1930's-1950's The Moon's Our Home (Seiter, 1936) Sh! The Octopus (McGann, 1937) The Mating Season (Leisen, 1951) Bad for Each Other (Rapper, 1953) The Phenix City Story (Karlson, 1955) Run of the Arrow (Fuller, 1956) House of Secrets (Green, 1956) Saint Joan (Preminger, 1957) Macabre (Castle, 1958) The Fiend Who Walked the West (G. Douglas, 1958 Five Gates to Hell (Clavell, 1959) 1960's Key Witness (Karlson, 1960) Summer and Smoke (Glenville, 1961) The Chapman Report (Cukor,1962) Bachelor Flat (Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu] The L Shaped Room (Forbes, 1963) The Chalk Garden (Neame, 1964) A Thousand Clowns (Coe, 1965) You're a Big Boy Now (Coppola, 1966) The Whisperers (Forbes, 1967) Dark of the Sun (Cardiff, 1968) Skidoo (Preminger, 1968) Last Summer (Perry, 1969) The Comic (C. Reiner, 1969) 1970-1974 The Revolutionary (Williams, 1970) The Landlord (Ashby, 1970) Diary of a Mad Housewife (Perry, 1970) Tropic of Cancer (Strick, 1970) I Never Sang for My Father (Cates, 1970) Sometimes a Great Notion (Newman, 1971) Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (Turman, 1971) The Music Lovers (Russell, 1971) Drive, He Said (Nicholson, 1971) The Steagle (Sylbert, 1971) The Last Movie (Hopper, 1971) Made For Each Other (Bean, 1971) The Day the Clown Cried (Lewis, 1972) Hickey & Boggs (OOP) (Culp, 1972) The Carey Treatment (Edwards, 1972) Pete 'n' Tillie (Ritt, 1972) Slither (Zieff, 1973) Man on a Swing (Perry, 1974) Open Season (Collinson, 1974) The Tamarind Seed (Edwards, 1974) Law and Disorder (Passer, 1974) Homebodies (Yust, 1974) Stardust (Apted, 1974) Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974) 1975-1979 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (Richards, 1975 At Long Last Love (Bogdanovich, 1975) Hearts of the West (Zieff, 1975) Welcome to L.A. (Rudolph, 1976) W.C. Fields and Me (Hiller, 1976) Citizens Band (Demme, 1977) Twilight's Last Gleaming (Aldrich, 1977) Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Brooks, 1977) Girlfriends (Weill, 1978) Movie Movie (Donen, 1978) The Medusa Touch (Gold, 1978) American Hot Wax (Mutrux, 1978) Hot Stuff (DeLuise, 1979) Scavenger Hunt (Schultz , 1979) Players (Harvey, 1979) Rich Kids (Young, 1979) Nightwing (Hiller, 1979) Screams of a Winter's Night (Wilson, 1979 When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? (Katselas, 1979 1980's Resurrection (Petrie, 1980) The Awakening (Newell, 1980) Simon (Brickman, 1980) God's Angry Man (Herzog, 1980) Fast-Walking (Harris, 1982) Twice Upon a Time (Korty & Swenson, 1983) Trouble in Mind (Rudolph, 1985) When the Wind Blows (Murikami, 1986) Housekeeping (Forsyth, 1987) The Glass Menagerie (Newman, 1987) Patty Hearst (Schrader, 1988) Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway, 1988) Haunted Summer (Passer, 1988) The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Spheeris, 1988) 1990's Old Times (Curtis, 1991) Prospero's Books (Greenaway, 1991) City of Hope (Sayles, 1991) The Baby of Macon (Greenaway, 1993) King of the Hill (Soderbergh, 1993) Dadetown (Hexter, 1995) SubUrbia (Linklater, 1997)
Among auteur T-shirts for sale at CineFile -- Lars Von Trier (my favorite, bought one), Martin Scorsese, Yasujiro Ozu and, yes, Bela Tarr. (I asked them to set one aside for Robert Koehler.)
Cinefile is one of those places you see in a movie or TV show thinking "What a cool place, wish I could rent from there."
But then, when you have had to go to the desk for the umpteenth time to find out what clever/quirky/maddening category they put the film you want in, or had to deal with a counter person who makes you feel like you're not hip enough to help, you just want to shout "Look, can I just get that Ozu film so I can get the hell out of here??!"
But, the worst aspect of the place is that the customers mirror the staff - which means they could give a fuck if anyone else is going to watch a DVD after they are done with it. Only the library seems to have discs that are as abused as Cinefile ones are. I got one with jelly on it once. At least I hoped to god it was jelly.
Fuck that - give me nice, clean Laser Blazer where the discs are where you expect to find them, the selection is much better and you regularly find yourself running into filmmakers in the aisles (not to mention hearing the manager mentioned in Kevin Smith's Tonight Show appearance this week. And I can sooo hear Ron saying that line, very characteristic).
You know what video store I miss like crazy... Mondo Video A-Go-Go. Used to be on Vermont, moved to Melrose and has vanished into thin air. Anyone else ever go there?
Speaking of video stores with unique selections and odd shelving catagories, Mondo Kims on St Marks in Manhattan is closing. Sign of the times, I guess.
Yeah but, to me, that was part of the charm. The brothers that owned it even spelled "video" wrong on their business card ("viedo").
Aside from that, they were THE BEST in terms of providing obscure titles. Besides, any video store that has a Eddie Deezen section (he was in there almost every time I walked in) is a-okay with me.
Patti is not touring. She was on her way back from Australia, saw that today is Rimbaud's birthday, and decided to come through SF instead of LA to play a special show at The Warfield in his honor.
