Vroom, vroom! This month marks the 40th anniversary of John Carpenter‘s Christine! To celebrate, The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast and the Music Box of Horrors are hosting a special holiday screening of the King classic at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre. After all, what are the holidays without a little rock ‘n’ roll and a killer car?
The one-night only event takes place on Tuesday, December 19th at 8:00 p.m. at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre. In addition to the screening, the night will also include a live recording of the Losers’ Club featuring nearly all of the show’s cast members. Yes, this will be the largest gathering of the Losers to date with most of the ka-tet flying in!
That includes Randall Colburn, Jenn Adams, Justin Gerber, Dan Caffrey, Michael Roffman, Mel Kassel, Dan Pfleegor, McKenzie Gerber, Rachel Reeves, Julia Marchese, and Sammie Kuykendall.
The one-night only event takes place on Tuesday, December 19th at 8:00 p.m. at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre. In addition to the screening, the night will also include a live recording of the Losers’ Club featuring nearly all of the show’s cast members. Yes, this will be the largest gathering of the Losers to date with most of the ka-tet flying in!
That includes Randall Colburn, Jenn Adams, Justin Gerber, Dan Caffrey, Michael Roffman, Mel Kassel, Dan Pfleegor, McKenzie Gerber, Rachel Reeves, Julia Marchese, and Sammie Kuykendall.
- 12/15/2023
- by Michael Roffman
- bloody-disgusting.com
The following contains major spoilers for the short story “I Know What You Need.”
Ever since Brian De Palma’s Carrie set fire to the silver screen, Stephen King has been one of the hottest names in cinematic horror. With hundreds of titles in his extensive catalog, there’s seemingly no end to the list of adaptable text. King’s stories exist in all iterations of film and TV, from big-budget blockbusters to intimate indie films, but you didn’t always need the backing of a major studio to take a crack at an adaptation. For many years, the Master of Horror sold the limited rights to a select list of short stories for the affordable price of $1.
Affectionately called Dollar Babies, this arrangement allowed burgeoning filmmakers to try their hand at adapting the work of Stephen King without blowing most of their budget on expensive licensing fees. One such director is Julia Marchese.
Ever since Brian De Palma’s Carrie set fire to the silver screen, Stephen King has been one of the hottest names in cinematic horror. With hundreds of titles in his extensive catalog, there’s seemingly no end to the list of adaptable text. King’s stories exist in all iterations of film and TV, from big-budget blockbusters to intimate indie films, but you didn’t always need the backing of a major studio to take a crack at an adaptation. For many years, the Master of Horror sold the limited rights to a select list of short stories for the affordable price of $1.
Affectionately called Dollar Babies, this arrangement allowed burgeoning filmmakers to try their hand at adapting the work of Stephen King without blowing most of their budget on expensive licensing fees. One such director is Julia Marchese.
- 12/8/2023
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Of all the advice Stephen King offers in On Writing, “write what you know” may be the best. It’s certainly advice he follows as his vast catalogue is bursting with writers and the occasional villainous scribe. With King’s last literary outing as Richard Bachman behind them, the Losers round up all of King’s fictional writers to duke it out in a March Madness style tournament.
Join Losers’ Club co-host Jenn Adams as she cues up the arena rock and tips off a series of head-to-head battles in which an expert panel that includes fellow co-hosts Michael Roffman, Dan Caffrey, and Julia Marchese slowly narrow down the field to an epic, final showdown. Nail-biters and buzzer-beaters abound in our quest to identify King’s ultimate writer.
Who wins? Play along and find out!
Stream the episode below and return next week when the Losers head to Hollywood to...
Join Losers’ Club co-host Jenn Adams as she cues up the arena rock and tips off a series of head-to-head battles in which an expert panel that includes fellow co-hosts Michael Roffman, Dan Caffrey, and Julia Marchese slowly narrow down the field to an epic, final showdown. Nail-biters and buzzer-beaters abound in our quest to identify King’s ultimate writer.
