Noir City

January 23, 2011

Poster for Among the Living (1941)

San Francisco's cinema gem, the Castro Theater, is currently in the middle of it's annual noir film festival: Noir City. I think I might just check out the last showing as it seems right up my alley. Showing tonight, Among The Living (1941): "Albert Dekker stars as identical twins, one a brain-damaged psychopath who stirs up a Gothic whirlwind of insanity, family skeletons, and murder in a small town paralyzed by fear. Stuart Heisler directs Lester Cole's baroque script with fabulously lurid intensity. Costarring a lushly nubile Susan Hayward, venerable Harry Carey, and pre-tragedy Frances Farmer. This rarely screened horror-noir hybrid is one of the most requested films in Noir City history, finally presented in a glorious 35mm print!" This film is not on DVD. Tonight Frances Farmer will have her revenge. Full program here.

Big Sur: Adarsha & Brendhan Make Cinema

January 22, 2011

Adarsha Benjamin and Brendhan Bowers in Big Sur shooting a short film on 16mm.

Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures

January 1, 2011

"Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures focuses on the artist's cinematic portraits and non-narrative, silent, and black-and-white films from the mid-1960s. Warhol's Screen Tests reveal his lifelong fascination with the cult of celebrity, comprising a visual almanac of the 1960s downtown avant-garde scene. Included in the exhibition are such Warhol "Superstars" as Edie Sedgwick, Nico, and Baby Jane Holzer; poet Allen Ginsberg; musician Lou Reed; actor Dennis Hopper; author Susan Sontag; and collector Ethel Scull, among others. Other early films included in the exhibition are Eat (1963) and Kiss (1963–64). Twelve Screen Tests in this exhibition are projected on the gallery walls at large scale and within frames, some measuring seven feet high and nearly nine feet wide, while Kiss is shown at the rear of the gallery in a 50-seat movie theater created for the exhibition. Warhol's film Empire (1964) will be shown in this theater every other Friday starting January 7, for the duration of the exhibition. Sleep (1963), in its entirety, will be shown in this theater on Wednesday, February 2, and Wednesday, March 2." www.moma.org

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