Plaster Caster
by Jessica Everleth
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Actor: Bill Dolan, Camille Paglia, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Danny Doll Rod, Paul BarkerDirector: Jessica Everleth
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Xenon
DVD Reviews of Plaster Caster
DVD Review: Plaster Caster casts a very rare and intimate look at the 60's bands
Summary: 5 Stars
Cynthia Plaster Caster spent her youth casting her favorite rock stars from the 60's private parts into plaster molds. This is a rare documentary that features Cynthia now, telling her stories from her youth, and how her plaster kit got her a backstage pass to any concert in the 60's. Her stories are really great, as are commentaries from some of those rock stars who are interviewed now. Especially rare was hearing Noel Redding in one of his last interviews talking about Cynthia wanting to do a cast of him and Jimi Hendrix just before a concert. The cast Cynthia got of Jimi Hendrix is definitely the largest in her collection!
Cynthia entrusted her collection of these rare plaster private parts to a "friend" over the years for safe keeping. When she wanted them back, this friend refused to return her art treasures. After hiring a lawyer, Cynthia finally had her treasures returned. It made me happy she got them back, as she is so poor, she really needs every piece of art she ever made! This documentary also shows Cynthia's other art work- her sketches of some rock stars. The sketches are beautiful! Cynthia may be known for her plaster casts of personal parts of famous rock stars from the 60's, but she is a true sketch artist, and I hope she combines the two art forms and puts them in a book soon! Not only does she need the money, but she can share her talents with the world!
The ending of this documentary is great, as Cynthia gets herself fixed up for an art showing of her plaster casts, and one gets the sense that there is hope for her future of getting out of her poverty type lifestyle. Cynthia was definitely in a category of her own, as a groupie who made plaster casts that would immortalize her favorite rock stars private parts long after they were gone! This documentary is of interest for anyone who is curious about such an unusual and intimate art form from a real 60's groupie, who was really a great artist in her own right. The 60's was a decade of freedom, love and change, and Cynthia's unique art form certainly showcases all of it!
DVD Review: Plaster Caster
Summary: 2 Stars
Even though this was a cult film, I didn't like it much. It was just average.DVD Review: Thumbs Up!
Summary: 5 Stars
Superfantastic! Well worth owning 'cause you'll watch it at least a few times!DVD Review: And yes the Hendrix anecdote is priceless.
Summary: 4 Stars
Rather like the subject herself this is more a curio than a particularly rounded enterprise. It also starts rather slowly, although this is the non flashy style chosen for the documentary and as it progresses we see the wisdom of playing this all rather dead pan. By the time we have discovered that the now mid 50 year old Cynthia is more interesting than we first thought and that maybe the plaster cocks are imbued with some significance we have Camille Paglia making good sense and a New York gallery preparing an exhibition. Everyone is likable, the old rock people talking about their castings 30 years before, the young bloods giving it a go now and the ladies of the past giving us a glimpse of the world of the groupie all that long time ago. But likable despite everything is Cynthia herself as she struggles with her landlady, her distant mother and her pots of plaster. 'And what will you be wearing?' asks a prospective candidate, with a leer and it is clear that dressing sexy had never even occurred to her. And yes the Hendrix anecdote is priceless.DVD Review: Portrait of a "hands on" artist...
Summary: 3 Stars
A profile of down-to-earth artist Cynthia "Plaster Caster" that should er, hold, the, er, attention of anyone fascinated by "The Sixties" or rock 'n' roll subculture in general. For the uninitiated, the "Plaster Casters" were a group of female "artists" (some may still argue, "groupies") who earned a universal backstage pass of sorts throughout the 60's and 70's by immortalizing the southernmost regions of many a rock legends' anatomy in plaster-based life-size sculpture. This would obviously guarantee many an amusing war story from (surviving) participants, and indeed, the most entertaining parts of the film are derived from such. One warning: The (somewhat deceptive) psychedelic cover art gives the impression that you might be in for a 60's time capsule, chock-a-block with vintage clips and music of the era; but the documentary is shot ultra low-budget direct to video, all "present day" footage with only an occasional still photo from the bygone days for context, and no "period" music to speak of. The overall "feel" is that of any one of the myriad of "reality" TV shows currently cluttering the commercial airwaves (of course, the subject matter here would be strictly "premium cable"!) The "extras" actually redeemed the investment for this reviewer-particularly the additional backstage tales that Cynthia tells regarding Led Zeppelin (somewhat harrowing, actually) and her explanation of why Kiss was "off" her list from the get-go. An interesting companion piece to "The Mayor Of The Sunset Strip" (see my review on this site) as an examination of the "almost famous" who take thier succor from the aura of rock stardom.
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Artist-turned-groupie or groupie-turned-artist? Decide for yourself as Cynthia Plaster Caster tells her amazing story with the help of some the famous rockers whose "members" she immortalized.General DVDs
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