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.