LOS ANGELES FILM PROPOGANDIZATION

Greetings Cinematic Revolutionaries:
Here is the best of what LA has to offer to those who take cinema seriously. Many great films this week! I recommend you run out to Weerasethakul's excellent Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives before it leaves this Thursday! Then it is required that you see the Nouvelle Vague's second best musical, next to A Woman Is A Woman, Umbrellas Of Cherbourg. Seeing this film in full color and sound is the only way! And also check out Secret Sunshine, the film is yet another one of South Korea's fine film exports.

Also, I'm interested in meeting LA Cinephile filmmakers and theorists. Please throw shootingwallzine@gmail.com an email! 

THIS WEEK:

Tuesday March 8^th:

1. (FREE) Penn's Bonnie and Clyde @ Skirball Center @ 1:30 pm

2. Ozon's Potiche @ LACMA 7:30pm (Deneuve + Depardieu!)

Wednesday March 9^th:

1. Hitchcock's North By Northwest @ Agoura Hills Stadium 8 7:30pm

2. De Palma's Scarface @ South Coast Village Regency 7:30pm

3. Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood @ The Arclight Pasadena 8:00pm

4. Chaplin's City Lights @ Cinefamily 8:00pm

Thursday March 10^th:

1. Cassavettes' Shadows @ Cinefamily 8:00pm

2. Secret Sunshine @ American Cinematheque/Egyptian Theater 7:30pm

Friday March 11^th:

1. Cassavettes' Too Late Blues @ Cinefamily 7:30pm

2. Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg & Donkey Skin @ LACMA 7:30pm

Saturday March 12^th: 

1. Hsiao-hsien Hou's Millennium Mambo @ Echo Park Film Center 8:00pm 

2. Cassavettes' Husbands @ Cinefamily 7:30pm

3. Truffaut's The Last Metro @ LACMA 7:30pm

4. Lynch's Eraserhead @ Art Theater of Long Beach 12:00pm

Sunday March 13^th:

1. The Strange One, Cassavette's The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, & Bogdanovich's Saint Jack @ Cinefamily 5:30pm

Theatrical Runs:
Running only until this Thurs 4/10:

1. Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives @ Royal Theatre

2. Heartbeats @ Sunset 5 

3. I Saw The Devil @ Nuart  

Starting This Friday 4/11:

1. Redland @ Sunset 5

2. Dogtooth @ Claremont 5

FREE, BUT SHIT:
1. Tues 4/8 Black Death + Witchfinder General @ Cinefamily (Free Screening/Must RSVP)

CHECK OUT:

1. Cinefamily's month of Cassavettes

2. Tarantino's Birthday Month of Grindhouse films at the New Beverly

3. Open Screen Night Thursday March 10^th @ Echo Park Film Center 
4. Michael Mann is coming to AC to Q&A after Manhunter
  
-Movies are better than books,

KARL

IFC Playing Commerical During Movies

Was watching a film I recorded from IFC this morning only to notice that they are now playing commericals DURING the movies. They used to play commerical between movies and shows and now, low and fucking behold, they are playing commerical during their movies. IFC is dead. You are not independent if you play commericals during your movies. IFC you are the probably; even Sundance doesn't play commerical during their films. You cannot claim to show original, non-mainstream and cutting edge foreign and independent films and then stick fucking car ads into the movies. YOU ARE NOT CUTTING EDGE. IFC channel is now officially an enemy of cinema. Soldiers and cinephiles, take to the message boards, write letters, write emails and let IFC know that they are now utter shit for playing ads during their films.

Shooting Wall Meeting/Screening

Greetings Soldiers and Cinephiles,

Mark your calenders! Shooting Wall Meeting/Screening is scheduled for Sunday April 10 at 7pm at The Wooden Shoe (704 South Street • Philadelphia, PA 19147). I hope all of Philadelphia cinephile community will be in attendance. There will screenings of local cinema, talks, and discussions pertaining to the future of Shooting Wall (i.e. Issue #3, future screenings, possible omnibus film, and Shooting Wall Film Festival to name a few). We are still seeking films to be screened, so if you have something, shoot us an email, and let us know. The films can be anything that is cinema! Completed short films or works in progress are fine. Invite your friends and come and join the Shooting Wall revolution!

Upcoming Films

Greetings Soldiers and Cinephiles,

Hello all. Shooting Wall Issue #2 is coming soon. We are currently working on the layout and hope to have the issue out later this month. Keep posted to the blog for more details.

Below are some upcoming films worth checking out in Philadelphia

International House:

Friday March 4 at 7pm: Road Movie (1974) and Savage Eye ( 1960) by Joseph Strick
Saturday March 5 at 5pm: Criminals (1996) and Muscle Beach (1948) and Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1971) by Joseph Strick
Saturday March 5 at 7pm: The Balcony (1963) by Joseph Strick
Wednesday March 9 at 7pm: An Evening with Kathryn Ramey

Opening Friday March 4 at Ritz:

Poetry by Lee Chang-dong

Bryn Mawr Film Institute:

Tuesday March 8 at 7pm: Alice's Restaurant (1969) by Arthur Penn

"WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT BUT SORROW AND LOVE OF OSCAR, HE SHALL LIFT YOU CLEAN OUT OF HISTORY"

 

The Oscars building up their fascistic anti-cinema fortress.

As I am situated at the hell mouth, last Sunday I attempted a mission. My aim was to infiltrate and spread the cinematic gospel of SW via fliers, eggs, and/or violence. The masses descended on the anti-cinematic event, that was shit down for blocks around like a warzone,  making it inaccessible for miles around. If you could get through the crowds, those who truly respect the art of cinema had to face an impenetrable literal and artistic blockade. Then after the end of the symbolic violence, I couldn't deal with living, so I put a pillow over my head and let my mind take me.

 

Urban shutdown, one of multiple ways film award shows abolish freedom.

The Oscars are an award show that critics, aside from the part of the year they get their only front page story, have disowned. Who should of won? For best picture either the solid Social Network or somewhat risky Winter's Bone, due to a complex performance Javier Bardem for best actor (Firth should of won for A Single Man (one of the best performances ever)), Jennifer Lawrence for leading actress because she embodies Winter's Bone, The Illusionist for animated feature because Toy Story 3 was not wholly filmic, Social Network for cinematography as it worked with and truly pushed HD technologies, David Fincher for director for making a concise and solid film (still not his best), and I Am Love should of been nominated/won for art direction because all the film was 100% beautiful art direction.

Stay down mother fucker. 

Film was shit this year. Our analysis of the show runners, Black Swan and King Speech establishes that the winners were far from the best films of the year. Fincher's output was a solid and then Winter's Bone at least constituted somewhat of a risk and of a underground spirit. Only the former though counts as something you should watch. Instead of losing sleep over the Oscar travesty, check out Joshua Martin's and my own top films of 2010. Then wait for issue 2 where we will have SW's collective top 10 that is joined by an analysis of why cinematic viewership was soul crushing in 2010.
 

You could also not waste your time and just start fighting for a world that is not decided by industry pay offs, but by an engaged populace who propagandize and circulate decent cinema themselves. If you make bad cinema, you will not be able to break into such a scene. Rather you will be put on trial and your verdict will be guilty. Your final goodbye apologies will work towards some relief to people who actually like movies. NO FREEDOM UNTIL CINEMA. 

-KARL