The Movie Orgy.The title is a kind of ontological dare: can an assemblage of movies all lay on top of each other, swap positions, feel each other? Surely humans love, as they say, “to watch,” to raise voyeurism up as art. But when left to its own devices, does cinema also experience such base urges? Asked another way: when we say “the movie orgy,” don’t we mean “editing”? Disparate parts colliding with and enveloping one another, penetrating and being penetrated, and finally mutating after coming together? Cinema is transformed by—and transforms (us) through—the spaces between the images. A classier writer might cite Robert Bresson, speaking to Cahiers du cinéma at Cannes in 1957: “The cinema must express itself not with images, but with relationships between images, which is not at all the same thing.” A happy vulgarian—I betray that I am one, as I suspect Joe Dante,...
- 10/31/2023
- MUBI
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy Cinema
The Last Temptation of Christ and The Flowers of St. Francis have 35mm showings for Easter Weekend, while Barbarella and The Terminator also screen on film; Ken Jacobs’ Two Wrenching Departures plays on Sunday with Jacobs present.
IFC Center
Gregg Araki presents Something Wild on 35mm this Friday, while his film The Doom Generation opens in a director’s cut; Beau Travail offers a Claire Denis fix; Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight screen, while Akira and Barb Wire have late showings, with Wild Things showing on 35mm.
Bam
One of Shôhei Imamura’s last films, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, is screening, while “Queering the Canon” offers films by Lizzie Borden, Funeral Parade of Roses, and more.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on Jeanne Dielman‘s influences brings the film itself and work by Varda,...
Roxy Cinema
The Last Temptation of Christ and The Flowers of St. Francis have 35mm showings for Easter Weekend, while Barbarella and The Terminator also screen on film; Ken Jacobs’ Two Wrenching Departures plays on Sunday with Jacobs present.
IFC Center
Gregg Araki presents Something Wild on 35mm this Friday, while his film The Doom Generation opens in a director’s cut; Beau Travail offers a Claire Denis fix; Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight screen, while Akira and Barb Wire have late showings, with Wild Things showing on 35mm.
Bam
One of Shôhei Imamura’s last films, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, is screening, while “Queering the Canon” offers films by Lizzie Borden, Funeral Parade of Roses, and more.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on Jeanne Dielman‘s influences brings the film itself and work by Varda,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Amazon Women on the Moon
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1987 / 85 Min. / 1:85
Starring Lots of Actors
Cinematography by Daniel Pearl
Directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss
Mark Twain said “If you don’t like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.” That applies just as well to 1987’s Amazon Women on the Moon, John Landis’s unofficial sequel to Kentucky Fried Movie and the bastard child of Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy. Like those back-handed tributes to the disreputable entertainments of our youth, Amazon Women is a smorgasbord of comedy skits, some served up just right and others pretty half-baked—but a judicious use of the remote control and patience rewards; overall the result is a good-natured vacation for the mind with three or four laugh-out-loud vaudeville sequences and a couple of bona-fide short-form classics. The...
Blu ray
Kino Lorber
1987 / 85 Min. / 1:85
Starring Lots of Actors
Cinematography by Daniel Pearl
Directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss
Mark Twain said “If you don’t like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.” That applies just as well to 1987’s Amazon Women on the Moon, John Landis’s unofficial sequel to Kentucky Fried Movie and the bastard child of Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy. Like those back-handed tributes to the disreputable entertainments of our youth, Amazon Women is a smorgasbord of comedy skits, some served up just right and others pretty half-baked—but a judicious use of the remote control and patience rewards; overall the result is a good-natured vacation for the mind with three or four laugh-out-loud vaudeville sequences and a couple of bona-fide short-form classics. The...
- 11/10/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Darren Lynn Bousman joins Josh and Joe to discuss his favorite over-the-top musicals of the 70s.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Death of Me (2020)
Jesus Christ: Superstar (1973)
Pennies From Heaven (1981)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Requiem For A Dream (2000)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
Gremlins (1984)
The Room (2003)
Rocky (1976)
Hair (1979)
The Apple (1980)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Tommy (1975)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Altered States (1980)
The Devils (1971)
Trapped Ashes (2006)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Devil’s Carnival (2012)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Rent (2005)
Wild In The Streets (1968)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Forbidden Zone (1982)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
The First Nudie Musical (1976)
Chatterbox (1977)
Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)
Cabaret (1972)
Saw II (2005)
Other Notable Items
Final Draft
Paris Hilton
Elvira
Angelyne
The William Friedkin podcast episode
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jesus Christ Superstar...
