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[kpo123]

Berlin Alexanderplatz is getting a full screening at ACMI this month, split up over five days, or two. In any case, I won't be able to attend, but hopefully someone is courageous enough to take the leap.

http://www.acmi.net.au/fl_berlin_alexanderplatz.aspx

They did that in Brisbane too, but it was over three days. It was all split up into 3 hour - 3 and a half hour segments; the first on Friday night, then two on Saturday and Sunday with an hour interval between the two. Me and about six or seven others did the whole thing.

[RONSAUCE]

they did that in Toronto as well at the Cinematheque...

another great program that seems to be traveling around the different art houses is The 40th Anniversary of the Director's Fortnight at Cannes. that played here last week. i was able to see Fassbinder, Herzog and Pilat on the big screen. it was great. look out for it.

[Jesus Son]

London folk (all 2 of you), this is tonight:


Orphans is worth the trek, it's pretty good, and some good shorts are playing (plus good music).

[alfred chamberlain]

NYC

http://www.filmforum.org/films/made.html

"Imagine that Bob Dylan recorded an album in between Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. We’re not talking about a Basement Tapes–style collection, but a full-length record infused with his characteristic verve. Now pretend that this Dylan project never got a proper release here; other than the occasional playing of a mono recording, you weren’t able to hear it. Then, for two weeks, listeners could experience the work in all its high-fidelity glory. There would be dancing in the streets. Whether Jean Luc-Godard’s fans will start doing the froog in front of Film Forum remains to be seen, but they damn well should." -- David Fear

[umma-ohz]

Jesus Son, your next The Pictures night is on the 21st isnt it?
I want to get a long to one of these soon. I was pretty damn busy at the end of last year on a project, but I really want to check the night out, so i'll probably come down with some friends at some point.

[Jesus Son]

Jesus Son, your next The Pictures night is on the 21st isnt it?
I want to get a long to one of these soon. I was pretty damn busy at the end of last year on a project, but I really want to check the night out, so i'll probably come down with some friends at some point.

it sure is.



this one might be a good one to come to, as it looks like it's gonna be pretty popular. the Vivienne Dick films are drawing a lot of interest cos the screening's so rare, and that band Phantom are really good and seem pretty popular (though i met the singer lastnight at one of her other band's gigs and made a total drunken arse out of myself, i've got the guilt...). plus, y'know, free popcorn is always good.

[acid]

hopefully there is not so full to get in, i might just drop by after french lesson (none of my friends are interested) - how about the small piece about "The picture" in Dazed? any good news?

[Jesus Son]

hopefully there is not so full to get in, i might just drop by after french lesson (none of my friends are interested) - how about the small piece about "The picture" in Dazed? any good news?

oh yeah, there's no chance it'll be too full to get in. when i say 'popular' i mean like maybe there'll be a hundred or so people there, which, to me, seems popular.

no dice on the dazed thing. they changed the publication date to after the night, so it got dropped. the girl who interviewed me is sending me a PDF of the page as it was going to look though, as it did make it to proof stage. got to try again i think, but i've got no idea (and not a great deal of interest really) in how to do press releases and all that sort of thing. i really don't like how i have to think about stuff like numbers, and how much they make behind the bar, but the fact is they let us do the night there for free on condition that we bring in a crowd, and if the night gets really unpopular, and if they stop turning a profit, then they start changing things, which i don't want, so it seems worth engaging in some amount of hyperbole and promotion to stop that happening. fingers crossed though, it's been going well so far.

[acid]

it seems to me that you should learn how to impress the female press, wow so u dont have to pay a penny for hosting this? (in fact, i thought you did invest some $ before), so i really should come and kinda support the thing for not being shut down or banned. but good sense of film choice is defo a must!

[Johnny Boy]

http://www.acmi.net.au/cinematheque.aspx

bigger than life + some came running
James Mason and Frank Sinatra play men who, via war and illness, struggle with '50s middle-class America in these dramatic films from the period.

léon morin, prêtre + breathless
Two key roles for the face of the French New Wave, Jean-Paul Belmondo.

the river + black narcissus
Spiritual and physical colonisation is explored in these tense and dramatic films. Screening with Paul Cox's 1970 documentary Calcutta.

[psy]

Independent Film Festival in Lisbon - Indie Lisboa - is gonna be from the 19th to the 29th of April and guess who's gonna be the director on spotlight this year... Herzog!

So, yay. He's probably gonna be here and all. So I signed up as volunteer to work at nights from 7 to 1.30am, hope they pick me because that way i can watch whatever movies I want for free in non-work time :]

Cool stuff.

[mylkhead]

Cleveland Film Festival is this week. I'm planning to see a few things if I can.

http://clevelandfilm.org/

Notable stuff I want to see:

Alexander the Last (new Joe Swanberg), Sugar (new from the director of Half Nelson), Tyson, Art & Copy, Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, and Surveillance (Jennifer Lynch's newest film since Boxing Helena).

[Jesus Son]

this month's film night we're showing a load of Richard Kern films. i can't decide whether to show The Sewing Circle and Fingered, or to pussy out and keep it (a little) tamer. seems like maybe showing the more shocking stuff might not be worth the risk of losing the night if it goes down badly with the crowd/venue. it's gonna be a spur of the moment call i think, see how it goes.

[downward]

Cleveland Film Festival is this week. I'm planning to see a few things if I can.

http://clevelandfilm.org/

Notable stuff I want to see:

Alexander the Last (new Joe Swanberg), Sugar (new from the director of Half Nelson), Tyson, Art & Copy, Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, and Surveillance (Jennifer Lynch's newest film since Boxing Helena).

i think sugar looks really good. Half Nelson was one of my favorite movies the year it came out.

[mylkhead]

this month's film night we're showing a load of Richard Kern films. i can't decide whether to show The Sewing Circle and Fingered, or to pussy out and keep it (a little) tamer. seems like maybe showing the more shocking stuff might not be worth the risk of losing the night if it goes down badly with the crowd/venue. it's gonna be a spur of the moment call i think, see how it goes.

You're posters are really cool. Who made it and where did you get those photos?

Cleveland Film Festival is this week. I'm planning to see a few things if I can.

http://clevelandfilm.org/

Notable stuff I want to see:

Alexander the Last (new Joe Swanberg), Sugar (new from the director of Half Nelson), Tyson, Art & Copy, Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, and Surveillance (Jennifer Lynch's newest film since Boxing Helena).

i think sugar looks really good. Half Nelson was one of my favorite movies the year it came out.

Sugar is on "standby only" and chances are slim I'll get in to see it. Since I basically need to wait in a big crowd of people to get a ticket at least 1 hour before the screening. But I'll try to get in there to see it.

Also playing is Tokyo! - a new film from Michel Gondry. It's also on Standby.