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December 18, 2005

 

"i wonder . . . who are the real cannibals?"

Tonight, in the spirit of Christmas (See? I believe now, thanks to the aforementioned miracle), I went to the edge of downtown to see Cannibal Holocaust screened as part of the Chucky Lou AV Club's annual Antichristmas. And never before has the filmed dissection of a giant turtle or the brutal rape of Amazonian natives or the prolonged, shaky-cam, tables-turning murder of a film crew seemed so festive. The theatre was...
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December 17, 2005

 

c'était un rendez-vous

don't click the image, click the little play logo down in the lefthand bottom corner. turn your volume down if you've got speakers. On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to...
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November 24, 2005

 

you always were a headache and you always were a bore

William S. Burroughs' Thanksgiving Prayer...
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February 02, 2005

 

shush now

this is the creepiest thing on tv every year There's something so fetishistic about the way the old lady (who's shilling for a tax preparation firm located on scenic Troost in a dilapidated old house with a crappy sign out front) strokes the dinosaur's tail and coos to it. Maybe it means something in the context of Kansas City, but all I know is it feels like walking in on your grandmother...
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December 26, 2003

 

six times hot : the movie

highway 29, christmas eve, iowa, 80 miles an hour...
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December 16, 2003

 

bad news: the movie

Shot 20 minutes ago in my living room, using my Casio QV-3000EX digital still camera. The movie feature produces crude lo-res video that looks like a bootlegged snuff film. But there's a quick and dirty end result that's fairly small and can be fairly interesting. I'm gonna mess around with it some more, see if I can't make something interesting out of it all. Let me know if it doesn't work for...
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