A Benefit Show with Dr. Steve Brule
(FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT!!! TIX FOR 10PM SHOW AVAILABLE…)
Be the very first to see two new episodes of the forthcoming Adult Swim show Check it Out with Dr. Steve Brule, and stuff from Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season Five! Afterwards, stick around for a Q&A [...]

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This naked lunch of “alternative Hollywood Babylon” (to borrow a phrase from Fowley) may not have been well-received or readily understood by much of contemporary society, but even the furthest from this subculture couldn’t deny the laudable brazenness and unadulterated energy put into the spectacle.—Not to mention the costumes!

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The month long journey into the twisted world of Coffin Joe kicked off Friday at Cinefamily with At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul and This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse. The house was packed a bit earlier than usual with free Pabst on hand as Hadrian filled us in on the rarity of each print obtained; both delivered to the theater in giant rice sacks via Brazil.

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Strange World of Coffin Joe–Series Trailer from Hadrian Belove on Vimeo.
We have two tickets to see tonight’s Coffin Joe series screening at the Silent Movie Theater… for whoever writes us with an answer to this question:

What Brazilian town was “Coffin Joe” creator Jose Marica Marins born in?
Email the answer with the subject COFFIN JOE to [...]

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Stewards of the rare and miraculously bad in movies—as well as TV, how-to, instructional and homemade video—the merry footage fetishists of Everything is Terrible! make live what critics would rather let die. The weekend after EIT’s ‘Found Footage Freakout’ at the Silent Movie Theatre late last month found these sore-eyed custodians of the Temple of Dumb waxing philosophic. This interview by Ron Garmon.

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L.A. RECORD is happy to team up with Cinefamily, dublab, L.A. FilmForum and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles to present A Throw Of Dice with a live score by world-class sitar player Nishat Khan and Tom Verlaine/Mick Jagger collaborator Jimmy Rip! Via [...]

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Orders from the Fire Marshal sent the marathon Fauxchella festival packing from the announced Traction Ave. venue earlier in the week, but by showtime on Good Friday organizers had moved the event to gamier precincts many blocks away. Hangar 1018 is beloved of the downtown party set and I know the space well, having wandered along its sketchy and verminous stretch of S. Santa Fe many times in various states of hallucinogenic inebriation. Inside, instead of the usual haul of faux-fur and near-naked ladies, were a couple hundred gamboling on the fragments of their Eastside Cool. I was waved past the door by promoters spoke cheerily of the ultraviolence they’d already visited upon everyone else inquiring after The List.

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A landmark of German Expressionism, Faust was Murnau’s final film in Germany, impressing Fox Studios so much that they lured him to the U.S. immediately afterwards. The most expensive UFA film to date–taking six months to film, and costing over two million marks–Faust is full of bravura effects, including the magnificent signature visual of Mephistopheles [...]

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Cinefamily will dedicate Thursdays in March and April to films shot during and about the post-punk heyday in the late ’70s and early ’80s, including some terrifyingly rare films from Belfast and Japan and an open-the-vaults screening by Target Video. Curator Bret (also in Anavan) speaks now to Nolan Knight.

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