She played Because the Night, Dancing Barefoot (ewww, feet!) People Have the Power, Gloria, Rock 'n Roll Nigger and a very strange cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
She even brought the director of her film out on stage to play with the band. Said it didn't matter if he was bad, because "it's San Francisco and everyone is too stoned to notice." I guess she still thinks it's the Sixties here. He strummed a guitar and did okay, I guess. Hard to tell, 'cause I was so baked.
Older crowd, mostly. Dude who looked like Santa was rockin' out in front of us. (Where's Joe Leydon tonight?)
comment #1
D.Z.
says ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_en_ot/obit_mr_blackwell
Posted by D.Z.
at October 19, 2008 11:54 PM
comment #2
huntermdaniels
says ...
i own a Hertzog Tee from there that riffs on the most famous "Danzig" logo.
Great shop. Great, sarcastic and pithy employees. Great selection. And even a section for FREE RENTALS!
Speaking of Von Trier, did you like MANDERLAY? I think it's one of his best films, but it has sadly been ignored.
Posted by huntermdaniels
at October 20, 2008 12:24 AM
comment #3
Deathtongue_Groupie
says ...
Cinefile is one of those places you see in a movie or TV show thinking "What a cool place, wish I could rent from there."
But then, when you have had to go to the desk for the umpteenth time to find out what clever/quirky/maddening category they put the film you want in, or had to deal with a counter person who makes you feel like you're not hip enough to help, you just want to shout "Look, can I just get that Ozu film so I can get the hell out of here??!"
But, the worst aspect of the place is that the customers mirror the staff - which means they could give a fuck if anyone else is going to watch a DVD after they are done with it. Only the library seems to have discs that are as abused as Cinefile ones are. I got one with jelly on it once. At least I hoped to god it was jelly.
Fuck that - give me nice, clean Laser Blazer where the discs are where you expect to find them, the selection is much better and you regularly find yourself running into filmmakers in the aisles (not to mention hearing the manager mentioned in Kevin Smith's Tonight Show appearance this week. And I can sooo hear Ron saying that line, very characteristic).
Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie
at October 20, 2008 12:39 AM
comment #4
lazarus
says ...
Love the new (at least new since the last time I looked) Scorsese shirt modeled after the Scorpions logo.
I will say that Brian De Palma does not deserve to have a shirt in his name, even if the Def Leppard model is amusing.
One wonders where Welles is, but the most obvious font there is Winger and I don't think anyone wants to be responsible for that insult.
The original Herzog/Danzig will never be topped, and I hope to god that studio hack Michael Curtiz doesn't get Motley Crue'd.
Posted by lazarus
at October 20, 2008 12:45 AM
comment #5
Craptastic
says ...
You know what video store I miss like crazy... Mondo Video A-Go-Go. Used to be on Vermont, moved to Melrose and has vanished into thin air. Anyone else ever go there?
Posted by Craptastic
at October 20, 2008 12:51 AM
comment #6
LexG
says ...
DANZIG FUCKING OWNS.
DIRTY BLACK SUMMER, SON.
Posted by LexG
at October 20, 2008 1:15 AM
comment #7
Gordie Lachance
says ...
Speaking of video stores with unique selections and odd shelving catagories, Mondo Kims on St Marks in Manhattan is closing. Sign of the times, I guess.
Posted by Gordie Lachance
at October 20, 2008 5:17 AM
comment #8
atticusrex
says ...
Jeff, since you pointed out Lars T-shirt I'll just comment that for me his best most stunning movie is Breaking The Waves,
Now that is one powerful movie.
Posted by atticusrex
at October 20, 2008 5:46 AM
comment #9
kingofnails
says ...
I lived near Mondo Video a Go Go on Melrose, and I used to go there all the time. Those people were crazy.
Posted by kingofnails
at October 20, 2008 6:36 AM
comment #10
corey3rd
says ...
I want Norman Taurog spelled out in Roger Dean Yes script
Posted by corey3rd
at October 20, 2008 7:54 AM
comment #11
p.Vice
says ...
Ha, Von Trier/Van Halen and Tarr/Black Flag actually make perfect sense when you think about it.
Here's a suggestion: This is not a Jean-Luc Godard T-Shirt.
Posted by p.Vice
at October 20, 2008 8:37 AM
comment #12
JD
says ...
I also have that Von Trier shirt. Haven't seen the Black Flag/Bela Tarr shirt until now, but it's amazing.
Posted by JD
at October 20, 2008 11:05 AM
comment #13
Craptastic
says ...
kingofnails,
Yeah but, to me, that was part of the charm. The brothers that owned it even spelled "video" wrong on their business card ("viedo").
Aside from that, they were THE BEST in terms of providing obscure titles. Besides, any video store that has a Eddie Deezen section (he was in there almost every time I walked in) is a-okay with me.
Posted by Craptastic
at October 20, 2008 11:14 AM
comment #14
frankbooth
says ...
Funny you posted this, because I'm off to see the real Patti in about 20 minutes.
Posted by frankbooth
at October 20, 2008 6:40 PM
comment #15
frankbooth
says ...
Here's the story, if anyone cares:
Patti is not touring. She was on her way back from Australia, saw that today is Rimbaud's birthday, and decided to come through SF instead of LA to play a special show at The Warfield in his honor.
She played Because the Night, Dancing Barefoot (ewww, feet!) People Have the Power, Gloria, Rock 'n Roll Nigger and a very strange cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
She even brought the director of her film out on stage to play with the band. Said it didn't matter if he was bad, because "it's San Francisco and everyone is too stoned to notice." I guess she still thinks it's the Sixties here. He strummed a guitar and did okay, I guess. Hard to tell, 'cause I was so baked.
Older crowd, mostly. Dude who looked like Santa was rockin' out in front of us. (Where's Joe Leydon tonight?)
Happy birthday, Arthur!
Posted by frankbooth
at October 21, 2008 1:21 AM
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