2/23/09

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

2/9/09

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

2/2/09

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)