August 2011
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Aubree
Thanks for using the time and effort to write something so interesting
Aug 14th
February 2011
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Feb 9th
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Happy Birthday, Paul Sharits!
He would have been 68 today. Please visit the official Paul Sharits memorial website, run by his son Christopher, in his honor. (It’s a really great website.) Here’s a 2010 short documentary about seeing Sharits’ Shutter Interface at the Hirshhorn Museum:
Feb 7th
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Happy Birthday, Alejandro Jodorowsky!
He’s 82 today. And in case you didn’t feel like dropping acid today, watch the trailer for The Holy Mountain instead:
Feb 7th
January 2011
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wreckandsalvage: Rockit SOTU - win the future (via wreckandsalvage) Just in case you missed President Obama’s hour long State of the Union address, here’s a Rockit version to catch you up to speed in less than a minute. I like the State of the Union when President Obama promises me lots of snacks!
Jan 27th
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Jan 22nd
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Happy Birthday, David Lynch!
He’s 65 today. I still think he’s wrong about the phone thing. Best book on Eraserhead and other cult classics: Tribute/spoof by Andre Perkowski: This is the back of Lynch’s head in his early short film The Amputee:
Jan 20th
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Caged Fire on imdb
themoontheeye: Caged Fire now on the Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1819487 Good, trippy short flick about an interrupted affair.
Jan 20th
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Filmmaker To Know: Mike Rollo
Mike Rollo is a Montreal-based experimental documentary filmmaker who specializes in making films that deal with issues of geography and identity. For example, his award-winning Ghosts and Gravel Roads features photographs placed in and around abandoned homes out in the middle of nowhere. Viewers are left trying to determine what relation, if any, there is between the people in the photos and the...
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Currently Reading: John Waters' Role Models
Only a few chapters in, but it’s great. The one on Manson murderess Leslie Van Houten is particularly moving. John Waters’ Role Models
Jan 16th
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stagnantpond: Tom Palazzolo talks about his film Jerry’s Deli You can also watch the 8-minute short on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film and read more about Palazzolo here.
Jan 16th
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Happy Birthday, Stan Brakhage!
Stan Brakhage would have been 78 today.
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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themoontheeye: Caged Fire On the Blue Sky Film Festival schedule: http://www.blueskyfilmfest.com/schedule/ Going to Blue Sky? Be to sure to check out UK-filmmaker Mr. Young’s short flick.
Jan 14th
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wreckandsalvage: Palin’s Breath (by wreckandsalvage) You can’t throw an extremely high res video up and expect me to ignore it. This is a quick chop.
Jan 13th
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Filmmaker To Know: James Fotopoulos
James Fotopoulos is an incredibly prolific filmmaker who has been turning out dozens — actually probably hundreds — of experimental and avant-garde feature films and shorts since the early ’90s. He made a huge splash in the underground film world in the late ’90s and early ’00s with a trio of acclaimed feature-length movies — Zero, Migrating Forms and Back...
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
Phil Hall Launches New England Underground Film Festival: Phil Hall, the author of several… http://goo.gl/fb/ISmS6
Jan 12th
Moviate: H.G. Lewis: The Godfather of Gore: Jan. 12 8:00 p.m. Moviate 1306 N. 3rd St… http://goo.gl/fb/NAJKW
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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ALTAMONT NOW makes Sunrise 12 of 2010 List →
orgoworld: Thanks Sunrise!
Jan 11th
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RT @mediasetfree: FIRST ANNUAL NEW ENGLAND UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN OCTOBER: The New England Underground Film Festi… ht …
Jan 11th
To Watch Film Lists →
All of Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s list posts of movies to buy/rent have their own index page now. Whether you’re looking for documentaries about filmmakers, great horror movies, stuff to find on Netflix, gift ideas, this is now the place to go.
Jan 11th
RT @Mr_Young: Caged Fire hits the USA! Caged Fire, my latest short film, has been selected to show at the Blue Sky Film Festival… http …
Jan 10th
Jan 10th
Installed the Lightning calendar add-on for Thunderbird to help me keep track of screenings. Nice program. http://bit.ly/164Sls
Jan 10th
Once again @nathanwrann has left a great comment on the site. This time regards Netflix streaming http://www.badlit.com/?p=12163
Jan 10th
Underground Film Links: January 9, 2011: - The prestigious Art in America magazine profiles… http://goo.gl/fb/wMwfj
Jan 9th
RT @toddverow: We have a title for the new Todd Verow movie shooting now it is: “THE ENDLESS POSSIBILITY OF SKY” thanks Philly!
Jan 9th
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Underground Film Bookshelf →
Looking for a good read? Check out a list of books written on underground film history on Bad Lit.
Jan 8th
Watched Survival of the Dead. Romero always has interesting take and new places to go with zombies. Mixed feelings about final product, tho’
Jan 8th
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RT @SidGrauman: A rare 35mm print of @SantaSangreFilm is screening on Jan 15th at the Egyptian Theatre http://ow.ly/3zKLX
Jan 8th
Jan 7th
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Congrats to Bad Lit pal Kenneth Hughes appearing in ABC’s Private Practice last night! He’s a great actor. http://bit.ly/hV7oYa
Jan 7th
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So, you love the music video for Cee Lo Green’s F**k You. (Who doesn’t?) Then watch an amazing short film by the video’s director, Matthew Stawski, called Hank’s Auto Repair. It’s surreal, violent and very funny. (Original review on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film.)
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Things I learn via Google Ads on my site #57: Somebody made Death Race 2. And it’s UNRATED!! (probably not rated since never in theaters)
Jan 7th
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Great Venue: Echo Park Film Center
The Echo Park Film Center is an awesome non-profit microcinema and media arts outreach organization located in Los Angeles, California. They hold several screenings a week, many by local independent and underground filmmakers who are in attendance for Q&A and chatting before and after the films. EPFC also holds low-cost media-making classes, including instruction on digital editing and Super...
Jan 7th
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Flashback: Psychedelic Glue Sniffin’ Hillbillies: Embedded above is a five-minute clip from… http://goo.gl/fb/YuV7G
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
RT @FilmmakerMag: Vimeo increases their upload limit to 5GB — enough for 2.5 hours of HD. http://bit.ly/i3PXNi
Jan 6th
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Filmmaker To Know: Todd Verow
Todd Verow is a prolific filmmaker working out of Maine through Bangor Films, the production company he runs with James Derek Dwyer. Verow has been directing digital video dramas, mysteries and comedies since the late 1990s. His films are typically intense character studies about people living in extreme situations, from an aging female punk rock almost-star in The Once & Future Queen to a gay...
Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
The Staying Put of the Secaucus 1 #lessambitiousfilms
Jan 5th
Animated Short Film: The Sandwich Movie: Sibling rivalry is on display at it’s best in… http://goo.gl/fb/YOb8a
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