suggestion for Winter screenings?
The time has come once again to make your suggestions for movies to screen when we start back up sometime this Winter.
Think of movies that would be good to see in a room (all Winter screenings will be inside) full of people. Truly independent movies, local movies, or impossibly artsy movies that deserve to be screened at a microcinema. Plus, we always try to fit one documentary and something foreign into each schedule.
And let me know if you’d attend another Ann Arbor Film Festival pre-screening screening. They have a lot more submissions to screen, so if there’s enough interest, I’d be willing to do it again.
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Here’s a list of some films we’ve screened already, to give you a taste of what we like:
July 19: The Cruise
July 27: The Warriors
August 3: Badlands
August 11: If…
August 18: Instrument
August 25th: Stand By Me
August 31: Breaking Away
Sep 14: Papillon (McQueen and Hoffman in classic prison escape flick)
Tues Sep 19: [Bollywood night] (to honor Twitch microcinema; curated by Vinh/Zack)
Sep 21: City of God (Brazil; growing up gangster in poor Rio de Janeiro)
Sep 28: Titticut Follies (Wiseman doc about mental institution talent show)
Oct 5: Wizard People, Dear Reader (Harry Potter re-narrated)
Mon Oct 9: Who is Bozo Texino? (secret history of hobo graffiti; $5-$10 sliding scale to Bill Daniel, travelling filmmaker)
Oct 12: the Celebration (Denmark; Dogme #1; family dinner gone wrong)
Oct 19: Plague Dogs (animation; escaped lab dogs hunted as Bubonic carriers)
Oct 26: the Fearless Vampire Killers (Polanski vampire spoof)
Nov 2: Ann Arbor Film Festival pre-screening screening
November 13th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
A few suggestions…
A Thousand Clowns
The 400 Blows
The Triumph of Love
La Haine
Au revoir, les enfants
Holiday
Gaslight
Murder By Death
Raising Arizona
November 13th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
some good wintery, stay-inside movies:
The Old Dark House
Project Grizzly
Onibaba
Dead Man
Man is Not a Bird
and I’ve heard that Primer is really good. Very independent (as in 16mm) sci-fi.
November 16th, 2006 at 2:19 am
This is sort of a side note, but remember the Bollywood screenings in September? We actually only screened Golmaal; Fun Unlimited, but we also had Krrish on hand…
It turns out it wasn’t just us watching. The major airlines were also paying close attention to our lineup as proven by NWA’a (northwest airline’s) November international flight movie offerings. What two films can you enjoy while suffering your ride?
Golmaal & Krrish
Both movies have been cut down to 120 minutes (how?) and Golmaal has been stripped of its (very necessary) subtitle, “Fun Unlimited.”
Anyways, thanks for flying BluishLines
November 20th, 2006 at 12:55 am
“Elevator to the Gallows” aka “Ascenseur pour l’echafaud”
“Valley of the Dolls”
I can’t really think of anything else right now.
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:39 pm
M & L,
Thanks for the suggestions. You win some kind of award for picking a few movies that are already in my Netflix queue.
I assume from your other picks you mean “Holiday” the Tati film and not the Hepburn/Grant one, or any of the many others an IMDB search returns.
I’m writing this on a holiday. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:58 pm
oh. happy thanksgiving bluishbarn. I hope the screenings go swimmingly
November 27th, 2006 at 3:09 am
Heard about the bluish barn from jimmy of ann arbor alleycat fame (see you on the 3rd). Anyway, my favorite wintertime movies are the silent ones. Two fairly different films that come to mind are Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr (slapstick and pomo at the same time–how did he do it?!); and the 1926 version of Ben Hur (some extraordinary sets–dubbed the most expensive movie of all time..adjusting for inflation–and some gritty race sequences. Plus lots of boring interludes–perfect for mixing hot drinks!
Either that or Quicksilver, in honor of the upcoming race–though this might not rank as independent or offbeat…oh well.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Let’s get some vid-E-o-art up in this piece. I would highly reccomend some of the tapes by Istvan Kantor which can be pretty intense. I could also show a collection of Tom Sherman tapes I have or get him to send a compilation. And if I can track them down some Meesoo Lee comps:
Also, we have to show ‘Somewhere in Michigan’ sometime as a short (20 minutes or so).
I would like to make a push for Craig Baldwin: as well. In particular ‘Spectres of the Spectrum’ or Tribulation 99.
December 4th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Truffaut’s “Day for Night” 1973
The ultimate self-referential film w/in a film…good for students and up-and coming makers alike, I guess. Hell, the Whitney based the biennale on it this year- worth a look? eh?
December 4th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Hey Tim,
my friend in east lansing told me about this movie and it sounds very cool, its about how corporate domination has really taken over a large part of current music but that at the same time a lot of underground music is happening in local clubs and online. I suggest this movie be screened although i dont know if your still taking suggestions. here is the website for the film:
http://www.beforethemusicdies.com/
I think it sounds really cool, plus this movie is only being shown by people who screen it not the gigantic movie theaters.
Alex Belhaj
December 9th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Hey Tim,
Would you be interested in showing the documentary I just finshed about Madisonfest: We Are Not At A Funeral?
Please email me and let me know if so.
Thanks,
Shawn
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December 16th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
A handful more from the cedar chest of winter blankets…
Persona: Bergman’s avant-garde existentialism\
…also Bergman’s “The Magician”
Performance (1970, Nick Roeg): Sex and violence in swinging London!
..and A psychic thriller….”Don’t Look Now”…also from Nick Roeg
Before the Rain (1994): ” Once You Know The Faces You Will Begin To Understand The Story”