IFWT #149 - Madame Wang's (1981) [ft. Craig Williams a.k.a Mondocraig)
This week I'm joined by Welsh filmmaker and guest film programmer at London's only grindhouse-exclusive picturehouse, The Nickel Cinema, Craig Williams, to discuss Paul Morrissey's near-lost punk artifact Madame Wang's.
Centered on a story of of an East German agent who is sent to the United States, not only to search for Jane Fonda, but to wait for the Communist takeover. Along the way he bumps into an eclectic mix of society's throwaways, who teach him the what it is to be an American.
Morrissey's film, like his previous Flesh, Trash and Heat films with Andy Warhol, never strays from that…
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