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Sorcerer (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Death of Me (2020)
Jesus Christ: Superstar (1973)
Pennies From Heaven (1981)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Requiem For A Dream (2000)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
Gremlins (1984)
The Room (2003)
Rocky (1976)
Hair (1979)
The Apple (1980)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Tommy (1975)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Altered States (1980)
The Devils (1971)
Trapped Ashes (2006)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Devil’s Carnival (2012)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Rent (2005)
Wild In The Streets (1968)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Forbidden Zone (1982)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
The First Nudie Musical (1976)
Chatterbox (1977)
Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)
Cabaret (1972)
Saw II (2005)
Other Notable Items
Final Draft
Paris Hilton
Elvira
Angelyne
The William Friedkin podcast episode
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jesus Christ Superstar...
- 10/6/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
In all of Frank Tashlin’s work, there is nothing quite so boldly staged as the delirious sequence in 1961′s The Ladies Man, in which Jerry Lewis, the film’s director and Tashlin’s nominal pupil, deconstructs a panic attack in twenty five seconds. Framed inside an enormous set that resembles the interior of a gargantuan and painstakingly detailed dollhouse, Lewis’ character, a terrified schlemiel by the name of Herbert H. Heebert, is in the midst of a mad dash up the set’s elaborate staircase when suddenly he’s literally beside himself with fright, splitting into two, then three, then four similarly fearstruck replicants, zig-zagging about the hallways until they all disappear one after another into the safety of their bedroom, the door slamming in quick succesion with four emphatic bangs. No, there was nothing close to this deft and dizzy blend of Psychology 101 and slapstick in Tashlin’s portfolio,...
- 8/13/2014
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Hail director Amiel Courtin-Wilson is in distinguished company, one of 70 filmmakers from around the world who have contributed to an innovative film marking the 70th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival.
Each director has made a short film of 60-90 seconds for Venezia 70 . Future Reloaded, which both celebrates the world.s oldest film festival and reflects on the future of cinema.
Among the filmmakers invited to participate are Bernardo Bertolucci, Paul Schrader, Walter Salles, Catherine Breillat, Shekhar Kapur, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Abbas Kiarostami, Monte Hellman and Peter Ho-Sun Chan. All have had films screened in Venice over the past 20 years.
Courtin-Wilson.s 90-second film is bound to be controversial as it features a couple having graphic, animalistic sex.
He told If it.s based on several Scandinavian creation myths, is set in a world of endless night and ends with a solar eclipse. Screen Australia and Film Victoria supported the project.
Each director has made a short film of 60-90 seconds for Venezia 70 . Future Reloaded, which both celebrates the world.s oldest film festival and reflects on the future of cinema.
Among the filmmakers invited to participate are Bernardo Bertolucci, Paul Schrader, Walter Salles, Catherine Breillat, Shekhar Kapur, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Abbas Kiarostami, Monte Hellman and Peter Ho-Sun Chan. All have had films screened in Venice over the past 20 years.
Courtin-Wilson.s 90-second film is bound to be controversial as it features a couple having graphic, animalistic sex.
He told If it.s based on several Scandinavian creation myths, is set in a world of endless night and ends with a solar eclipse. Screen Australia and Film Victoria supported the project.
- 7/27/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
I Was a Teenage Thanksgiving Turkey! week begins at Trailers from Hell with director and Tfh creator Joe Dante introducing cult classic "Teenagers from Outer Space" from 50s indie filmmaker Tom Graeff, who had just completed grip work on a Roger Corman picture before striking out on his own. Indie filmmaker Tom Graeff, inspired to make his own movie after completing a grip job on Roger Corman's Not of This Earth, convinced monster maker Paul Blaisdell to design the dime store ray gun mirror-reflective gags and the beat-up spray-painted flying saucer shell with the visible crack in it for his magnum opus, which has belatedly attained cult status. Graeff is onscreen in a small role as a reporter. A five minute cutdown of this has been a staple of The Movie Orgy since forever.
