Next Movie Night November 10th; HOUSE (hausu)

Next Movie Night will be House (hausu) at MY HOUSE
Wed. NOVEMBER 10th; in Lafayette Square, more details Later

AV CLUB article

SO LISTEN; we learned our lesson with Solaris. We got halfway in, then started cracking jokes, mostly about the yellow mesh shirt that Donatas Banionis was wearing. Everybody missed about ten minutes of the movie because of all the chatter, then we just stopped it and watched the video of Kat Williams talking about Rick Ross' everyday i'm hustling. Watch this if you haven't:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLDitGAUrno

SO We are going to stay away from anything longer than 2 hours for a little bit, and probably anything meditative, or profound for at LEAST 1 movie night. THIS HAUSU movie looks insane, and pleasurable, and it will be shown at my Lafayette Square apt., which is new for many of you people... SO PLEASE

SOLARIS THIS WED. at ERIKA's HOUSE @ 7PM

Erika and I wanna start Movie Night Up Again...SO This Wed. At ERIKA'S NEW PLACE (it's off of Hampton, Contact Us for specific address INFO)

And what better way to pick ourselves up from our cold exile from each other than with Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS?It's got a 97% on Rotten tomatoes It's a movie I've swore to watch a million times, and never have, so now I WILL...

Bonus Tarkovsky fun fact from Roger Ebert When Tarkovsky was given an award at a film festival, this was his acceptance speech:

"The cinema, she is a whore. First she charge a nickel, now she charge five dollars. When she learns to give it away, she will be free,"

We're going to watch the original, Russian Version, here are some words about it from the NYTIMES 1976 Review:

Set in some future time, it is about the voyage of Chris Kelvin to the space station on the planet Solaris. The Academy of Sciences has found no profit in the long studies made of the planet. Chris's mission is to talk with the three scientists at the station and to report on closing it down.

The surface of Solaris is something like a sea, a great pulsating mass. A previous scientist, Burton, has come back in severe nervous shock; he believes that it may not be a sea but a superior order of consciousness, a great brain, in fact. Chris, a haunted but practical man, a missioner of human progress, is prepared to order a final experiment: a massive infusion of radiation into the "sea."

Burton, now older, is horrified. "You must not destroy what you don't understand," he says. Chris's father, a solitary, severe man, is also appalled. "Space is too fragile for your kind," he says.

The whole long, strange trip develops the theme. Mankind, with its aggressive expansionism — intellectual as well as material—destroys more than it finds. Chris is the practical man who, by the film's end, will be converted.

He finds that the space station, that summit of technology, is a heart of darkness. All three scientists there have been shattered by encountering the mystery of the planet. Solaris is, in fact, a great consciousness. Thought is made reality there, including the deepest thoughts of its visitors.

A SINGLE MAN WED 8PM DQ APT

This Wed;MAY 05; Return of Movie Night with Tom Ford's A SINGLE MAN...'
Erika's back! And once again she's blessing us with her bounty, in the form of Tom Ford's A Single Man. You know, the movie's supposed to be real good! Gorgeously composed! An 86% on Rotten Tomatoes! ELEGANT AND SUBTLE! Just like my use of exclamation points! Just watching this trailer makes me feel reeeeeeeeeeal classy; I instinctively tucked my shirt into my boxers when it began.



The A.V. Club gave it an A-, and say that it "is a film of tremendous style wedded to real substance, and rooted in Firth’s affecting lead performance as a man trying to keep it together for one last day after his world has fallen apart." I'm hoping this movie will give me the toolset to cope with my own earth shattering loss on Monday May 24th when LOST finally ends.

Thirst! + Some kinda salad +Blood orange Sparkling Juice. Tomorrow @ 8pm- at my place

Tomorrow at my apartment at 8pm. Park Chan Wook's THIRST
I just did my taxes! Which means movie night is NOT cancelled. We're going to do a bit of a relaunch thing when Erika gets back from her whirlwind west coast tour, but while she's gone, we'll watch a movie she expressed no interest in seeing! That's Park Chan Wook's (director of Old Boy)"Thirst," which the LA Times called "a rumination on morality and mortality that is not at all deadly, but funny and profound and at times intensely erotic."



