future

andras and carson are going to be on the ffm board. and hannah and andrew. so we're going to continue the same series next semester, and these are some possibilities:
1. Throne of Blood by Kurosawa
2. Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles
3. Following by Chris Nolan
4. After Hours by Martin Scorsese
5. Notre Musique by Jean-Luc Godard

next week we're going to screen FOUR ROOMS!!!!!!

The Vanishing! 11-9-09! and voting!

Nominations for 11-23-09 (the Monday before Thanksgiving):
-Suspiria (Dario Argento) - 14
-Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) - 8
-Brand Upon The Brain (narration by Isabella Rossalini) - 8
-Russian Ark (92 minute single take) (time travel!) - 26
-Police Story II (Jackie Chan FILM, last one in HK) - 3
-Daisies (Czech, 'feminist farce') - 2
-Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) - 5
-High Noon (epic western) - 8
-Grave of the Fireflies (Studio Ghibl) - 1

RUSSIAN ARK IS THE WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CINEMA OF DOOM flier!

Woohoo! Cinema of Doom, the FFM/EEA/Latent Image double feature, is fast approaching! Check out this cool flier!



**the room isn't confirmed yet, so that might change!**

Flier for Upcoming Events, Fall 09

A bit of a change - we changed the theme to "Directors You Know, Films You Don't!". Everything is the same except we changed the Cronenberg film from "Videodrome" to "The Brood" (don't worry, you can still nominate Videodrome for a screening).

Screening #3, News & Updates

Upcoming Special Event:
10.30.09: HALLOWEEN DOUBLE FEATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (at 5pm)

Updates:
FFM is undergoing a lot of changes this semester! We are going to be combining with Latent Image to reform "Film Arts Society" as one group, with each group still acting independently within the umbrella of FAS. There will be co-presidents, co-vice presidents and so-on, so it will still remain independent groups but with an overarching title uniting them both. Latent Image and FFM go hand in hand, and we are all really excited for the merger.

We're also going to be doing the screenings a little differently. We're still going to have group-nominated and democratically decided screenings, but we're going to space them out and do them every other week. On the other weeks, we're going to be screening films that the Film Arts Society board is going to choose, with a theme running through the semester.

This semester we're starting off with "Essential Directors, Essential Films" for our theme of pre-decided screenings. Those are happening as follows:
NAUSICAA by Hayao Miyazaki, 10.26.09
VIDEODROME by David Cronenberg, 11.02.09
WILD AT HEART by David Lynch, 11.16.09
SOLYARIS by Andrei Tarkovsky, 11.30.09
FUDOH by Takashi Miike, 12.14.09

Next semester we will probably carry on with that theme, since there are a lot of directors that we wanted to include and didn't get to.

The voting/nomination process will still happen, but only on weeks where we are screening the films that have been decided on by voting.

In the future, we hope that pre-decided screenings will be decided by the Film Arts Society Executive Board. Right now that is just me (Kallie), Kyle, Amanda, and LJ (from Latent Image). We want to have more people though, which is another thing we will vote on.

Nominations for NOVEMBER 7, 2009:
-Daisies - 3
-Werckmeister Harmonies -4
-The Room - 4
-Happy Together - 3
-Raise The Red Lantern - 0
-The Vanishing (crime/drama/horror/mystery/thriller) - 7
-The Barber of Siberia (Nikita Mikhalkov) - 1
-Six String Samurai - 1

Discreet Charm of the Boursoaijglk - 10/01/09

Tonight we're screening The Discreet Charm of the Hard-To-Spell-Social-Elite.

Tops of discussion:
1. We really need a treasurer and a secretary to help us run things smoothly. Volunteers.

NOMINATIONS:
1. Videodrome - Cronenberg - 7
2. The Holy Mountain - Jodorowski - 4
3. Nausicaa: The Valley of the Wind - Miyazaki - 9
4. Police Story Two - Jackie Chang - 1
5. Hard Candy (it sucks though) - 0

YAY I WON

first screening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9-24-09

So today is our first screening of the semester. we are screening CIRCUIT and the director and producer are here so if you missed out, too bad for you.

This also is our first nominating/voting session so HERE IT GOES:

NOMINEES:
-Nausicaa: The Valley of the Wind - 5 // 3
-Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) - 2
-What's The Matter With Kansas? - 5 // 3
-Chungking Express - 3
-The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - 8
-Performance (Nicholas Roeg) - 5 // 3 // JOHN GIANVITO SAYS THIS IS THE WINNER!!!!!!

Next Week: 10/1: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Week After That: 10/8: Performance

End of the Semester

Members of Films From The Margin:

I hope all is well. Our last screening of the semester did not turn out well, and this got me thinking about improving ourselves professionally. Few came to show support to graduating senior Paul Igaz, with his feature length video. We had no regular members for the event, and those who came felt odd to nominate and vote on myself for presidency for next year. So we did not have elections, and nothing, not even a film is decided to start the semester off in the fall. Paul Igaz ended up screening one of his short videos, and then the feature length video did not work in the dvd player. So the semester ended awkwardly.

Things to work out for next semester...

As President as of now, there are somethings I need to improve upon for this group to function properly as a democratic film screening organization. I hope to emphasize that with a larger membership for fall 2009. We will still have to work out what to do about elections for positions. For next year as of thus far, we have Kallie doing Promotions, and I as President. If this is how it stays we will need at least two others to work out collections and special events.

I am writing to you all, because whether or not I maintain presidency for next semester(needing to be determined by an election tba), I would like sometime early next semester to meet with everyone to discuss what could be improved, brought to, and help make Films From The Margin a viable Film Screening Organization.

I personally would like to switch fully to screening 16mm, however I understand that might not be in our best interest as an organization. I would like to here others thoughts on how to make Films From The Margin a unique and innovative group that brings something forth to the Emerson Community at large.