Who wins? Play along and find out!
Stream the episode below and return next week when the Losers head to Hollywood to...
- 5/12/2023
- by Michael Roffman
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s beginning to look a lot like Kingmas…
So, what is Kingmas? Good question. Over the years, it’s become a blanket term for The Losers’ Club and Constant Listeners as they celebrate the holidays in King’s Dominion. In the past we’ve done mail bag episodes, we’ve gone over Stephen King‘s tweets, we’ve even had musicians regale us with new tunes. But last year, something stuck for us…
Last year, we gathered around the Kingmas tree, took a note from Sai King, and used our good ol’ fashioned imagination to dream up the kind of items that any Constant Reader would put on their wishlist. We went around in a circle, sharing gifts we’d love to see made, gifts we can actually get, and gifts lifted straight from King’s own prose.
This time around, however, we’ve added even more categories. So,...
So, what is Kingmas? Good question. Over the years, it’s become a blanket term for The Losers’ Club and Constant Listeners as they celebrate the holidays in King’s Dominion. In the past we’ve done mail bag episodes, we’ve gone over Stephen King‘s tweets, we’ve even had musicians regale us with new tunes. But last year, something stuck for us…
Last year, we gathered around the Kingmas tree, took a note from Sai King, and used our good ol’ fashioned imagination to dream up the kind of items that any Constant Reader would put on their wishlist. We went around in a circle, sharing gifts we’d love to see made, gifts we can actually get, and gifts lifted straight from King’s own prose.
This time around, however, we’ve added even more categories. So,...
- 12/9/2022
- by Michael Roffman
- bloody-disgusting.com
This week’s question is shamelessly stolen from a tweet by Julia Marchese:
What movie have you seen the most times in its initial theatrical run?
I think for me it must be 1993’s The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. It’s a terrific film, of course — one of the rare perfect movies, even — but there are lots of great movies that I haven’t seen as many times. I wasn’t having a great time at work that summer, and was incredibly stressed out. The movie was very popular that summer and into the fall, and it was playing all that time in a little multiplex around the corner from where I lived in the East Village. There were many days when I’d be walking home from work and think, Well, I’ll just pop in and see ‘The Fugitive’ again on my way.
What movie have you seen the most times in its initial theatrical run?
I think for me it must be 1993’s The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. It’s a terrific film, of course — one of the rare perfect movies, even — but there are lots of great movies that I haven’t seen as many times. I wasn’t having a great time at work that summer, and was incredibly stressed out. The movie was very popular that summer and into the fall, and it was playing all that time in a little multiplex around the corner from where I lived in the East Village. There were many days when I’d be walking home from work and think, Well, I’ll just pop in and see ‘The Fugitive’ again on my way.
- 8/15/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The beloved revival movie house New Beverly Cinema, owned by Quentin Tarantino since 2007, has set a reopening date of June 1. The theater, which is located on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, made the announcement via social media over the weekend. See below.
The theater, which seats 228 people, first opened in 1929. It was long subsidized by Tarantino before he took over in 2007 to keep the location open and screening classic movies on real celluloid film prints. Since 2014 Tarantino also served as head curator of the venue, mandating that only 16mm and 35mm prints be shown, and chucking out the digital project brought in by Torgan’s son Michael. Now, the theater regularly screens double bills of Tarantino films as well as many of his favorite classics.
The New Beverly had been closed since the spring of last year due to the pandemic, but the venue is no stranger to long-term closures:...
The theater, which seats 228 people, first opened in 1929. It was long subsidized by Tarantino before he took over in 2007 to keep the location open and screening classic movies on real celluloid film prints. Since 2014 Tarantino also served as head curator of the venue, mandating that only 16mm and 35mm prints be shown, and chucking out the digital project brought in by Torgan’s son Michael. Now, the theater regularly screens double bills of Tarantino films as well as many of his favorite classics.
