Well, hello, 2012 — and a new issue of the multilingual film journal La Furia Umana. At its center are two substantial packages, one featuring Brazilian filmmaker Júlio Bressane (image above), the other, more or less introduced by Jonathan Rosenbaum, on Joe Dante. Interviews, essays by and about, the works. Also, from David Phelps, "Visions of the Blind. Raúl Ruiz: A Users Guide and Pedagogy." Ken Jacobs on Dziga Vertov. The Celluloid Liberation Front on "Science-Fictional Realism in the Virtual Age." Claudio Mazzatenta on Nicholas Ray's We Can't Go Home Again (1973). Steve Mayhew on John Ford and Harry Carey's Universal years (1917 - 1921). And Noel Lawrence: "The complicated friendship of Terry Southern of Jx Williams goes way back, back to the salt-and-pepper pompadour, the black briefcase, and beyond…"
Lists. "The most startling cut I saw in a movie last year occurred not in a high-tech action or horror film, but...
Lists. "The most startling cut I saw in a movie last year occurred not in a high-tech action or horror film, but...
- 1/1/2012
- MUBI
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, set to run November 4-13, has announced the 38 films making up its fourth annual Experimental Forum, titled "The Myth of Disappearance/The Disappearance of Myth." The Collectif Jeune Cinema section features a selection of experimental films from throughout the last 40 years, highlighted by films by Marguerite Duras and Babette Mangolte. The festival will also present a J.X. Williams retrospective, a collection of films by ...
- 10/13/2011
- Indiewire
The latest video in Spindrift's ongoing homage to Spaghetti Western scores from their "Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1," also doubles as a title sequence for the independent modern Western craziness, "Dust Up." The film follows Ella, played by Amber Benson ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), along with a Native American hipster, a lizardman, and a generally wild cast of characters, through an action comedy set in the middle of the Mojave desert.
Just when you thought the band couldn't get any stranger than scoring an obscure 60's film by rogue director J.X. Williams, about female aliens bent on turning everyone gay... all right, maybe that is stranger than this, but "Dust Up," featuring Spindrift's western psychedelic soundtrack, looks like it's set to be a freaky cult classic and gory cartoon rolled into one. Working closely with Director Ward Roberts, Spindrift have just finished scoring the entire film in the studio with desert pals Gram Rabbit.
Just when you thought the band couldn't get any stranger than scoring an obscure 60's film by rogue director J.X. Williams, about female aliens bent on turning everyone gay... all right, maybe that is stranger than this, but "Dust Up," featuring Spindrift's western psychedelic soundtrack, looks like it's set to be a freaky cult classic and gory cartoon rolled into one. Working closely with Director Ward Roberts, Spindrift have just finished scoring the entire film in the studio with desert pals Gram Rabbit.
- 7/12/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
La's Spindrift has scored another opening sequence from an obscure 60's film by rogue director J.X. Williams, who has been living clandestinely in Europe for the last 30 some years. This new video is for his 1967 box office bomb, "Space Vixens," the premise of which is so out of hand, just describing it here is sure to rile some people, but here goes:
In the future, a secret army unit goes to investigate a meteor shower, where they are captured by female space creatures bent on turning everyone gay. The men's buttocks are implanted with mind control chips, after which they are sent on their way to disrupt the home base. Once there, the soldiers get slack, preferring the shower room to their duties. Eventually, they implant chips in their officer's butts too and "the entire base goes stark raving gay."
The film originally had a wild mambo soundtrack from the Dámaso Pérez Prado orchestra,...
In the future, a secret army unit goes to investigate a meteor shower, where they are captured by female space creatures bent on turning everyone gay. The men's buttocks are implanted with mind control chips, after which they are sent on their way to disrupt the home base. Once there, the soldiers get slack, preferring the shower room to their duties. Eventually, they implant chips in their officer's butts too and "the entire base goes stark raving gay."
The film originally had a wild mambo soundtrack from the Dámaso Pérez Prado orchestra,...
