CAGE UNCAGED: MANDY'S RAINBOW

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THROUGH A RED FILTER

Super-guest and theme song wizard Ryan of HOWLING FANTODS rejoins the GBU team to discuss Cage's unlikely late-career masterpiece MANDY (2018). As bracing and indelibly stunning a film as any in Cage's deep filmography, Panos Cosmatos' sophomore effort delivers as much mood, style, nerve and bravado as any film this century. This late in almost any actor's career almost nothing they do *should* come as revelation but Cage approaches that here with a wild performance equally as restrained as it is unrestrained. It is a marvel he matches the material at every step. CAGE UNCAGED would not exist if not for MANDY!

In 2011 Cosmatos released his debut feature, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW, which stylistically serves as dress-rehearsal for Mandy. Equally as moody and stylish, Rainbow takes cues from early 1980s sci-fi with more a Cronenberg chill than Mandy's raging grindhouse revenge aesthetic. Cosmatos financed Rainbow with residuals from Tombstone, which his late father, George P., directed. Made for a little over a million dollars, Cosmatos' clear vision is here from the start; He likes 1983, red filters, cults, and soundtracks that firmly plant you into his unique universe. One of a kind x2 this week!

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REMAINING CAGE UNCAGED FILMS:

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E15 WILLY'S WONDERLAND AND FINAL THOUGHTS ON CAGE

THEME SONG: HOWLING FANTODS

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