The New Beverly had been closed since the spring of last year due to the pandemic, but the venue is no stranger to long-term closures:...
- 5/2/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Dormant since commencing with “upgrades and enhancements” on New Year’s Day, the Quentin Tarantino-owned New Beverly Cinemahopes to welcome back customers this December. The Los Angeles theater shared the following statement via its Twitter account Monday:
“We would like to thank everyone for their patience while we have been working to get a target date for the re-opening of the New Beverly Cinema. If everything goes as planned, we are looking at a December 2018 re-opening. While we are doing a lot of behind the scenes work to upgrade the theater, rest assured when we re-open, you will find the vintage New Beverly Cinema that we all know and love. We look forward to sharing more with all of you as we continue this process. Again, thank you for your patience, loyalty, and support.”
Since 1929, 7165 Beverly Boulevard has variously served as a exhibition space for vaudevillains and pornographers, as...
“We would like to thank everyone for their patience while we have been working to get a target date for the re-opening of the New Beverly Cinema. If everything goes as planned, we are looking at a December 2018 re-opening. While we are doing a lot of behind the scenes work to upgrade the theater, rest assured when we re-open, you will find the vintage New Beverly Cinema that we all know and love. We look forward to sharing more with all of you as we continue this process. Again, thank you for your patience, loyalty, and support.”
Since 1929, 7165 Beverly Boulevard has variously served as a exhibition space for vaudevillains and pornographers, as...
- 6/25/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
The title of Julia Marchese’s testimonial documentary on the history of Los Angeles’ the New Beverly Cinema, Out of Print, began, as her film did, as a way of suggesting the dark future which lay in store for the prospect of 35mm film distribution and exhibition in the early stages of this decade’s industry switch-over to digital projection. Marchese’s movie sprung from efforts to rally behind not only the viability of the film format in the face of the movie business’s growing infatuation with all things ones-and-zeroes, but also the viability of theaters like the New Beverly Cinema, the city’s longest-surviving repertory theater, which in 2013, around the time the film began production, saw the availability of 35mm prints, the bread-and-butter of the few independent revival houses across the country still in business, dwindling. These theaters were given a simple, expensive choice: cough up perhaps hundreds...
- 3/24/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Back in 2014, Julia Marchese, then manager of the historic New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, established her own creative project on KickStarter asking for (and successfully receiving) funding to direct and produce “a film about a weird and wonderful double feature revival theatre dedicated to 35mm & cinema…” That film Out of Print focuses […]
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- 8/31/2016
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
I’ve been back from my Oregon vacation for a couple of weeks now, and though the getaway was a good and necessary one, I’m still in the process of mentally unpacking from a week and a half of relaxing and thinking mostly only about things I wanted to think about. (I also discovered a blackberry cider brewed in the region, the source of a specific sort of relaxation that I’m still finding myself pining for.) It hasn’t helped that our time off and immediate time back coincided with the bombast and general insanity of the Republic National Convention, followed immediately by the disarray and sense of restored hope that bookended the Democrats’ week-long party. The extremity of emotions engendered by those two events, coupled with a profoundly unsettling worry over the base level of our current political discourse and where it may lead this country, hasn...
- 8/7/2016
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Stars: Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario, Oliver Cooper, Ozioma Akagha, Mark Alan, Erica Bowie, Gabrielle Christian, Archie Hahn, Tomoko Karina, Stephanie Koenig, Wyndoline Landry, Julia Marchese, Dick Miller | Written by Alan Trezza | Directed by Joe Dante
Burying the Ex is a romantic comedy with zombies, or rom-zom-com as I believe we’re supposed to refer to them. It stars Anton Yelchin as Max, a young man who works in horror supplies shop and happens to be in relationship with Ashley Greene’s Evelyn who whilst beautiful, is jealous, neurotic and annoying. Max decides to dump her but before he can do so, she is killed in a traffic accident. Shortly afterwards, Max starts seeing Olivia (Alexandra Daddario) but is unable to begin a new relationship properly as, due to a curse of unspecified nature, the reanimated corpse of Evelyn has risen from the grave and is very keen to...
