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Biography: American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker "Paul Bartel " is perhaps best known as the director and star of the quirky sleeper "Eating Raoul " (1982). Born in New York City, Bartel was a film aficionado since childhood and entered the industry at age 13 working as an assistant animator for UPA. He later studied film at UCLA and while there, made several short animated films and documentaries; for his work as a student actor and playwright, Bartel won several awards. Later he studied at Rome's prestigious Centro Sperimental di Cinematografica on a Fulbright Scholarship; there his graduation film, Progetti, was shown at the Venice Film Festival. Soon after coming back to the U.S., Bartel began working as an assistant director for military films; he then went on to make films for the U.S. government. As a feature filmmaker, Bartel is consistently drawn to the darkly funny, more perverse aspects of life. Full Biography (movies.msn.com....x?c=205010)
Bogdanovichâs appearance coincides with AFI Festâs effort to mark a historic anniversary â not its own, but that of its predecessor, Filmex, a.k.a. the Los Angeles International Film Exposition, which would have turned 35 this year had it not succumbed to financial problems and other managerial crises in the mid-1980s (after which AFI Fest arose from its ashes). Bogdanovichâs classic adaptation of Larry McMurtryâs The Last Picture Show opened the inaugural Filmex back in 1971, and this year, the film returns along with its maker, kicking off an all-night marathon of notable titles, including Eraserhead , Eating Raoul and Peter Weir âs The Last Wave , culled from the Filmex back catalog (www.laweekly.com....tor/14923/)
This jaw-droppingly unfunny, embarrassing satire on tabloidpublications and political corruption has no pacing, no timing, nohumor, no brains, no nothing. Paul Bartel has always been-for the mostpart, anyway-a good director with a wicked sense of humor, as theblack comedy Eating Raoul and the hilarious parody Death Race 2000 have shown, so God only knows what happened here, but this disjointedmess is virtually unwatchable. It makes Sylvester Stallone 's hideousso-called comedy Oscar look like a sophisticated drawing-room farceby Noel Coward . An embarrassment for all concerned. You'll lose braincells just reading the video box cover. You've been warned (www.imdb.com/title/tt0087815/)
When I was a young girl who was not happy with my body, I was usually not overweight but just on the side of too plump for fashion. And I was unhappy in my own skin. I tried all sorts of bizarre diet schemes, mostly concentrated around eating no fat whatsoever (bagels with mustard era.) I watched my friends go down the anorexic road, and witnessed the dawn of the Snackwells era, when everyone ate no-fat crap filled with sugar that not only contained lots of calories, but was completely without nutrition. It seemed like there were two camps: kids who got fat by eating a lot of no-nutrition crap, and kids who starved themselves so got really thin but ate only no-nutrition crap with less fat (www.mprize.org....s/2005/04/)
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