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GOODBYE TO THE CINEMA WEEKEND(Film schedule is subject to change)
-a 3 day film fest of some of the best film curators in Philly.
Friday Sept 22-Sun 24Friday Sept. 22 8pm$5
Joseph A. Gervasi presents...FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES(aka Funeral Procession of Roses or Bara no soretsu)
Directed by Toshio Matsumoto
Japan 1969
A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange), Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-'60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto's controversial debut feature, seemingly nothing is taboo: neither the incorporation of visual flourishes straight from the worlds of contemporary graphic-design, painting, comic-books, and animation; nor the unflinching depiction of nudity, sex, drug-use, and public-toilets. But of all the "transgressions" here on display, perhaps one in particular stands out the most: the film's groundbreaking and unapologetic portrayal of Japanese gay subculture. Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite entertainer extraordinaire Peter, famed for his role as Kyoami the Fool in Akira Kurosawa's Ran) vies with a rival drag-queen (Osamu Ogasawara) for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya, himself a Kurosawa player who appeared in such films as Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and High and Low). Passions escalate and blood begins to flow before all tensions are released in a jolting climax that prefigures by nearly thirty years Tsai Ming-liang's similarly scandalous The River.
Synopsis by Gary A. Toozer of
www.DVDBeaver.com-presented by
Joseph A. Gervasi Joseph was born in 1971, the Year of the Lemur. He has
little interest in people and lots of interest in his cats. He likes when nymphs cook for him. He is a co-founder of Exhumed Films (
www.ExhumedFilms.com) and the co-owner of Diabolik DVD (
www.DiabolikDVD). Joseph plans to do more
music/film events outside of Exhumed Films in 2007.
$5
10PMfree
ANDREW REPANSKY McELHINNEY presents
THE NEW YORK RIPPERby Lucio Fulci
(THIS FILM IS FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY)
Released in 1982, Lucio Fulcis The New York Ripper is an amoral ethnography of modern city life varnished in grim, sex for sale and violence for pleasure. A dangerous film, flitting (sometimes incoherently) between the hyper-real and the surreal, The New York Ripper reminds us that true horror movies should not be safe entertainments and profoundly -- that the boogieman is not some sicko who carves up women for fun but something far worse -- something inside us all something that kills unconsciously a thousand times each day via self-perceived moral authority, a casual callousness to our environment , and an indifference to unequivocal social justice for all.
presented by
ANDREW REPANSKY McELHINNEY
filmmaker/curator
free
www.ARMcinema25.com Saturday Sept. 23rd2pm$3
Matt Prigge presents
AGE OF CONSENT
directed by Michael Powell's (final film)
98 min.
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl. Made nearly a decade after the serial killer drama Peeping Tom destroyed his reputation in England, Age of Consent (1969) inadvertently became the last feature-length film of Michael Powell, the director best known for the rash of films made with his longtime partner, Emeric Pressburger.
(Among them The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes.) Filmed in Australia, the film concerns an aging artist, based on Norman Lindsay (the portrayed by Sam Neill in the film Sirens) and played by James Mason, working through
feelings of obsolescence. A young Helen Mirren plays his sometimes clothes-less muse while Jack MacGowran (The Fearless Vampire Killers, How I Won the War) plays his friend.
The film has never been released on video in the U.S.
-presented by Matt Prigge. Matt written about film for the Philadelphia Weekly since 2000.
$3
8pmERIC CARBONARA (Live Soundtrack) WITH LIVE Visuals BY THOMAS BUGAJERIC CARBONARA 
Eric Carbonara is a guitarist, composer, audio engineer and producer whose career spans over a decade of collaborations and solo work. Frequently using a rotating cast of monikers and aliases, Carbonara simply uses sound to interpret the world around him as he sees fit. His own recording studio, Nada Sound Studio, is both the catalyst and the mechanism through which Carbonara speaks. Recent years have revealed a departure from his psych/krautrock-influenced work (Jason Likes Science, The Cameras, The Molecules) to a kaleidoscopic realm of minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation, free-noise guitar thrashing, the folk music of North Africa and Andalusia and Classical Hindustani music. In a sense, Eric Carbonara plays pidgin music, a language that is in between other languages-borrowing elements from its surroundings-it may be a language that only Eric speaks, but he speaks it well.
http://www.ericcarbonara.org/
THOMAS BUGAJ (video artist)
http://www.medicinefilms.com/loves/thomasbugajfree
9pmMike Zaleski presentsLET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH directed by John Hancock
John Hancock's "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" (1971), despite a title that may suggest something less than subtle, is a quiet and unnerving genre classic about a woman who may or may not be losing her mind. In a refreshing departure from today's horror movies, this very creepy film tells its well-crafted story with tact and suggestion, rather than violence and gore. The atmosphere, which you couldn't hack through with a machete, is of a sort that you never find in contemporary films and I remember, as a child, imagining that I could smell the musty, closed-up odors of the Bishop House. With great performances, especially Zohra Lampbert as the fragile Jessica, and more-than-competent direction, this film shouldn't be missed by fans of supernatural or psychological horror. It scared the hell out of me as a kid and my sister claims it gave her nightmares for years. -Mike Z
Mike Zaleski was born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia. He makes narrative and non-narrative films, is a freelance videographer, and he loves both cinema and dogs more than anything in the world. His cat, Alan, is sharp, handsome, sits on command, and has a metal plate in his leg.
free
Sunday Sept 242pmMIKE DENNIS (Reelblack) presentsBAD BRAINS "Live CBGB" 1982, 60 minutes
This breathtaking performance displays why Bad Brains became one of the most important bands in the history of American Hardcore.
