
Thursday, March 29, 2007
over at the Beverly Cinema...


My teeth are beginning to grind
And as the publicity wheels roll on, Time Out New York magazine does grindhouse in the newest issue. Next up, your mother does a grindhouse dinner for you and your friends and the old man gets out his classic stag films!

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Botch Job

All right, that's the good news. Here's the bad news. This is the cover art they went with.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
So last century
Adding to Jesse's musings about the campaign for 'Captivity', I would have to suggest that it is far too early into this green century to call for the most shocking film just yet. We'll keep this outrageous movie and its lurid advertising in our minds clear through until the 90s and then we'll just have to consider it all at that point and with all contenders given fair time to make us choke in disbelief and/or bribe us with goodies to sway our vote.
Just to jog your memory, here is the current title holder, apparently.
Just to jog your memory, here is the current title holder, apparently.

Monday, March 26, 2007
Publicity

After Dark Films' CEO Courtney Solomon says the campaign doesn't really reflect the tone of the film anyway...
"This movie is certainly a horror movie and it's about abduction, but it's also about female empowerment. We reshot the ending so the main character ends up in as much of a positive situation as the situation could allow. There is no rape or nudity in it, though it should be an R-rated movie. For the audience it's made for, it's satisfying to that audience. I'm sure that's not the same audience that's complaining about the billboards."
Michael? Is this really the most shocking movie marketing campaign ever imagined?
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Bullets Bombs and Babes

Sidaris also pioneered what he called "the honey shot" - the closeups of pretty girls in the stands they cutaway to throughout the game.
Here's the trailer for Picasso Trigger!
edy williams: an old issue of playboy and a blog!

When I visit my parents on weekends, around 3 hours away from Toronto, I spend time rooting through a couple of fine antique/flea markets and usually pick up old Playboys from the 60s and 70s. Gotta have something to read in the cinema office after all... I tend to go for the Christmas issues that were packed with extras, I try not to spend over $5 on one and now I actually read them for the articles (Ray Bradbury! Gunter Grass! Alan Watts! Shel Silverstein!).
In the March 1973 issue there is a photo shoot by Russ Meyer of his wife Edy Williams (BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS) talking about an upcoming Meyer's film called FOXY that Russ describes as being about, "A sexy record-company executive who gets mixed up with a number of men in outrageous situations. They'll be involved with oceanography, boxing, World War One aircraft, wrestling, cross-country motorcycling and voyeurism (!? - did this become DR. MINX? - Hal! Help us out here and leave a comment!). There is a great shot of Edy floating speak eagle in a bluer than blue swimming pool with the following quote:
"Russ took this photo in our back yard," Edy told us. "He has a great mind, sort of erotic and classy at the same time. He's a genius, but people don't know it yet. And he's fun to live with too!"As I look for some shots of Edy online, I have made a startling discovery! Edy has a blog!!! She likes posting in CAPITAL LETTERS AND PUTS UP PHOTOS OF HER AT MANY A HOLLYWOOD GATHERING! Good to see the star of SNATCH MASTERS 6 (only referred to as MASTERS 6 on her blog credit lisitng) still gets out to the red carpet and takes pics with other "stars". Here she is with Fabio!

2007 OSCAR Ellen all glowing in white!..
BEST FILM “A GOOD YEAR”by RID. SCOTT
WHAT EDY EATS FOR LOOKIN’ GOOD ?
OUR ANNA N. SMITH TO REST IN PEACE! ITS YOUR BODY…
INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHERS GUILD AWARDS!..
GOUGED FOR GAS! OH YUK!
RYAN O’ NEAL, YOUR GOODWILL IS PROOF FOR YOU!
BARBARO, A HORSE OR WAS HE? OUR INSPIRATION!.
2007 is HERE!..NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS!
ie: good films to relax the mind, ERAGON, HAAAAPPY FEET! Merry xmas to all white, green, black orange, yellow, brown, purple people!
BEING A ONE WOMAN “PRODUCTION”..
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!..GOBBLE, GOBBLE.

