"This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife ..."
In such works as "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho" Bret Easton Ellis dissects contemporary American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. Now, adapting his own novel for the screen, he returns to the Los Angeles of the early 1980's with a multi-strand narrative that balances a vast array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting all his intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis protagonists -- a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs -- and one another -- with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano. Ten women from varied backgrounds learn the art of burlesque dancing in this colorful documentary about a pastime growing in popularity. Six weeks is all the time they have to learn the art of the shimmy and the shake at Seattle's Academy of Burlesque. Will they make it? And what will they learn about themselves? The Broadway favorite A CHORUS LINE became a cultural touchstone in its epic first run in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, and its new millennium revival has attracted similar interest. For this documentary, directors James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo (THE YEAR OF THE YAO) chronicle the history of the musical, revealing the show's origins in the '70s as well as getting unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes action of the revival.
In such works as "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho" Bret Easton Ellis dissects contemporary American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. Now, adapting his own novel for the screen, he returns to the Los Angeles of the early 1980's with a multi-strand narrative that balances a vast array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting all his intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis protagonists -- a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs -- and one another -- with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano. Ten women from varied backgrounds learn the art of burlesque dancing in this colorful documentary about a pastime growing in popularity. Six weeks is all the time they have to learn the art of the shimmy and the shake at Seattle's Academy of Burlesque. Will they make it? And what will they learn about themselves? The Broadway favorite A CHORUS LINE became a cultural touchstone in its epic first run in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, and its new millennium revival has attracted similar interest. For this documentary, directors James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo (THE YEAR OF THE YAO) chronicle the history of the musical, revealing the show's origins in the '70s as well as getting unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes action of the revival.
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