Does anyone want to come see some films with me?
On the 25th i'm seeing:
The Simpsons Family Values - 2.15pm - Palace 4
Emmy-winner Mike Reiss presents his reflections on nearly two decades writing and producing The Simpsons. This is a unique glimpse inside the cutting edge of entertainment, including rare video clips from The Simpsons and The Critic.
He takes audiences inside the lives of Springfield's first family, revealing secret trivia of the show, insane dealings with network censors and lots of juicy gossip about celebrity guest stars (and the guest stars who got away, including Bill Clinton and the Archbishop of Canterbury!) He also describes how the show is perceived in other countries, particularly the controversial Australia episode.
Reiss discusses the broad range of his other work, from best-selling children's books to Queer Duck (an animated feature about a gay duck). Any and all questions about
The Simpsons will be answered in this lively presentation--suitable for all ages.
Lunacy - 7.15pm - Palace 3
So, you want surrealism? Famed animator Svankmajer (Alice, Faust, Little Otik) has described this as a “philosophical horror film” which combines the inspirations of Edgar Allen Poe and the Marquis de Sade. In nineteenth century France (albeit one full of deliberate anachronisms), a young man is wracked by nightmare visions of the madhouse. While returning from his mother’s funeral he meets a mysterious Marquis who introduces him to the world of blasphemous orgies, therapeutic funerals, and an asylum where the lunatics keep the staff under lock and key.
This long-awaited project by the acknowledged master of Eastern European animation moves Svankmajer’s strange and wonderful visions into predominantly live action, but his work is as anarchic and provocative as ever.
Lunacy combines live action and stop motion, sex and violence, Grand Guignol terror, and gallows humour. And a lot of animated meat.
The subject of the film is basically an ideological debate about how to run a lunatic asylum. One method encourages absolute freedom. The other, the old fashioned well-tried method of control and punishment. A third option combines the very worst aspects of the other two. And that is the madhouse we live in today.
If anyone wants to see others i'll be up for that too!
Oh by the way, the Simpsons one is free admission so you've got no excuses!!
On the 25th i'm seeing:
The Simpsons Family Values - 2.15pm - Palace 4
Emmy-winner Mike Reiss presents his reflections on nearly two decades writing and producing The Simpsons. This is a unique glimpse inside the cutting edge of entertainment, including rare video clips from The Simpsons and The Critic.
He takes audiences inside the lives of Springfield's first family, revealing secret trivia of the show, insane dealings with network censors and lots of juicy gossip about celebrity guest stars (and the guest stars who got away, including Bill Clinton and the Archbishop of Canterbury!) He also describes how the show is perceived in other countries, particularly the controversial Australia episode.
Reiss discusses the broad range of his other work, from best-selling children's books to Queer Duck (an animated feature about a gay duck). Any and all questions about
The Simpsons will be answered in this lively presentation--suitable for all ages.
Lunacy - 7.15pm - Palace 3
So, you want surrealism? Famed animator Svankmajer (Alice, Faust, Little Otik) has described this as a “philosophical horror film” which combines the inspirations of Edgar Allen Poe and the Marquis de Sade. In nineteenth century France (albeit one full of deliberate anachronisms), a young man is wracked by nightmare visions of the madhouse. While returning from his mother’s funeral he meets a mysterious Marquis who introduces him to the world of blasphemous orgies, therapeutic funerals, and an asylum where the lunatics keep the staff under lock and key.
This long-awaited project by the acknowledged master of Eastern European animation moves Svankmajer’s strange and wonderful visions into predominantly live action, but his work is as anarchic and provocative as ever.
Lunacy combines live action and stop motion, sex and violence, Grand Guignol terror, and gallows humour. And a lot of animated meat.
The subject of the film is basically an ideological debate about how to run a lunatic asylum. One method encourages absolute freedom. The other, the old fashioned well-tried method of control and punishment. A third option combines the very worst aspects of the other two. And that is the madhouse we live in today.
If anyone wants to see others i'll be up for that too!
Oh by the way, the Simpsons one is free admission so you've got no excuses!!
Lunacy indeed 