- 6/1/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Vigilante director J.X. Williams is best known for his 1965 "found footage" picture, "Peep Show," which made liberal use of scenes from other films in it's assemblage. Williams' story then takes a turn into shadowy late 60's conspiracies, mafia connections and other intrigues fit for the silver screen, before he flees to Zurich where he's spent the last 30-some years in hiding. However, before going rogue, he allegedly made a few other films, all since lost... until recently.
"Hollywood Play-Girls" is his lusty 1966 film, a "Sin-sational story of a private dick hired by a madam to track down a serial killer who has been offing members of her prostitution ring." The film has been missing for decades, but private collector recently came forward with the opening credits. The sequence was without sound, but The J.X. Williams Archive asked La's Spindrift to score it, and they obliged. Here are the credits, with...
"Hollywood Play-Girls" is his lusty 1966 film, a "Sin-sational story of a private dick hired by a madam to track down a serial killer who has been offing members of her prostitution ring." The film has been missing for decades, but private collector recently came forward with the opening credits. The sequence was without sound, but The J.X. Williams Archive asked La's Spindrift to score it, and they obliged. Here are the credits, with...
- 3/2/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Both the Sundance and the Slamdance Film Festivals begin in Park City, Utah this week. While I previously posted up the full Slamdance lineup and some underground highlights at Sundance, I thought I’d round them up again for those attending the festivals who might be reading this and looking for the quirkier, out-of-the-hype screenings.
Sundance:
The first movie you don’t want to miss at is After You Left, directed by Jef Taylor, which was recently reviewed on Bad Lit. This easygoing, but emotionally complicated tale about a semi-immature dude in his mid-thirties dealing with a serious broken heart has a minimalist charm to it that makes it instantly likable. It’s the kind of film that at first it may not seem like much is going on, but actually has a lot to say. Lead actor Michael Tisdale is really good in it, too. Exact screening info is on this page.
Sundance:
The first movie you don’t want to miss at is After You Left, directed by Jef Taylor, which was recently reviewed on Bad Lit. This easygoing, but emotionally complicated tale about a semi-immature dude in his mid-thirties dealing with a serious broken heart has a minimalist charm to it that makes it instantly likable. It’s the kind of film that at first it may not seem like much is going on, but actually has a lot to say. Lead actor Michael Tisdale is really good in it, too. Exact screening info is on this page.
- 1/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 17th annual Slamdance Film Festival is all set to run for eight days and nights Jan. 21-27. The festival is featuring a bold theme this year of “All Is Not Lost” where — due to the current devastating economic climate — Slamdance will donate 10% of ticket proceeds back to the filmmakers.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
- 12/23/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The seventh annual CineKink Film Festival is set to undress for all kinky filmgoers in New York City on February 16-21. Included in the lineup are two fantastic, slightly dirty underground films, plus a full smorgasbord of sexy cinematic goodness.
The opening night festivities will begin on the 16th at the Kush Lounge (191 Chrystie St.) with music and performances, plus a screening of the lesbian ode to bestiality (sort of) The Sheep and the Ranch Hand, a beautiful and hilarious film by San Francisco filmmaker Loretta Hintz, and a newly found “lost” film by notorious ’60s radical, criminal and filmmaker J.X. Williams.
Then, on the 17th, the original museum of film, the Anthology Film Archives, will be transformed into an erotic museum when CineKink moves there for the duration of the rest of the festival.
But, on the 19th, don’t dare miss the wonderful S&M comedy Modern Love Is Automatic...
The opening night festivities will begin on the 16th at the Kush Lounge (191 Chrystie St.) with music and performances, plus a screening of the lesbian ode to bestiality (sort of) The Sheep and the Ranch Hand, a beautiful and hilarious film by San Francisco filmmaker Loretta Hintz, and a newly found “lost” film by notorious ’60s radical, criminal and filmmaker J.X. Williams.
Then, on the 17th, the original museum of film, the Anthology Film Archives, will be transformed into an erotic museum when CineKink moves there for the duration of the rest of the festival.
But, on the 19th, don’t dare miss the wonderful S&M comedy Modern Love Is Automatic...
- 2/10/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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