Burying the Ex is a romantic comedy with zombies, or rom-zom-com as I believe we’re supposed to refer to them. It stars Anton Yelchin as Max, a young man who works in horror supplies shop and happens to be in relationship with Ashley Greene’s Evelyn who whilst beautiful, is jealous, neurotic and annoying. Max decides to dump her but before he can do so, she is killed in a traffic accident. Shortly afterwards, Max starts seeing Olivia (Alexandra Daddario) but is unable to begin a new relationship properly as, due to a curse of unspecified nature, the reanimated corpse of Evelyn has risen from the grave and is very keen to...
- 6/15/2015
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Cinephiles on both coasts were rattled by Julia Marchese’s blog post last Friday entitled “I Will Not Be Censored,” concerning her departure from Los Angeles’ beloved New Beverly Cinema. Anyone who’s been to the New Bev within the last dozen years will recognize Marchese, for many the welcoming public face of the recently beleaguered rep house. But following a steady trickle of involvement from Quentin Tarantino — first paying the theater’s bills out of love, then becoming its owner, and finally, in September, announcing he’ll be directing a majority of the programming — Marchese was isolated within the staff, and […]...
- 10/27/2014
- by Steve Macfarlane
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Cinephiles on both coasts were rattled by Julia Marchese’s blog post last Friday entitled “I Will Not Be Censored,” concerning her departure from Los Angeles’ beloved New Beverly Cinema. Anyone who’s been to the New Bev within the last dozen years will recognize Marchese, for many the welcoming public face of the recently beleaguered rep house. But following a steady trickle of involvement from Quentin Tarantino — first paying the theater’s bills out of love, then becoming its owner, and finally, in September, announcing he’ll be directing a majority of the programming — Marchese was isolated within the staff, and […]...
- 10/27/2014
- by Steve Macfarlane
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Julia Marchese has worked at the New Beverly theater in Los Angeles since 2006. That employment came to an end this week, but along with the end of her tenure at the theater comes an unexpected gift for audiences. Marchese has spent the past couple years producing and directing Out of Print, a documentary on […]
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- 10/16/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
When Quentin Tarantino pledged to take over as head programmer at the New Beverly Cinema, the beloved Los Angeles revival theater he has owned for seven years, he said that he wanted it “to be a bastion for 35mm films.” But apparently not all that’s old is good in the director’s vision for his business. Longtime employee Julia Marchese, who directed a documentary on the theater that she planned to screen there later this year, was unceremoniously demoted from her position as a manager and forced to quit, according to an angry blog post on her personal website. Tarantino (or rather, his people) evidently messed with the wrong manager —Marchese is accusing the new management of selling out the theater's soul, installing big brother-esque cameras and censoring employees with draconian contracts. Marchese was hired at New Beverly in 2006 by the previous manager, and says she embraced the place as her second home.
- 10/16/2014
- by Tess Hofmann
- The Playlist
Not everyone is thrilled about Quentin Tarantino taking over the New Beverly Cinema. Longtime theater employee Julia Marchese says she was demoted and then forced to quit after she refused to sign a confidentiality agreement. Marchese posted about the situation on her blog Wednesday. Marchese, who has worked at the L.A.-based arthouse theater since previous owner Sherman Torgan hired her eight years ago, says she was informed in July that Tarantino would be taking over ownership, at which point she was told she would be promoted to manager. However, Marchese says she was asked to sign an agreement
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- 10/16/2014
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Over the last few weeks we've written a few articles about Quentin Tarantino taking over managing the New Beverly Cinema, the repertory 35mm theater in Los Angeles. However, there's an interesting development on the other side today and it involves one of the theater's longtime employees speaking out about the new changes. It seems things have taken a turn for the worse, and after being told to keep quiet, Julia Marchese (@juliacmarchese) has written a blog about her experiences and being unfairly forced to quit. Marchese is also the filmmaker behind the documentary Out of Print about saving 35mm film made mostly at the New Beverly. But due to this break-up, she has released the doc in full online immediately for everyone's viewing. In her blog, she explains her story about how she felt like she had found a home when she first walked into the New Beverly years ago.
