Hooray for Nollywood

Nollywood — Nigeria's film industry— has been mentioned here before, but have you actually seen one of these films?
On YouTube, NollywoodLove has several free, full films (not to mention sequels) — BlackBerry Babes, Goat Lover, Vampire's Call, The Phobia, The Desperate House-Wife, Where Money Sleeps — including one of my favorites, Beyonce and Rihanna.

Jean Yanne & Michel Magne - Symphonie Ciné qua non (1972)

pussy talk

NSFW

Our friend Filo Loco from deadlicious ( Serious Publishing editions) is about to publish a stone landmark: le Dictionnaire des films français érotiques et pornographiques en 16 et 35 mm, under the direction of Christophe Bier and a large participation of a cohort of enthusiastic editors also grown to this genre, which deserves to move to recognize its legitimacy.

read more in english here

Haunted Cinema

Jack Stevenson writes about grindhouse/porn cinemas for Bright Lights Film Journal:

Haunted Cinema - A Client-Centered Approach to Film Spectatorship.

"... The theatre never had more than one employee on the premises, a union projectionist who could sit at either the ticket counter or in the projection booth, since he was responsible for both. If he sat behind the counter, he could see the screen in a mirror. He couldn't really make out what was happening in the movie, but when the film had tailed out of the projector and the screen went white, he knew it was time to put on another film. If he happened to be reading a book or was otherwise diverted, it could be quite a while before he happened to notice the movie had ended. No one ever came out of the theatre to complain. If the projectionist chose to kill time in the booth he could snooze on a sofa. When the film tailed out of the projector, it would flap away until he woke up and started the next movie. If he put the machine on rewind and went downstairs to sell tickets, the same thing would happen to the beginning of the film; it would flap away and eventually break off in pieces. This was how the beginnings and ends of so many porn films were lost. ..." (about The Green Parrot in Seattle)

Slim and Slam

petefc writes:
I got this from a DVD by the www.wfmu.org DJ Dave the Spaz. A rather idiosyncratic production called 'The Best of Spazz TV' It starts as a bit of a jam with a collection of well known musicians then segues into a truly stunning dance number.

Slim Gaillard - piano, guitar
Slam Stewart - bass
Rex Stewart - trumpet
Elmer Fane - clarinet
Jap Jones - trombone
CP Jonstone - drums

vintage chinese cinema

A great blog dedicated to vintage chinese cinema :
http://softfilm.blogspot.com/
There is also a Channel on YouTube :
http://www.youtube.com/user/duriandave

four your eyes only

Waxin' & Milkin' is an often random--but sometimes themed--image blog courtesy of Mark Malazarte. That is all.
Time to loose? ... browse his collection here!

spanish classic horror movie posters

a collection of classic horror movie posters in their spanish version.
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via Ciudad Imaginaria Flickr "cine" set

"My first visit to the movies"

Hi!

2 years ago I invited people to sniff the vinyl of their favorite record.
The post (and the tales of the sniffers) turned out to be a very fun and interesting one.

Now I have invited friends and cool cats for a new assignemet.

What I wanted to hear about this time was: "My first visit to the movies"

I asked people to tell a little about their first (memorable) visit to a movie theater or cinema.

What film was it? Popcorn? Was there a trailer? Who were you going with? What did the theater look like? How were the seats? How was the smell? Were you scared? Did you have to leave for the restrooms in the middle of the show?

All these are questions they got to digest while searching their past.

First stories are in. Every single submission / story will get it's own entry.

All of the posted stories will be reached by clicking the label: "My first visit to the movies"

Let the posting begin - and let the curtains open!

/Z aka mrdantefontana

Caught in the Web of Love

This clip is from "The Great Gabbo", a musical drama from 1929 featuring Erich von Stroheim and Betty Compson. And drama it is!

Video added by LordWham

Note: The full movie can be enjoyed here.

Made In France

One post leads to the other...
A french POP phenomenom (Vogue Magazine)

Space Suits by Pierre Cardin

Zouzou

Les Femmes de Maurice Ronet (1968)

Made In France a french POP phenomenom (2008) exhibition.

" With the exception of « Je t'aime, moi non plus » by Serge Gainsbourg, and very few other songs, French pop culture from the 60's and 70's has never achieved much notoriety abroad. The exhibition project « Made in France, a French pop phenomenon » aims at presenting lesser known cultural riches to an international public. "

The nine themes of the exhibition :
pop music / cinema / soundtracks & library music / TV & media / fashion / product design / visual arts / sex, éroticism et drugs / clubs, bars & venues.

Check it out, it may come near your town:

May 1 2008 10:00A	LONDON	London
Oct 1 2008 10:00A	NEW YORK	New York
Feb 1 2009 10:00A	LOS ANGELES	Los Angeles
May 1 2009 10:00A	TOKYO, Agnès B Showroom	Tokyo
Sep 1 2009 10:00A	PARIS	Paris
Nov 1 2009 10:00A	ROME	Rome
Mar 1 2010 10:00P	BERLIN	Berlin

Official MySpace page: Made In France
Found via World Of Kane

Village Of The Giants (1965)

(click to enlarge)

Uploaded by The Venerable Dr Braino

Sexy Beau Bridges and Joy Harmon in Village Of The Giants a spoofy movie where a gang of juvenile delinquents ingest a substance and grow to 30 ft tall, then proceed to take over a small town. directed by Bert I. Gordon (based on a novel written by H.G. Wells) , music by Jack Nitzsche with an appearance by The Beau Brummels, choregraphy by Toni Basil.
This track by Jack Nitzsche, called The Last Race, is also featured on Quentin Tarantino's last movie soundtrack : Death Proof (2007).
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Village Of The Giants (1965)
and The Village Of The Giants Fan Club page for more details and photos.
Death Proof (2007)
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And here comes the original trailer.