See, Erika doesn't care about vampires, but i likes them just fine. I wanted to do a twilight double header, but i was assured that I would be left alone in my apartment, wearing a cape and checking my messages if I went ahead with that plan. And i hate doing the same thing Wednesday Night as I do Saturday night. So instead we watch Park Chan Wook's Thirst, a movie that won a prize at cannes, and that has not inspired a single tattoo on my skin. (Go Team Eric Yorkie)

Hot Tub Time machine! Wed. 9:25 @ galleria

9:25 Galleria HOT TUB TIME MACHINE with special guest Kit GESMUNDO

There's a couple things about movie night that we've established:
-that I update this blog exceedingly late
-that it's usually held at my apartment
-that Erika and I are unwilling to change the movie selection for those of you who wish to watch movies for "pleasure" and to have a "good time"
-that the food is uniformly fantastic and often home made.
-that I misuse the word "couple"

So this week, we plan to live up to NONE of those expectations, cuz we kinda wanna do this instead:

7TH GRADE MALL NIGHT MOVIE NIGHT
*if you have a flannel, an alice in chains shirt, cutoff shorts, etc...wear it (I don't have this stuff, but I expect more from you people than I do from myself. I'll probally be wearing a wrinkled dress shirt + my work nametag that I always forget to take off).

*Dinner will be at the Galleria FOOD COURT @8:40

*Movie starts at the Galleria at 9:25

*If you want a ride, meet at my apartment by 8:15

And the one and only kittykat gesmundo, in town for easter, will be there! Please come prepared with questions about Oklahoma City, or medical questions you'd be comfortable having a devoted medical student answer.

Final Flesh w/ Final Fettucini @ My Loop Apt (email for address)

Final Flesh! A Quick Description, that really resembles the "My info" section I have on my match.com profile:

Final Flesh is a surreal, apocalyptic My Dinner With Andre in other words, existential, sublime and ridiculous, featuring unmistakeably porno production values and shudderingly unseasoned porno actors and actresses but no actual sex!

With Final Fettucini: Description by Meganagain
Fettucini tossed in a spicy parmesan/asiago cream sauce with broccoli and cajun chicken. Served with fresh bread and a spinach salad with goat cheese, craisins, toasted almonds, and a drizzle of sorrow and contempt.

Beverage choices include Wine, Beer, or the Tears of Neglected Children.

SO FINAL FLESH:Not for the faint of heart, or for those with any heart. COME HERE FOR MORE INFO
Trailers not safe for work, so I'm not posting it. Nothing about this movie is safe for work. Which has made me reconsider working. Because what is a life without this kinda mess?

Product Description From Amazon!
NEW from Vernon Chatman, a co-creator of some of this millennium s most outre cable television programming (Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel and yeah Doggy Fizzle Televizzle - !) is a DVD destined to change the way we look at entertainment, pornography and probably the legal system. Final Flesh is a feature film produced in four parts: the script written by Vernon was divided up and submitted to four unique film production companies that work exclusively in the field of customized adult content. The companies shared charter is to produce a film that explores the writer s chosen fetish and with this in mind, Vernon wrote with demented determination, in order to push the definition of fetish into the realm of the cosmically absurd. Then he sat back to see what his charges would deliver. The resulting film is an epic narrative for our time. Final Flesh is a surreal, apocalyptic My Dinner With Andre in other words, existential, sublime and ridiculous, featuring unmistakeably porno production values and shudderingly unseasoned porno actors and actresses but no actual sex! Chatman s sexworker hirelings applied themselves earnestly to his cerebral text (never suspecting the prank nature of the project). Working in complete isolation from each other, they made Final Flesh a cinematic exquisite corpse whose fervid rottings comprise an insurgency in the field of...well, all the fields that involve people looking at other people for entertainment. Final Flesh isn t just a meta-comedic concept whose time has come it s also a hot evening s entertainment filled with religion, sex, philosophy, fashion, culture and reality (with all the pathos that implies), plus some really amazing dialogue. Few will sit the fence on this. Few should. Final Flesh is a confrontation and a contradiction that deserves its day in (kangaroo) court. Fortunately, it s the way of the world that the curious and easily influenced will be drawn into the web that is Final Flesh, whether they like it or not thus dissolving its concepts of avant-garde porn and comedy into the unsuspecting mainstream, where their questionable merits will have the desired evolutionary impact. If your spirit is willing the Flesh will freak you!

