This Hallow’s Eve, The Cinefamily joins forces with Dublab to throw the best Halloween party ever, Bollywood-style!
One thing they really understand in India: every movie’s better with song-and-dance numbers — even horror movies!
In that spirit, the Cinefamily premieres Bollyweird: The Movie — our very own feature-length video mashup celebrating the most horrifying, fantastic, costume-crazed and outlandish moments of vintage Indian musical madness ever. This isn’t just Bollywood, it’s Bollyweeeeeird. Then, once the movie’s over, we’re gonna clear the couches, light the incense, make a dance floor, start doing the electric vindaloo, and have a real monster mashala! Drinks and dosas! Ghoulish giveaways! Costume prizes! DJ sets from the Dublab “Bloodsucking” Sound System!
Live performances y freaks like Bobb Bruno, Private Beach, and Golden Hits!
The Phantom Photo Booth! Franken Stand’s vegan hot dogs! Terrifying tarot readings!
The best Halloween ever! It’s better than Halloween…its BOLLYWEEN! Muhahahahaha!
Courtesy of The Cinefamily, a montage in celebration of a month-long Coffin Joe retrospective every Friday in October! Most films aren’t available on VHS or DVD including the world’s only subtitled prints of his major classics flown up from Brazil.
10/9 At Midnight I Take Your Soul
This Night I will Possess Your Corpse–the world’s only english-subtitled 35mm prints flown up from Brazil!
10/16
Damned: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins (A Sundance-awared winning documentary on Coffin Joe) The Strange World of Coffin Joe
Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures
10/23
Awakening of the Beast (This psychedlic masterpieces was banned for 20 years!) Finis Hominis
10/30
Embodiment of Evil (his new one!) Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind
Also check out TO MY GREAT CHAGRIN, a feature-length film produced and directed by Jeff Sumerel, a most compelling and exhilarating account of the remarkable history and career of a man known as “Brother Theodore”. Theodore’s television appearances spanned from Jack Paar to Johnny Carson to Merv Griffin to David Letterman. His diverse movie experiences joined him with Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Tom Hanks.
The Los Angeles Daily News described Theodore as Boris Karloff, Salvadore Dali, and Nijinski all in one.
To convey this unbelievable story, Sumerel and Rhodes have crafted an enthralling visual interpretation by weaving an array of rare audio and film archives in a most creative, poetic manner. In addition, Sumerel interviewed over sixty Theodore admirers, friends, and colleagues, such as Woody Allen, Eric Bogosian, Penn & Teller, Harlan Ellison, and Dick Cavett among others.
TO MY GREAT CHAGRIN, a feature-length film produced and directed by Jeff Sumerel, has been selected by The Museum of Modern Art in New York City to have its World Premiere at their Opening Night of the 2008 Documentary Series to take place in February.
Sumerel, a Greenville native, along with collaborator Jeter Rhodes, have completed a 3 year journey to create a most compelling and exhilarating account of the remarkable history and career of a man known as “Brother Theodore”. Theodore’s television appearances spanned from Jack Paar to Johnny Carson to Merv Griffin to David Letterman. His diverse movie experiences joined him with Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Tom Hanks.
The Los Angeles Daily News described Theodore as Boris Karloff, Salvadore Dali, and Nijinski all in one.
To convey this unbelievable story, Sumerel and Rhodes have crafted an enthralling visual interpretation by weaving an array of rare audio and film archives in a most creative, poetic manner. In addition, Sumerel interviewed over sixty Theodore admirers, friends, and colleagues, such as Woody Allen, Eric Bogosian, Penn & Teller, Harlan Ellison, and Dick Cavett among others.
“In 1995, while living with his future wife, the singer Cindy Lee Berryhill, in Encinitas, California, Paul suffered a traumatic brain injury in a spill from his bicycle, and was never completely able to resume his full activities as a writer. The injury likely triggered an early onset of Alzheimer’s disease; some symptoms were immediate, while others revealed themselves in tragic slow motion: fading powers of memory, then of comprension and speech. In 2008, unable to continue caring for Paul while also taking care of their eight year-old son, Cindy began to arrange for Paul to live in managed care outside the home. Like so many freelancers, Paul lived without any structure of institutional support. The burden on Cindy and their son has been immense.
