DOGTOOTH

Listen, sometimes work can get real busy, and life can pass you by, but, like, it's important to stop and ask yourself hard, meaningful questions:

"What if my parents left me and my siblings isolated from the world, and we developed our own unique language?" (this might actually be the case for me, as anyone who has been with my brothers and I can attest).
"What if the only outsider allowed was there to sexually please the oldest son of the family?"
"what if she started taking up with other members of the family and SHIT GOT REAL!"

THIS THING WAS OSCAR NOMINATED, and gotta 93% on Rotten tomatoes, and was UN PRIX DE CERTAIN REGARD at Cannes. It's legitimate, which I know is a bit weird for a movie night selection; but COME ON;

AO Scott (my nickname in New Jersey)said:

the film is "a conversation piece. Though the conversation may not proceed quite into the depths of psychosexual analysis that Dogtooth seems to invite. Your post-viewing discourse may be more along the lines of: 'What was that?' 'I don’t know. Weird.' 'Yeah.' [shudder]. 'Weird.'

I don't think your having sex right unless the reaction is "what was that? I don't know. Weird." SO THIS SEEMS LIKE IT'S right up my alley. If it's up your alley, then come to Erika's alley tonight at 8pm

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!