Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
WHAMMY!, Los Angeles
Many Sundays throughout the year we will be highlighting a few titles that are considered to be ""stuck"" on VHS, with no physical releases since the format (discounting VHS transfers on DVDs, etc.) for various reasons, i.e. legal ownership disputes, music licensing issues, or perhaps just perceived lack of interest. Our next STUCK ON VHS title, FUEGO, which John Waters once listed among his 10 favorite films and a “a hetero film for gay people to marvel at”, still as of now has still has never been released beyond a Something Weird DVD-R of a videotape rip. From filmmaker Armando Bó, who some call Argentina's answer to Russ Meyer, and of course starring his iconic muse Isabel Sarli, FUEGO is the story of a suffering nymphomaniac (Sarli) who is unable to get satisfaction from any man or woman. A softcore, kitsch classic with an iconic theme song that will be stuck in your head for days! The New York Times said: ""Isabel Sarli squeezes more sexpal frisson into the space between breathing in and breathing out than most of us could spread over a lifetime of ordinary love-making."" The New York Post said: ""Isabel Sarli, with her Elizabeth Taylor face, her constantly undulating figure and the largest bosom in screenland, turns men into raging beasts."" ""Isabel Sarli makes Raquel Welch look like Twiggy standing backward."" (WINS RADIO) The first Argentine film banned following new censorship rules under military dictator Juan Carlos Onganía, Bó and Sarli went to New York City with the film's negative where it was released at the Rialto West and Rialto East on October 10, 1969. Since then, it was primarily only available through "grey market", dub-to-order distributors, like Alpha Blue Archives, like the copy we will be screening from.