- 10/15/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A longtime employee of L.A.’s New Beverly Cinema says Quentin Tarantino’s new management has forced her out and is ruining the beloved repertory theater. Julia Marchese, one of a few staffers who stayed on through Tarantino’s takeover last month, was told she would be co-manager of the New Beverly when it re-opened this month after renovations. She says this week she was demoted and unceremoniously forced to quit by Tarantino’s longtime personal assistant Julie McLean, who is now acting as General Manager.
“I went through the last six weeks really thinking Quentin was going to make it better,” Marchese told me today. “The thing that’s most shocking to me is that he’s allowing it and I can’t even talk to him about it. To not even be allowed to state my case is unfair.” She says through the Tarantino-led renovations and October 1 re-opening,...
“I went through the last six weeks really thinking Quentin was going to make it better,” Marchese told me today. “The thing that’s most shocking to me is that he’s allowing it and I can’t even talk to him about it. To not even be allowed to state my case is unfair.” She says through the Tarantino-led renovations and October 1 re-opening,...
- 10/15/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The latest wrinkle in owner Quentin Tarantino's takeover of the New Beverly Cinema is a blog post "I Will Not Be Censored" from disgruntled ex-employee Julia Marchese, who was hired at the theater in 2006. At first, Tarantino's team offered her a much better salary to co-manage the theater after he took over operations on October 1, but she was then "frozen out" by Julie McLean, the new general manager of the Beverly, who demoted her as "not manager material," Marchese writes. "I am done." There's been some controversy about Tarantino letting go of Michael Torgan, who took over the day-to-day running of the theater when his father Sherman died in 2007, as well as Tarantino's insistence on showing films in 35 or 16 mm only. "I want the New Beverly to be a bastion for 35 millimeter films," he told the La Weekly. "I want it to stand for something. When you see a...
- 10/15/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
For many years one of the public faces of Los Angeles’ New Beverly Cinema, today Julia Marchese posted an unnerving account of her experience since Quentin Tarantino became the theater’s owner and programmer. It’s worth reading in full, but the gist is that Tarantino’s team put inexplicably tight social media muzzles on all staff and effectively fired (“demoted”) Marchese less than two weeks after her promotion to a managerial role. In short: her hopes dashed for a New Beverly 35mm premiere of her documentary Out of Print — about the importance of 35mm repertory cinema in general and the theater […]...
- 10/15/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For many years one of the public faces of Los Angeles’ New Beverly Cinema, today Julia Marchese posted an unnerving account of her experience since Quentin Tarantino became the theater’s owner and programmer. It’s worth reading in full, but the gist is that Tarantino’s team put inexplicably tight social media muzzles on all staff and effectively fired (“demoted”) Marchese less than two weeks after her promotion to a managerial role. In short: her hopes dashed for a New Beverly 35mm premiere of her documentary Out of Print — about the importance of 35mm repertory cinema in general and the theater […]...
- 10/15/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Quentin Tarantino’s passion for the New Beverly Cinema began when he was just another kid showing up for the nightly double feature. It grew when he found success as a filmmaker and began to subsidize owner Sherman Torgan to the tune of $5,000 per month to keep the place open. Ultimately Tarantino bought the building and now he’s taking over the whole theater from Torgan’s son Michael. Tarantino has grand plans to curate a program of films he is confident will please fellow cinefiles and give him an excuse to showcase his voluminous collection of film prints and trailers.
His first move: Jettisoning the digital projector that Michael installed. When the L.A. institution reopens in October after three months of renovations and a thorough cleaning of the onetime porno palace, the New Beverly will have a unique mission: All 35mm prints, all the time. “The big thing...
