Mu Meson archives, Wednesday the 16th: For those who have seen/will see It Came From Kuchar (see two posts below), check out the Kuchar brothers shorts and enjoy a night of some of the most hysterical, adorable, creative and uncalculated works of pop-art that the cinema has produced.
Chauvel Cinematheque, Monday the 21st: My personal most anticipated film event of the year: Damon Packard's Reflections of Evil. Having yet to be mind-raped by this notorious underground epic, I'll just post a link to Packard's Dawn of an Evil Millennium, and let you know what you're getting into with this excerpt from Bill Gibron's ecstatic review:
"If you don't understand the lines and forms in a Pollack painting, if you fail to grasp the connections and themes in free-form jazz, if David Lynch's short films leave you perplexed and pained, you will not embrace this movie's entertainment value. Packard is playing on an irritated ethereal plane unlike any other. His brilliance is in the ability to recall the past perfectly, while making it mesh within a post-modern isolation and anger. Certain phrases that have come to define our modern life ("I will kill you," "You don't want to f*ck with me") are repeated incessantly, spoken by gang members, hobos, cops, and everyday citizens. Packard's character is on the verge of an all-encompassing breakdown, a man battling for a stake in his own sanity. Some of the material here is darkly disturbing. Other parts are ludicrous and hilarious. Between Bob's battles with his abusive grandmother (who refers to her overweight grandson as "disgusting" so often you think she's suffering from some manner of mental vapor lock), and his confrontation with the hostile populace of L.A., you don't know whether to laugh, cry, or just shut the goddamn DVD player off."
Chauvel General: Russ Meyer season kicked last Friday at the Chauvel with Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens. An anamoly in his career, Ultravixens is notable for its sobering look at the harsher realities of 'liberated' America in the 1970's. LOL! Made you look. Vixen (1968) is up this Friday, with three more every week on that day for the next month (.)(.) (.)(.) (.)(.)
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