Saturday, March 24, 2007
Mr. Sidaris has left the building
Director Andy Sidaris passed away on the 7th of March 2007 in Beverly Hills, California from throat cancer. Think we'll have a memorial matinee tomorrow...

again, can't help myself... but then again, it IS Lili St. Cyr...
Found over at the always inspirational image blog, if charlie parker was a gunslinger,
there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats.
And click here for a NSFW pic of Jane Birkin aslo found at the site, filed under Sex Education.
uhhhh... thats it?
Found a copy of Entertainment Weekly stuck to the floor of one of the cubicles in the mens room. All the pics of Rose McGowan were ripped out and stuck to the wall with bubblegum. I think we have a serial crime on our hands because last week, in the "Ladies" room, we found pics from another copy of EW of Gerard Butler from 300 up on the wall, but someone had stuck (again with bubblegum that smelt like Big Red) pics of Sid Haig's mug over Gerard's face. However the disturbing fact is that it was Haig circa 1970... Mr. Greenwood (our janitor) might have other details about that clean-up.

One of the things left in the mag was this selection of favourite movie posters from Grindhouse directors Tarantino and Rodriguez. Reads more like a top ten of movies rather than any merit of the poster design... Come on guys!
Meanwhile, industry tracking on Grindhouse is sounding weak, but then when do true movie fans pay attention to bean-counters. Found some interesting observations and predictions on the film from The Badger Herald, by a writer who does own an autographed poster of MS. 45... I think we all know that GRINDHOUSE is:

One of the things left in the mag was this selection of favourite movie posters from Grindhouse directors Tarantino and Rodriguez. Reads more like a top ten of movies rather than any merit of the poster design... Come on guys!
Meanwhile, industry tracking on Grindhouse is sounding weak, but then when do true movie fans pay attention to bean-counters. Found some interesting observations and predictions on the film from The Badger Herald, by a writer who does own an autographed poster of MS. 45... I think we all know that GRINDHOUSE is:
...the most anticipated film of the spring among the all-important demographics of 15-year-old boys, movie store clerks and anti-social, basement-dwelling shut-ins.And good serve on this one (go rent CHERRY FALLS!):
It’s a lot easier to riff on the cultural mores of 1970s filmmaking than it is go out and make an honest-to-goodness incarnation of grindhouse cinema in the modern movie market. This is why the likes of “Cherry Falls,” “Jack Frost,” and “Ginger Snaps 2”— the three best direct-to-video exploitation movies of the last decade — are infinitely more impressive than anything Tarantino or Rodriguez could come up with for “Grindhouse.”We eagerly wait for opening day...
International Wonder
US poster for original Swedish upsetter and banned 'art film' from 1967.

The sequel's advertising is here represented by a tatekan, the larger of the Japanese paper with two standard B2 panels joining to measure a beautiful tapestry at 20" x 58" or 50cm X 147cm.

I'm not sure but I am curious, green(wood).

Don't be afraid to ask questions if you're not sure.

The sequel's advertising is here represented by a tatekan, the larger of the Japanese paper with two standard B2 panels joining to measure a beautiful tapestry at 20" x 58" or 50cm X 147cm.

I'm not sure but I am curious, green(wood).

Don't be afraid to ask questions if you're not sure.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Meyer's Smoked Turkey Breast

But to the matter at hand (or abreast...)... I was so happy to finally have a chance to post the six youtube links for the British doc on Russ Meyers that I bookmarked sometime ago after reading about it on the Positive Ape Index blog done by hotrod and CARtoon artist Coop, but sadly the the links have been shot down by some copyright monkey sitting at a desk...


I can kind of blame my parents for the Meyer interest since they did give me Danny Peary's "Cult Movies" as a Christmas present in my early teenage years and I read and re-read the synopsis and essay on BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (and BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR, EMANUELLE, CAGED HEAT and others...).

Now if I can get my parents to buy the various volumes of this series for me this Christmas as a 37-year old...

Rolling Thunder Revue
Oh, to be at that Grindhouse festival in LA...
Why the fuck isn't this movie on DVD?
Why the fuck isn't this movie on DVD?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
One reason why we're here.
Happy 85th birthday, Russ Meyer! I only wish you were alive to enjoy it. You truly helped define us and made some damn fun movies.
Here's a nice, early piece during the nudie cutie craze that he helped invent. 'Eve and the Handyman' from 1961.

And the superior (in my opinion) UK poster for 'Lorna'. This one sheet style was printed in the UK for use outside of their borders.

