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Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Keyboard Cat
Activate the Series of Tubes!
The internet meme, "Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat," is a worthy one. I fully support viewing almost every video of Fatso out there. One of my favorites, it's Chinatown, features Fatso's distaste for domestic violence and incest via his subtle eye-scrunching and lip-licking.
Keyboard Cat is perfect for the pathos of our existence, and his tune helps us laugh at our ongoing tragedy. Thank you, internets!
-permazorch
The internet meme, "Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat," is a worthy one. I fully support viewing almost every video of Fatso out there. One of my favorites, it's Chinatown, features Fatso's distaste for domestic violence and incest via his subtle eye-scrunching and lip-licking.
Keyboard Cat is perfect for the pathos of our existence, and his tune helps us laugh at our ongoing tragedy. Thank you, internets!
-permazorch
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
BULLSHIT IMAX
Aziz Ansari gets pissed at the IMAX scam. Never been to the IMAX theater in KC, but I think I'll see Star Trek at our local 12-pack. Boooooooo-urns.Billy Gay
REBLOG THE FUCK OUT OF THIS. WARNING: AMC theaters are running FAKE IMAX's and charging $5 extra for a slightly bigger screen. Boycott IMAX, AMC, and Regal. Don't let them fool you.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Gomorra(h): Billy Gay's Take
Billy Gay highly recommends GOMORRA! A beautifully shot and extremely violent account of several stories told simultaneously, each giving you a glimpse into Italian organized crime. Immediately after watching the film I wanted to experience it again, you are constantly kept at a distance from the central characters as you are weaved through parallel stories that never fully meet, every person chewed up by the machine that confines them. Liberty Hall doesn't get original movies like this too often anymore, so go see it before we pick-up some Jane Austen period piece in the cinema!
-Billy Gay
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
3 WOMEN (1977)
directed by Robert Altman
Shy, reclusive girl Pinky starts work at a sanitarium and becomes emotionally attached to her fellow worker, Millie. After an accident, the women seem to inexplicably swap personalities, and then return back to normal. A third woman, a local artist, prowls around on the periphery of the story.
THE PROPOSITION
directed by John Hilcoat
screenplay by Nick Cave
Like Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" or Eastwood's "Unforgiven", this film takes a very gritty approach to the western genre. Dark, bloody, and covered in sweat, the film tells the story of a family of outlaws on the run in rural Australia in the late 19th century. When two of the brothers are captured, the middle child (played by Guy Pearce) is given 9 days to kill his older brother or his youngest sibling will be executed. Psychedelic soundtrack dudes!
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE
directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen
based on the book by Robert Evans
A documentary about legendary film producer Robert Evans. Responsible for producing classics like The Godfather, Chinatown, and Rosemary's Baby, the film chronicles his ascension to chief of production at Paramount Studios, providing candid back story
about the production of some of Hollywood's greatest movies.
THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
directed by Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier
Oooh, Lars von Trier and his BIG ideas. To his benefit, the founder of the Dogma '95 movement does know quite a bit about film, but he doesn't have to rub it in our fuckin faces. Based on each director's personal manifestos and conversations about the nature of documentary film, Lars von Trier challenges fellow filmmaker Jorgen Leth to remake his short film "The Perfect Human" five different times, each time with varying rules and obstructions. Very interesting.
GALLIPOLI
directed by Peter Weir
While some war epics use the carnage of battle as fodder to promote anti-war sentiment, Gallipoli approaches the subject with a bit more tact, focusing on the bureaucracy of the armed forces and naivete of the soldiers fighting. The story follows two, young sprinters (played by Mel Gibson and Mark Lee) as they are thrust into the Turkish battlefront of World War I. Similar in tone to "Paths of Glory" or "All Quiet On The Western Front", the film shows how war unites soldiers and spawns brotherly friendships, only to tear them apart at the whim of a glory hungry military machine.
Also highly recommended:
Blood Simple (Forever Young commentary!)
Errol Morris' First Person
We Jam Econo: The Story of The Minutemen
Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn
directed by Robert Altman
Shy, reclusive girl Pinky starts work at a sanitarium and becomes emotionally attached to her fellow worker, Millie. After an accident, the women seem to inexplicably swap personalities, and then return back to normal. A third woman, a local artist, prowls around on the periphery of the story.
THE PROPOSITION
directed by John Hilcoat
screenplay by Nick Cave
Like Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" or Eastwood's "Unforgiven", this film takes a very gritty approach to the western genre. Dark, bloody, and covered in sweat, the film tells the story of a family of outlaws on the run in rural Australia in the late 19th century. When two of the brothers are captured, the middle child (played by Guy Pearce) is given 9 days to kill his older brother or his youngest sibling will be executed. Psychedelic soundtrack dudes!
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE
directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen
based on the book by Robert Evans
A documentary about legendary film producer Robert Evans. Responsible for producing classics like The Godfather, Chinatown, and Rosemary's Baby, the film chronicles his ascension to chief of production at Paramount Studios, providing candid back story
about the production of some of Hollywood's greatest movies.
THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
directed by Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier
Oooh, Lars von Trier and his BIG ideas. To his benefit, the founder of the Dogma '95 movement does know quite a bit about film, but he doesn't have to rub it in our fuckin faces. Based on each director's personal manifestos and conversations about the nature of documentary film, Lars von Trier challenges fellow filmmaker Jorgen Leth to remake his short film "The Perfect Human" five different times, each time with varying rules and obstructions. Very interesting.
GALLIPOLI
directed by Peter Weir
While some war epics use the carnage of battle as fodder to promote anti-war sentiment, Gallipoli approaches the subject with a bit more tact, focusing on the bureaucracy of the armed forces and naivete of the soldiers fighting. The story follows two, young sprinters (played by Mel Gibson and Mark Lee) as they are thrust into the Turkish battlefront of World War I. Similar in tone to "Paths of Glory" or "All Quiet On The Western Front", the film shows how war unites soldiers and spawns brotherly friendships, only to tear them apart at the whim of a glory hungry military machine.
Also highly recommended:
Blood Simple (Forever Young commentary!)
Errol Morris' First Person
We Jam Econo: The Story of The Minutemen
Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Slow-Mo Sneezing
Stop the spread of Swine Flu in Kansas! Cover your mouths! Wash your hands! (money shot at 57 seconds)
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