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

By Sujewa Ekanayake I was having an argument with the guy behind the counter at one of my local delis about wether it was possible and or useful to create a new indie film canon. Creating a list of films that are good examples of the unique art form that indie/non-Hollywood film has become over the past 30 (Dogme 95 starting around 1995) to 70 (Breathless screening at Cannes in 1960) or so years. The guy behind the counter at the deli did not think it was a good idea, but he did offer me free coffee in exchange for placing some of his favorite sci-fi horror movies on the list - if I made the list. Many of those movies involve zombie cheerleaders from outer space. I decided to pay for the coffee. The films on this list are real indie/independent, largely non-Hollywood films. Made and often distributed without the financial backing or creative control of established, large, mainstream film studios or production companies and or distribution companies in the United States. The titles here

 

Main blog for 11/29/23 Facets, Chicago film event Indie Discovery LA In Chicago at https://idlachicago.blogspot.com * Links Bristol Fashion at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 5 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bristol-fashion-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643169087?aff=oddtdtcreator Only In Theaters at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 7 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-in-theaters-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643329567?aff=erelpanelorg Cosmic Disco Detective Rene And The Mystery Of Immortal Time Travelers at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 9 PM, with director at Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmic-disco-detective-rene-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756647010577?aff=erelpanelorg

  All info on the 11/29 event, tix, trailers here -  https://www.indiediscoveryla.com/ * Links Bristol Fashion at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 5 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bristol-fashion-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643169087?aff=oddtdtcreator Only In Theaters at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 7 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-in-theaters-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643329567?aff=erelpanelorg Cosmic Disco Detective Rene And The Mystery Of Immortal Time Travelers at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 9 PM, with director at Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmic-disco-detective-rene-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756647010577?aff=erelpanelorg

  All info and tix links here -  https://www.indiediscoveryla.com/ * Links Bristol Fashion at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 5 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bristol-fashion-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643169087?aff=oddtdtcreator Only In Theaters at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 7 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-in-theaters-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643329567?aff=erelpanelorg Cosmic Disco Detective Rene And The Mystery Of Immortal Time Travelers at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 9 PM, with director at Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmic-disco-detective-rene-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756647010577?aff=erelpanelorg

 Get info and tix here -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/756643169087?aff=oddtdtcreator * Links Bristol Fashion at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 5 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bristol-fashion-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643169087?aff=oddtdtcreator Only In Theaters at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 7 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-in-theaters-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643329567?aff=erelpanelorg Cosmic Disco Detective Rene And The Mystery Of Immortal Time Travelers at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 9 PM, with director at Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmic-disco-detective-rene-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756647010577?aff=erelpanelorg

Completely indie films are films that the filmmaker/director/auteur can launch, complete, and distribute on their own. Outside of Hollywood or streamers. The reasons to make these movies: 1 - Hollywood movies and shows, also streamers' movies and shows, are not very good. It's watered down formulaic content.  Real indie arthouse movies can be much better. 2 - It's art making. A way to live. A way to connect with the world. 3 - The full story of the world can be told. Diverse movies. Post-colonial and anti-colonial movies. Healthy movies - not insane ultra-capitalist maximalist nightmare movies :). Movies where positive aspects of life can be celebrated, enjoyed.

  * Links Bristol Fashion at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 5 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bristol-fashion-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643169087?aff=oddtdtcreator Only In Theaters at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 7 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-in-theaters-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643329567?aff=erelpanelorg Cosmic Disco Detective Rene And The Mystery Of Immortal Time Travelers at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 9 PM, with director at Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmic-disco-detective-rene-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756647010577?aff=erelpanelorg

From the review - "One of the grand paradoxes of Jean-Luc Godard is that he was a radical, an outlier, a filmmaker who guarded his purity and always looked askance at “the system,” yet because the nature of filmmaking is that it requires a lot of money, and is connected to fame, and produces images that can spread with iconic power, Godard was an outsider who was also an insider; a poet of cinema who made himself a celebrity; an artist who bridged the larger-than-life, old-school ethos of movies with the forbidding imperatives of the avant-garde." Read the review here - https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/godard-par-godard-review-1235620696/ * Links Bristol Fashion at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 5 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bristol-fashion-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643169087?aff=oddtdtcreator Only In Theaters at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at

     ***********   ************   Cosmic Disco Detective Rene (2023) from Indie Discovery LA Film Series 2023 - limited VOD (8/20 - 10/1/23) from Sujewa Ekanayake on Vimeo . * Links Bristol Fashion at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 5 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bristol-fashion-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643169087?aff=oddtdtcreator Only In Theaters at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 7 PM, with director for Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-in-theaters-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756643329567?aff=erelpanelorg Cosmic Disco Detective Rene And The Mystery Of Immortal Time Travelers at Indie Discovery LA In Chicago film event on 11/29/23 at Facets, Chicago - 9 PM, with director at Q&A -  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cosmic-disco-detective-rene-screening-idla-in-chicago-event-at-facets-tickets-756647010577?a