- 11/19/2012
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Interview conducted by Tom Stockman November 1st, 2012
This Saturday and Sunday (November 10th and 11th) will be Joe Dante Weekend at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater. It’s all part of Cinema St. Louis’ upcoming St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) where Dante will receive a lifetime achievement award from Cinema St. Louis. Directors who have previously been honored with a Sliff Lifetime Achievement Award include Paul Schrader, John Sayles, and Rob Nilsson. Joe Dante is the director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Innerspace, Matinee, and many more great films.
At 6:30pm on Saturday the 10th there will be a screening of Dante’s 2009 family friendly 3D horror film The Hole. This will be followed by an on-stage interview with Dante moderated by Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas. Tim did a similar interview with director Roger Corman last year at the Hi-Pointe as part of Vincentennial, the Vincent Price...
This Saturday and Sunday (November 10th and 11th) will be Joe Dante Weekend at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater. It’s all part of Cinema St. Louis’ upcoming St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) where Dante will receive a lifetime achievement award from Cinema St. Louis. Directors who have previously been honored with a Sliff Lifetime Achievement Award include Paul Schrader, John Sayles, and Rob Nilsson. Joe Dante is the director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Innerspace, Matinee, and many more great films.
At 6:30pm on Saturday the 10th there will be a screening of Dante’s 2009 family friendly 3D horror film The Hole. This will be followed by an on-stage interview with Dante moderated by Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas. Tim did a similar interview with director Roger Corman last year at the Hi-Pointe as part of Vincentennial, the Vincent Price...
- 11/6/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (better known to local movie buffs as Sliff) is presented by Cinema St. Louis and opens Thursday, November 8th. The fest looks like another exciting event for film buffs. Now in its 21st year, Sliff is one of the largest international film festivals in the Midwest. This year’s event will be held Nov. 8-18. Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il. Sliff showcases the best in cutting-edge features and shorts from around the globe. The majority of the more than 400 films screened – many of them critically lauded award-winners will receive their only St. Louis exposure at the festival. We Are Movie Geeks.com will be posting reviews of many of the films in advance of...
- 10/19/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
You there, you two girls! Tell your friends!
Do you read Scott Tobias’s bimonthly Av Club series The New Cult Canon? It’s an often fantastic series looking at modern cult classics, the kind of feature that brings the wit and the insight that’s too easily missed by film “nerd” sites recounting whatever the latest fadtastic list is. (“Top 17 movies with Back to the Future references!” “The 9 Best Batman movies!”) You should be reading this series.
I don’t say that just for the edification of your movie brain (though that’s certainly part of it). I say it because it’s my job to find the long and rambling way* to tell you the following:
Next weekend, starting Friday, August 10th, The New Cult Canon will co-present a weekend of Joe Dante-created madness in fabulous Chicago, Illinois. On Friday, at 9:30, Joe’s going to screen his yet-to-be-distributed 2009 film,...
Do you read Scott Tobias’s bimonthly Av Club series The New Cult Canon? It’s an often fantastic series looking at modern cult classics, the kind of feature that brings the wit and the insight that’s too easily missed by film “nerd” sites recounting whatever the latest fadtastic list is. (“Top 17 movies with Back to the Future references!” “The 9 Best Batman movies!”) You should be reading this series.
I don’t say that just for the edification of your movie brain (though that’s certainly part of it). I say it because it’s my job to find the long and rambling way* to tell you the following:
Next weekend, starting Friday, August 10th, The New Cult Canon will co-present a weekend of Joe Dante-created madness in fabulous Chicago, Illinois. On Friday, at 9:30, Joe’s going to screen his yet-to-be-distributed 2009 film,...
- 8/3/2012
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
The brilliant J. Hoberman takes on The Movie Orgy in the latest issue Film Comment. It may be the final word on the subject, a great read that tackles as many pop cultural touchstones as The Movie Orgy itself.
And those lucky ducks in Seattle can immerse themselves directly in Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s headspinningly hilarious mega-mash-up when the Grand Illusion Theater presents The Movie Orgy this coming Saturday.
Check out Film Comment here and the Grand Illusion schedule here.
And those lucky ducks in Seattle can immerse themselves directly in Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s headspinningly hilarious mega-mash-up when the Grand Illusion Theater presents The Movie Orgy this coming Saturday.
Check out Film Comment here and the Grand Illusion schedule here.
