Wretched Refuse

NO! NOT THE SOUR GRAPES BUNCH!!!

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:03:50 -0600

NO! NOT THE SOUR GRAPES BUNCH!!!

sloth unleashed: Roger Ebert on the media's coverage of school shootings

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:45:28 -0600

sloth unleashed: Roger Ebert on the media's coverage of school shootings:

From his review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a fictionalized account of a Columbine-like school shooting, here’s Roger Ebert on the media’s behavior while reporting these kinds of events.

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw…

Was Raquel feeling a bit naughty that day? vintagegal: Raquel...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:54:35 -0600

Was Raquel feeling a bit naughty that day?

vintagegal:

Raquel Welch c. 1967

Your Daily Reminder That Toshiro Mifune Is...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:15:19 -0600

Your Daily Reminder That Toshiro Mifune Is Awesome:

toshiro-mifune:

Steven Spielberg and Toshirō Mifune on the set of 1941 (1979)

“‘Here’s my chance to work with the greatest samurai of them all, Toshiro Mifune,’I said. He came into my house when we first met. He walked in wearing a business suit, with his thinning hair and great big smile, with very little english to his credit, but he had a wonderful interpreter with him. He opened up the book and he said, ‘Now here is where the script is wrong’. Our submarine was wrong, according to Toshiro, and we made corrections. So in that sense, Toshiro cleaned up the Japanese act and made them professional and worthy of our great fear and respect” with him even having the Japanese extras running drills on the set, during lulls in filming.

— Steven Spielberg

Awwwwwwesoommmmme… bookshelves: Trinity College Library

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:18:38 -0600

Awwwwwwesoommmmme…

bookshelves:

Trinity College Library

Photo

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:52:38 -0600

In an attempt to purge the post-turkey blues, we subjected...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:10:35 -0600

In an attempt to purge the post-turkey blues, we subjected ourselves to all sorts of strangeness:

The Big Doll House (71)

Abby (74)

a bit of Hollywood Party (34)

The Room (03)

…featuring a surprise appearance by Hee Haw!

This has got to be one of my favorite photos...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:24:34 -0600

This has got to be one of my favorite photos ever.

invasionofcoffeemonster:

Ray Harryhausen, Forrest J Ackerman, and Ray Bradbury.

Like a lot of people, I spent the days leading up to Halloween...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:35:36 -0600

Like a lot of people, I spent the days leading up to Halloween watching horror movies (though compared to some, I am definitely a poseur). Unlike them, I like to write about the movies:

Grave Encounters (2011)

OMG I HAD THIS MAGAZINE WHEN I WAS A KID. I remember being very...

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:54:49 -0500

OMG I HAD THIS MAGAZINE WHEN I WAS A KID.

I remember being very disappointed when I finally saw Brain That Wouldn’t Die and discovering there was no brain in a jar with a massive eyeball.

Just one of the many eye-shredding ensembles worn by the...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:14:00 -0500

Just one of the many eye-shredding ensembles worn by the extraordinary Tamara Dobson in Cleopatra Jones & The Casino of Gold (1975) One of many movies watched and reviewed in one fell swoop:

Psycho (1960)
The Woman in Black (2012
Savage Sisters (1974)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Fight For Your Life (1977)

Phew!

professormortis: Everyone’s favorite 1950s sinister doctor was...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:09:04 -0500

professormortis:

Everyone’s favorite 1950s sinister doctor was born on this date in 1909:

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Zen Flowchart. Most...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:41:59 -0500

Zen Flowchart. Most excellent.

lyndsayfaye:

emilygoulbourne:

this has hit me like tonne of bricks

Excellent.

My favorite Venom! culturalgutter: Martial arts star and action...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:21:00 -0500

My favorite Venom!

culturalgutter:

Martial arts star and action choreographer Philip Kwok Chun-Fung’s birthday is Oct. 21. Happy Birthday! Kwok has worked with directors including Chang Cheh, Tsui Hark and John Woo. He also has provided action direction for Brotherhood of the Wolf and the Hong Kong portion of Tomorrow Never Dies.

