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Vortex
Poster ID: CL55619
Category: Movies
Year: 1980s
Actor / Director: James Russo, Lydia Lunch, William Rice, Bill Corsair, Haoui Montaug, dirs. Scott B. and Beth B.
Country: American
Film Country: American
Approximate Size 44 x 30 inches
Condition: Very Good
Price: $440

1982, the first feature-length film by the B Film Productions (couple Scott B. and Beth B.) Characterized by it's carefully executed amateur quality. "The documentary started to focus on a film written and directed by Scott B and Beth B called Vortex, a futuristic film noir starring Lydia Lunch as a private investigator named Angel Powers. Now this is what I've been waiting for. A film full of artistic flourishes and big ideas, yet providing me with me shots of a leggy Lydia Lunch behaving in a leggy manner in the presence of a peckish boa constrictor, the film, not to be confused the awesome used record store of the same name (still going strong at Yonge and Eglinton, baby!), depicts a world where corporations have taken over the government. The budget may have been limited–though, I hear it was quite high as far as No Wave movies go ($80,000)–but the ideas it tries to convey were anything but. Oh, and the fact Ann Magnuson (Making Mr. Right) is in it, even though it's only a small part, increases the film's coolness quota by at least ten points." House of Self-Indulgence

Keywords: Black and white,City,New york,Postmodern,Postmodernism