Grease fiends, rejoice for Bat32 and Jdog have returned once more to spread the Word of Grease to the unwashed masses. This week the Lords of Grease are preaching the Gospel according to Friedkin – William Friedkin that is – you know – director of The Exorcist and The French Connection fame. The boys are talking Cruising, To Live and Die in L.A. and The Brinks Job. Here, I’ll let them tell you about it and dare I say this is not safe for your Grandmother. NSFG
Welcome to another episode of Exploited Cinema. Like Stephen Lack’s acting skills in Scanners, the guys have been lacking in episodes this month. The boys decided to bounce back with a William Friedkin triple feature. In OBSCURE it’s Cruising (1980) & To Live and Die In L.A. (1985). The VHS VAULT door has been blown off it’s hinges with The Brinks Job (1978). To finish the the show off we got The Legendary Runk on to talk Friedkin and a handful of other stuff. So get your yellow hanky out, soak it with rush and huff the night away!
Major Charles Rane returned from Vietnam as a war hero. Little did he know that a group of desparate thugs would bring violence to his home and destroy everything he loved – forcing the Major to set out seeking righteous retribution with the help of Tommy Lee Jones. That’s right – we’re talking about the oft overlooked Vietnam Veteran revenge flick Rolling Thunder! Not only did Quentin Tarantino’s Rolling Thunder Pictures distribution company bring us such cult classics as Chunking Express, Switchblade Sisters and Sonatine, but there is an actual movie that served as the inspiration for Tarantino’s company. Rolling Thunder is airing tonight at the Colony Theater in Raleigh to kick off the 2011 movie season of Cinema Overdrive! Matt Penachi and the gang do a tremendous job in bringing Raliegh the rarest and craziest cult and horror flicks this side of Castle Rock!
We hope that everyone is safe and warm and looking forward to coming out to the Colony on Wednesday, January 12th for ROLLING THUNDER. This is a fantastic yet little seen film, and we’re extremely pleased to be able to present this one on 35mm. You can check out the original theatrical trailer right here:
In addition to that, the new ROLLING THUNDER screen print poster designed by Travis Getz looks terrific as well! It is a 3 color design measuring 18″ x 24″, and since we know the holidays were hard on everyone we’ll be offering this awesome poster for only $20.00 each. That’s a steal, and if you put it in a back lit poster frame it has a special surprise as well! You can get a quick idea of what it looks like by checking out the Facebook Cinema Overdrive group page or the “Rolling Thunder” event page, but the jpeg really doesn’t do it justice.
Showtime is Wednesday, January 12th at 8:00pm. Tickets are $5.50 each. See you there!”
Check out the trailer here:
Be sure to visit the Cinema Overdrive website for more information on Rolling Thunder and the 2011 season of Cinema Overdrive by clicking here.
Streebo, Dave and Jason prepare for the screening of Devil Comes Down!
As many of you know, our short film “Devil Comes Down” was shown before the early screening of George A. Romero’s newest film “Survival of the Dead” a while back. After the screening of “Survival of the Dead,” a 35mm version of “Night of the Living Dead” was shown at the Carolina Theatre in Durham. It was great to see this on the big screen.
During the Light Factory’s “American Zombie Festival” in 2009, I was able to hear Mr. Romero speak about the making of “Night of the Living Dead” the night of the screening. I also attended a seminar with Streebo. There were many stories that all filmmakers can relate with. Most of these are about overcoming obstacles and adversities (which is useful in life in general of course). It was very inspirational to hear he started from humble beginnings as well and above all else…..Finish it (referring to the film you’re working on).
As far as “Night of the Living Dead,” I enjoy that he uses a lot of emotion to pull the cast apart as opposed to many movies that are just chase films with no emotional attachment to the characters. There are some movies (I won’t name names…ah ah ah choothe New Friday the 13thooo…excuse me) that has tons of what’s the word….douchey characters that you could care less about. This movie you have someone to pull for and for the time period, it’s not the one that was probably politically correct.
In honor of getting to see this in 35mm on the big screen, here are some interesting articles about “Night of the Living Dead.”
Night of the Living Dead represents the end of a lot of things. It was the last truly great black and white horror film, released at a time when most horror films were moving to full, vivid color starting with The Curse of Frankenstein …
Such is the case of Jeff Broadstreet’s dodgy 2006 reimagining “Night of the Living Dead 3D”, a film that boldly attempts to combine two of Hollywood’s latest trends: three-dimensional technology and remakes. …
So, git ready for big surprise, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD… IN COLOR!! Something different on Tabonga Birfday Special 2010, mostly you can just relax and enjoy these wild an’ crazy color stills from this awesome classic-classic, …
Interview with George A. Romero on the masters of horror tv show
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From the Times Online: THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.The suggestions come in a new documentary series in which Hawking, one of the world’s leading scientists, will set out his latest thinking on some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.Alien life, he will suggest, is almost certain to exist in many other parts of the universe: not just in planets, but perhaps in the centre of stars or even floating in interplanetary space.Hawking’s logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved.