Uploaded by TurboChrist

Harry Smith : Anthology Of American Folk Music

Harry Smith " was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his skills as an anthropologist, linguist, and translator. He had a lifelong interest in the occult and esoteric fields of knowledge, leading him to speak of his art in alchemical and cosmological terms." (via www.harrysmitharchives.com )

Harry Smith's folk 78rpm collection : Anthology Of American folk Music (originally released on Folkways in 1952) with 84 songs from various artists recorded between 1927 and 1932. A must have ! If you don't own a copy you fool, go grab it on DoYouSpeakEnglish?

Harry Smith's experimental movies Early Abstractions made available on YouTube by JuanAuxEnfers

Ed Seeman "high contrast ecstasy" (1969)

A psychedelic vision of female ecstasy, with a music soundtrack by Edgar Varese and a vocal composition by Luciano Berio
Uploaded by Ed Seeman himself !

"Name: ED, Age: 66, MARRIED AND LIVING IN CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA. NO LONGER ANIMATING OR FILMMAKIING. NOW SHOWING ON YOUTUBE THE RESULTS OF A LIFETIME OF ANIMATING AND FILMMAKING, FROM TWO YEARS WITH FRANK ZAPPA (UNCLE MEAT) TO EXPERIMENTAL DANCE FILMS.CURRENTLY CREATING DIGITAL FINE ART AND SELLING CARTOON T-SHIRTS ON EBAY AND WHOLESALING TO A WIDE VARIETY OF TOURIST ATTRACTIONS AND GIFT SHOPS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. I'M NOW CREATING DVD'S OF ALL MY FILMS FOR FUTURE SALES."

As you can read it on his YouTube profile here
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Check his ... euh ... let's say ... "amazing" recent digital creations ?!
www.edseeman.com
Buy his early experimental movies on DVDs here

You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

"On the Waterfront", a great movie with some great and iconic scenes.

Marlon Brando's Famous "On the Waterfront" Speech:

Added by addictedtomovies




Screen caps from the movie supplied by Nostalgia Party No. 2.

The Movie Trailer:

Added by IrisTZ

Trailer Club 70

Trailer Club 70 - Trailers of strange films from the seventies and beyond
Now Showing: Raiders of Atlantis - Sugar Hill - Star Crash - The Dark - The Pom Pom Girls and Matango.
Yep, cool stuff. (via MonkeyFilter)

Interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis

" ...
GreenCine: -What redeems your exploitive gore films - if redemption is even necessary - is their abiding sense of humor. Can you speak some about the strategic blend of horror and humor?

H.G. Lewis: -... I recall when I first made a movie called 'The Gore Gore Girls', which was - I felt at the time, which shows how cloudy the crystal ball can be) - I felt it would be my last movie. I opened the spigot all the way. I had some things in there that I couldn't imagine anyone taking seriously. Well, as it turned out, and I'll make a sweeping, generic statement: anyone under age 40 thought it was hilarious; anyone over age 55 thought it was impossible, that I should be arrested, that I had spent my life in a Georgia chain gang, or whatever. That was the gap that existed then.

Today the people who were 40 then are now on MediCare and another generation has come up behind them. I will occasionally be invited to a horror film festival and the demographic there is really surprising because the average individual who attends these horror conventions was not alive when I made 'Blood Feast' and '2,000 Maniacs' and 'Color Me Blood Red' and 'The Gore Gore Girls' and 'Wizard of Gore', and so on. They weren't alive. So I am there, supposedly, not as emeritus but as sort of a historical icon. That's funny, too, because here were movies that cost absolutely nothing to make, with casts of nobodies, and certainly no production value worth anything, and they still live. They still breathe. They are still selling DVDs at a time in which some major companies' productions that were made six months ago simply vanished into oblivion.

I think the rationale behind that is that today's audiences know the difference between a producer or a director who's having a good time and saying, "Hey, c'mon, join me," and a producer or a director who is so enamored of what he is doing that he loses sight of the person on the other end of the camera, on the screen looking at it, saying, "Eh, so what?" Today, with the gap having narrowed so much between independent and major company product, it becomes more significant than ever.
... "

Michael Guillen interviews Herschell Gordon Lewis for GreenCine.

Italian Movie Posters

'Europa '51' /'The Greatest Love', Roberto Rossellini, 1952 &
'Il brigante Musolino'/Outlaw Girl, Mario Camerini
'Salò' or the 120 Days of Sodom/Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975.
Click images for better view at source.

Italian movies - Posters and publicity. Flickr set created by italiangerry. (via josephzohn gås blogger)

A Filmgoing Oasis

Greenbriar Picture Shows tells us about The Oasis: the Drive In Theatre:

"... In the sixties, there were drive-ins … and then there were DRIVE-INS. The Oasis just outside Chicago was among the latter. I can’t believe such a place existed, and but for photographic evidence shown here, I still wouldn’t. Built at a cost of $555,000 over a twenty-acre spread, The Oasis sat 1,600 cars, along with seventy seats in each of two indoor theatres facing a 52 X 125-foot screen. The approach took you by desert tents and concrete camels with sheiks mounted thereon. Sand dunes were painted on fences running hundreds of yards alongside the entrance road. This was suburban Chicago, one minute from Oak Grove, Illinois, and 22 minutes from the city’s loop. ..."

My Idea Of A Filmgoing Oasis

Film Noir of the Week

In Cold Blood (1967), Ministry of Fear (1944) and The Sniper (1952)
Click posters to be transported to the correct entries

Presenting Film Noir in a very black and white and attractive way. Check out the archives to find the seperate entries.
Film Noir of the Week (via josephzohn gås blogger)