keelsetter
I share the same year of release as The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Seconds, Blow-Up, Belle de jour, Cool Hand Luke, Five Million Years to Earth, and Shock Corridor - to name some favorites. As a child in grade school I invited friends over to watch creature-features from the safety of a pillow fort. With Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi as my heroes, I begged my parents not to give me braces so that I could keep my monstrous teeth - an argument that I lost. (And, yup, the image used is of my actual chompers before they were fixed.)

In the late eighties and early nineties I programmed a film series and was able to successfully import a mint-condition 35mm European version of Brazil for its U.S. Premiere (the print was then picked up by Landmark for a national run). I also served as a T.A. and projectionist for the Film Studies Program at C.U. Boulder, and it was during this time that I got both Trey Parker and Stan Brakhage to help on a film short (Tubes of Fire). After that, I wrote some scripts, managed to pitch a concept to New Line in 1995 about a traveling freakshow that was favorably received but ultimately rejected, and spent three years working for Starz cable tv as a script evaluator and acquisitions screener. In 1997 I returned to my university stomping grounds to program The International Film Series - an art-house, calendar film program that's been around since 1941 and that I've personally attended since the seventies.
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Last night Alex Cox and I sat down for a private screening of O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973). Alex had met both Anderson and Malcolm McDowell back in the seventies, and had even presented Anderson with a script for a film that never got made (Scousers). At one point Alex, who had not seen […]

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As a bi-monthly blogger my next post is scheduled for December 2nd. A few days before that, on November 30th, you will be able to see four Morlocks on TV courtesy of TCM. The idea for putting some of the Morlock bloggers in front of the cameras was first floated around last March when we […]

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Going to the movies has long been considered a mostly passive experience where you quietly sit in darkness to be carried off by a visual experience. A growing number of small exhibitors, however, are changing their tune. Instead of telling their customers to stay quiet during the film, they have been actively encouraging everyone at […]

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Room 237 (2012) is a documentary by Rodney Ascher that delves into several different theories that might lurk behind the infamous door of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980). Anyone who watches The Shining at face value alone will walk away having seen a horror film about an alcoholic and abusive writer who is haunted by […]

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On this day of October 14 something wonderful happened 34 years ago. Before I go down that rabbit-hole, let me preface this post by stating that I like both my beer and films to be bold and distinct. During the late seventies, something pivotal happened to ensure the beer scene was about to get much […]

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It’s not often that I wire over a thousand dollars to European banks for the privilege of screening an obscure western. And, yes, more than one bank was involved because the exhibition rights were held in Germany (Beta Cinema GmbH), while the actual owner of the 35mm print resides in Switzerland (Kinemathek Le Bon Film). […]

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Last night I had the sudden realization that a pending and key event on my fall film program is going to bomb. I’m flying out a filmmaker for both a Q&A and special show after the screening, and this was planned out since June. But only hours ago did it strike me with a Christopher […]

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“It’s like no other documentary I’ve ever seen,” said one friend. “There were several times where it broke me down to tears,” said another. Both were attending the last Telluride Film Festival and were talking about the same film: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, co-directed by Christine Cynn, and “Anonymous,” 2012). Oppenheimer is a […]

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In my last post I provided a look behind the curtain for the first five weeks of film programming for my fall film calendar. This week we look at the remaining 24 titles that round out the schedule. It features everything from classics such as Vertigo to the state premiere of the latest uncompromising and […]

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The art house film calendar that I program goes to press in two days and, although I’m still waiting for some confirmations, I’m sharing the rough-draft with TCM readers, along with some brief thoughts regarding the choices made.

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