And the terrific British quad (this is the standard size and shape poster used in British cinemas, a filmically horizontal 30" x 40" or 76cm x 101cm) for the totally endearing, but brief, 'Mondo Topless'.
Here's a nice, early piece during the nudie cutie craze that he helped invent. 'Eve and the Handyman' from 1961.

And the superior (in my opinion) UK poster for 'Lorna'. This one sheet style was printed in the UK for use outside of their borders.

And the terrific British quad (this is the standard size and shape poster used in British cinemas, a filmically horizontal 30" x 40" or 76cm x 101cm) for the totally endearing, but brief, 'Mondo Topless'.

at twitch... The Console Incarnate

Last night at an IMAX (!!!!!) screening of 300 (that induced many giggle fits), I motioned to Jesse a few times with a fury of thumb and finger action, as if playing a vid game console. In the spirit of that, I have found this posting over at twitchfilm.net about early movie to video game adaptations. I remember playing the Friday the 13th nintendo game with a bunch of my younger sister's stoned friends one summer night. I found playing when stoned was painful cause the other players seemed to be taking f-o-r-e-v-e-r! Plus we were in a house in the middle of the woods and exploring under the full moon seemed far more interesting, not to mention s-c-a-r-y!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
sea of perdition...

From regular cinema patron, Marc, comes this nugget. We got to see these at the Sitges film fest in Spain and I am very curiuos to see more. By the director of HARDWARE and DUST DEVIL...
Richard Stanley's amazing short film THE SEA OF PERDITION (actually, part 7 of SEA) is finally online.The playback frame rate looks a little odd, but it's worth watching.
And if you want to see some footage from several other (unfinished) segments from Richard's massive SEA OF PERDITION project, take a look at this music video here. I think it was put together by him and features images from part 7 above, plus other stuff that's shot, but unedited as of yet. Really mesmerizing.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
And another.
I'm not trying to find these but I was watching 1967's 'The Sex Killer' tonight and this did pop up so conveniently. It's a wholly unremarkable film and bad in ways that aren't so good. In fact, most of the nicer shots are weird bits inside the mannequin factory with those frozen faces and a few decent rooftop views on NYC plus the requisite nudity.