On Christmas Eve 1982, Bad Brains began their three-day stint at a Hardcore Festival hosted by legendary CBGB. This DVD represents the very best of these shows, culled from over 4 hours of footage. Their live performances were legendary, their visual recordings were impossible to find. Now, for the first time on DVD, that powerful performance is revisited in extraordinary fashion.
The legend was real. The 1979-1983 Bad Brains were the hottest rock n roll band ever, and those of us who saw them 80 or 90 times (there were several dozen of us in New York and their former base, D.C.), thought we were seeing a semi-monthly miracle. I still remember singer H.R. starting sets by declaring, deadpan If you came to rock n roll, you came to the right placethe understatement of the century. 24 years later watching this video footage of a merely typical CBGB weekend, one is tempted to say, See???!!!! Thats what we were talking about!
Jack Rabid, Publisher of BIG TAKEOVER MAGAZINE
There will also be music videos before the film and a sneak preview of Reelblack TV, our new show that premieres in October on DUTV.
Micheal Dennis runs Reelblack Inc. is a full-service film and video production company dedicated to creating and promoting "good movies 'bout Black Folks."
Based in Philadelphia, it was founded in 1999 by award-winning filmmaker Michael Dennis (a.k.a. Mike D.), a graduate of both NYU Film School and The American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
In addition to writing, producing and directing. Mike curates and hosts an ongoing screening series called REELBLACK PRESENTS, which promotes "discoveries and rediscoveries in African-American film." Visit www.reelblack.com for more info.
free
4pmDan Buskirk presentsALOHA BOBBY & ROSE
(1975, directed by Floyd Mutrux, 88 minutes) Existentiual 70's drive-in flick with AMERICAN GRAFFITI's Paul LeMat and Diane Hull as a young pair on the the lam from the law. Shot by cinematographer William Fraker (BULLITT, ROSEMARY'S BABY) 70's L.A. is transformed into a glowing neon pinball machine that traps our lovers in its bumpers. Littered with great pop songs by Elton John, ELP and more, ALOHA echoes films like TWO LANE BLACKTOP, MEAN STREETS and BREATHLESS while casting it's own entrancing spell.
-presented by Dan Buskirk. Dan writes about film for The Philadelphia Weekly and hosts a weekly jazz program at Prninceton's WPRB
free
6pmLINDSAY KOVNAT presents
SRI SLAVA
Meditative
Sex translucence
evaluation
extravaganza
Time warp
Amen
Description: A Celebration of 1960's educational videos fused with a variety of digital video, animation, and audio distortion.
I will you a DVD with 2 hours of footage on there. Real simple.
Needing only sound/video booth for live sound distortion.
program tba
free
8pm$3
Kelly Shindler (NY) presentsRefracted Lens: A Womans Eye View of Music 
A woman making music is a beautiful thing, but women making music videos are all too rare. In light of the industrys overwhelming male status, celebrating the accomplishments of women in the field becomes even more urgent. Refracted Lens turns the spotlight on the women behind the camera, often in collaboration with their colleagues or themselves - squarely in front of it.
The program features music videos by women working all over the map and across a variety of genres, including: Sadie Benning for ubiquitous feminist rocker Kathleen Hannas solo project, Julie Ruin; Gina Birch, filmmaker and bassist of the seminal post-punk band The Raincoats; Birgit Rathsmann (with Bruce Alcock) for Dutch solo female artist Solex; Julia Feyrer (Canada) for Canuck indie rockers They Shoot Horses Dont They; Rosa Barba (Germany/NL), for experimental electronic artists Mouse on Mars and Microstoria; Valerie Toumayan (France) for the all-female Vancouver quintet The Organ; Meredith Danluck (US) for the unclassifiable Japanese electronic artist Mu; performance/video artists Angie Reed (Germany) and Planningtorock (UK/Germany); and others.
Refracted Lens is by no means an exhaustive survey of women music video makers, but its an earnest attempt to capture some of the magic that happens when a woman and her camera meet some of the most exciting music around.
curated by Kelly Shindler
http://kellyshindler.com/index.html$3
9pmVery Special Encore presentation of
TURKISH STAR WARS aka
Dünyayi kurtaran adam (1982) aka
The Man Who Saves the World (USA) aka
9pm
Free
Runtime: 91 min
Long ago in a Turkish-speaking galaxy far, far away, the universe is being imperiled by a quartet of evildoers: two bush-haired men wearing Mardi Gras costumes, a slutty babe dressed as Cleopatra, and a blue robot with an ambulance light on his head. (I am not making this up...I could not possibly make this up!) Their fleet of spaceships go to war against the flying saucers of a heroic group of rebels, and for several minutes the screen is filled with F/X footage from a battered print of "Star Wars." There's no Luke Skywalker here, but instead we have two middle-aged space jockeys (Cuneyt Arkin and Ayetkin Akkaya) who are leading the rebel attack. Unfortunately, there was no budget for a spaceship set here, so the heroes are photographed in very tight close-ups while footage from "Star Wars" plays on a rear projection behind them.
Star Wars (1977) footage was not all that was "borrowed" from Western movies for this film. Popular movie soundtracks were also used, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (used throughout the film), Moonraker (1979), Flash Gordon (1980), Planet of the Apes (1968), and The Black Hole (1979).
free
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