Cosmic Cowboy Studio Fayetteville

07/29/2024

THIS CAME IN THE MAIL. It opens but I will pass----

07/29/2024

ROYE ALBRIGHTON------My Friend!

07/28/2024

As we move GORT back to Kansas City----THIS WAS FOUND----DOES ANYONE HAVE A CLUE WHAT THIS IS?????

07/28/2024

GORT. The Day the Earth Stood Still-RETURNING TO THE GLENWOOD ARTS in Leawood Kansas VERY SOON!!!!

It was time to bring him back and who better to do this than Ben and Brian Mossman--

Stay tuned!!!!!!!

07/25/2024

I may get this. I have 300 reels-

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07/21/2024

Elders at Pilgrim Chapel---2007---Great show, Venue-----

RIP STEVE AND JOE-

n October 2007, The Elders played in gig at Pilgrim Chapel, a 75 seat venue that used to serve as a church for the deaf in Kansas City. It was an amazing eve...

07/19/2024

E L P!!!!!! Nothing Better!!

07/19/2024

RADIO SHACK-It saddens me see this place shut down. I guess kids do other stuff these days--what is your memory?

07/18/2024

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/southwest-boulevard-kansas-city-mexican-restaurant-staple-ponaks-up-for-sale

Block and Company, Inc., Realtors announced this week that it is helping with the sale of Ponak’s Mexican Restaurant at 2856 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri.

07/18/2024

I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!! Do not screw it up!!!

07/15/2024

DWOLMA--Great little film shot on Super 8!!! We made it!!!

07/15/2024

It's MARY MONDAY!!!! (with Musician Paul Thorne)

07/15/2024

THOUGHT FOR MONDAY

Your ancestors survived centuries of floods, wars, famine, slavery, and plagues for you to sit on the toilet and compare your life to people on the internet you’ve never met.

Be grateful!!!!

07/14/2024

Our Award for DWOLMA!!!!

07/13/2024

07/12/2024

DWOLMA---AWARD BEST FANTASY FILM this week at the FANTASY SCI-FI Screenwriting and Film Festival-Here are some audience reactions:

DWOLMA, 7min., USA Directed by Ben Meade EXPERIMENTAL, SHOWING WHAT FILM

06/24/2024

ONE THING FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT
Responsibility is power.

When you decide someone else is responsible for your life—be it a person, a job, a government—you give them power over you.

When you decide you are responsible for your life, you empower yourself.

People blame others for their issues!!!!!!

No One will read this....so who cares???

06/22/2024

The Thunderbird Bass---I am staying away after seeing this-

Before I get into tearing this bass a new…output jack…let the record show that you guys wanted this. And you’re going to get upset if someone says hard truth...

06/16/2024

This Fall-we will be bringing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to greater Kansas City. The film also has a new score by the Anvil Orchestra that will be performed LIVE at the screening.

Different than this trailer----cannot wait to experience it LIVE and UP CLOSE.

Stay tuned for details-

http://cabinetofdrcaligari.comDirector Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abst...

06/14/2024

In itself, this is not a startling plot. The film's design transforms it into something very weird, especially as Cesare is seen carrying the unconscious Jane and is pursued by a mob. The chase carries them through streets of stark lights and shadows and up a zigzagging mountain trail. Caligari, meanwhile, is followed by Francis as he returns to where he apparently lives -- the insane asylum, where he is the ... director! Evidence is discovered by Francis and the local police that Caligari, influenced by an occult medieval manuscript, yearned to find a somnambulist and place him under a hypnotic spell, subjecting him to his will.

A case can be made that "Caligari" was the first true horror film. There had been earlier ghost stories and the eerie serial "Fantomas" made in 1913-14, but their characters were inhabiting a recognizable world. "Caligari" creates a mindscape, a subjective psychological fantasy. In this world, unspeakable horror becomes possible.

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"Caligari" is said to be the first example in cinema of German Expressionism, a visual style in which not only the characters but the world itself is out of joint. I don't know of another film that used its extreme distortions and discordant angles, but its over-all attitude certainly cleared the way for "The Golem," "Nosferatu," "Metropolis" and "M." In one of the best-known books ever written about film, From Caligari to Hi**er, the art historian Siegfried Kracauer argued that the rise of Na**sm was foretold by the preceding years of German films, which reflected a world at wrong angles and lost values. In this reading, Caligari was Hi**er and the German people were sleepwalkers under his spell.

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I don't believe the films caused Na**sm in Germany, and whether they predicted it depends a great deal on hindsight. What is certain is that the Expressionist horror films created the most durable and bulletproof of genres. No other genre has box-office appeal all by itself, although film noir, also deeply influenced by Expressionism, comes close. All a horror film need promise is horror -- the unspeakable, the terrifying, the merciless, the lurching monstrous figure of destruction. It needs no stars, only basic production values, just the ability to promise horror.

