I don't feel like writing up some big blurb about some film blah blah blah.
I'm gonna play Rocky Horror Picture Show later tonight if anyone is
interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show

Don't get hot and flustered, use a bit of mustard!


On 27 April 2013 01:35, Justin Lacko <[email protected]> wrote:

> We're still watching!
>
>
> On 26 April 2013 23:52, Michael Kozakewich <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>   Ha, wow, is it already 11:50? I guess I won’t be there. Got some
>> dishes washed, though.
>>
>>  *From:* Justin Lacko <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Friday, April 26, 2013 9:05 AM
>> *To:* Discuss, SkullSpace <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* [SkullSpace-Discuss] Movie Night tonight!
>>
>>  It's been a few weeks (months?) so let's have another movie night
>> tonight!
>>
>> I've got some things to do at the space first, but I was hoping to screen
>> The Phantom of Liberty[1] later in the evening. This is the penultimate
>> film made by Luis Buñuel[2] in 1974, who also made Un chien andalou (An
>> Andalusian Dog)[3] with Salvador Dalí (maybe some people know this film).
>>
>> The Phantom of Liberty follows in a similar surrealist vein with Buñuel's
>> other films but in my opinion is easier to follow and understand the
>> imagery and symbolism. (For the weirder and much harder-to-understand film
>> by Buñuel, check out L'age d'or (The Golden Age)[4] which is just... very
>> random...). A brief description from Wikipedia:
>>
>> "*The Phantom of Liberty* is a film that celebrates the notion of chance
>> encounters... The overall structure of the film is one of seemingly
>> unconnected episodes linked together by random encounters. The story is
>> passed from one scene to the next as if the narrative is a relay race: the
>> narrative ‘baton’ is passed on by means of a minor character from one scene
>> becoming the next major character."
>>
>> I find a lot of the scenes very funny and playful; for instance in one
>> scene a man whom we take to be a pervert gives some children some photos in
>> a park. When they take them home to their parents and show them, the
>> parents are shocked at the "disgusting" photos - which are revealed to the
>> viewer to be nothing more than photos of French architecture.
>>
>> As mentioned, I'll be playing this later in the evening so as not to
>> disturb any other activities going on. Hope to see you tonight!
>>
>> ~Justin
>>
>>
>> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_Liberty
>> [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bu%C3%B1uel
>> [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Chien_Andalou
>> [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Age_d%27Or
>>
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