A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links. IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE): Dogtooth [Kynodontas] (2009): A pair of children are sequestered away from the world in a mansion and taught bizarre life lessons by their … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 6/25/2010
A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links. IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE): The Living Wake: This whimsical story about a self-proclaimed genius traveling about with his biographer in a bicycle/rickshaw on his final day of … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 5/14/10
“I passed the summer of 1816 in the environs of Geneva. The season was cold and rainy, and in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire, and occasionally amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts, which happened to fall into our hands. These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation. … Continue reading 50. GOTHIC (1986)
DIRECTED BY: Peter Bogdanovich (using the pseudonym Derek Thomas) FEATURING: Mamie van Doren PLOT: Three cosmo—I mean, astro-nauts—are sent to Venus to rescue two missing comrades,while Venusian blondes in seashell bras pester them from afar by sending volcanoes, thunderstorms and dinosaurs to hinder them. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Prehistoric Women is a classic … Continue reading CAPSULE: VOYAGE TO THE PLANET OF PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1968)
“Alfred Eaker’s Fringe Cinema” is a column published on Thursdays covering truly independent cinema: the stuff that’s so far under the public radar it may as well be underground. The folks making these films may be starving artists today, but they may be recognized as geniuses tomorrow. We hope to look like geniuses ourselves … Continue reading REFLECTIONS ON THE 48 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL & THE “9” DIARY.