suggestions for Fall screenings ???
The Summer series ended with a heartwarming screening of Breaking Away. For those of you who witnessed my ‘orneriness’ that night before I basically kicked everyone out, I apologize: I was coming down with a cold that resulted from my most hectic week all Summer and lasted all weekend.
It’s between seasons this week, so we’re taking a break to orient the new housemates and figure out the Fall schedule. Plus, I have a wedding and bachelor party and all that to go to in Detroit.
Please post your suggestions for movies to screen here. We give special attention to people who actually read and post on this blog. Some things we like: movies that DESERVE to be screened at a small microcinema, obscure movies, local movies, documentaries (especially Wiseman), movies that take place all (or mostly) in one place, movies without explosions (and some with), and much more.
Or, in keeping with Godard’s formula - it’s not a question of screening a political film, but of screening a film politically.
September 4th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
what Wiseman flicks will you be screening? how bout some Brakhage? have you ever screened Jamie Meltzer’s ‘Off the Charts’? also, tonight at the grad studios i met Eric, who lives in the bluish barn. does he have an email address? i didn’t get to say bye. thanks, A.
September 5th, 2006 at 2:16 am
-phi ta khon: ghosts of isan (documentary re: 3-day festival in a remote thai village by laos - awesome musical content/drums….i felt very ‘present’ watching it & highly recommend.)
-twin peaks fire walk with me, or the short films of david lynch
-flight of the navigator
-close encounters of the third kind
September 5th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Adrianne, I will bring your comment to Eric’s attention.
The Wiseman we’ll be showing is Titticut Follies, probably the best known film from such a little known filmmaker. It won’t be the most uplifting or rowdy screening, but some things just must be shown.
We were all set earlier this summer to do a whole evening of Brackhage on actual film. Then Mikey got lazy and/or busy or whatever and/or certain of his key Brakhage-film-owning friends went out of town and it never happened. Maybe in the future.
Girl Next Door, you are officially more of a dork than me for commenting on this blog after calling me a dork for having it.
I will add Flight of the Navigator to the list of possible nostalgia films to screen, since part of me secretly hopes to get abducted and wake up years later every time I walk down into a ravine.
September 5th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
hey bluish,
I know this may be a lot to ask, but is there any way you can do a screening early next week? Or, if you’d rather, on Tuesday, the 19th of September?
If you say “no!” I may never know the pleasure of outdoor screenings.
September 5th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Dude, you’re fucking with the system. Thursdays.
Okay, maybe we’ll do a special screening for an old Ann Arbor microcinema torchbearer. Suggestions for your special screening, sir?
September 6th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Robocop or Bloodsport.
September 6th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Is this like choosing a song on a jukebox at a bar that’s crowded and not to your liking?
’cause if it is then I choose a Bollywood film. !!!
Three exclamation marks not for strength, but length.
I’ll name a few I’d like to see:
Devdas - though I hear it’s depressing
Koi … Mil Gaya - which I’ve read is god awful good
The Rising - a 2005 film about Indians overthrowing the British East India Company’s imperialist grip
I doubt a bollywood film would truly be appreciated, so how about The Peanut Butter Solution?
September 7th, 2006 at 3:01 am
Bluish Barn,
Thanks for calling me a dork! I hear that you got KILLED at scrabble by a DORK recently, even though the board was upside-down the whole time and she LET you use SUV which is *clearly* not in the scrabble dictionary. http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/pl/page.tools/dn/home.cfm
September 7th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
City of God. One of the best movies of the last ten years.
September 7th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
I was actually fortunate enough to talk with Wiseman about the making of ‘Titicut Follies’ during my research for my paper, ‘Truth or Decency’ that revolved around the production and banning of the film. It was remarkable to talk with him about his debut picture, and especially to hear his views of the film’s failures and successes. Do you often screen documentaries?
September 8th, 2006 at 10:25 am
One word: Goonies
September 8th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. The schedule will be posted soon. Sorry if we can’t get to all of them this time around.
Adrianne, I look forward to hearing from you what Wiseman had to say (or reading your paper).