Saturday, March 17, 2007
but there IS good news
Got these dispatches in about folks who are carrying the torch and offering big screen excitement for those who realize that watching a film on your cell phone is, quite frankly, PATHETIC! Here are some events in London (Ontario!), Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Austin and Mission... any other events? 35mm ONLY!
Exhumed Films Presents STREET TRASH
a Very Special Night With Writer/Director/Producer Roy Frumkes!
Saturday, March 24 - $12 - Showtime 7:30pm
STREET TRASH [Directed by Jim Muro/1987/Color/102 minutes/35mm] STREET TRASH stands as one of the most outrageous gore-comedies of the 1980s. The rotgut booze Tenafly Viper can cause much more than a hangover...drink some and you'll melt within seconds! Join a cast of screwballs and revel in the grue and gore in this subversive little gem of a cult classic. Writer/producer Roy Frumkes will be on hand to introduce the movie (projected from his rare, personal 35mm print) and take your questions. As well, he'll be presenting the never-before-seen documentary about the making of George A. Romero's LAND OF THE DEAD, DREAM OF THE DEAD (2005/Color/25 minutes/CDr). Hardcore horrorfiles will flip their lids over some footage of a certain mythical uncompleted horror anthology Mr. Frumkes plans to bring with him to screen for Exhumed Films fans only! Autographs will be signed in the lobby.
Grindhouse Double Feature, Saturday March 24th!
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow 7:00 pm, The Beyond 9:00 pm
Only at the Hollywood Theatre, The Grindhouse Film Festival presents a Grindhouse Double Feature! With incredibly rare 35mm prints of Yuen Woo Ping’s kung fu masterpiece Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Lucio Fulci’s gut ripping gore fest The Beyond! There will also be a multitude of rare 35mm Grindhouse trailers before each movie! Plus, exciting giveaways!
This is a true double feature, two movies for the price of one: $6.00
EROTIC ADVENTURES OF SUPERKNIGHT
MAR 28, MIDNIGHT, FREE
KILL OR BE KILLED
APRIL 4 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. IVAN HALL, 1980, 35MM, 90 MIN, PG
MARTA
APRIL 11 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. JOSE ANTONIO NIEVES, 1971, 35MM, 96 MIN, R
CRUISIN' HIGH
APRIL 18 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. JOHN BUSHELMAN, 1976, 35MM, 102 MIN, R
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
APRIL 25 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. HORACE JACKSON, 1977, 35MM, 96 MIN, PG
BLACK COBRA
MAY 2 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. JOE D'AMATO, 1976, 35MM, 90 MIN, R
COP KILLERS
MAY 9 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. WALTER CICHY, 1973, 35MM, 93 MIN, R
DAYDREAM
MAY 16 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. TETSUJI TAKECHI, 1964, 35MM, 92 MIN, R
HELLCATS
MAY 23 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. ROBERT SLATZER, 1967, 35MM, 90 MIN, R
CHESTY ANDERSON USN
MAY 23 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. ED FORSYTH, 1976, 16MM, 88 MIN, R
starring sexploitation regulars Uschi Digard, Dyanne Thorne and Shari Eubanks
THE RISE AND FALL OF IDI AMIN
MAR 29, MIDNIGHT, FREE, Director: Sharad Patel, R, 91 min
HELL NIGHT
APR 5 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Tom DeSimone, 1981, 35mm, 101 min, R
WHAT WAITS BELOW
APR 12 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Don Sharp, 1983, 35mm, 88 min, PG
DARK AUGUST
APR 19 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Martin Goldman, 1976, 35mm, 87 min, R
TERRORVISION
APR 26 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Ted Nicolaou, 1986, 35mm, 83 min, R
INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS
MAY 3 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Denis Sanders, 1973, 35mm, 85 min, R
THE STEPFATHER
MAY 10 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Joseph Ruben, 1987, 35mm, 89 min, R
CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE
MAY 17 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Joy N. Houck Jr., 1976, 35mm, 95 min, PG
NIGHT OF THE COMET
MAY 24 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Thom Eberhardt, 1984, 35mm, 95 min, PG-13
BLOOD BATH
MAY 31 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Joel M. Reed, 1976, 35mm, 86 min, PG
...are you still reading this garbage? Okay, well it's not a Terror Thursday, but this is coming up too and if you've ever bothered to consider yourself a person who's enjoyed a single horror film, you're obligated to attend, without question:
ROLLING ROADSHOW: BLOOD FEAST & 2000 MANIACS
with godfather of gore Herschell Gordon Lewis live in person!!!
Sat. May 26 - sundown - check our site for location
dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis, 35mm, R
www.myspace.com/thescreenlandfreakshow
- London (Ontario) -
- Philadelphia -

