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SCHEDULE CHANGE!!!
- PLEASE READ!
Due to a late film arrival, the films ROCK SOUP
and BOOT FACTORY will be switching places in the
program. Therefore:
WED. NOV 27th at 7:30pm will be ROCK
SOUP preceded by the short film Chico and the People
and
THURS NOV. 28th at 7:30pm will be BOOT FACTORY
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience
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The Criminal Cinema in association
with the
Yerba Buena Center for The Arts presents:
WALKING WOUNDED: THE FILMS OF LECH KOWALSKI
November 26th-December 1st at the Blinding Light!! Cinema
Admission $6 per film
(Cinemuerte or Blinding Light membership required)
The Criminal Cinema is proud to present the first-ever
Canadian retrospective of the films of Lech Kowalski,
organised with the assistance of San Francisco's Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts. Kowalski has spent over two
decades in darkness, documenting underground personalities
and cultures. His films are raw, unflinching portraits
of gritty, black-eyed and snaggle-toothed drug and punk
scenes. His work is often overwhelmingly intense, conjuring
up a phantasmagorical yet entirely realistic vision of
a nightmarish underworld.
Gringo (Story of a Junkie)
1984, 85m Beta SP
Gringo follows the title character John Spacely, a fixture
on the streets of the Lower East Side. His daily routine
takes him on a never-ending search for dope and finding
a safe spot to read comic books. The scenes of narcotic
dealing and using are totally unglamorized, as are those
individuals who populate the streets of this closed (at
the time) community.
Screens:
Tuesday Nov. 26th 7:30pm
Friday Nov. 29th 7:30pm
Boot Factory
2000, 88m Beta SP
"Imagine if the Sex Pistols made boots instead of
music," says the director. His film is about Krakow
bootmakers who run their business like punk rockers, living
by their own rules, making boots by hand and bobbing their
heads in unison to the songs of their favourite bands.
As they struggle to keep their tiny business going amid
drunken parties, marriage and drug addiction, Kowalski
reveals the simmering tension of their lives and the release
they find in music.
Screens:
Thursday Nov. 28th 7:30pm
D.O.A.
1980, 89m Beta SP
DOA is the best and most authentic punk film ever made.
A brash, intense document of the first US Sex Pistols
tour in 1978, featuring live performances by the Sex Pistols,
The Rich Kids, X-Ray Spex, Sham 69 and Generation X. Preceded
by the short film "Breakdance Test".
Screens:
Wednesday Nov. 27th 9:30pm
Friday Nov. 29th 9:30pm
Rock Soup
1991, 81m Beta SP
Rock Soup is a dirty, haunting look at the homeless in
Tompkins Square Park and their fight against City Hall's
plan to close down their soup kitchen.
Preceded by the short film "Chico and the People"
Screens:
Wednesday Nov. 27th 7:30pm
Hey Is Dee Dee Home?
2002, 90m Beta SP
A work-in-progress, Hey is Dee Dee Home is an intense
portrait of Dee Dee Ramone, bassist and one of the founding
members of seminal punk band The Ramones, who died of
a drug overdose in June 2002.
Screens:
Thursday Nov. 28th 9:30pm
Sunday Dec. 1st 9:45pm
(all notes courtesy of Joel Shepard/Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts
PAST EVENTS
THE CRIMINAL CINEMA PRESENTS A HALLOWEEN
MIDNIGHT SCREENING OF DRIVE-IN CLASSIC I DRINK YOUR
BLOOD
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On
October 31st at Midnight the Hollywood
Theatre becomes the latest home for the
transient Criminal Cinema, where they will present
a midnight screening of the notorious cult classic
I DRINK YOUR BLOOD. David Durston's infamous
70's chunkblower is about a group of sadistic, satanic
hippies under the dangerous influence of LSD who
wreak havoc in a small rural community. When they
dose grandpa with LSD, his twisted grandson gets
revenge by injecting meat pies with rabies and offering
them to the hippies -- who are quickly transformed
into maniacal foaming-at-the-mouth cannibals! Preceding
the film will be a short multimedia performance
by NY Filmwurld who accompany classic monster movie
clips with raw, lysergic Triphop. Admission is $5
18+ only |
Friday-Sunday,
November 1-3
Seattle Premiere!
INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM SHORTS
Co-presented with Cinemuerte International Horror Film
Festival
*film descriptions provided by Cinemuerte founder Kier-La
Janisse
PROGRAM 1
Plays daily at 7 pm
OF WOLF & LIMB
(Corey Adams & Alex Craig, Canada, 2000, BetaSp,
10 min.)
A wolfman takes a severed leg to the streets in an
attempt, according to the
filmmakers, to let "a single idea evolve on its
own accord." Come explore
this enigmatic claim.
NOCTURNE
(Jay Johnson and Clancy Dennehy, Canada, 2001, VHS,
8 min.)
