Trailer for Herzog’s Fitzcarrlado
August 7, 2009
July 21, 2009
Kenneth Anger: Rabbit’s Moon
Short Films of Kenneth Anger: Forever Hollywood Cemetery Screens Rabbit’s Moon
This past Sunday night, Cinespia screened several short films of Kenneth Anger at the Hollywood Forever cemetery. I can think of few better ways to see these films, any of them really, than under the stars in a cemetery with silhouetted palms swooping overhead like gigantic Seussian creations.
Among my favorites is a shorter work whose final edit was made by Anger in 1979. Not touched since the previous (second) edit from 1972, Anger pared down the songs to Andy Arthurs “It Came in the Night,” rather than the original mini-soundtrack that featured several 60’s pop and doo-wop songs that loosely toyed with the themes of night and moonlight.
1972 Edit of Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon, Part 1
May 21, 2009
Double Take by Johan Grimonprez
Unpacking Johan Grimonprez’s Film, Double Take
Double Take (“But It Is 1962″)
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April 28, 2009
Thoughts on Orson Welles: The Trial
Making Connections Based on Themes in The Trial
The film The Trial is based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka, and without a doubt, translates quite easily to the screen in so much as it retains all of the qualities of any Kafka work – severe, questioning, dream-like and hyper-real.
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April 3, 2009
Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater: Cruising
Al Pacino in Cruising Tonight at the Silent Movie Theater
4/3/2009 @ 7:30pm / SERIES: ’70’s Queersploitation
“For equal opportunity skank in queer cinema, you can’t get much nastier than this incendiary pair of thrillers from 1980 which delve deep into the underbelly of New York’s post-disco gay scene and come up covered in grime. William Friedkin’s Cruising sparked a storm of protests as rookie cop Al Pacino goes undercover as a leather-clad bar boy hunting down a serial killer who knifes his hogtied victims in the back. Al learns how to sniff poppers and thrash around hilariously on the dance floor before finally getting his man… or does he? In depicting the underground gay bar scene in the most raw and uncompromising fashion, and in piling on layer after layer of claustrophobic red herring twists to deliberately make the audience as confused as Pacino’s character, Friedkin created a masterwork of ill ease, one of his greatest films to stand alongside The Exorcist and The French Connection.”
Cruising Dir. William Friedkin, 1980, 35mm, 106 min. | Tickets – $10
Trailer for William Friedkin’s Cruising Starring Al Pacino
Find out more about Cruising at IMDB
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