Crawford's Attractions LLC - Film & Animation

11/02/2024

This looks good

The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch (Ellen Burstyn) suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches. Reluctantly assembled, her three estranged children – David (Ewan McGregor), Gruffudd (Rhys Ifans), and Linda (Lara Flynn Boyle) – must figure out how to escape this bizarre predicament. With the help of the store managers, Marco & Marcus (F. Murray Abraham), and their daughter Bella (Taylor Russell) the siblings embark on a mind-bending odyssey that forces them to face life-altering truths about their own lives and upbringing.

10/31/2024

How do horror films use spaghetti to make us nauseous

Why horror films use spaghetti of all things to make us nauseous, or uncomfortable, or otherwise terrified.

10/31/2024

Rest in laughter Teri Garr♥️🌹

10/18/2024

The Master

John Waters has announced 2024 dates for his annual "A John Waters Christmas" tour where he both embraces and is repulsed by the holiday spirit in all its trashy, gaudy, music-filled glory.

10/17/2024

Support independent/undependent film

In the golden age of New Hollywood, creators were given huge sums to take big risks, and it paid off. But movies have come under the control of hedge funds that specialize in risk management. The result: boring, predictable cinema.

10/17/2024

Albuquerque makes a quick appearance in the beginning credit scene and so does a loungey TSOL. This movie never gets old.

Repo Man (1984)

A quintessential cult film, in that it seems deliberately designed to appeal to the smallest possible niche, Alex Cox’s p***y sci-fi satire isn’t exactly ‘coherent’ but gets elevated to classic status on weirdness alone. Angry young man Emilio Estevez gets recruited into the repossession business by ageing beatnik Harry Dean Stanton, but things get complicated when he picks up a Chevy Malibu with some… thing in the trunk. The movie adheres completely to its own bizarre rhythms and outsider humour, but its anti-establishment message is delivered with such all-around energy, due in no small part to the hardcore punk soundtrack, including a theme song by Iggy Pop, that it’s managed to find a much wider audience over the years than anyone could have guessed.

10/16/2024

A classic

10/16/2024

Words matter

10/13/2024

Way Out West Film Fest at The Guild until Oct. 20!

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Oct. 11-20, 2024

10/08/2024

Palestinian films written by women

I’ve written about 63 Palestinian films directed by women in my newsletter over the last year. This list collects them all with links where you can watch most of them.

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10/07/2024

Speak out about abuse in entertainment

10/06/2024

It’s that time of year

10/06/2024

Happy birthday Divine!

John Waters explained in a 2015 interview that Divine's character Dawn Davenport's look was based on the woman in the famous 1966 Diane Arbus photograph of a young Brooklyn family on a Sunday outing. Davenport's stage performance is based upon an act performed by Divine at San Francisco's Palace Theatre. Divine would wheel a shopping cart full of mackerel on stage and hurl them into the audience while claiming responsibility for various high-profile crimes.

Divine (born Harris Glenn Milstead) chose to perform his own stunts, the most difficult of which involved doing flips on a trampoline during his nightclub act. Waters took Divine to a YMCA, where he took lessons until the act was perfected to the point where he did the athletic stunt without his wig being dislodged. Divine also nailed a difficult outdoor stunt involving crossing a real river in drag in the sleet and rain. He could have been swept downstream, but made his mark on the other side with a smile on his face.

On the 2004 DVD Director's Special Comments, Waters states that the original working title of the film was "Rotten Mind, Rotten Face." He changed it because he did not want to risk having hostile film critics using the headline "Rotten Mind, Rotten Face, Rotten Movie."

The movie critic Rex Reed hated the film, to the point that in his review he had asked, "Where do these people come from? Where do they go when the sun goes down? Isn't there a law or something?" The quote was posted on the Waverly Theater poster, and in Village Voice ads for the film. When "Female Trouble" was released on DVD, this quote was on the front of its box. (Wikipedia/IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Divine!

10/04/2024

The Purple Ball (1987)

10/04/2024

Hell (1983)