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Post by catgarza on Jan 7, 2008 0:19:02 GMT -5
are we still doing tuesday nights? what's going on?! also, i ordered a copy of this movie (Interstella 5555) let me know if anyone has any interest in maybe seeing this on movie night. MOVIE NITE! MOVIE NITE! |
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Post by Colleen on Jan 7, 2008 17:40:33 GMT -5
Tomorrow Steve is showing "Chinatown". Haven't heard about the rest of the break yet.
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Post by dennispacheco on Jan 15, 2008 12:26:07 GMT -5
Any interest in another ... Red Dwarf-fest?
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Post by Colleen on Jan 21, 2008 14:56:29 GMT -5
YES!
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Post by penina on Jan 21, 2008 15:22:04 GMT -5
Steve sez:
THIS Tuesday:
A Miyazaki SHERLOCK HOUND episode and then, the original uncut Japanese-language LAPUTA -- in part because both involve Miyazaki's love of biplanes and flying! Great double-bill.
TWO weeks from now:
Miyazaki shorts and PORCO ROSSO
Hereafter, I'll show ONE Miyazaki PER MONTH for Movie Club night till the end of the semester, with accompanying Miyazaki goodies for each.
Sound good?
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Post by penina on Jan 22, 2008 11:24:30 GMT -5
Steve also sez:
Tuesday, Jan. 29: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski in Sergio Corbucci's THE GREAT SILENCE (1968)
Tuesday, Feb. 5: Hayao Miyazaki: surprise short film(s); main feature: Miyazaki's PORCO ROSSO (original Japanese language version, subtitled in English)
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Post by penina on Feb 11, 2008 16:39:34 GMT -5
Steve continues to say(z):
7 PM, Tuesday, Feb. 12 -- Note, I WON'T be going to ELIXIR's after due to weather (unless it remains clear) -- Thanks!
GHOSTLY Double Feature: Herk Harvey’s CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) and Mario Bava’s OPERAZIONE PAURA/KILL, BABY... KILL! (1966)
Note: No short films, to keep the program tight (about three hours).
CARNIVAL OF SOULS: A car plunges off a bridge; while the authorities drag the river, a single passenger (Candice Hilligoss) emerges from the muddy waters, alive... but haunted. Her plight is the heart and soul of Herk Harvey’s only commercial feature film, which barely enjoyed theatrical play in 1962 and was quickly consigned to late-night TV limbo, rarely broadcast but never forgotten by those few of us who saw it after midnight alone in our living rooms. Much like George Romero’s Pittsburgh filmmaking circle five years later (who would adopt some of Harvey’s techniques to make the world-shaking NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, 1968), Herk Harvey and his associates made their livings making industrial films, but ached to make a feature -- something unusual and distinctive. They succeeded in spades, creating a black-and-white feature-length chiller with a distinctive organ score that unreels like an extended episode of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone. Thankfully restored and revived in the early 1990s (which is what we’ll be watching), while Harvey still lived to enjoy seeing his solo feature earn the stature it longed deserved, CARNIVAL OF SOULS was shot for a shoestring on various rural Lawrence, Kansas locations and most memorably the abandoned Salt Lake pavilion Saltair, a magnificent delapitated amusement park central to the movie’s creepy proceedings.
PS: Will Joe and Becca come to see their home state classic?? We’ll see!
OPERAZIONE PAURA/KILL, BABY... KILL!: In stark contrast to the black-and-white CARNIVAL, this is a ravishing color film. Mario Bava was among Italy’s greatest and most veteran cinematographers and special effects magicians before his ‘official’ directorial debut in 1960 with LA MASCHERA DEL DEMONIO/BLACK SUNDAY (which I screened last year with the Russian classic THE VIY). Bava was thereafter critically relegated to being considered a stylists who never lived up to his debut feature, but those of us who scoured and chased Bava’s work for the next 20 years didn’t think so; this film has endured to be considered his Gothic classic. The uneven script is beside the point: color, atmosphere and style is all here, as Bava relates the tale of the haunting of the Transylvanian village of Carnecea, deep in the Carpathian Mountains. Since the death of the little girl Melissa Graps (played by a lad, Valero Valeri) two decades ago, a procession of gruesome suicides attract the attention of Inspector Kruger (Piero Lulli) and Dr. Paul Eswai (Gaicomo Rossi-Stuart), hoping to unravel the spectral visitor’s grip on the populace before the curse claims them, too. A staple of drive-ins and late-night TV in the ‘60s and ‘70s under a variety of titles (KILL, BABY... KILL!, CURSE OF THE LIVING DEAD, etc.), Bava’s ghost story influenced Fellini (the little girl ‘devil’ of his SPIRITS OF THE DEAD episode "Toby Dammit" aka "Never Bet the Devil Your
Head," which we also screened at CCS last year, is taken verbatim from Bava), Mark Frost and David Lynch’s TWIN PEAKS (one key moment, unprecedented in the whole of fantastique cinema, was borrowed for the final episode of TWIN PEAKS!), and the entire ‘J-Horror’ genre (how many Japanese little child ghosts can you count?), Guillermo del Toro’s THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE and others. I’ll be showing the definitive restoration of the film, which was (alas) yanked off the market just before release.
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Post by bryanstone on Feb 20, 2008 8:34:43 GMT -5
I watched a bit of Interstella 5555 on google video...it was pretty grainy there but i'd love to see the whole thing!
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Post by catgarza on Feb 20, 2008 9:52:44 GMT -5
i'd love to show the whole thing. maybe after saturday's trees and hills get together? we could pot luck it. maybe? huh?
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