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Film Loaf-i Records presents: Sabreteeth vs Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (1982)

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George Lucas has said that Star Wars (1977) was greatly inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (1958). But Turkish director Çetin Inanç's debt to Lucas isn't merely a case of one auteur's influence upon another: Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves the World) takes appropriation to the level of the chop job. Space battles are waged via actual Star Wars clips and newsreel footage of Soviet and American rockets; the soundtrack pilfers liberally from Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and many other films; and there's the lovely restaging of the Mos Eisley Cantina. Then again, Lucas' film doesn't include zombies or ninjas. Free jazz-inspired rockers Sabreteeth leave their mark on this cult classic with their live accompaniment.

– Matt Sussman

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