pastiche

For sure, it’s a dreamy pastiche of the era’s moody, existential movies.

“As a gay filmmaker, queer cinema is often a pastiche. We recycle pop culture through our personal lens, and it comes out and makes this new thing. You don’t see a lot of it in American cinema. The show is sort of Almodóvar-ian. It’s melodrama, then it’s comedy, then it’s a drama and then it’s a thriller, then it’s soap.”

The venue has been transformed into the Kit Kat Club, the Weimar era Berlin nightspot, where the naughty pastiche score by John Kander and Fred Ebb gets to strut its decadent stuff.

The 1989 blockbuster “Road House,” was something of a pastiche.

Hence, a remake of the film, some might argue, is destined to be a pastiche of a pastiche.