- 3/29/2012
- by Marty Melville
- Trailers from Hell
"He's best known for his westerns, which traditionally are sagas about how civilization begins, how ruthless and cynical men rip it out of the throat of the wilderness," writes Peter Keough in the Boston Phoenix. "But the end of civilization is what really fascinated Sergio Leone, and the poison within that undoes every would-be paradise. Death and doom and dark hilarity overshadow his films, not just the westerns, but all of them, which are on view this month in a two-week retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive. From his first directorial effort, The Colossus of Rhodes (1961; screens November 13 at 4:30 pm), to the script about the 900-day siege of Leningrad that he left behind when he died in 1989 at the age of 60, Sergio Leone showed us how the world ends — be it by the slow brutal murder of a modern city, or the catastrophic destruction of an ancient one."
More events.
More events.
- 11/10/2011
- MUBI
Caught up in the whirlwind kick-off of MoMA’s 9th Annual Festival of Film Preservation is Joe Dante’s beloved The Movie Orgy.
As of this writing, there’s a theater full of New Yorkers experiencing Joe Dante’s Movie Orgy. I personally consider these people lucky and blessed and will welcome them into a new world (not personally) upon exiting that theater in a matter of hours.
Meanwhile, J. Hoberman (in the Village Voice) and Dave Kehr (in the NY Times) have excellent pieces about not only The Movie Orgy but also the festival within which is screening it, MoMA’s festival for the preservation of cinema.
Says The Village Voice:
Bucking historical inevitability even as it serves history, the Museum of Modern Art’s month-long annual festival of film preservation, “To Save and Project,” could be retitled “To Save and Project . . . Film.” The Movie Orgy—which opens...
As of this writing, there’s a theater full of New Yorkers experiencing Joe Dante’s Movie Orgy. I personally consider these people lucky and blessed and will welcome them into a new world (not personally) upon exiting that theater in a matter of hours.
Meanwhile, J. Hoberman (in the Village Voice) and Dave Kehr (in the NY Times) have excellent pieces about not only The Movie Orgy but also the festival within which is screening it, MoMA’s festival for the preservation of cinema.
Says The Village Voice:
Bucking historical inevitability even as it serves history, the Museum of Modern Art’s month-long annual festival of film preservation, “To Save and Project,” could be retitled “To Save and Project . . . Film.” The Movie Orgy—which opens...
- 10/15/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Looking for something to do in Manhattan over the next month? MoMA has announced the slate for its 9th annual International Festival of Film Preservation, in which the museum presents preserved and restored films from archives, studios and distributors around the world. This year’s festival runs from October 14 through November 19, and the lineup looks like a pretty stellar way to spend an evening (or twenty).
One of the highlights is the focus on ’70s genre-enthusiast and frequent Spielberg collaborator Joe Dante (Gremlins, Piranha). The festival opens this Friday with a digital preservation of the original celluloid print of Dante’s rarely screened 1968 debut, The Movie Orgy, a 4-hour barrage of B-movie trailers, ’60s commercials and bizarre found footage. A trashy spectacle that more than lives up to its ever-growing cult status.
Then, on Saturday, Dante’s Twilight Zone: The Movie segment, “It’s a Good Life” (the one with...
One of the highlights is the focus on ’70s genre-enthusiast and frequent Spielberg collaborator Joe Dante (Gremlins, Piranha). The festival opens this Friday with a digital preservation of the original celluloid print of Dante’s rarely screened 1968 debut, The Movie Orgy, a 4-hour barrage of B-movie trailers, ’60s commercials and bizarre found footage. A trashy spectacle that more than lives up to its ever-growing cult status.
Then, on Saturday, Dante’s Twilight Zone: The Movie segment, “It’s a Good Life” (the one with...
- 10/12/2011
- by Dan Schoenbrun
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Yeah. That’s right. Historical footnote: it’s not the first time!
New Yorkers! Prepare yourselves! Joe Dante’s rarely-screened cult-film collection — really, the first of what are today called supercuts/mashups/trash compactors — The Movie Orgy is coming. Scheduled to open The Museum of Modern Art’s Ninth International Festival of Film Preservation, this event is not to be missed.
