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Quick links:
Berlin Film Festival and “Smoking Causes Coughing”: https://youtu.be/tWULTG2OVc0?t=88
“Linoleum”: https://youtu.be/tWULTG2OVc0?t=498
“Give Me Pity!”: https://youtu.be/tWULTG2OVc0?t=775
“FP 4EVZ”: https://youtu.be/tWULTG2OVc0?t=1094
“Calvaire” re-release: https://youtu.be/tWULTG2OVc0?t=1524
“Silent Avant-Garde”: https://youtu.be/tWULTG2OVc0?t=1802
Greg recalls ChatSonic’s restaurant recommendations: https://youtu.be/tWULTG2OVc0?t=2168
Discussed in this episode:
Calvaire (2004) re-release: Read Pamela de Graff’s review. This torture horror about a shy singer trapped in a sadistic rural community is an odd choice for restoration and re-release, but here it is. In select rep theaters this week, coming to VOD next week (and likely Blu-ray soon). Calvaire‘s US distributor page.
FP 4EVZ (2023): In this late-arriving sequel to the 2011 original, a gang of post-apocalyptic “game rhythm warriors” fight to save their crumbling society from sobriety. How much 80s nostalgia camp can you stand? Playing a few theaters, but you’ll probably see it on VOD (buy or rent). FP 4EVZ official site.
Give Me Pity! (2022): A singer’s one-woman TV special spirals into a psychedelic nightmare. Listed as “in theaters” this week, which means a few Alamo Drafthouses around the country; VOD seems like a safer bet to catch it down the road. Give Me Pity! official site.
Linoleum (2022): A satellite crashes into an Ohio home and the dad decides to refashion the wreck into his own personal spaceship. An unlikely family-friendly weird movie starring the unlikely “clean comedian” Jim Gaffigan from unlikely distributor Shout! Studios; reports suggest it is indeed a strange film with a heartwarming, mindbending twist. Linoleum official site.
“Silent Avant-Garde”: Truth in advertising! Kino’s Blu-ray is collection of silent avant-garde films, mostly from the 1920s (with a few later examples of the form thrown in). Many of the entries here were previously mentioned in our review of “Masterworks of Avant-Garde Film 1920-1970,” including the cornerstone film here, “Ballet Mécanique.” Buy “Silent Avant-Garde”.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
Next week brings you plenty of print reviews. From the reader-suggested queue, Shane Wilson says a Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990), while Amy Vaughn tunes in Argentina’s pseudo-silent La Antena (2007). In new releases, Giles Edwards indulges Alchemy of the Spirit, and Gregory J. Smalley addresses The Hole in My Heart (2004, on the new Lukas Moodysson box set). Next Friday’s Pod 366 will feature our first completely Smalley-less recording, as Giles and Pete Trbovich hold down the fort with new-release coverage of exciting, obscure titles.
Also, we will be hosting another Weird Watch Party this week (the cross-dressing samurai feature Der Samurai on Monday, February 27 at 7:30 PM, via Discord). You can always see the upcoming schedule in the sidebar.
Onward and7 weirdward!
Hey just an FYI, there’s a new Blu-Ray release you missed that I think is probably relevant to the website although I don’t entirely blame you because I didn’t know about it either until a few days ago. Second Run just put out a region free Blu-Ray release of the surreal, anti-authoritarian Czech kids film The Cassandra Cat about a magic cat whose powers lead to a youth rebellion.
Thanks for the addition! Actually, it looks like it may come out next week, but the main reason we missed it is we don’t have a source to check on new Region 2/B European releases. Unfortunately, sometimes that seems to be the only format for some obscure movies.
So next Pod 366 episode: The inmates are running the asylum!