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So...

... hey, y'all.

I've let you down.

I haven't been here to enjoy and discuss your suggestions. 

I also made promises about an amazing series; a program I wouldn't stop talking about. A program that is just about finished but for whatever reason still isn't... a delayed wish.

I told you about this incredible show that I thought was worth rearranging the calendar for, and then I left on a jet plane, not knowing when I would be back again.

And for fuck's sake it still isn't done, so here's what we're doing next week:

Meshes of the Afternoon, the wonderful and surreal short from 1943 - to 70 years later - A Field in England.

Tuesday the 27th?

Don't watch MotA, but if you want, here's some AFiE: 

Possible Pizza Proposal???

Hey, Gang.  As you know, it was Rory's turn last week, but Netflix fumbled the movie so we ended up doing movie night freestyle and laughing at random stuff on youtube. I heard from Rory last night that we are skipping this week (August 11-17) but he'll have his movie ready to show next week. Rory bought the pizza last week and my feeling is he shouldn't have to buy our dinner twice in a row. How about we order pizza next week when Rory is showing and we just each pitch in to pay for it? Maybe Austin and Brittany could place the order and then we could just each pay them $5 or $6 or whatever covers it when we get there? Comment below if you are cool with this. After next week, we'll be back on schedule of whoever is showing buys the pizza.

Late post for tonight's film

I was recently reading about the winner of the 2013 Palme d'Or (Blue is the Warmest Color) at the Cannes Film Festival and began looking back at past winners of the award. I've heard and read really positive things about the 2010 film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives but I haven't seen it yet so I thought I would pick it for tonight so we can all watch it together. It's from Thailand, 114 minutes long, and was directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. I think we watched Syndromes and a Century, his 2006 film, in a previous incarnation of Movie Night. Anyway, tonight we'll be meeting at Brittany & Austin's place at 7:00 in the PM. Pizza will be provided but you may wanna BYOB. Oh, here is a poster for the film by Chris Ware.

Friday, August 2 // Santa Sangre // Bjorn

My pick for this week is Santa Sangre by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Jodorowsky is the legendary director of such films as "The Holy Mountain" and "El Topo", much admired by John Lennon, and credited with being the father of the midnight movie. His 1989 production, Santa Sangre, which translates to "Holy Blood", is quite possibly the greatest horror film you've never seen.

Set in the circuses and cabarets of Mexico City, Santa Sangre features a knife-thrower, a dwarf, a sacred pool of blood, a tattooed lady, a deaf-mute mime, a dying elephant, and a condemned church about to be bulldozed. And that's just the first half.

Most critics have described this movie as surrealistic, but other terms that have been used are "Felliniesque", "Bunuelian", "perverse" and "sadomasochistic".

Santa Sangre is one of those movies that either makes you run from the room screaming, or instantly google the director and add every one of his movies to your queue. I know which one I did.

Friday August 2, Havican House, 6:30pm. BE THERE.

July 25, 2013 // District 13 // Ben

The French are known for many things: wine, stinky cheese, and stinkier women...but they are not often known for their trillness, nor their action movies. All that will change this Thursday, when we watch District 13 (French title Banlieue 13) the 2004 French parkour/action movie that combines running with shooting and jumping (a combination for the ages). Join me for pizza at 7:00pm at House Garry to feel sophisticated while you watch dudes kicking other dudes in the face because they are doing their kicking while speaking French.

"Je viens de vous un coup de pied dans le visage, vous grenouille puant!"

-bg

THURSDAY MOVIE - SPRING BREAKERS!

Y'all all gonna be leaving our house wanting to purchase hot pink ski masks, guns and upper and lower gold grills; while the whole time screaming, "Look at all my SHIIIIIIIIIIT."

The Havican House
6:30

Be there!

How I feel right now (x2)

Guuuuuuuuuuuuuyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Bad news. This week is like a freaking crusty cluster-butt. And I know Austin's probably still waiting on his video for showing, so I'm taking full freakin' credit for pushing movie night (again).

But, I wanna get my (our) movie life back. I mean it this time. No, no. Don't click off the page. Hear me out.

How about next week on Wednesday?

That would put us here:
Wednesday, July 10. 7pm. House Garry.

As usual, there will be pizza, beer, group hugging and twerk trains.


So, please join me in watching Safety Not Guaranteed.
Some tidbits from the Wikipedia page:

Safety Not Guaranteed is a 2012 American comedy film inspired by a 1997 Backwoods Home Magazine classified ad — itself written as a joke filler by Backwoods employee John Silveira — by a person asking for someone to accompany him in time travel. It was screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.

Plot basics: Darius Britt is a disillusioned college graduate who lives at home with her widower father and interns at Seattle Magazine. One of the magazine's writers, Jeff Schwensen, proposes to investigate a newspaper classified ad that reads:

Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, WA 99393. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.

Wednesday, July 10. 7pm. House Garry. Bring beer. 

-c