Episode 125 - Dark Star + Cutter's Way + Charlie Victor Romeo + What's Love

This week on The Stacks, in part 1 (0:00-1:12:46) we discuss John Carpenter's debut, the USC student film expanded to feature length of Dark Star (1974), an absurdist sci-fi satire about blue collar workers blowing up planets, in addition to continuing coverage of the Ultra Q TV series with its third episode ("The Gift From Space"). In part 2 (1:12:47-2:21:36) we discuss three additional films - Ivan Passer's 1981 neo-noir Cutter's Way, the experimental theatre / air disaster documentary Charlie Victor Romeo (2014, directed by Robert Berger & Karlyn Michelson), and the totally unclassifiable erotic philosophy film What's Love (begun in the 70s by Bill Cable, completed in 1987 by Carlos Tobalina), and as usual in our third section, we chat about all the other movies we've viewed on physical media since last episode, and make our choices for next week.

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