INTERVIEW: Riding the Sleazoid Express with Bill Landis

The Important Cinema Club - A podcast by Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

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From 1980 to 1985, the underground zine “Sleazoid Express” became one of the first publications to seriously cover grindhouse movies, and a valuable primary document about life on New York’s 42nd Street. Its editor and writer, the late Bill Landis, was the Hunter S. Thompson of film criticism… and a man who left a trail of wreckage in his wake. In this special bonus episode, Will talks to Preston Fassel, author of the new biography “Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street,” about the checkered life and lasting legacy of Times Square’s greatest film critic. Buy “Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street” Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Landis-Story-Real-42nd-Street/dp/0578304805 US: https://www.amazon.com/Landis-Story-Real-42nd-Street/dp/0578304805