Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited – Bill Paxton debut defies catagorisation, for better and for worse

There has probably never been a more appropriate time to re-release the bizarre, dystopian thriller Taking Tiger Mountain (Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited); the long-thought lost first film of Bill Paxton. In it, America has torn itself asunder in a devastating nuclear war and a patriarchal society has taken control of the civilised world, forcing women into traditional gender roles and prostitution.