MICA Hosts Free Screening of Beautiful Losers Oct. 14 in Falvey Hall BALTIMORE--The MICA/Maryland Fall Film Series presents a free screening of Beautiful Losers (2008) at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14 in Falvey Hall of Brown Center, 1301 Mount Royal Ave.
The documentary, from directors Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard, tells the story of a group of young artist outsiders who drew inspiration from their skateboarding, punk, hip-hop, and graffiti.
Many of these "beautiful losers" found each other in New York City, convening on a small DIY art space. Featured artists include Ed Templeton, Harmony Korine, the late Margaret Killgallen, Mike Mills, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson, Thomas Campbell, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFettridge, Chris Johanson, and Barry McGee.
October film festival screenings are free to all as part of Free Fall Baltimore. Seats will be available first-come, first-served.
Blast from the immediate past, current fave film of '92: BARAKA
This one:
Not this one:
Shot in 152 locations in 42 different countries, "Baraka" attempts to search for a universal cultural perspective on spirituality, war, industry and community. This experimental film contains no dialogue, leaving it up to the instrumental soundtrack (provided by Andean drummers and ambient musicians "Dead can Dance), time lapse photography and long winded yet stunning landscape shots to evoke emotion and cite parallels between cultures. Ron Fricke, the director and cinematographer of "Baraka", is also linked to Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy, a set of films described as "visual tone poems" featuring a minimalist score by Philip Glass (of course).
"Balinese Monkey Chant"
Continue to "Part 6 of 10" if you'd like to see the meet-your-meat conclusion but go ahead and rent the film in order to finish it. "Baraka" was shot in Todd-AO format which is a ludicrously high-format, widescreen film that basically makes everything look like super-saturated iMAX hard candy.
First off, just finished watching this for the second time and am definitely in love with David Lynch's golden boy, Kyle Maclachlan. siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh ....................
But it's like he and Bruce Campell went to the same Sore Thumb School of Over-Acting. The Harryhausen-esque/early 80's bluescreen FX don't help either (see below). But certainly all that can be excused as charming camp. ..................... And then!, the Baron Harkonnen is a completely creepy, incestuous, letch of a villain. He cultivates diseases on his face and carries out ludicrous tortures: "We've brought you a little cat, Thufir. You must care for it if you wish to live. A poison has been introduced into you, Thufir Hawat. By milking this smooth little cat body each day you receive your antidote."
chillinggg....... See also: awesome trippy dream sequences, crazy mutant monster people, and a totally believable yet fantastic future-setting...think Fifth Element meets Blade Runner. Which! totally makes sense anyway because Ridley Scott was slated to direct but dropped out to do Blade Runner instead (also interesting because Sean Young plays Kyle Maclachlan's alien love interest). .............................. And now that I mention Sean Young...the fact that MALE sci-fi geek is the demographic is absolutely palpable. Sure, yes, all of the women characters are either Sean Young, a tough and capable yet beautiful and vulnerable warrior, or else belong to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, which is a group of perfect beings who can mind read and use "the voice" to control people...which is cool...but basically they are witches and have been waiting for Paul (Kyle Machlachlan) to come, have prophetic dreams, become the messiah of the universe and go where "women are afraid to go...where [they] cannot see"....see the movie, you'll get it.... Anyway, Paul's mother, Lady Jessica, is a Bene Gesserit and is the only other female character one can identify with...but she's certainly no Ripley. Lets just say that Glenn Close turned down the role because she didn't want to play "the girl who is always running and falling down behind the men". ..................... Double anyway, totally love it, will watch it a third time and probably read the book...and then, how awesome is this treatment proposed by Alejandro Jodorowsky!...
"Jodorowsky had originally planned on filming Dune in the early-'70s, and had enlisted the help of Jean Giraud and H.R. Giger to create the movie's visual style. Salvador Dali was enlisted to play the part of the Emperor, and Jodorowsky also intended to cast his own son as Paul, David Carradine as Duke Leto, Orson Welles as the Baron, and Gloria Swanson as the Benne Geserit Reverend Mother. The soundtrack was to be done by Pink Floyd. According to Jodorowsky, "The project was sabotaged in Hollywood. It was French and not American. The message was 'not Hollywood enough'." - IMDB
Oh, PS: Sting's in it too....and is a hyper babe...