Sayeth MoMA:
Who better to kick off MoMA’s annual preservation festival than Dante, creator of some of the best genre-bending movies of the past 40 years, including Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Explorers, Innerspace, Matinee, Masters of Horror (“The Screwfly Solution” and “Homecoming”), and “It’s a Good Life” from Twilight Zone: The Movie (presented on October 15). In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dante and Jon Davison traveled across America screening The Movie Orgy at boozy colleges and grindhouse theaters. Today, the film can be regarded as one of...
New Yorkers! Prepare yourselves! Joe Dante’s rarely-screened cult-film collection — really, the first of what are today called supercuts/mashups/trash compactors — The Movie Orgy is coming. Scheduled to open The Museum of Modern Art’s Ninth International Festival of Film Preservation, this event is not to be missed.
Sayeth MoMA:
Who better to kick off MoMA’s annual preservation festival than Dante, creator of some of the best genre-bending movies of the past 40 years, including Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Explorers, Innerspace, Matinee, Masters of Horror (“The Screwfly Solution” and “Homecoming”), and “It’s a Good Life” from Twilight Zone: The Movie (presented on October 15). In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dante and Jon Davison traveled across America screening The Movie Orgy at boozy colleges and grindhouse theaters. Today, the film can be regarded as one of...
- 10/7/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
The Museum of Modern Art will present To Save and Project, its ninth annual film preservation festival with 35 restorations, all of which are having their New York premieres. To Save and Project will open on October 14 with "The Movie Orgy," Joe Dante's anthology film, a montage of over four hours of filmic artifacts edited together to form a political narrative. Dante will introduce the film. Other films from ...
- 9/30/2011
- Indiewire
The week ends. Here’s a recap.
Trailers
On Monday, June 26, Larry Karaszewski told us about Get To Know Your Rabbit and we offered up some awesome Tommy Smothers videos.
On Wednesday, June 28, Joe Dante told us about the stock-footage extravaganza of Invisible Invaders.
And on Friday, July 1, Josh Olson (or something like him) came to tell us about the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Residuals
Elsewhere on the blog, Joe brought the last of his roundups for TCM Drive-In Double Features.
Another installment of Stills We Love featured both people we love and television we love when we found a still from Kevin McCarthy’s episode of The Twilight Zone.
We got a bit musically, offering up some Lalo Schifrin appreciation and celebrating Bernard Herrmann’s 100th birthday with a list of Joe Dante’s Top 10 Bernie Scores.
The great Ray Harryhausen also had a birthday last week.
Trailers
On Monday, June 26, Larry Karaszewski told us about Get To Know Your Rabbit and we offered up some awesome Tommy Smothers videos.
On Wednesday, June 28, Joe Dante told us about the stock-footage extravaganza of Invisible Invaders.
And on Friday, July 1, Josh Olson (or something like him) came to tell us about the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Residuals
Elsewhere on the blog, Joe brought the last of his roundups for TCM Drive-In Double Features.
Another installment of Stills We Love featured both people we love and television we love when we found a still from Kevin McCarthy’s episode of The Twilight Zone.
We got a bit musically, offering up some Lalo Schifrin appreciation and celebrating Bernard Herrmann’s 100th birthday with a list of Joe Dante’s Top 10 Bernie Scores.
The great Ray Harryhausen also had a birthday last week.
- 7/3/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
We’ve got passes to the exclusive, members-only screening!
Currently, Los Angeles’ Cinefamily is engaged in a 5-day festival of, well, Everything! They kicked off last night with a panel discussion with writers past and present of Conan O’Brien’s late night shows and a screening of greatest hits from the sublimely odd Food Party, with show host Thu Tran pulling out a gonzo, gross out food demo. And that was only just the beginning.
But the ending is fast approaching and with it comes a super-rare screening of the godfather of found footage mashups, Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy. The only way to attend this screening is to become a Cinefamily member*.
Until now, that is.
We have 5 pairs of tickets to giveaway for the July 4th screening! It’s going to be epic and we want the house stocked with the finest of cinephiles,...
Currently, Los Angeles’ Cinefamily is engaged in a 5-day festival of, well, Everything! They kicked off last night with a panel discussion with writers past and present of Conan O’Brien’s late night shows and a screening of greatest hits from the sublimely odd Food Party, with show host Thu Tran pulling out a gonzo, gross out food demo. And that was only just the beginning.
But the ending is fast approaching and with it comes a super-rare screening of the godfather of found footage mashups, Joe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy. The only way to attend this screening is to become a Cinefamily member*.