Collapse Wed. March 17 @ 8pm @ my apartment

Collapse by Chris Smith WITH SOUFLEE BY MEGAN
First things first; Megan is making delicate Goat Cheese Souffles in Phyllo Cups to go with COLLAPSE:

She might even make a SemiSweet Chocolate Souflee with Nougat Center. DELICIOUS!

And all this is to go with Collapse, by Chris Smith, whose made two of my favorite movies; American Movie and The Pool. Erika NEVER STOPS WATCHING THIS MOVIE.



From Scott Tobias' A Review in Onion's Av Club

Ruppert may appear like just another crackpot, the sort of obscure, raving prophet who regularly offers up worst-case scenarios in Glenn Beck’s War Room. (Or Stephen Colbert’s Doom Bunker, for that matter.) But he isn’t an ideologue, which makes his Chicken Little panic more authentic—as do his confident voice and meticulously crafted arguments. The scope of his argument is suspiciously immense, yet thought through to the smallest detail; every time a “Yeah, but” question comes up (as in “Yeah, but what about these alternative energy sources?” or “Yeah, but what about human innovation?”), Ruppert has an answer. “I don’t deal in conspiracy theory,” he says. “I deal in conspiracy fact.”
That said—and this is important to remember—Collapse is by no means an endorsement of Ruppert’s worldview. Smith (American Movie) has enough faith in his audience to allow them to sort it out for themselves. He gives Ruppert the floor, but his occasional interjections question whether his subject has walled himself into an argument by accepting only the information that supports his point of view. And in several exceptionally poignant moments, he also allows us to see an angry, lonely, vulnerable man whose life epitomizes the title as much as the globe does. There are many layers to the man and the movie, and it’s hard not to leave the theater shaken.

NO MOVIE NIGHT THIS WEEK

no movie night this week, cuz I'm going to the symphony jerks!
Here's a creepy, kooky portrait Megan Simmons did of the movie night we had without her, a couple of weeks ago. SHE'S MAKIN A MOCKERY OF US! WE'RE SERIOUS PEOPLE. Please express your anger towards her vehemently, passionately, and inconsistently.

Wed.March 03.2010 RED RIDING:1974

We forgot to do a portrait last week; Megan, who was out of town, promised to do a drawing of how she imagines movie night was; I think that the picture will end up insulting; she didn't disagree. Portrait coming soon. This WEDNESDAY we have Red Riding Trilogy 1974. It promises to be British; Depressing; and realllllllly good.

The A.V. Club says:

Red Riding remains a remarkable achievement. Reduced to bare description, its desperate dames and crooked cops resemble the stuff of Noir 101, but the series owes more to the moral murk of James Ellroy’s L.A. and the civic spiderweb of The Wire than conventional thrillers. This is as much psycho-geography as genre exercise. The murders and other mysteries end up feeling like byproducts of the region’s difficult move away from a rural past toward an uncertain future; dead girls and plans for shopping malls have a way of getting tangled up together.

Aguirre Wrath of GOD! Wed. February 24, 2010

Wed. Feb 24
Werner Herzog's Aguirre: Wrath of God + Werner Herzog eats a shoe
Daanish's Apt in the loop (call/text for directions)

Monday night at Borders, Jeremy (from treasure aisle and Erika's boothmate)told me that Werner Herzog just drinks beer and eats potatoes. I don't know how serious he was, but I've got beer, potatoes and respect for Werner. The trailer kinda speaks for itself on this one. OOO Special pre-show video: Werner Herzog eats a shoe. Literally. Why? B/c he lost a bet with Errol Morris. After the trailer, find a video of Werner getting shot at (via air rifle)during an interview with Mark Kermode, and brushing it off by saying "it's not a significant bullet".
AND THEN FINALLY
A picture from the last movie night.

THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL

Wednesday February 17, 2010
HOUSE OF THE DEVIL 7pm
at the demon's sublease! (or my apartment in the loop)
Megan's making devil food cupcakes.
and we'll probably get pizza or something.

AV CLUB interview with the Director

A Serious Man? I'm Serious, man.

My Apartment This Wed @ 7pm. In the loop, behind Cicero's on Syracuse. Email/call/text for directions. Matzo snacks? Bagel Dogs? Come and Find out.