I found some scary stuff on Netflix. Oh, yeah, I used one of...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:11:08 -0500

I found some scary stuff on Netflix. Oh, yeah, I used one of them DVD doo-dads, too.

gemmacorrell: sneaky sneak peek from my book A Pug’s Guide to...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:36:17 -0500

gemmacorrell:

sneaky sneak peek from my book A Pug’s Guide to Etiquette, due out in 2013

cinephilearchive: In 1983 Dennis Hopper went to Rice University...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:20:29 -0500

cinephilearchive:

In 1983 Dennis Hopper went to Rice University in Houston, Texas ostensibly to screen his latest film Out Of The Blue. But little known to anyone, other than Hopper and a handful of his buddies, he had another agenda entirely. While he did indeed screen his movie, Hopper had actually come to Houston to blow himself up. After screening Out Of The Blue, Hopper arranged to have the audience driven by a fleet of school buses to a racetrack on the outskirts of Houston, the Big H Speedway. Hopper and the buses arrived at the speedway just as the races were ending and a voice was announcing over the public address system “stick around folks and watch a famous Hollywood film personality perform the Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act. That’s right, folks, he’ll sit in a chair with six sticks of dynamite and light the fuse.”

Was famous Hollywood personality Dennis Hopper about to go out with a bang? Hopper apparently learned this stunt when he was a kid after seeing it performed in a traveling roadshow. If you place the dynamite pointing outwards the explosion creates a vacuum in the middle and the person performing the stunt is, if all goes according to plan, unharmed. After bullshitting for awhile with the crowd and his friends, a drunk and stoned Hopper climbed into the “death chair’ and lit the dynamite.

Rice News correspondent describes the scene:

Dennis Hopper, at one with the shock wave, was thrown headlong in a halo of fire. For a single, timeless instant he looked like Wile E. Coyote, frazzled and splayed by his own petard. Then billowing smoke hid the scene. We all rushed forward, past the police, into the expanding cloud of smoke, excited, apprehensive, and no less expectant than we had been before the explosion. Were we looking for Hopper or pieces we could take home as souvenirs? Later Hopper would say blowing himself up was one of the craziest things he has ever done, and that it was weeks before he could hear again. At the moment, though, none of that mattered. He had been through the thunder, the light, and the heat, and he was still in one piece. And when Dennis Hopper staggered out of that cloud of smoke his eyes were glazed with the thrill of victory and spinout.

In this video footage shot by filmmaker Brian Huberman, we see Hopper in all his intoxicated glory before and after his death defying stunt. Huberman on the film clip:

The large guy making the sign of the cross is the writer Terry Southern and the jerk threatening to blow up my camera is the German filmmaker, Wim Wenders.

Here’s a piece of history folks.

Oh, hey, you know what? Eyes Without A Face, that’s what.

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:49:03 -0500

Oh, hey, you know what? Eyes Without A Face, that’s what.

cinephilearchive: “HOLLYWOOD’S BEST FILM DIRECTORS” is a half...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:57:23 -0500

cinephilearchive:

“HOLLYWOOD’S BEST FILM DIRECTORS” is a half hour show that offers a distinctive peek inside the creative minds of Hollywood’s best directors. A personal and insightful look into the lives, influences and original style of today’s top film directors. A fascinating profile that explores each directors unique process for creating some of the most memorable and enduring movies of our times.

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Mann

Milos Forman

Ron Howard

William Friedkin

Curtis Hanson

Michel Gondry

Atom Egoyan

Terry Gilliam

Bryan Singer

James Mangold

George Lucas

James L. Brooks

Please enjoy some of our programs in this screening section. These are no trailers, what you can watch are the full length shows.

polyhymnia: A helpful reminder, and PP could always use some...

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:40:43 -0500

polyhymnia:

A helpful reminder, and PP could always use some spare coin.