The 1920s were the decade that saw the rise of the Dada and Surrealist movements. The first rejected all pretense, all standards, all sincerity. It was a profound expression of hopelessness and alienation. It led to the rise of the related art movement Surrealism, which cut loose from order and propriety, rejected common values, scorned tradition and sought to overthrow society with anarchy. It's said such movements were a reaction to the horror of World War I, which upset decades of relative tranquility and order, threw the European nations into unstable new relationships and presented the inhuman spectacle of modern mechanized battle. After the brutality of trench warfare, it would be difficult to return to landscapes and still life.

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"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" as a viewing experience must have been unsettling to the audiences of 1920. The original Variety review, which cheerfully reveals the ending, tries in its stilted wording to express enthusiasm: "This has resulted in a series of actions so perfectly dovetailed as to carry the story through at a perfect tempo. Robert Wiene has made perfect use of settings designed by Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann and Walter Roehrig, settings that squeeze and turn and adjust the eye and through the eye the mentality."

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Although the prose suggests chiropractic, I imagine some viewers indeed felt squeezed, turned and adjusted by the images. The film today still casts its spell. I viewed the version on a DVD from Kino, which (unusually with silent films of its vintage) includes all the original footage. The film has not been digitally restored to remove all flaws, but in a way those that remain --spots, blemishes -- add to the effect. You feel as if you're watching an old record of an old story, which includes within itself an even older one. The original film was tinted, so there are no purely black-and-white scenes, only those mostly in shades of reddish-brown and slate blue.

Wiene is fond of the iris shot, which opens or closes upon a scene like an eye. This makes the point that we are looking and are privileged to witness events closed to other people. He also sparingly uses a device of superimposing words on the image to show Alan feeling surrounded by voices. Wiene's closeups lean heavily on Caligari's fierce and sinister scowl, the dewy innocence of Jane, and the wide-eyed determination of Alan. The Somnambulist is not very expressive -- he certainly lacks the I LOVE THIS FILM!!@!!!

Charisma of Frankenstein's monster, who in a way he inspired -- and is most often seen in long shot, as if the camera considers him an object, not a person.

The sets are presented, as they must be, in mostly longer shots, establishing their spiky and ragged points and edges. The visual environment plays like a wilderness of blades; the effect is to deny the characters any place of safety or rest. It isn't surprising that the "Caligari" set design inspired so few other films, although its camera angles, lighting and drama can clearly be seen throughout film noir, for example in the visual style of "The Third Man" (1949).

Robert Wiene (1873-1938) began his career in 1913 and directed 47 films, including "Raskolnikow," based onCrime and Punishment,and the famous "The Hands of Orlac" (1924). He fled the rise of Hi**er and at the time of his death was working on "Ultimatum" (1938), with another refugee, Erich von Stroheim. Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), another refugee, made 119 films and was a major star of the time, whose credits included the great "The Man Who Laughs" (1928) and of course "Casablanca"(1942), where he played Major Strasser, who met an unexpected end at the airport. (All three titles are also in my Great Movies Collection.)

I love you all I am done_

06/14/2024

I wasn’t trying to invent new ways of being a filmmaker; that was just a byproduct of my struggle to come to a sense of sight. And it seemed reasonable to me that film ought to be based on human seeing, and not just the physical eyes but the mind’s eye: that is, what happens when the eye receives images from the outside and how they interrelate with remembered images on the inside of the mind. […] When I met the poet Charles Olson, he made quite clear the importance of accepting your limitations as the special gifts. My eyes are the weakest part of me, really; either I was going to be destroyed by them or they were going to become the path through which my creativity could flower.

—Stan Brakhage, November 1996

06/14/2024

THIS IS IN KANSAS CITY ABOVE A TOILET IN A DINER-Guess Where-

06/09/2024

BEN AND BRIAN MOSSMAN---FINE ARTS THEATRE GROUP!!!!!

OUR TEAM Ben Mossman Co-Owner When we were children, Brian and I would make money by hunting for nightcrawlers in our yard and selling them to the local trading post for a penny a piece. We used those earnings to go to the movies, of course! In those early days we learned the value of hard work and....

06/07/2024

EZRA-12-30 today

Cannot wait

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06/02/2024

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KEARNEY — Another year of summer concerts at Kearney Amphitheater is upon us. The annual free concert series kicks off Saturday, June 1, in Jesse James Park, located at 3001

06/02/2024

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SEEMS TO BE GONE-and may not be relevant in the U S

WORDS THAT ARE CONSTANTLY USED THAT MEAN NOTHING. (IGUESS, Can you think of any?)

1-LIKE
2-Literally
3-Transparant (from car dealers to preachers)
4-No Worries (two words-a great thing to say if you work for a bank of CCrd Co.-
5-ME BAD (What is this? Now old people like me are saying it)
6-"you are making me uncomfortable"

Maybe that is part of the reason why 16,MILL Graduates move in back home Spring 2023. They cannot speak English-

05/30/2024

GET A FRIGGIN JOB!

A former Kansas City Chiefs cornerback is in legal trouble once again.

05/30/2024

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04/08/2023

Love that bold and beautiful New Orleans sound? You're in luck! Come get a little taste of New Orleans on April 23 with the Rebirth Brass Band and special guest Noah Richmond's Little Monster! Tickets are waiting for you at the link below!

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