Filmmaker in Attendance, Saturday ONLY
This Brothers Quay-inspired stop motion piece sees
a battered, filthy baby
doll trapped in a dystopian netherworld where he is
subject to his own
debilitating delusions and paranoid hallucinations.
Based on Ranier Maria
Rilke's The Wax Dolls of Lotte Pritzel
L'ILYA
(Tomoya Sato, Japan, 2000, 16mm, 39 min.)
Ilya is a seemingly well-adjusted woman with a promising
career, videotaping
suicides for projection in trendy nightclubs. People
committing suicide
contact her to volunteer as subjects, speak a few
last words and then end
their lives in a variety of ways. Ilya neither assists
nor attempts to stop
them; she merely records. This amazing film does what
its character does,
which is to examine death from a sadly detached perspective.
"At present, to
think about death is considered dark and cruel,"
says Sato, "but to think
about death is to think about life."
PROGRAM 2
Plays daily at 9 pm
CATHARSIS
(Helene Cattet and Bruno Forani, Belgium, 2000, 35mm,
3 min.)
This bizarre Belgian experimental take on the giallo
(Italian horror)
formula employs still photography to tell its lushly
photographed tale of
sadistic murder.
EXTREMISM BREAKS MY BALLS
(Nicolas Debot, Sweden, 2000, 35mm, 5 min.)
Nicolas Debot's faux-government propaganda film opens
with a naked couple
preparing for intercourse on a bed when a team of
fascist police bust in and
arrest the man for committing adultery. A lengthy
castration ensues.
FLAT 'N' FLUFFY
(Ben Boucher, Canada, 2001, BetaSP, 7 min.)
Two stoners in a shitty hippie band can't seem to
stop running over an old
lady's dog. Massive carnage ensues.
CHANNELING ALICE
(J. Cody Lucido, Seattle, 2002, DV, 18 min.)
Filmmaker in attendance
In this paranormal documentary, a team of ghost hunters
investigate and
capture evidence of the haunting of the Bush House
hotel in Index, WA.
NEKOJIRO-SO
(Tatsuo Sato, Japan, 2000, BetaSP, 33 min.)
One of the most haunting pieces of animation I have
ever seen. Based on
characters created by enigmatic artist Nekojiro, this
surrealist dreamscape
follows a little kitty named Nyata whose sister1s
soul has been partially
stolen by the god of death. Nyata and her sister take
a walk that transforms
into something epic and hallucinatory. The only indicators
of verbal
communication are bizarre speech bubbles accompanied
by strange noises. The
film is indelibly sad, and gives us a glimpse into
the headspace of its
creator.
Plays at THE LITTLE THEATRE in Seattle, WA, The Little
Theatre is located
on Capitol Hill at 608 19th Avenue East, on 19th between
the streets Roy and
Mercer. Tickets for shows go on sale a half hour before
show time. Ticket
prices are $7 general admission for adults, $4.50
for Northwest Film Forum
members, and $5 for seniors and children. The Little
Theatre show time
information line is 206.675.2055. To contact the administrative
offices of
the Northwest Film Forum, call 206.329.2629. Visit
our website at
www.nwfilmforum.org
CineMuerte and Clare Kenny present:
STARDUST MEMORIES
An all-nite skate-a-thon at the Stardust Roller Rink
in Surrey!
FRIDAY AUGUST 30th Midnight-6am
 Come
hang out at the lower mainland's last remaining roller
rink! Complete with old-school four-wheeled skating
(Because the Stardust has a limited number of four-wheeled
skates, bring your own if you've got 'em), all your
favorite tunes from the heyday of rollerboogie  (there
will NOT be a predominance of disco, so don't worry
-- all musical genres will be aptly represented),
and screenings of rollerskating classics on the multiple
televisions posited all over the Stardust! Come skate
the snowball, the crazy train and most importantly,
dedicate cheesy songs to your dates to publicly humiliate
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Because this is a fundraiser
for the ever-poor Cinemuerte, event prices are as follows:
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$8 regular admission
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$7 admission for those
who present their Cinemuerte/Criminal Cinema membership
cards
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$7 for those who can
present their ticket stubs from the Ron Jeremy 'Return
to porno Chic' event at the Fox theatre.
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$7 for anyone wearing
an ELO or Cheap Trick T-shirt
(combination discounts do not apply)
There will be a shuttle van active every
two hours throughout the night to take people back into
the city for an additional $4 -- or you can stay all night
and we can all hop the skytrain together at 6am!
A full snack bar will be open all nite!
CineMuerte Film Society
Presents
An AXIS OF EVIL event Sponsored
by Reel-Horror.com
& Chainsawfodder.com
BINGE
AND PURGE A Brian Clement Picture
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NOTE VENUE CHANGE
!!!
The venue has been moved from the Broadway Cinema
to
The VanEast Cinema.
