My guest this week is graphic novelist/artist/musician Leela Corman (Victory Parade, Unterzakhn), who chose to discuss the 1980 midnight movie classic Forbidden Zone.
We also talk about how Leela creates her long-form graphic novels, the difficulties and joys of making her masterwork Victory Parade, how Einstürzende Neubauten's album Lament helped her create her art, how watercolor is the noise guitar of paints, Leela's use of Busby Berkeley imagery, growing up in the 80s surrounded by transgressive art, Sonic Youth & Big Black, Raw Magazine, Lisa Suckdog, Forced Exposure, RE/SEARCH, how divisive the Forbidden Zone film can be, director Richard Elfman and his creation of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo troupe (later taken over by his brother, Danny Elfman), how we each discovered the film, how Leela puts a line from Forbidden Zone into every one of her books, Night Flight, the acting of Hervé Villechaize and Susan Tyrrell in the film, how the film spoke to Leela because of its use of Yiddish and ‘Yinglish’, how Richard Elfman went broke making the film, its incredible musical sequences, Josephine Baker, Leela working with The Mountain Goats, the legendary performance art of The Kipper Kids in the film, midnight movies and so much more!
So let's jump into the mouth in the wall and ride through the intestine on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!
Leela Corman:
Forbidden Zone:
https://richardelfman.com/films/
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