Until now, that is.
We have 5 pairs of tickets to giveaway for the July 4th screening! It’s going to be epic and we want the house stocked with the finest of cinephiles,...
- 7/1/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
The Cinefamily and Everything Is Terrible aims to melt your mind. For five straight days.
Starting tomorrow, June 30, Los Angeles’ Cinefamily will be besieged by an insurgent force battling for the health and wealth of your mind. It’s the Everything Is Festival. 19 events over 5 days, any of which would be worth your time. As they’ve described it at The Cinefamily:
This 4th of July weekend, The Cinefamily has teamed up with those maestros of found footage comedy at Everything is Terrible! for the second time to present Everything is Festival 2011 — an insane and eclectic five day celebration of everything we both love: discovery, weirdness, and just plain fun. It’s a kind of gonzo convention for the most insane collectors of film and video ephemera (all of our friends basically), mixed in with with all of our favorite people on frontier of the comedy scene — people pushing the...
Starting tomorrow, June 30, Los Angeles’ Cinefamily will be besieged by an insurgent force battling for the health and wealth of your mind. It’s the Everything Is Festival. 19 events over 5 days, any of which would be worth your time. As they’ve described it at The Cinefamily:
This 4th of July weekend, The Cinefamily has teamed up with those maestros of found footage comedy at Everything is Terrible! for the second time to present Everything is Festival 2011 — an insane and eclectic five day celebration of everything we both love: discovery, weirdness, and just plain fun. It’s a kind of gonzo convention for the most insane collectors of film and video ephemera (all of our friends basically), mixed in with with all of our favorite people on frontier of the comedy scene — people pushing the...
- 6/29/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Our week of underwater monsters, friends, fiends and creatures comes to a close. Did you miss anything?
Trailers
On Monday, June 6, Howard Rodman brought you the best of the Universal monsters as he investigated The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
On Wednesday, June 8, Joe Dante explored what it meant to get the Famous Monsters of Filmland approval and asked The Monster of Piedras Blancas about ripping heads.
And on Friday, June 10, Mick Garris dove with The Nautilus to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Residuals
Elsewhere on the blog, Joe Dante laid out his take on the week’s Drive-In Double Features on TCM.
We brought you some further reading in the form of a very smart essay on one half of the actors in the famous Gill-man suit, Ben Chapman.
We checked in again with the guru blotter, parsing out bits from the web about Brian Trenchard-Smith, Ernest Dickerson, John Sayles and more.
Trailers
On Monday, June 6, Howard Rodman brought you the best of the Universal monsters as he investigated The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
On Wednesday, June 8, Joe Dante explored what it meant to get the Famous Monsters of Filmland approval and asked The Monster of Piedras Blancas about ripping heads.
And on Friday, June 10, Mick Garris dove with The Nautilus to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Residuals
Elsewhere on the blog, Joe Dante laid out his take on the week’s Drive-In Double Features on TCM.
We brought you some further reading in the form of a very smart essay on one half of the actors in the famous Gill-man suit, Ben Chapman.
We checked in again with the guru blotter, parsing out bits from the web about Brian Trenchard-Smith, Ernest Dickerson, John Sayles and more.
- 6/12/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Celebrate Independence Day by melting your brain. The Movie Orgy is coming back to knock you out, Los Angeles!
When Hadrian of The Cinefamily (one of the finest programmed repertory cinemas around) approached Joe about mounting a return of The Movie Orgy to the screen, I — and, really, all of us — could only sit back, pray for the ensuing madness to take hold and silently hope that this happened sooner rather than later
The good news is that it’s happening sooner. The better news is that it’s coming along with more madness than ever before. The Movie Orgy isn’t just a screening, it’s the last screening of an epic 5-day festival of found footage and video-fueled psychotronic insanity (a “bulimic bacchanale of video weirdness,” to quote Hadrian) known only as Everything Is Festival!
Here’s Joe with the news:
Once again that old warhorse The Movie Orgy...
When Hadrian of The Cinefamily (one of the finest programmed repertory cinemas around) approached Joe about mounting a return of The Movie Orgy to the screen, I — and, really, all of us — could only sit back, pray for the ensuing madness to take hold and silently hope that this happened sooner rather than later
The good news is that it’s happening sooner. The better news is that it’s coming along with more madness than ever before. The Movie Orgy isn’t just a screening, it’s the last screening of an epic 5-day festival of found footage and video-fueled psychotronic insanity (a “bulimic bacchanale of video weirdness,” to quote Hadrian) known only as Everything Is Festival!
