Welcome to the Official Joe Dallesandro webpage! Merry-Go-Round on DVD. Documentaries from Craig Highberger. The Paul Morrissey DVD Collection Boxed Set. The Gardener on DVD as you've never seen it before...and with Joe audio commentary. The Trilogy (plus Frank and Drac) back on DVD in the US!! Lonesome Cowboys and other Warhol rarities on DVD...and more.
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Rivette's 153-minute rarity has come to DVD in a beautiful print, providing quite the revelatory treat to Joe's fans who have long wanted to see this elusive film from one of Europe's great filmmakers. If there's a potential drawback, it's that the film can't be purchased separately but comes as one of a boxed set of "Four Masterworks," a designation with which the director might take some exception. Also in the set: Duell, Va Savoir, Celine and Julie Go Boating, all very much worth owning. Merry-Go-Round is spoken alternately in French and English, with German subtitles the only caption option. Available as Region2/PAL from, among several places, Germany's Amazon.com site.
"Little Joe" gets a mention in a poem of Curtis's recited in voice-over early in the festival favorite Control, "the tragic tale of the singer of Joy Division," newly available on DVD.
New Short Film?
Fans have written us about the trailer for Michael Frost's 22-minute short film "3 Stories About Evil" that has shown up on YouTube and includes still shots of Joe, Mink Stole, Billy Drago, and other cast members. Sorry to say, but we haven't much more info on where, when or if this film will be available. For his part, Joe said he was minimally involved, muttering a line or two while on the phone at his desk. We'll let you know if we learn more. In the meantime, while it lasts, here's where you can find the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmq_P_-5mY
We welcome this UK DVD showcasing photographer and filmmaker David Bailey's early 1970s television portraits of Warhol, Cecil Beaton and Luchino Visconti. There's an enticing glimpse of Morrissey's directorial approach and how he worked with his actors in an improvisational setting while providing structure, but Joe only appears in two film clips from Trash, a particular disappointment given Bailey's comments in a 2006 interview extra on this DVD in which he says, "There was a place about Joe that I didn't want to go." Helmut Berger fans, meanwhile, will be intrigued by that actor's testy turn when Bailey tries to question him about his private life in the Visconti episode.
Visit the Jack Robinson Archive at http://www.robinsonarchive.com/index.asp to see the work of this esteemed photographer. In particular, check out the Joe Dallesandro pages and the 14 photos from the 1970 session, all of which are available for sale.
This recently released boxed set from Image unfortunately does not contain all of the extras included in the European sets. Essentially, you get the identical Flesh, Trash, and Heat disks you would if purchased separately from Image, then a bonus fourth disk comprised of a new documentary, Factory Days: Paul Morrissey Remembers the Sixties. For a review of this "extra," see the Joe-Pourri Archive. For those who haven't purchased the Trilogy yet, this set is a best buy.
Raro Video Offers Raro Warhol
Italian DVD specialty house Raro Video continues to offer a tantalizing assortment of Warhol titles for those who have all-region DVD with PAL-conversion players. If you have such a player and wish to order these stateside, they are currently available through Xploited Cinema. The Trilogy boxed set is quite good and you'll note they're using a great shot from San Diego Surf on the Flesh cover. Other Warhol titles include The Chelsea Girls, Nude Restaurant, I, A Man, My Hustler, Vinyl, and in a four-silent film box: Kiss, Blow Job, Empire and Mario Banana. An 11-film compilation boxed set called the Andy Warhol Anthology includes all these titles except for the Trilogy. Note: The Chelsea Girls suffers from an improper audio mix, resulting in some sequences which were meant to have sound playing silently and vice versa.
Flesh - Trash - Heat - Flesh for Frankenstein - Blood for Dracula
Back on DVD!
Image Entertainment has released the fab five on brand new DVDs at very affordable prices. Check out this Joe-Pourri Archive page to find out about the quality of the transfers and the extras included in this must-have set.
Tony Ward and Joe Dallesandro
Model-actor Tony Ward, whose muscled, tattooed, and extraordinary physique has been a staple of printwork since the 1980s, met up with Joe at a script reading of Flowers for Albuquerque in 1997. Mr. Ward was also the star of Hustler White (1996), something of an homage to Flesh. To explore what else they may have in common as male sex symbols, as well as find more photos of their meeting, check out The Official Tony Ward Celeb-Icon website at http://www.Tony-Ward.com/
"Joe Dallesandro" is the title (and sung refrain) of a new hit song from the Norwegian pop/rock band Briskeby. It's the second single release from "Jumping on Cars," their third album. Check out the music video here. The song marks the duet collaboration of lead singer Lise with Ken Stringfellow of The Posies.
The Trilogy has been released in a boxed edition in the UK with many of the special features, including a selection of Morrissey's short films, that were included on the Italian and French sets. For a review and a list of all the extras, courtesy of Barry Wilson, go here.
Take a trip back to the heyday of Max's Kansas City and a distinctly 70s vibe with this dynamic web site, run by drummer Sesu Coleman, devoted to the Magic Tramps and dedicated to the memory of Eric Emerson.
A monstrous, 15-pounder, nearly 17" x 13", this book is a conversation piece extraordinnaire and lots of fun to tote through the bookstore while keeping the most casual and nonchalant of expressions on your face. Like Andy and his art, the book is larger than life, an outsized commodity that challenges the notion of what a book should be, in practical terms, and calls attention to its "self." Truly, size matters. But what could have been yet another kitschy Warholesque knock-off for profit, rewards with an astonishing wealth of photographic material (over 2000 images), some never before published, and smart text encompassing the vast array of the artist's life and work. It's a glorious, gargantuan scrapbook...and Joe-seekers will be rewarded, too. (He's on more pages than the index indicates.)
Available now from Penguin-Chamberlain Bros., the 241-page hardcover book Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis, by Craig Highberger, includes the DVD of the full theatrical version of the award-winning film.
The book includes large-print interview selections with Jackie's co-workers presented oral history style, as well as letters, diary excerpts, photographs, poetry and excerpts from Curtis' hilarious plays Glamour, Glory and Gold, Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit, and Vain Victory.
The DVD includes 30 minutes of extras -- including deleted interview footage, a Curtis prose poem, and scenes from the triumphant revival of Glamour, Glory and Gold. Click on the image at left for all the details about ordering your copy.