His first move: Jettisoning the digital projector that Michael installed. When the L.A. institution reopens in October after three months of renovations and a thorough cleaning of the onetime porno palace, the New Beverly will have a unique mission: All 35mm prints, all the time. “The big thing...
- 9/7/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
For the cinephiles of Los Angeles, New Beverly Cinema is not just another historic movie theater but a sacred landmark that celebrates everything that is enriching about 35mm projection. The theater building which dates back to 1920 is one of the oldest revival cinemas in the nation and, since 1978, the theater has been showing revival (not first run) double-features all year around in their original 35mm format. In this eye-opening new documentary, "Out of Print," film aficionado Julia Marchese presents an array of intimate interviews with various patrons and supporters of New Beverly Cinema such as Joe Dante, Kevin Smith, Rian Johnson, Seth Green, Edgar Wright, Mark Romanek and Richard Kelly. As Marchese states in her website, "Theaters like the New Bev are well-loved treasures that need to be preserved right along with the films that they show, but there's a threat on the horizon... The digital revolution might end revival cinema as we know it.
- 8/1/2014
- by Halim Cillov
- The Playlist
"The New Beverly crowds are genuine, they're there just to love cinema." How do we save 35mm film? By cherishing it, archiving it, and reminding the world of its existence with screenings and events that herald the soon-to-be-long-lost-format. One of the latest documentaries about this technological evolution is titled Out of Print, a film two years in the making from New Beverly's Julia Marchese. The doc focuses on the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles and the many people who make it their home. She has interviews with people like Edgar Wright, Patton Oswalt, Rian Johnson, Joe Carnahan, Kevin Smith, Joe Dante and so many others. The first trailer is out and it's all about a love for cinema, its many joys, and repertory theaters. Here's the first trailer for Julia Marchese's documentary Out of Print, from YouTube (via SlashFilm): A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema...
- 7/23/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Two years ago, Julia Marchese had an idea and a job at a movie theater. Today, she’s got a movie. Out of Print, a film about the preservation of 35mm at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, CA is about to hit the festival circuit and now has an official trailer and poster. With […]
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- 7/23/2014
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
You have less than two days to donate to this Kickstarter campaign. Why do you keep waiting?
Julia Marchese starts with a simple question:
What would you give to preserve the rich history of cinema?
Then a call to action:
Help us to preserve the cinema stories and experiences from the past century.
Then the very point of the whole thing:
When we lose the rich tapestry of roots, we lose something very important…a vital, life-giving thing.
The whole thing is, of course, a film called Out of Print that aims to be about repertory cinema, about the well-being of our cinematic heritage (the most important cultural artifact and catalog of the last 100 years), and, about, most of all, The New Beverly Cinema here in Los Angeles, California.
And Julia Marchese (you’ve seen her face) has only two days left to raise the rest of the money she...
Julia Marchese starts with a simple question:
What would you give to preserve the rich history of cinema?
Then a call to action:
Help us to preserve the cinema stories and experiences from the past century.
Then the very point of the whole thing:
When we lose the rich tapestry of roots, we lose something very important…a vital, life-giving thing.
The whole thing is, of course, a film called Out of Print that aims to be about repertory cinema, about the well-being of our cinematic heritage (the most important cultural artifact and catalog of the last 100 years), and, about, most of all, The New Beverly Cinema here in Los Angeles, California.
And Julia Marchese (you’ve seen her face) has only two days left to raise the rest of the money she...
- 5/22/2012
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Screenings, screenings everywhere! Plus: the struggle for the fate 35mm continues!
Mick Garris is in Belgium this week where he is screening Bag of Bones in its entirety at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Fest*. He’ll also serve as the President of the Jury. The festival is currently underway as I type this and it runs through the 17th of April. Bag of Bones screens on the 13th, but you can heck out the full schedule on on their site.
