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We Got Announcements
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 30 09Herewith is a new occasional announcement entry for various and sundry doings by Bright Lights writers and friends that may interest readers.
A Couple of Bagheads
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 28 09Saw a couple baghead movies over the weekend and am still sleeping with the lights on. What's so scary about a bag over a head? Who knows, but it works.
Two More for the Movie Bookshelf
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 17 09Having already submitted a list of ten to Movieman’s Movie Bookshelf meme, a “gathering of all the movie books that influenced, enlightened, and excited me, you, and everyone else,” I was delighted to read his master list of books submitted to him by all the bloggers who participated in the meme - not only delighted, but inspired to add two more books that no else mentioned and which I probably should have included in the first place as “runner-ups.
LAST MISTRESS ALERT!
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 17 09Not available on DVD because IFC is sometimes morons, buying the rights of independent films just to make sure no one ever gets to see them, Catherine Breillat's 2007 film, THE LAST MISTRESS, starring Asia Argento is playing on Sundance Channel tomorrow night at 1:30 AM.
Fellini, Michael Jackson, and La Voce della Luna (1990)
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 15 09
In America, the 1960s were the Golden Age of the foreign film. Film directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, and Alain Resnais were considered “superstars,” and would-be hipsters young and old (especially young) flocked to their movies.
Ed Wood Blogathon: Screwy Details in THE NIGHT OF THE GHOULS
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 11 09It's a shame that Ed Wood's last non-skin film, NIGHT OF THE GHOULS (1959), had to go unseen all through the prime time of Wade Williams' TV horror package.
José Mojica Marins Meets the Spirit of Ed Wood in the World of Coffin Joe
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 10 09Thank you, Spirit of Ed Wood Blogathon, for giving me an excuse to write about José Mojica Marins, the Brazilian screenwriter, director, and star of films every bit as quirky and original as those of the incomparable Wood.
Hiding the Salami in Plain Sight
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 09 09
A Royal Scandal (1945) is an Ernst Lubitsch production directed through - rather than by - Otto Preminger.
PM Gets Box Set From POTUS
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 07 09According to the U.K. Guardian, President Barack Obama, upon leaving Great Britain, gave Prime Minister Gordon Brown a very special present, a box set of 25 classic American films (see above), which the Guardian snarkily describes as "a gift about as exciting as a pair of socks.
Procedurama!
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 05 09Public Enemies is the latest in an ongoing parade of "Procedural" bios-- this newfangled trend of directors and producers wanting to recreate all the scenes they've read about of people they admire.
Space Opera
Bright Lights After Dark Jul 05 09
The Los Angeles Times' Mark Swed takes a long look at some recent film and theater projects that have dealt with classical music - including The Soloist and Francis Coppola's Tetro - and concludes the most interesting of the lot is the Wooster Group's theatrical mash-up La Didone (bottom), which combines a 17th Century opera by Francesco Cavalli with the story and look of Mario Bava's 1965 pop design classic, Planet of the Vampires aka Terrore nello spazio (top):"Pop culture is not wrong in looking at classical art as outsider art.
All Bout Money...
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 30 09Shot on video and doomed with drab titles, STATE PROPERTY 1 (2002) & STATE PROPERTY 2 (2005) are actually very interesting little works in the BATTLE OF ALGIERS vein of faux-verite.
The Remarkable Mr. Herzog
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 29 09Werner Herzog (above right) with favorite star Klaus Kinski during the shooting of Fitzcarraldo (1982).
Conversation with Chabrol
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 27 09In 1976, Claude Chabrol made a special appearance at the Los Angeles Film Exposition (FILMEX). A friend tipped me off that he was staying at the Century Plaza Hotel, and that if I hung out in the lobby I was likely to run into him there.
La Décade Prodigieuse - Ten Days’ Wonder (Claude Chabrol 1971)
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 26 09Why Ten Days’ Wonder? I certainly wouldn’t call it one of Chabrol’s masterpieces. That’s a description I’d reserve for Les Bonnes Femmes, Le Boucher, Á Double Tour, La Rupture, The Cry of the Owl, Story of Women, La Cérémonie, or any one of a half dozen others.
Loving Michael
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 26 09One of our writers, Prof. Stephane Dunn, sent in this personal tribute to dazzling, wounded, now dead Michael Jackson.
Chabrol is in the Air (6/21-30) 10 Days' Wonder
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 24 09In case you're asleep at your desk (like me) I should tell you there's a whole Chabrolian hooplah going on over at the amazing Flickhead! I've always liked Chabrol's weird blend of class hostility and Hitchcock, lesbian inter-fighting, sexual conflict and bourgeoisie blasting, but never quite "loved" it; hence I have no valuable opinion to interject (aww), but I'm looking forward to digging into the pieces from those who do, and enhancing my appreciation of his subtleties.
Klueless Kael
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 22 09The upcoming release of Alain Resnais's classic Last Year at Marienbad on Blu-ray DVD reminds us that Marienbad was one of the many formally ambitious films released in the 1960s that popular critic Pauline Kael simply didn't "get.
My Dinner with Andre again...Again!
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 21 09The post before last made me unearth these notes I once wrote after first seeing the film. Maybe they'll add a little something here.
The Worst Father in Film History
Bright Lights After Dark Jun 21 09I can't think of any others with a more sweeping sense of corruption. His perversity is simply authoritative.
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