Here’s Joe with the news:
Once again that old warhorse The Movie Orgy...
- 6/11/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Tfh welcomes John Sayles to the ranks of Grindhouse Gurus. This nervy 1957 trailer acts like Bert I. Gordon's shoestring ripoff of previous giant bug movies is some kind of innovative breakthrough! It does boast two '50s sci fi icons in the cast (Morris Ankrum and Tom Browne Henry) in their signature roles as tough minded military officers, and became a major component of Joe Dante and Jon Davison's The Movie Orgy.
- 12/5/2010
- Trailers from Hell
Heading the list of special guests is Hollywood legend, Joe Dante, who will attend the festival for a special film tribute - Dante's Inferno. Known for his subversive humour and social critique in films such as Gremlins, Rock ‘N' Roll High School, The Howling, Piranha, Innerspace and Small Soldiers, Dante will also present the Australian premiere of his very first film, 1968's The Movie Orgy. Hollywood heartthrob and star of the hit Us television series Entourage, Adrian Grenier (pictured), has turned his hand to filmmaking and will be in Melbourne to present his documentary, Teenage Paparazzo, on July 23.
- 7/7/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
- Joe Dante will be presenting not one, but two films at the Lido. The Venice Film Festival will be presenting Dante's latest film - the 3D supernatural called The Hole and will include a re-cut showing for The Movie Orgy - Ultimate Version. The stitched together pic, that Dante made during his student days, is a back-breaking 280-minute look at the B films from the 50's and 60's which I'm sure would be a blast for film aficionados like Quentin Tarantino. The 66th Venice International Film Festival will also include a film from the Makhmalbaf. Youngest member Hana will show Green Days, which looks at women in Iran in docu form and fiction, this will be shown Out of Competition. Also showing is Angela Ismailos's Great Directors. There was a private screening at Cannes which I couldn't make and I regret, since it looks at contemporary cinema and talks with Bernardo Bertolucci,
- 8/24/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Dennis Cozzalio and Jeremy "Mr. Beaks" Smith have both done great interviews this past week with Joe Dante. I sort of have to recuse myself from doing formal interviews with Joe at this point because of professional conflicts of interest, but I'm on record for a looooooong time now as a huge fan of this idiosyncratic visual prankster, perhaps the hippest of his circle of '80s peers, and at times, perhaps too hip for the room. I guess that depends on the room, though, because when Joe hosts movies at the New Beverly, he is 100% in his element, happy and...
- 8/6/2009
- Hitfix
Joe Dante presenting "The Movie Orgy" in L.A., a rare stateside appearance of Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda for a retrospective in New York and the Fantastic Fest in Austin are just a few of the events that serve as the perfect antidote for the endless stream of summertime sequels and toy-based franchises.
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92Y Tribeca
While the 92Y Tribeca is taking a well-deserved break in August, the cinema space comes roaring back in September, beginning with hosting the Fifth Annual NYC Shorts Festival (Sept. 10-13), followed by a late night "Labyrinth" sing-along complete with trivia and a costume contest (Sept. 25-26), and a Michael Winterbottom double bill of "Code 46" and "24 Hour Party People" (Sept. 30)...In October, the 92Y Tribeca will premiere "Zombie Girl: The Movie" (Oct. 2), the doc about 12-year-old filmmaker Emily Hagins and her quest to make a zombie movie, followed by hosting the Iron...
More Fall Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
[Breakout Performances]
92Y Tribeca
While the 92Y Tribeca is taking a well-deserved break in August, the cinema space comes roaring back in September, beginning with hosting the Fifth Annual NYC Shorts Festival (Sept. 10-13), followed by a late night "Labyrinth" sing-along complete with trivia and a costume contest (Sept. 25-26), and a Michael Winterbottom double bill of "Code 46" and "24 Hour Party People" (Sept. 30)...In October, the 92Y Tribeca will premiere "Zombie Girl: The Movie" (Oct. 2), the doc about 12-year-old filmmaker Emily Hagins and her quest to make a zombie movie, followed by hosting the Iron...
- 8/5/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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