Plans are underway for a benefit music-anthology, and for re-publication of some of Paul’s books. In the meantime, direct donations, small or large, are urgently needed. The community of Paul’s friends and professional acquaintances is large – the community of those affected by Paul’s writing and his other enterprises – from music fans to Philip K. Dick fans to readers of his other books – is simply immense. Few, until now, have been aware of the urgent need for help.If you count yourself among those learning of Paul’s disability here for the first time, please consider responding with a donation, as others have before you – and as we hope many more will soon choose to do.”
When the Olympic torch passed through Juneau, Alaska, in 2002, 18-year-old Joseph Frederick saw a chance at TV airtime. His tactic: a banner reading BONG HITS 4 JESUS. Not amused, Frederick’s principal confiscated the banner and suspended him for five days. He shot back something about Thomas Jefferson. She tacked on another five.
Fever Pitch Frederick took his free-speech argument to court, with backing from the ACLU. Five years later it was before the U.S. Supreme Court, with Kenneth Starr representing the school. The court ruled that since Frederick was holding the banner at a “school-supervised” (though not on school grounds) event, the principal had a right to restrict what he said about illegal drugs—even if his message was rather nonsensical.
Present Day
Now 25, Frederick is learning Mandarin and teaching English in China. Although he is proud that he stood up for his rights, he regrets “the bad precedent set by the ruling.” His case was finally settled at the state level in November, winning him $45,000 and forcing the school to hold a forum on free speech.
Mary Beth Tinker, plaintiff in the 1969 Supreme Court free speech case Tinker v. Des Moines, discusses First Amendment rights with Joseph Frederick.
UK Guitarist Michael Chapman is embarking on his first US tour in many years and has just released a CD of new material Time Past Time Passing self produced at Phoenix studio, a small studio in Northern England near the end of Hadrian’s Wall.
A guitar heavyweight of the British music scene since the 1960s, his compositions, songs and playing style share company with the individualistic resonance of Wizz Jones, Davy Graham, Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson. With over 20 albums released to date, Time Past Time Passing is being issued by Electric Ragtime Records, distributed by Ryko, later this year.
The guitar and voice of Michael Chapman first emerged on the folk-music circuits of Cornwall, then London in 1967, playing alongside the likes of Nick Drake, John Martyn and Roy Harper. Blending elements of folk, jazz and classical styles, he created his own unique ouevre of challenging, often autobiographical original compositions and established a formidable reputation as an intense live performer and musical innovator. Signed to EMI’s Harvest label he recorded a quartet of classic albums. Rainmaker and Wrecked Again defined the melancholic observer role Michael was to make his own, mixing intricate guitar instrumentals with a full band sound. Fully Qualified Survivor, featuring the guitar of Mick Ronson (later to become David Bowie’s sidekick) and the bass of Rick Kemp (Steeleye Span), was John Peel’s favorite album of 1970.
Sunday OCTOBER 5th – Philadelphia, PA, TBA Wednesday OCTOBER 8th – Albany, NY- Helderberg House Thursday OCTOBER 9th – NYC, NY – Knitting Factory Friday OCTOBER 10th – Upper Jay, NY – The Recovery Lounge, Upper Jay Art Center Saturday OCTOBER 11th – Portland, ME – Space Gallery/The Time of Rivers Festival Sunday OCTOBER 12th – New Haven, CT -BAR Thursday OCTOBER 16th – Pittsburgh, PA – Garfield Arts Friday OCTOBER 17th – Ithaca, NY – Lost Dog Café Saturday OCTOBER 18th – Montague, MA – Montague Bookmill Sunday OCTOBER 19th – Rochester, NY – Bug Jar
Sea of Wine
Postcards from Scarborough
Filmed At Barrels Ale House, Berwick Upon-Tweed. 15th August 2003
Many miles inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found elusive
vents of scalding liquid rising out of the seafloor at temperatures
that are more than twice the boiling point of water.
The cluster of five hydrothermal vents, also called black smokers, were
discovered farther north than any others previously identified.
The vents, one of which towers four stories high, are located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland
and Norway, more than 120 miles farther north than other known vents.
Remotely operated vehicles photographed the scene as part of an expedition led by Rolf Pedersen, a geologist at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Black smokers have been found in many deep-sea locations, including on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off Washington and British Columbia. Despite the lack of sunlight to power life in the abyss, the vents often support unique communities of creatures that live off their warmth and chemicals. Some scientists think the vents would have been great locales for the origin of life on Earth.
