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“Chingaso the Clown” runs for 15 minutes (12 minutes without credits) and can be viewed on YouTube in its entirety by clicking this link. The film is mildly Not Safe for Work (NSFW) and would likely be rated R for language and violence. DIRECTED BY: Elias Matar FEATURING: Quinn Larson, David Hyatt, Roberta Orlandi PLOT: . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: CHINGASO THE CLOWN (2006) A blue-skinned man wearing a white clown suit and angel wings sketches obsessively, ignoring various supplicants who come before him. The bizarre symbolism actually makes sense if you know Alfred Eaker and Raymond Thunder-Sky. DIRECTED BY: Darren Lynn Bousman FEATURING: Terrance Zdunich, Sean Patrick Flanery, Briana Evigan, Jessica Lowndes, Dayton Callie PLOT: A suicide, a jewel thief, and a thug’s girlfriend die and find themselves at an afterlife circus run by the Devil; he reads the stories of their sins retold as fables, which they re-enact to musical accompaniment . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL (2012) He Who Gets Slapped (1924) is part of the 2011 Warner Archive Lon Chaney collection, and in this film Chaney gives one of his most natural, assured performances—in no small part due to director Victor Sjostrom, who also directed Chaney, with Norma Shearer, in the following year’s Tower Of Lies (unfortunately, yet another lost film). . . . → Read More: VICTOR SJOSTROM’S HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) STARRING LON CHANEY FILM FESTIVAL DOUBLE FEATURE: THE LAST CIRCUS [BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA] (2010)/RAINBOWS END (2010)Your faithful correspondent has returned from the field with reports on two offbeat festival films… Alex de la Iglesia bolsters his already fine cult film résumé (Acción Mutante, The Day of the Beast) with this b-movie styled action/melodrama that’s also an allegory for the Spanish Civil War. The movie’s best sequence is the prologue, where . . . → Read More: FILM FESTIVAL DOUBLE FEATURE: THE LAST CIRCUS [BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA] (2010)/RAINBOWS END (2010) DIRECTED BY: Paul Andresen FEATURING: Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope PLOT: Sugar Wolf, son of slain sheriff Grizzly Wolf, returns to restore law and order to the town of Mudbug, now in the grips of gambling baron Baby Chips. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Despite the fact that both hero and villain . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: BIG MONEY RUSTLAS (2010) Jamin Winans, director of the Certified Weird film Ink, was commissioned by Pentax to shoot a short film using only the K-7 HD DSLR camera. They couldn’t have picked a better person for the job. Winans thrives on making quality cinema with a minuscule budget. Most everyone agrees, though, that Winans and his team would . . . → Read More: SATURDAY SHORT: UNCLE JACK (2010) DIRECTED BY: Harry Bromley Davenport FEATURING: Bernice Stegers, Phillip Sayer, Danny Brainin, Maryam d’Abo PLOT: A husband and father disappears one day while playing frisbee with his young son; three years later, he returns to the family as an amnesiac who eats snake eggs for sustenance. WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: Xtro is vying . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: XTRO (1983) AKA Holy Blood (literal translation) “My mother is dead. I had a terrible relationship with her. She had many problems with my father, and she never caressed me. So I didn’t have a mother who touched me.”–Alejandro Jodorowsky in La Constellation Jodorowsky DIRECTED BY: Alejandro Jodorowsky FEATURING: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Adan Jodorowsky, . . . → Read More: 52. SANTA SANGRE (1989) DIRECTED BY: Stephen Chiodo FEATURING: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon PLOT: Aliens from outer space, who look exactly like circus clowns, land their carnival-tent spacecraft near a rural town and begin abducting humans for unknown purposes. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Killer Klowns is actually a very conventional . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (1988) |
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