my Juan Piquer Simón exposure. Come to think of it, I have yet to see Pod People in its original, uncut, non-MST version.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Pieces is on YouTube in all its low res glory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_q7EC1I-bc

...as is Slugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl9JgWzrpT0

The one I really really want to see is La mansión de los Cthulhu, because it looks like abysmal crap even by Juan Piquer's standards!

What a shock!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Look what else is on YouTube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66XHCXNnKY0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4KkD4G9wQo