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By Brakhage, Volume 2 by Stan Brakhage By Brakhage, Volume 2 << • >> Here we have it: a whopping seven and a half hours of work by the undisputed master of independent American experimental cinema, selected by his widow, Marilyn Brakhage, and expertly transferred to digital media by the Criterion Collection Crew. While most movie-goers have never even heard of him, it's hard to over-estimate Brakhage's impact on the history of film. Beginning in the 1950s, he opened up a whole new way of thinking about and working with film. It could be said (and so, we will) that what Einstein was to … Read more ... |
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Wholphin 9 by Spike Jonze, Isabel Vega, Amanda Micheli, Joseph Gordon-Levitt It seems like some of you have forgotten about the wholesome goodness that is Wholphin, The DVD magazine of rare and unseen short films. Seeing as how we like all things related to the number nine, we've chosen this issue to offer a special "let's-get-reacquainted" price on. It's a packed disc – over three hours worth of material. It's an especially good issue, filled with all sorts of films from around the world. The official hype states: "Wholphin No. 9 features three, hilarious, never-before-seen short films by Spike Jonze; Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s short story, "Sparks," starring Carla … Read more ... |
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By Brakhage by Stan Brakhage This is it! The definitive Brakhage DVD collection. Two DVD set includes the films: The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes Black Ice Cat’s Cradle Commingled Containers Crack Glass Eulogy The Dante Quartet The Dark Tower Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse Desistfilm Dog Star Man Eye Myth For Marilyn The Garden of Earthly Delights I…Dreaming Kindering Love Song Mothlight The Stars are Beautiful Stellar Study in color and Black and White Three hand-painted films: •Nightmusic •Rage Net •Glaze of Cathexis Wedlock House: An Intercourse Window Water Baby Moving The Wold Shadow New high-definition digital transfers of all films, … Read more ... |
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Funky Forest the First Contact by Hajime Ishimine, Katsuhito Ishii This film is SO far out that we are not yet ready to do it justice. Suffice it to say that fans of cinema that strays from the beaten path should consider checking this out – as long as they are prepared for the possibility that they might get lost deep in the woods. Those true believers that are already there and consider it home should consider this an absolute must see. THIS is a one of a kind film. Here's its homepage. Or just go straight to its trailer on YouTube. This is a film that … Read more ... |
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Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet w/ Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi <<<•>>> There are few truly one-of-a-kind films. By any measure, Last Year at Marienbad is clearly one of them. A film that is successful like none other in recreating a mental landscape, that shows the inner workings of a restless mind and haunted memory, that employs the language of cinema to probe the interior twists and turns of consciousness, that demonstrates how thought is action in a manner that, while tempermentally quite different from, may yet be considered the most successful translation of the … Read more ... |
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Encyclopdedia Destructica: Volume Bumba, Issue the Fourth by Gordon Nelson This, the final installment of "Volume Bumba," is the film and video issue. It comes with its own DVD containing a whopping 38 original film and video works running a mind-bending three and a half hours ensconced in a 118-page illustrated catalogue that is hand bound in a hand-silk-screened hardcover. Produced in a limited edition of only 500 copies, this is an excellent survey of the great variety of talent working in film and video in Pittsburgh, and an amazing value that you won't want to miss. While, yes, some of the works here are amateurish and some are obviously … Read more ... |