Here comes independent regional cinema
Camelot is alive and well, on motorcycles—in Pittsburgh. The redneck revenge movie has found a new hero—in Shelby, N.C. Teen-age actors play at deadly gang wars—in Boston. The radical political spirit of the northern frontier is put on film—in Crosby, N. Dak. A company of actors turn 30, and another young man makes a movie about it—in North Conway, N.H. Tab Hunter and a 300-lb. transvestite named Divine enact a suburban passion play—in Baltimore.
The directors who made these films didn't go "on location." Most of them live where...
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