DIRECTED BY Chanwook Park
STARRING Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo, Hye-jung Gang
Opens October 15, Cert 18, 119 mins
the second instalment in director Chanwook Park's so-called "Revenge Trilogy" (begun with 2002's Sympathy For Mr Vengeance) would put even Tarantino to shame.
Mel Brooks'gloriously tasteless 1965 comedy, with Zero Mostel's shabby producer and Gene Wilder's timid accountant hatching a plan to make a fortune from a sure-fire Broadway flop, Springtime For Hitler. Brooks' play-within-a-film structure is fiendishly clever, while Kenneth Mars' bug-eyed, paranoid Nazi playwright and Dick Shawn's way-out hippie Hitler steal the show. Superb.
George Lucas' debut is a dystopian 1984-style fantasy of a loveless society, starring Robert Duvall. The studio hated it, hacking five minutes out of it (here restored) for its initial 1970 release, but even though bleak and predictable, it's visually breath-taking. Speculate on where Lucas might have gone from here if only he hadn't been waylaid by Wookies.
