Corm
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Punk Movie Night, Wednesday 21st April (this Wednesday) in the new Rathfarnham punk house (Carmel/John/Kylie/Sean/Tamarac/etc's gaff, not Oly/Carolyn/etc's) at 110 Whitecliff Estate, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.
For directions: phone 087 4134159, e-mail [email protected].
A few of us decided to start this the other day at the party in the Rathfarnham gaff because of similar observations and feelings we had on "the punk scene". To many of us this is the most important and real community we're ever experienced. Unfortunately things most often seem to revolve around gigs and the occasional party, and invariably involve lots of drinking. There's so many of us who, though we've so much in common, only know each other in a very cursory way -"Hey, how's it goin", "Ah, y'know, fine, how're you", "Ah grand, did you see that gig/new record/blah blah blah". It seems to take some time of being around people before you're comfortable with them enough to be yourself, rather than keeping your mouth shut for fear of what people might think of you or whatever. Think about all the people you half know or only came to know after living with them or whatever, and how much better you came to know them and enjoyed hanging out with them just because you'd spent enough time together to get to know each other better.
Anyway, this is some sort of effort to work towards what the punk community could be rather than what it is. The idea is to have a weekly or fortnightly punk movie night, with maybe a movie and documentary or two movies or whatever each time, and on a rotating system so that each week it's in a different house of all the suitable punk gaffs. We also talked about incorporating a pot luck or things like that in with it, maybe the distro supermarket thing or whatever. Anyway, bring yourself and your ideas, and don't be shy or afraid to come because you don't know that many people there very well or at all -that's the whole point of this thing. It may work out great, it may work out not at all -it's up to all of us.
1st Feature (30 mins):
Guerillavision Compilation - Rattle in Seattle, Capitals Ill, Crowd Bites Wolf.
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=-1]Since Seattle Guerillavision have been documenting the campaigns against globalisation from behind the barricades. These are stylistic hard hitting films (Big Rattle in Seattle, Capitals Ill and Crowd Bites wolf) which pull no punches. But be careful, watching all three together will have you reaching for a rock and heading for the nearest symbol of capitalist oppression.[/size][/font]
2nd Feature:
David Cronenberg's SHIVERS (90 mins).
Neither the artsy crowd nor the unsuspecting Canadian public was prepared when the director's first feature film slithered onscreen in 1975. "Shivers" (aka "The Parasite Murders" and "They Came From Within") is the story of a parasite, designed to help ailing human organs, that goes out of control with sickening results. It's full of the straight-from-the-subconscious imagery for which Cronenberg would later become famous. Gory flesh effects were provided by Joe Blasco, who told Cronenberg that his apprenticeship in horror make-up was the stint he put in on "The Lawrence Welk Show." "Shivers" originated from a dream Cronenberg had about a spider emerging from a woman's mouth and was made for a Montreal soft-core porn outfit called Cinepix. "Sleazy distributors," Cronenberg called them. "My kind of people."
Canadian politicians and critics were not amused -- particularly when they discovered "Shivers" was partly funded with government grant money. Robert Fulford's article in the influential magazine Saturday Night was titled "You Should Know How Bad This Film Is. After All, You Paid For It." (Decades later, British critic Alexander Walker responded to "Crash" with a review titled "A Film Beyond the Bounds of Depravity." Cronenberg hasn't lost his touch.) Fulford suggested that if movies like "Shivers" were necessary for the development of a Canadian film industry, it would be better for the country not to have one.
"Shivers" made money. Grateful taxpayers were reimbursed. A star was born.
For directions: phone 087 4134159, e-mail [email protected].
A few of us decided to start this the other day at the party in the Rathfarnham gaff because of similar observations and feelings we had on "the punk scene". To many of us this is the most important and real community we're ever experienced. Unfortunately things most often seem to revolve around gigs and the occasional party, and invariably involve lots of drinking. There's so many of us who, though we've so much in common, only know each other in a very cursory way -"Hey, how's it goin", "Ah, y'know, fine, how're you", "Ah grand, did you see that gig/new record/blah blah blah". It seems to take some time of being around people before you're comfortable with them enough to be yourself, rather than keeping your mouth shut for fear of what people might think of you or whatever. Think about all the people you half know or only came to know after living with them or whatever, and how much better you came to know them and enjoyed hanging out with them just because you'd spent enough time together to get to know each other better.
Anyway, this is some sort of effort to work towards what the punk community could be rather than what it is. The idea is to have a weekly or fortnightly punk movie night, with maybe a movie and documentary or two movies or whatever each time, and on a rotating system so that each week it's in a different house of all the suitable punk gaffs. We also talked about incorporating a pot luck or things like that in with it, maybe the distro supermarket thing or whatever. Anyway, bring yourself and your ideas, and don't be shy or afraid to come because you don't know that many people there very well or at all -that's the whole point of this thing. It may work out great, it may work out not at all -it's up to all of us.
1st Feature (30 mins):
Guerillavision Compilation - Rattle in Seattle, Capitals Ill, Crowd Bites Wolf.
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=-1]Since Seattle Guerillavision have been documenting the campaigns against globalisation from behind the barricades. These are stylistic hard hitting films (Big Rattle in Seattle, Capitals Ill and Crowd Bites wolf) which pull no punches. But be careful, watching all three together will have you reaching for a rock and heading for the nearest symbol of capitalist oppression.[/size][/font]
2nd Feature:
David Cronenberg's SHIVERS (90 mins).
Neither the artsy crowd nor the unsuspecting Canadian public was prepared when the director's first feature film slithered onscreen in 1975. "Shivers" (aka "The Parasite Murders" and "They Came From Within") is the story of a parasite, designed to help ailing human organs, that goes out of control with sickening results. It's full of the straight-from-the-subconscious imagery for which Cronenberg would later become famous. Gory flesh effects were provided by Joe Blasco, who told Cronenberg that his apprenticeship in horror make-up was the stint he put in on "The Lawrence Welk Show." "Shivers" originated from a dream Cronenberg had about a spider emerging from a woman's mouth and was made for a Montreal soft-core porn outfit called Cinepix. "Sleazy distributors," Cronenberg called them. "My kind of people."
Canadian politicians and critics were not amused -- particularly when they discovered "Shivers" was partly funded with government grant money. Robert Fulford's article in the influential magazine Saturday Night was titled "You Should Know How Bad This Film Is. After All, You Paid For It." (Decades later, British critic Alexander Walker responded to "Crash" with a review titled "A Film Beyond the Bounds of Depravity." Cronenberg hasn't lost his touch.) Fulford suggested that if movies like "Shivers" were necessary for the development of a Canadian film industry, it would be better for the country not to have one.
"Shivers" made money. Grateful taxpayers were reimbursed. A star was born.