Sincerely,

Kyle S. Glowacky
President
Films From The Margin

pierre desir flier

wahoo

flier for upcoming events

helll yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

April 6: Nick Tamburo & Emerson Experimental Art - films 'n' music
April 13: Pierre Desir
April 20: Mazes 'n' Monsters // Alice Underground
April 27: Bring Your Own Margin
May 4: Mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan mindscan

Todaiye's vote on FOUR TWENTY:
-Alice Underground -5!?!?!?!?! WOWIE WOW WOW WOW
-Reefer Madness - 4
-Mazes and Monsters (Tom Hanks and Dungeons 'n' Dragons) - 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Nomads and No Zones - 3
-Blood Tea and Red Strings - 3
-Bloodsucking Freaks - 1
-Granny Get Your Gun - unus
-Manna From Heaven - anus
-The Sword and The Stone (disney) - one
-Daisies - jk - 2!
-Heart of Glass - 4
-UHF - 3
-Barbarella - 2
-Jason and the Argonauts - jk - zero

OKAY SO HERE IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN
8pm: Mazes and Monsters
when that ends
we are going to fucking show
Alice Underground.
okay?
okay.

Hey also Shlock around the Clock screening at the Brattle on Saturday, 4/4

Emerson Alumni/Filmmakers of Plague Town

While they are back in boston showcasing there film at the Boston Underground Film Festival, they have agreed to stop by their old stomping grounds here at Emerson College to screen some of the work and to speak with students and faculty.

Friday March 20th at 8pm

po$$e$$ion

UPCOMING LIFE OF FFM
next week - Jay Rosenblatt in person
March 16 - So Wrong, They're Right
Friday, March 20th - Boston Underground Film Festival comes to FFM!! Film Makers who are screening at the festival will come and speak. Emerson Alumni.
March 23 (Monday) - Field Trip to Boston Underground FF (free pa$$e$)
March 30 - TBA
April 6 - tom 'n' nick?
April 13 - Pierre Desire screening in person
April 20 - TBA
April 27 - TBA

-Tom Kerr and Nick Tamburo sharing a night

-Latent Image film festival: deadline April 3, screening April 12

-Marie Menken at the HFA this weekend

-Mindscan. MINDSCAN MINDSCAN MINDSCAN MINDSCAN MINDSCAN

-Godard films at MFA til the 7th

FEBRUARY 9TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5.1 surround sound for Bodysong omg!!!

Okay, now nominations for February 23.

So Wrong, They're Right - 5
Alice Underground (20 minutes) - 2
Fritz the Cat - 2 votes
The Tin Drum - 4 votes
Mondo Cane - 4 votes
Daisies - 1 vote
32 Short Films about Glenn Gould (Bach Goldberg Variations) - 4 votes
Fully Flared - 1 vote
The Endless Summer - NOOOO VOOOOTESSSSS
The History Boys - 2 votes

The winrar is So Wrong, They're Right!

Next week: POSESSION

flier for Bodysong

2/2/09 tutu of mine

SPECIAL EVENTS
-Monday, March 2rd - guest speaker, Jay Rosenblatt - experimental filmmaker
-Other options/hopes for speakers: Tom Kerr, faculty member Pierre Desir
-One Emerson Experimental Art special performance / live music

Screening 2/9: BODYSONG.
Found footage-esque that the guitarist from Radiohead scored.

Okay now voting for 2/16
NOMINATIONS:
Freaked (maybe screen with super-8 film) - 4 votes
Pootie-Tang (vhs??? dvd is backup plan) - 2 votes
Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (live action with stop motion by Quay brothers) - 6 votes
Daisies - 3 votes
The Tin Drum - 3 votes
Posession (director: Zulawski, about a woman having an affair (with a giant SQUID) on her husband, but done in an extremely violent and over-the-top way) - 9 votes
Man Bites Dog (Belgian mock-umentary about a serial killer) - 1 vote
So Wrong They're Right (documentary about people who are obsessed with 8-tracks) - 9 votes

TIE:
So Wrong They're Right - 3 votes
Posession - moar votes

WINNER: Posession! wah-hoo (already in Emerson archives)

Mister Lonely flier

new semester yay

Welcome back! Meeting! Huzzah!

Alice Underground - film from the 90s that Ross fucking loves. Series of photographs put to streaming sound. About a girl called Alice, in Greenwich village. Takes a lot of drugs.
...1 vote
Fritz the Cat - first animated film ever to receive an X-Rating.
...1 vote
Mr. Lonely - by Harmony Korine, island of impersonators, focuses around a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna). Werner Herzog is a priest in Latin America, where he discovers his nuns know how to fly.
...6 votes
Coonskin (Street Fight) - Black-sploitation cartoon made by the same guy that made Fritz the Cat. Kind of a parody of "The Song of the South", which was a racist cartoon made by Disney. (Recommended - Double Feature with Song of the South)
...5 votes [maybe actually have with another group?]
Agguire, the Wrath of God - Herzog.
...2 votes
The Tin Drum - German film.
...2 votes
Labyrinth of Passion - early 1980s Spanish Sex comedy.
...2 votess
Pootie Tang
...zed votes =(
Daisys
...also zed votes
Body Song - found footage
...4 votes
Freaked - commissioned by MTV, Alex Winter (from Bill and Ted) made this movie and basically plays himself. Goes to South America to endorse this chemical that causes mutations, but is doing it because he is getting paid $$$. Randy Quaid also is in this movie as a side-show owner guy. Set around a talk show, hosted by Brooke Shields. Also in it: Mr. T, Keanu Reaves.
...3 votes

WINNERS!!
Mr. Lonely for 2/2
Body Song for 2/9
Coonskin or Freaked for 2/16