suggestions for Spring screenings?
The time has come once again to make your suggestions for movies to screen when we start back up sometime this Spring.
Think of movies that would be good to see on the bigger screen out under the stars in our backyard. 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.
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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
Jan 11: Assasination Tango - all Robert Duvall; with Argentinian food served by housemates just back from Argentina
Jan 18: Dead Man - Jarmusch directs, Depp stars, Neil Young scores
Jan 25: Madisonfest: A Documentary - premier of Shawn Wernette’s documentary featuring one song by almost every single performer at last summer’s local music fest
Feb 1: Zardoz - ridiculous 1974 sci-fi drama featuring a young Sean Connery in heels
Feb 8: A Thousand Clowns - how can you argue with the tagline: “lift for the spirits, laughter for everyone”
Feb 15: Elevator to the Gallows - Louis Malle directs, Miles Davis scores
Feb 22: the Beaver Trilogy - no link; it’s best not knowing anything about this before you see it; an experience
Mar 1: The Falcon and the Snowman - young Hutton/Penn as real-life spies Boyce/Lee
Mar 8: Death and the Maiden - Polanski’s takek on Dorfman’s play about justice and revenge; riveting
Mar 15: the Idiots - Dogme #2; Lars Von Trier directs a social experiment of ‘idiots’
March 28th, 2007 at 3:53 am
To clear up the mass confusion that is about to spark, the Bollywood night, referred to above, actually consisted of a film screening and not just a projection of the idea of “Bollywood” upon Bluishbarn.
The movie that was screened was Golmaal: Fun Unlimited, “a laughter riot, driven by an outrageous but rib-tickling plot.” (imdb.com user review) The other contender for the night was Krrish, “THE BEST..FOREVER IN HISTORY WILL BE….” (imdb.com user review)
Let us not forget, Tim, that Bollywood movies also have names.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Considering that the U.S. is only going to get weirder and we’ll all be more paranoid as the summer rolls in and the war rolls on I reccomend Craig Baldwin’s
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
Descirbed as:
‘A pseudo pseudo-documentary, obsessively organized into 99 paranoid rants, parlaying every imaginable scrap of “found” footage, re-filmed TV, and industrial sound into a revisionist history of alien intervention in Latin America. A melange of satire, political fantasy, and black comedy, the film takes on crack-pot paranoid theories, environmental deconstruction, and CIA intervention — and more — all in one shot.’
Also its only 48 minutes, so I could try to get a complete copy of Episodes 0 -3 of Carl Diehl’s ‘Blobsquatchery In the Expanded Field’: http://blobsquatchery.blogspot.com/
March 28th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Sorry, Meximese. When I made that schedule, which I just copied and pasted here, the night’s curators had not yet picked out a film. It’s as if they thought of the entire Bollywood genre as some kind of indistinct mass of which any old nameless part would do.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I don’t know how many of these have been seen by most of the people that attend, but hey, cool. Here’s a few suggestions…
Rubin & Ed - More Crispin Glover + Trent Harris, including the character that inspired Glover’s get-up on The Late Show when he almost kicked David Letterman in the head
Loves of a Blonde - I think it’s one of Milos Forman’s earlier movies - completely sweet film
Heavy Metal Parking Lot Waiting for the big Priest show in 1986 (although it’s only 15 minutes)
Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King
Shop on Main Street Incredibly powerful film about the relationship between a Jewish widow and the man appointed to take over her shop during WW2 in Slovakia
Also, there’s Vibes, which stars Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum as psychics forced to search for the source of all the psychic power in the world in the mountains of Ecuador. The tagline is “Put your hands on our hands and feel the… VIBES.” Yep.
I guess I wouldn’t recommend it, but it is hilariously terrible.
I was going to suggest ‘Instrument’ buuut it’s already been done - damn!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:24 am
You should try playing some of these in the spring
Though I haven’t seen it… the Warrendale doc seems like a good movie to show. Way less intense than Titicut Follies, but I hear there are cursing youth?
Badlands is pretty much my favorite movie. You should try showing that lost Malick movie, Deadhead Miles. Again, never seen it, but it looks like its got that 2 Lane Blacktop depressed-as-hell vibe
And what about that Elephant movie that Jodorowski did? Do you think its as shitty as people say it is? Its called Tusk, right? That’s such a good album!!!
You should show that early 90’s movie movie W.A.X. which I got out of a blockbuster when I was in sixth grade and it totally weirded me out. Haven’t seen it since then, but its like if whoever did Lawnmower man tried to explain explain some Robert Anton Wilson bullshit to a deeply stoned Daron Aronovsky. It sounds shitty, and it probably is, but it also takes place in CYBERSPACE and has flying skulls in it.
Come fall I’m going to be doing some screenings too.. we should figure out how not to overlap days or movies in advance
April 19th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Thanks for the recommendations, everyone. Keep ‘em coming.
Bill, where are you doing screenings? At a house? We should definitely keep in touch. Imagine the embarrassment if we screened the same movie some week.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Imagine the COMPETITION if you screened the same film the same week!!!!
How about Inland Empire? Its supposed to come out on DVD in June.