[Major spoilers for Remember Me, and light spoilers on Kick-Ass, but the ending is not discussed. Lane does spoil it, so look out if you click through to his review.]Dear Anthony Lane,Nearly a year ago I wrote on this blog a response to your colleague David Denby for his review of Inglourious Basterds, in part because he felt the need to spoil the ending of a movie he did not like. In that open letter I mentioned something you did that bothered me: you spoiled the ending of the movie Watchmen, a movie you did not like. I have heard arguments that movie reviewers should be able to spoil movies, because now they are too straightjacketed by “rules.” I am sympathetic to this. The ending of the movie is part of the movie, and as a reader I might need to know about it to understand if it is any good. I never really got into Seinfeld until the brilliant final episode, and it was a wrongly mailed to me copy of Entertainment Weekly that spoiled the season 2 ending of Alias for me and got me into that show — and from there to LOST, a show I love. And a lot of times I want the review instead of the movie. I am never going to see Remember Me, but I totally wanted to hear about the absurd ending in which it turns out this dumb love story — surprise! — does not take place in the present day, but in 2001, and ends with our guy going up the Twin Towers the morning of September 11. So if you guys decided to open reviews up to discussing the endings, this could be a neat thing. It would put you ahead of the game maybe.But the New Yorker has not done this. I know, because after your review of Watchmen your magazine printed a letter to the editor from a reader who was bothered that you spoiled the ending. This was, I think, a gentle rebuke from your editor surely. In printing the letter the New Yorker was saying “hey, we think this guy has a valid point.” That may seem like a dumb thing to point out to someone like you, but the fact that you later spoiled the ending of Kick-Ass shows that you were unable to see that. And I don't think that you want to have a spoiler-ific discussion of movies anyway. I think you believe that movies should NOT be spoiled. That is why you only spoil movies like Kick-Ass and Watchmen — movies you hate. You are spoiling these not for discussion, but for spite.
Read the rest of Geoff’s letter over at his website Remarkable.
Mondo Video has posted an interview with Nick Zedd over at their website.
“Nick Zedd is a revolutionary filmmaker, writer, painter, actor, political satirist, journalist and First Minister of Protocol for the Cinema of Transgression, a movement he spearheaded in New york 25 years ago and whose reverberations are still being felt across the globe.”
In this video – reviewer Pizowell discusses the documentary Overnight – about the trials and tribulations of director Troy Duffy and his journey to bring Boondock Saints to the screen. This should be considered required viewing for all aspiring filmmakers and film students. Listen to Pizowell’s thoughts and then go and watch Overnight on Netflix as it is available for instant viewing.
Quentin Tarantino discusses the movies that he wishes he had made since his directorial debut in 1992. Quentin briefly covers Battle Royale, Audition, Boogey Nights, Fight Club, The Matrix and more!
From The Dig by J. Riddle: Roger Corman has been called a lot of things. Shrewd. Miserly. Maverick. He’s been given titles like King of the Cult Film, King of the B-Movies, and the Pope of Pop Cinema. The last is probably the most appropriate, and not just because it sounds cool and Corman says he likes it. For over 50 years, Corman’s particular breed of low-budget, action-oriented, socially conscious exploitation fare has graced the cinema, to the persistent delight of audiences and, in turn, to his significant profit. He’s brought his talents to bear on every genre under the sun, and has even invented a few of his own. He has a finely-tuned eye for talent–it’s only a little exaggeration to say it would be easier to list the big name Hollywood directors, writers, actors of recent decades who didn’t get their start with Corman than those who did.
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From The Dig by J. Riddle: Roger Corman has been called a lot of things. Shrewd. Miserly. Maverick. He’s been given titles like King of the Cult Film, King of the B-Movies, and the Pope of Pop Cinema. The last is probably the most appropriate, and not just because it sounds cool and Corman says he likes it. For over 50 years, Corman’s particular breed of low-budget, action-oriented, socially conscious exploitation fare has graced the cinema, to the persistent delight of audiences and, in turn, to his significant profit. He’s brought his talents to bear on every genre under the sun, and has even invented a few of his own. He has a finely-tuned eye for talent–it’s only a little exaggeration to say it would be easier to list the big name Hollywood directors, writers, actors of recent decades who didn’t get their start with Corman than those who did.