WED FEB 3 Muhammad Ali: The Greatest by William Klein

Tonight a great documentary by William Klein about Muhammad Ali. William Klein is best known as a photographer, and this movie is full of striking images. http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-04-08/film/radical-cheek/1

We'll figure out how to do Love Exposure with your help please. Pretzels, strawberry shortcake ala erika, and maybe something else for food. I'm thinking Devil's Foodcake, given this quote from an interview between Muhammad Ali and the recently deceased Howard Zinn:

"We've been brainwashed. Everything good is supposed to be white. We look at Jesus, and we see a white with blond hair and blue eyes. We look at all the angels; we see white with blond hair and blue eyes. Now, I'm sure there's a heaven in the sky an it colored folks die and go to heaven. Where are the colored angels? They must be in the kitchen preparing milk and honey. We look at miss america, we see white. We look at miss world, we see white. We look at miss universe, we see white. Even tarzan, the king of the jungle in black Africa, he's white. White Owl Cigars. White Swan soap, White Cloud tissue paper, White Rain hair rinse, White Tornado floor wax. All the good cowboys ride the white horses and wear white hats. Angel food cake is the white cake, but the devils food cake is chocolate. When are we going to wake up as a people and end the lie that white is better than black?"

A quick interview with William Klein:

Love Exposure! POSTPONED

LOVE EXPOSURE will be moved to a later DATE SORRY EVERYBODY

Our Calendar: http://bit.ly/7pR4Et

NEXT Wednesday We've got Love Exposure. It's 4 hours. We're going to show all of it, but we're also going to have a back up plan for those who can't watch the whole thing. We might do a second night, or we might have other solutions in place. Email us if you have any questions. It's directed by the same person who directed suicide club. From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6466712/Love-Exposure-review.html

So much is going on in Love Exposure, a wonderfully berserk comedy from Japan, that it virtually defeats synopsis, but here goes. A preacher’s son called Yu (Takahiro Nishijima), though a sweet lad at heart, is driven to misbehave. His widowed father, tempted into a torrid but short-lived fling with a batty member of his flock, suffers a breakdown and demands daily confessions from his son, who at first invents minor wrongdoings, but soon finds himself committing them. Yu’s signature crime becomes the fetish of upskirt photography -- snapshots of girls’ knickers -- which is an art he perfects with ninja dexterity and a camera on a string, in a series of hilariously choreographed montages worthy of Michel Gondry. He goes about all this with a mechanical sense of duty, curiously unaroused, until one kick-ass young lady, who hates all men, arrives one day, and he has found his Maria.None of this explains why his destined sweetheart thinks he’s actually a black-cloaked female assassin called Miss Scorpion, but then Love Exposure offers four hours of positively Shakespearian plot contortion, all of them loopy. Poet-filmmaker Sion Sono, who made the controversial 2001 horror movie Suicide Club, may be some kind of gonzo genius, and he’s certainly one of the liveliest talents I’ve discovered all year: the movie’s invigorating discourse on sin, lust and love is propelled by a kind of Dionysian glee which keeps it airborne almost constantly. I promise you one thing: you will never hear a more goose-bumpy recital of Corinthians 13, in any language. I’m off to track down all of Sono’s films immediately.

I don't know why I love this

tell me why i love this

Wed Jan 20th Big Fan w/ Patton Oswalt

Visit the Google Calendar for upcoming Movies

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=wed.movie.night%40gmail.com&ctz=America/Chicago

Thanks to Everyone who came out! Erika made delicious German Meatloaf, German chocolate cupcakes and potatoes of no known origin, all to complement Michael Haneke's White Ribbon. My personal favorite scene is when the Pastor's youngest son comes into the room with a daddy bird replacement, and his dad is left trembling. Or maybe the scene where the doctor is being absolutely horrible to his nurse...Please feel free to discuss below. Regardless, White Ribbon fits in with our unofficial motto: "Come watch horrible people treat each other badly, with a bunch of horrible people who treat each other badly."

Erika made even more beautiful handmade invitations tonight, which should go off Monday (or I'm in trouble)

Also we're starting Kids Night in February, designed for the babied to come with there babies. So far we're planning a 6pm start time, combined with an hour of movie or short films.

Next week at Erika's we're watching Big Fan, starring Patton Oswalt, Written/Directed By Robert D. Siegel (Former Editor in Chief of the Onion/writer of the Wrestler). Food served will be Hot Dogs, Veggie Sausages, and Nachos. Byob.