a Very Special Night With Writer/Director/Producer Roy Frumkes!
Saturday, March 24 - $12 - Showtime 7:30pm
STREET TRASH [Directed by Jim Muro/1987/Color/102 minutes/35mm] STREET TRASH stands as one of the most outrageous gore-comedies of the 1980s. The rotgut booze Tenafly Viper can cause much more than a hangover...drink some and you'll melt within seconds! Join a cast of screwballs and revel in the grue and gore in this subversive little gem of a cult classic. Writer/producer Roy Frumkes will be on hand to introduce the movie (projected from his rare, personal 35mm print) and take your questions. As well, he'll be presenting the never-before-seen documentary about the making of George A. Romero's LAND OF THE DEAD, DREAM OF THE DEAD (2005/Color/25 minutes/CDr). Hardcore horrorfiles will flip their lids over some footage of a certain mythical uncompleted horror anthology Mr. Frumkes plans to bring with him to screen for Exhumed Films fans only! Autographs will be signed in the lobby.
- Portland -
Grindhouse Double Feature, Saturday March 24th!
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow 7:00 pm, The Beyond 9:00 pm
Only at the Hollywood Theatre, The Grindhouse Film Festival presents a Grindhouse Double Feature! With incredibly rare 35mm prints of Yuen Woo Ping’s kung fu masterpiece Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Lucio Fulci’s gut ripping gore fest The Beyond! There will also be a multitude of rare 35mm Grindhouse trailers before each movie! Plus, exciting giveaways!
This is a true double feature, two movies for the price of one: $6.00
- San Francisco -
- Austin -
EROTIC ADVENTURES OF SUPERKNIGHT
MAR 28, MIDNIGHT, FREE
KILL OR BE KILLED
APRIL 4 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. IVAN HALL, 1980, 35MM, 90 MIN, PG
MARTA
APRIL 11 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. JOSE ANTONIO NIEVES, 1971, 35MM, 96 MIN, R
CRUISIN' HIGH
APRIL 18 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. JOHN BUSHELMAN, 1976, 35MM, 102 MIN, R
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
APRIL 25 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. HORACE JACKSON, 1977, 35MM, 96 MIN, PG
BLACK COBRA
MAY 2 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. JOE D'AMATO, 1976, 35MM, 90 MIN, R
COP KILLERS
MAY 9 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. WALTER CICHY, 1973, 35MM, 93 MIN, R
DAYDREAM
MAY 16 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. TETSUJI TAKECHI, 1964, 35MM, 92 MIN, R
HELLCATS
MAY 23 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. ROBERT SLATZER, 1967, 35MM, 90 MIN, R
CHESTY ANDERSON USN
MAY 23 MIDNIGHT, FREE, DIR. ED FORSYTH, 1976, 16MM, 88 MIN, R
starring sexploitation regulars Uschi Digard, Dyanne Thorne and Shari Eubanks
THE RISE AND FALL OF IDI AMIN
MAR 29, MIDNIGHT, FREE, Director: Sharad Patel, R, 91 min
HELL NIGHT
APR 5 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Tom DeSimone, 1981, 35mm, 101 min, R
WHAT WAITS BELOW
APR 12 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Don Sharp, 1983, 35mm, 88 min, PG
DARK AUGUST
APR 19 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Martin Goldman, 1976, 35mm, 87 min, R
TERRORVISION
APR 26 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Ted Nicolaou, 1986, 35mm, 83 min, R
INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS
MAY 3 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Denis Sanders, 1973, 35mm, 85 min, R
THE STEPFATHER
MAY 10 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Joseph Ruben, 1987, 35mm, 89 min, R
CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE
MAY 17 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Joy N. Houck Jr., 1976, 35mm, 95 min, PG
NIGHT OF THE COMET
MAY 24 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Thom Eberhardt, 1984, 35mm, 95 min, PG-13
BLOOD BATH
MAY 31 MIDNIGHT, FREE, dir. Joel M. Reed, 1976, 35mm, 86 min, PG
...are you still reading this garbage? Okay, well it's not a Terror Thursday, but this is coming up too and if you've ever bothered to consider yourself a person who's enjoyed a single horror film, you're obligated to attend, without question:
ROLLING ROADSHOW: BLOOD FEAST & 2000 MANIACS
with godfather of gore Herschell Gordon Lewis live in person!!!
Sat. May 26 - sundown - check our site for location
dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis, 35mm, R
- Mission, Kansas -
www.myspace.com/thescreenlandfreakshow

Grand Slam Auto: Kinski City
An Italian heist picture with Klaus Kinski, Janet Leigh and Edward G Robinson with a score by Ennio Morricone and the Tijuana Brass? How could I have slept on this one?
across the pond...
Bookmarked the site DerelictLondon.com a number of months ago and thought the link was dead, but happy to have found it again. Cronicling run down and abandoned pubs (South of the River and North of the River), shops, houses, waterways, and other urban sites, it of course touches on cinemas whose patrons are now rats and hobos...
The Hackney Empire, The Archway Theatre, The Safari Cinema, The State Leytonstone, The Coronet Cinema and others. May you rest in peace...


The Hackney Empire, The Archway Theatre, The Safari Cinema, The State Leytonstone, The Coronet Cinema and others. May you rest in peace...



Happy St. Patrick's Day!


Actually, I was lucky enough to see this Canadian film about an Irish immigrant from 1964 at the Gorge Cinema in Elora, Ontario some time back. Like, eight years ago or more. There were a couple of people present who were involved with the CBC or early Canadian film and such there to introduce it and talk about F.R 'Budge' Crawley, the producer, who was their good friend. It wasn't overly informative and I think they weren't really used to giving that type of thing but it was a pure joy to see the movie and its scenes of wintry Montreal (and Ottawa, if memory serves me) on the screen in glorious black and white. I love 60s/70s Canadian films and the acting in this one is also terrific, if you're given the chance. The older gentleman friend of Crawley fell asleep during the screening, head back and all.
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