*I love festivals like this, those that celebrate weird and wonderful little genre movies from all over the world. A cursory glance at the schedule revealed lots of madness, the latest from William Friedkin, the much-buzzed Juan of the Dead and an absurd-sounding Argentinian superhero comedy called Zenitram! Just read the description: “When he goes to pee in a public toilet, he meets a strange man who bestows a unique gift upon him.
Mick Garris is in Belgium this week where he is screening Bag of Bones in its entirety at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Fest*. He’ll also serve as the President of the Jury. The festival is currently underway as I type this and it runs through the 17th of April. Bag of Bones screens on the 13th, but you can heck out the full schedule on on their site.
*I love festivals like this, those that celebrate weird and wonderful little genre movies from all over the world. A cursory glance at the schedule revealed lots of madness, the latest from William Friedkin, the much-buzzed Juan of the Dead and an absurd-sounding Argentinian superhero comedy called Zenitram! Just read the description: “When he goes to pee in a public toilet, he meets a strange man who bestows a unique gift upon him.
- 4/12/2012
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
An update on the state of the cinema!
The scariest part about the studios shutting down their archives of 35mm film isn’t the move away from the format altogether, it’s the severe limitation of our ability to experience films in the format they were originally intended. Or, as Craig Hubert poses right at the start of his must-read update on the battle between 35mm and digital projection
The reports of film’s death have been exaggerated. While in danger of becoming a fetish object for specialists, celluloid is not going away. It will always exist. Whether we’ll be able to see it, though, is something else entirely.
35mm is fast fading into the sunset, but to immediately put it out to pasture is a shame. (In my humble opinion: it is, simply, the better format.) One of the great pleasures of living in a big, diverse city...
The scariest part about the studios shutting down their archives of 35mm film isn’t the move away from the format altogether, it’s the severe limitation of our ability to experience films in the format they were originally intended. Or, as Craig Hubert poses right at the start of his must-read update on the battle between 35mm and digital projection
The reports of film’s death have been exaggerated. While in danger of becoming a fetish object for specialists, celluloid is not going away. It will always exist. Whether we’ll be able to see it, though, is something else entirely.
35mm is fast fading into the sunset, but to immediately put it out to pasture is a shame. (In my humble opinion: it is, simply, the better format.) One of the great pleasures of living in a big, diverse city...
- 2/9/2012
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Film studios are trying to do away with 35mm prints. Yes, most filmmakers now shoot digital, and the studios encourage it. It is fast and cheap, easy to store and easy to deliver to theaters. But now, they want to do away with all 35mm prints, even those of classics that get rented out to repertory theaters. Julia Marchese from Los Angeles's New Beverly Cinema has launched an online petition with the hopes of showing the major studios that there is still a love for 35mm. I know I love it. Friends call me a film snob just because I love the scratch of film grain, the pops on the soundtrack, the cigarette burns in the corner. And when it comes to horror films, nothing beats film stock. Join the movement after the jump. For...
- 11/18/2011
- FEARnet
[1] What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 56 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might've missed that you think should go in /Film's Page 2 - email us [2]! Header Photo: The Muppets cake pops [3] Rws [4] has photos inside the recently opened Transformers store, outside the upcoming Transformers: The Ride in Singapore. IChiban [5] produces custom Lego sets, including one of the Back to the Future DeLoreon. Star Wars: Where Science Meets The Imagination will open [6] at the Discovery Science Center on November 17th 2011. Turner Classic Movies will air [7] AFI Master Class -- Steven Spielberg And John Williams on Tuesday, November 15th at 8pm Et.
- 11/14/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might've missed that you think should go in /Film's Page 2 - email us [1]! Header Photo: Dobler [2]. Geek Deal: Amazon [3] has Ghostbusters: The Video Game for the Nintendo Wii for only $8.09 with free shipping. [4] Jen Hall created [5] an R2-D2 scooter helmet. Moviemaker Magazine [6] has an interview with Derrick Comedy's Dan Eckman on making Mystery Team and Directing on a Dime. Watch video from the set of the Ok Go & The Muppets video, "Muppet Show Theme Song". New Beverly Cinema's Julia Marchese blogs [7] about her experiences with Kevin Smith...
