Tales of the Rat Fink – Ed Roth
Rat Fink rules, and so does the director of this documentary, Ron Mann, who has given us rockin’docs about comic books, the twist and poetry in motion. Ron Mann has specialized in making counter-cultural documentaries since 1978, and Tales of the Rat Fink is his masterpiece. Ron is one of the rare filmmakers who manage to preserve and capture important sections of American Popular Culture. He does so with wit, incredible attention to detail, music tracks, graphic presentation and engaging editing. He also seems to capture the zeitgeist in a way that no one else does in documentaryland. Wildly inventive bio about renaissance man Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, “monster” T-shirts and America’s alternative rodent – “Rat Fink”. Who would’ve guessed that a film about Rat Fink could be an artful metaphor for many of the issues that define America today.
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