ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

Too hot in your place to focus on your DIY movie making projects? Then take a break, go to Lifehacker , & figure out how to make your own portable air conditioner . Good luck.

Clip from an interesting movie:

Cohen is going to be at IFC Center in NYC later today to show some stuff, more info. here . And now the interview, pretty neat:

Check out the Kickstarter page for Reid Gershbein's upcoming feature Actually .

Still working out the details, but the screening is on for late August, with Reid Gershbein (director of Here. My Explosion... & The Dabbler) in attendance with the movies. Should have all the info. by the end of this week. In the meantime, go here to get more info. on the next round of 2 Week Films in October. - Sujewa

From an IFC e-mail: " Movie Nights with Jem Cohen: Film & the Folk/Punk Connection Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30 pm Resolutely independent filmmaker Jem Cohen (Chain, Benjamin Smoke, Instrument) hosts Ian MacKaye (Evens, Fugazi, Minor Threat) and John Cohen (There Is No Eye) for an evening exploring folk, punk and filmmaking as forms of homemade expression, featuring screenings of John Cohen's 1963 music documentary That High Lonesome Sound; Jem Cohen's Nice Evening, Transmission Down, a portrait of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous; a short film of Patti Smith's cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"; never-before-seen outtakes from Jem's Fugazi film Instrument; and other surprises. The series "Movie Nights with Jem Cohen" presents three nights of sneak previews, premieres and discussion with special guests including Guy Picciotto from Fugazi. The next two evenings in the program will occur in August and September. Click here to purch

Well, now we know how this story played out over the next 28 years:

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Brief interview with Transformers 2 screenwriters about Michael Bay's Jar-jar Binks moments (creating two Autobots to resemble characters that could have come out of blackface minstrel shows from racist entertainment from a few decades ago) on the robots & war movie part 2, at Film School Rejects . Other than that weird distraction ( Mudflap & Skids ), pretty good robots & war movie - saw it today. I think they can also do without a lot of the regular humans interacting with other regular humans parts also - since the creators of the movie are just stringing stock & stereotypical situations together to give the non-military humans something important to do. They should just make the Duhamel character the main human focus, let the storyline about the kids in love go. Still remember the cartoons as being better - overall stories wise. But pretty cool to see how they turned the robots into live action characters. But, aside from all the bad choices that show up in T-

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