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Vancouver Premiere Midnight Screening
Friday The 13th
5$ @ The VanEast Cinema - 2290 Commercial
Dr.
Brian Clement will be there as a
special guest, will do an autograph signing and a Q/A
after the showing.
More info at: www.pacificcoast.net/~frontline/bingepics.html
Cinemuerte
Annual General Meeting - August 27th
The annual general meeting for the society
will take place Tuesday August 27th at the Kino Cafe
on Cambie St. at 7:00pm. Topics to discuss include:
Total revenue and expenditure for 2001/2002, the Cinemuerte
Film Festival, The Criminal Cinema, and mandate for the
coming year. Anyone with a valid membership card can attend
the meeting.
This year's winner of the Silver
Hatchet award for best new film is:
Dog Soldiers!
Best Retro Film: Night
Warning
Final
TBA's for Saturday July 13th Finalized
9:30pm - The Beast
Midnight - Dagon (in 35mm!)
Dog
Soldiers Producer David E. Allen will be presenting the
film followed by a Q and A session after the movie.
Mr. Allen is the founder of Kismet Entertainment
Group, a motion picture production and distribution company.
He produced the internationally acclaimed “Dog Soldiers”
(winner of the 2002 Brussels Film Festival of Fantastic Films
and 2002 Luxembourg International Film Festival), executive
produced Mario Bava’s “Kidnapped”, and executive
produced the award-winning short film, “Last Request
”. Mr. Allen is presently producing a remake of the Mario
Bava classic “Baron Blood” and a sequel to “Dog
Soldiers”. He is producing the psychological drama “Asylum”
starring Natasha Richardson and Ralph Fiennes, and executive
producing “Stander” starring Thomas Jane and the
thriller “No Good Deed” starring Samuel L. Jackson
and Milla Jovovich.
LATEST SCHEDULE CHANGES
CHANGES FOR JULY 6TH - PLEASE READ
Due to the film print being delayed
at customs the screening of Dagon at midnight July
6th will be a "screener" DVD projection but
admission will be half price. For those who want to
wait for the 35mm film print it will be playing at the midnight
TBA slot on Saturday July 13th.
Vampire Hunter D (Sat. July 6th) has been
cancelled and instead we have the CANADIAN PREMIERE of STUART
(Re-Animator) GORDON's DAGON. This Lovecraftian tale of a
town enslaved by the dreaded sea-god Dagon sees its inhabitants
turn into fish-like zombies after dark!
Also: Regrettably, ROGER WATKINS (Last House
on Dead End Street) has cancelled due to a family illness.
The Producer of "Dog Soldiers",
David E. Allen, will be attending the festival and will host
a Q&A on the film after the screening.
Annual Torture Garden Fundraiser
2002
The annual Torture Garden Fundraiser is back at the Blinding
Light !! on June 22nd -- where you don't pay
to get in, YOU PAY TO GET OUT!!!!
This is the deal: you bring your Blinding
Light or Cinemuerte membership card, walk in and sit down
to endure some of the most bizarre and offensive films, shorts
and underground bootlegs imaginable, and if you manage to
last for the whole thing, you only pay $5. Otherwise, starting
price is $20 and goes down a dollar for every hour you stay.
There will be several scheduled breaks, but if you want a
break at anything other than a scheduled time, you have to
bribe one of the guards, who will escort you in handcuffs!
Festivities begin at 10:30pm and go till about 6am. Are you
ready to be tortured?
Interesting Sites:
www.inflictionfilms.com
- the company behind Subconscious Cruelty and Divided into
Zero
www.fantasiafest.com - this is Montreal's amazing genre
festival
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sschneid/WHC.htm
- this is an info page for Steven Schneider's forthcoming
book FEAR WITHOUT FRONTIERS featuring essays by Alan Jones,
Pete Tombs and the like, exploring horror cinema across the
globe.
www.blackdogvideo.bc.ca
- Vancouver's cult specialty video store
www.legionthemovie.com
- the homepage for Olaf (Premutos) Ittenbach's latest 35mm
feature 'Legion of the Dead'
www.cjent.co.kr - the
homepage for CJ Entertainment, the nice folks who brought
you the Korean masterpieces 'The Isle' and 'Joint Security
Area'
www.glasseyepix.com
- homepage for the films of Larry Fessenden (Habit, Wendigo,
No Telling etc)
www.realboogienights.com
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website devoted to the Golden Age of Adult Cinema & Porno
Chic.
Links to our site
Nighterror.com
These people have written a nice synopsis of our event and
other horror related news. Check it out.
Other sites which have us listed.
Dark Side
of the Net
Heyjo
International
Directory of Design
David Kristian.com
(site of sound and music designer for Subconcious
Cruelty playing on Sunday July 8, 7pm at the festival)
If you wish to have a banner to link to our site or to exchange
links contact Kier-la.
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