tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18377389.post115068391254996622..comments2023-12-24T01:09:38.915-05:00Comments on Cinevistaramascope: The Trim Bin #27Andrew Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06097037829531087694noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18377389.post-1150905067002080132006-06-21T11:51:00.000-04:002006-06-21T11:51:00.000-04:00My mistake...I have an unfortunate tendency to con...My mistake...I have an unfortunate tendency to confuse similar names if the two people are similar (see also Kim Deal/Gordon and Joseph Campbell/Conrad). Incidentally, L.M. Carson didn't write <I>Paris Texas</I> - Sam Shepard did, Carson wrote the adaptation. And <I>TCM2</I> cannot be parodying <I>Blue Velvet</I> as it was released before <I>Blue Velvet</I>.Andrew Bemishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06097037829531087694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18377389.post-1150833109513125392006-06-20T15:51:00.000-04:002006-06-20T15:51:00.000-04:00And yeah, Ebert's Garfield ATOTK review.... yipes....And yeah, Ebert's Garfield ATOTK review.... yipes. Either Fox is now in the habit of releasing mind-altering hallucinogens into the air during press screenings, or...I don't quite know what.Dr. Criddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05181732644649615771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18377389.post-1150832961472271862006-06-20T15:49:00.000-04:002006-06-20T15:49:00.000-04:00Glad to hear that The Proposition was great - I'll...Glad to hear that The Proposition was great - I'll definately be seeing it soon. Although it was Nick Cave, not Nick Drake, who wrote the screenplay.<BR/><BR/>I also have a lot of movies slip through the cracks and not get reviewed. Usually I either feel either guilty about not knowing about not knowing quite what to say about a really complex film (The New World comes to mind) or embarassed to admit that I only very recently got around to finally seeing, say, Ghostbusters.Dr. Criddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05181732644649615771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18377389.post-1150725470532580082006-06-19T09:57:00.000-04:002006-06-19T09:57:00.000-04:00Yeah, I can side with the "rooting for the losers"...Yeah, I can side with the "rooting for the losers" argument. I guess for me, there are shades of mainstream and shades of fringe. It's the difference between Spielberg doing <I>E.T.</I> (made on a relatively small budget, stars the lead from <I>The Howling</I> and <I>The Hills Have Eyes</I>, was expected to do less business than <I>Poltergeist</I> and <I>Rocky III</I>) and Spielberg doing <I>Indiana Jones 4</I>. Or, on the other side of the spectrum, a low-budget but really imaginative movie like <I>The Peanut Butter Solution</I> and <I>Nukie</I>, which to me is as parasitic and crass as <I>Mac and Me</I> with the added offense of being unwatchable. It makes me miss when I was a kid and had no concept of A-movie/B-movie distinctions, and the only thing that mattered was whether something captured my imagination, whether it was <I>Batman</I> or <I>The Monster Squad</I>. Glad to hear that SD is finding its audience.<BR/><BR/>I'll probably write more on <I>The Proposition</I> soon, after it sinks in a bit. I knew about the Nick Drake screenplay and the cast beforehand, but it still really took me by surprise - it's the first great movie I've seen this year.Andrew Bemishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06097037829531087694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18377389.post-1150692624036358052006-06-19T00:50:00.000-04:002006-06-19T00:50:00.000-04:00yeah andy claims in this issue that nukie is bette...yeah andy claims in this issue that nukie is better than et and that 2019 is better than escape from new york. i disagree on both counts (nukie is less a film than a mind-rape), but andy's distaste for the mainstream is less rooted in cynicism than it is in a kind of scrappy enthusiasm for discovering lost treasure, and highlighting the losers and underdogs of the film world. andy's long running cracks in the wall zine (which he has distro'd over 2000 copies of) isn't about film, but reads as a kind of perzine/ open socio-political discourse, mostly focused on technology, advertising, and commodification. i asked andy to write for SD because i'm <BR/>interested in his perspective; film is something andy has only recently become interested in, and i knew that his unique vierpoint would be an asset to the zine. if you'll notice he doesn't focus so much on<BR/>technique- the kinds of things that make a film a film- than the thematic content of a film and the overall "feel" of a flick (for lack of a better term). this results in some rather bizarre reviews; max pointed out that nukie and me and you and everyone we know get the same three star score in andy's universe. my friend zach and i had a conversation about how different the approach is for each of the four main writers, and i think that's actually the draw of the zine. <BR/><BR/>the zine is growing as a slow but steady pace, which is exactly what i wanted. my first zine, everything is obvious, which i put together a few years ago with my friend rob donovan, a clumsy relic from my more overtly punk-rock days, didn't stir up much interest, so i just quit after one and a half issues. i made some friends in the process (fellow w.mass zinesters), but it was overall a disappointing experience. with SD, i decided to let it grow organically, not worry too much about print run. every issue has seen a double in demand. i've sent out every issue i've printed up, and i need to get some soon. i'm sending out a half dozen issues to bigger cult film mags and zines that review other zines, as well as some of the bigger b-movie web sites. even if the zine didn't grow, i'd keep putting them out even if only a few people dug 'em. so in other words, i'm glad you enjoyed it. james and i discussed a new concept for the next issue: fake reviews of "lost" films (i would reveal the phonies on the last page).<BR/><BR/>the proposition was great. i'm suprised the reviews have been so mixed and not on the predominantly positive side.Gregory Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10028442903379055090noreply@blogger.com