I just read from El –Badrun’s Facebook status, that #liliksudjio just passed away
today (9 dec), at 07.30, in Jakarta.
Liliek
Sudjio was the first director who received
Citra awards in the 1st Festival Film Indonesia. He outdid Usmar
Ismail, “the father of Indonesian cinema”.
He directed Ratu Ilmu Hitam (Queen of The Black Magic, 1979), one of the
earliest exploitation films exported overseas in the early 1980s and
recirculated in the 2000s.
But Liliek’s
works are beyond that. He directed several superhero movies such as GundalaPutra Petir (Indonesia's Flash) and Darna Ajaib (Indonesia's Wonder Woman). He also directed comedy starring the icons of the 1980s namely Gepeng and Benyamin Sueb.
In 1968, he
was one of the chosen director that has been selected by Dewan Film Nasional
(National Film Council) to produce a film related to the project of “searching
of Indonesian faces on screen”. Instead of making art-house films, like other
directors, he chose to make genre film, Djampang
Mentjari Naga Hitam (Djampang Searches for the Black Dragon).
a review on Queen of Black Magic in DVD Drive-In http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/n-s/queenofblackmagic79.htm
a review on Queen of Black Magic (Oh The Horror) http://www.oh-the-horror.com/page.php?id=319
A review on Queen of Black Magic (Fright) (http://www.fright.com/edge/QueenOfBlackMagic.htm)
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