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The Important Cinema Club

#177 - The Radioactive Dreams of Albert Pyun

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On a very special episode of the show, Justin and Will discuss the Writer/Director Albert Pyun and his films DECEIT, CAPTAIN AMERICA, KNIGHTS and CYBORG. He made 44 films, worked primarily as an independent operator, and Justin wrote a book about him! You can buy Justin's book RADIOACTIVE DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF ALBERT PYUN right here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1078206481 This week on the Patreon episode we watched THE WRECKING CREW and discussed ONCE UPON A TIME IN...HOLLYWOOD. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every week! www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:08.0

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, it's a very special episode,

0:13.4

because we're talking about someone that I wrote a book about. And that person's name is

0:18.3

Albert Pune. You mispronounced Abbas Kira Stommi.

0:21.6

That's right.

0:22.6

But yes, Albert Pune.

0:23.6

Now, for years, I knew Albert Pune as the director of Cyborg and the Bad Captain America movie.

0:30.6

And for a long time, that's how I knew him as well.

0:33.6

When I was getting into, just cinnophilia, Albert Pune would pop up on all those websites like Stomp Tokyo, Cold Fusion Video, and they hated him.

0:43.3

They would always say, like, can you believe they let Albert Pune direct Captain America?

0:47.9

And back in the day, when the reviews used to be 10,000 words, just thrashing the film and summarizing it.

0:55.7

It kind of cemented in my mind, oh, this guy is not good.

1:01.4

And that changed for me when I stumbled upon a film that he made called Mean Guns.

1:06.6

And Mean Guns is a film that came out in the 90s.

1:08.9

It started Christopher Lambert and Ice-T.

1:11.5

It was released direct to video, and it was made for a song.

1:14.5

One of the notable parts about the film is that it's one long gunfight, but there's no squibs,

1:19.1

there's no bullet hits anywhere.

1:22.1

Because when they shot the movie in, I think, six to ten days, they couldn't damage the prison they were shooting in, which was a

1:30.4

billion dollar complex that was going to open in a few months.

1:33.6

And when I saw this movie, I was surprised that I loved it as much as I did because it was

1:38.6

presenting something that I liked, John Mustel gunfights, but it was also weird.

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