- 8/23/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Even if you're not in Los Angeles, you may have heard about "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World" director Edgar Wright's "The Wright Stuff II" series happening at the New Beverly Cinema this week and if not, there have been some truly wonderful pieces about what's been going on, whether it's been Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule's Dennis Cozzalio's breathless coverage of every evening of double bills Wright has shown, New Bev doyenne Julia Marchese's touching tribute to the repertory theater that has come full circle with Wright's second round of programming, or Damon Houx and Peter Avellino's reappraisals of "American Graffiti" and "Dirty Harry," respectively, after watching them with a packed house and the tremendous lineup of guests Wright has pulled together on a nightly basis.
Quentin Tarantino appeared positively giddy in explaining the connection between "Dirty Harry" to the Tea Party, Steven Spielberg took...
Quentin Tarantino appeared positively giddy in explaining the connection between "Dirty Harry" to the Tea Party, Steven Spielberg took...
- 1/28/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Golden Earrings Poster*Warning: there be plot reveals below.
Director/writer: Marion Kerr.
Golden Earrings is an eighty minute feature film from Film Crewe Productions, which is currently on the film festival circuit. The film had a recent showing at the Dances with Films Film Festival June 8th and director Marion Kerr's (The Boston Strangler) Golden Earrings has been reviewed by Film Snobbery and Rogue Cinema. Now, the picture gets a review here and this independent cinema takes viewers on a journey to madness and isolation from a feminine perspective, with the mysterious disappearance of a young woman and friend leading to tragic events.
Filmsnobbery says of the conclusion in Golden Earrings: "a Hitchcockian ending that many other suspense writers should take a note from," but the tale begins at the start where five friends gather for a fun nite of pizza, drinking and ouija board playing. A fun,...
Director/writer: Marion Kerr.
Golden Earrings is an eighty minute feature film from Film Crewe Productions, which is currently on the film festival circuit. The film had a recent showing at the Dances with Films Film Festival June 8th and director Marion Kerr's (The Boston Strangler) Golden Earrings has been reviewed by Film Snobbery and Rogue Cinema. Now, the picture gets a review here and this independent cinema takes viewers on a journey to madness and isolation from a feminine perspective, with the mysterious disappearance of a young woman and friend leading to tragic events.
Filmsnobbery says of the conclusion in Golden Earrings: "a Hitchcockian ending that many other suspense writers should take a note from," but the tale begins at the start where five friends gather for a fun nite of pizza, drinking and ouija board playing. A fun,...
- 6/22/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Golden Earrings is a psychological thriller that is gearing up for a westcoast premiere at the Dances with Films Film Festival Tuesday, June 8th. This independent film has won "Best Horror Feature" at the Indie Spirit Film Festival and continues to build momentum with a "Hitchcockian style" of film directing from Marion Kerr (Golden). Have a look at a preview of a film where one woman's dependency on another causes a mysterious disappearance.
The synopsis for Golden Earrings:
""How well do you know your best friends? Golden Earrings is a psychological thriller about a young woman whose highly dependent relationship with her roommate is more than simple friendship. Ronnie and Sara are best friends and to Ronnie, Sara is more than just her friend. And when Sara disappears, Ronnie's world becomes unraveled as she copes with Sara's disappearance and her guilt over her own involvement. Sometimes your friends are...
The synopsis for Golden Earrings:
""How well do you know your best friends? Golden Earrings is a psychological thriller about a young woman whose highly dependent relationship with her roommate is more than simple friendship. Ronnie and Sara are best friends and to Ronnie, Sara is more than just her friend. And when Sara disappears, Ronnie's world becomes unraveled as she copes with Sara's disappearance and her guilt over her own involvement. Sometimes your friends are...
- 5/27/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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