ShangOrama.com
presents
Remember our Fallen Filmmakers night!!!
Saturday, November 11, 2006 @Majlis: 163 Walnut AVE. (doors open at 7 pm)
- Come celebrate shangorama.com's first-month anniversary - ahhh - time flies, eh folks!!! -
8:00pm - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, 96', 35mm (1.66:1), B&W, stereo, UK/USA)
Dir/Prod: Stanley Kubrick (b.July 26, 1928 [New York, NY] - d. March 7, 1999 [Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England - heart attack, at his home]); wr: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, [based on the novel, Red Alert by Peter George]; ass'c't prod: Victor Lyndon; dop: Gilbert Taylor; editor: Anthony Harvey; pd: Ken Adam; art dir: Peter Murton; spFX: [dee one & only] Wally Veevers; music: Laurie Johnson [song:"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" sung by Louis Lambert - uncredited]; snd: John Cox; opening-title design: [Cuban-born] Pablo Ferro; aviation advisor: Captain John Crewdson; Production Company: Hawk Films; Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Swank/16
Cast: Peter Sellers (Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove); George C. Scott (Buck Turgidson); Sterling Hayden (Brig. General Jack D. Ripper); Keenan Wynn (Colonel "Bat" Guano); Slim Pickens (Major T. J. "King" Kong, pilot); Peter Bull (Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky); Tracy Reed (Miss Scott); James Earl Jones (Lt. Lothar Zogg, Navigator); Jack Creley (Mr. Staines); Glenn Beck (Lieutenant W. D. Kivel, Navigator); Shane Rimmer (Captain G.A. "Ace" Owens, Co-pilot); Frank Berry (Lieutenant H. R. Dietrich, D.S.O.); Paul Tamarin (Lieutenant B. Goldberg, Radio Operator); Gordon Tanner (General Faceman); Robert O'Neil (Admiral Randolph); Roy Stephens (Frank); (Members of Burpleson Base Defense Corps: Laurence Herder, John McCarthy, Hal Galili)
Narrator [first-lines of Dr.S]: "For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say."
No
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of you might pronounce this Doctor Strange-love, but unfortunately
I don't know any of those folks. Rather, here at shangorama.com, we pronounce
it Doctor
St. Rang-Love
(as in, "You Rang?").. But enough of those
shanger-isms!!! Arguably, this Sir Stanley Kubrick's most-popular film-ever
- #19 on imdb.com's Top-250 films. As, "dee world's only archival filmmaker"
I swear by imdb, and find it indispensable in my constant search for dee perfect
film programme-ever. You will get a taste of it on this night. First,
this greatest of comedies, just to set you up for dee heavy flic's that
follow.
To put Dr.S into perspective - without any spoilers - you must rennember that this film was released in North America on January 29, 1964, a mere 15-months after dee October [Cuban Missile] Crisis (1962) - tensions were still extremely high - so by all rights Kub couldn't really make Dr.S into a serious narrative film. It would not of worked, there was no hope back then because dee world could of ended on any given day. Like some of Kub's novelist's, Peter George - who's original draft was written as a serious drama - hated dee final film. The turning point was while in pre-production dee Cuban Missile Crisis occurred, an Kub quickly realized that that wouldn't of worked. So enter Terry Southern - dee comedic genius behind Dr.S, and who had first met Kub during his 1962 Lolita interview (linked below) - who was brought in to make George's Red Alert into a comedic film. It was Southern, who first suggest the final long-title for this flic, which at-de-time, had two working titles: A Delicate Balance of Terror & Edge of Doom - the film was never intended to be called Red Alert - and who coined dee crazy characters names: Brig General Jack D. Ripper, Premiere Kissoff, General "Buck" Turgidson (you get dee picture here). But, it was all done under dee watchful, and nurturing-eye of our-hero, Sir Stanley Kubrick!!! R.I.P. Kub!!!!
[Terry Southern recalls Dr.S] - "Notes from The War Room" (Reprinted from the journal "Grand Street", issue #49 [Hollywood]: 1991/2? - order your own copy here)
[Interview with Kubrick by Terry Southern: Unpublished; 1962; NYC] - from Southern's official website folks!!!
[The Art of Stanley Kubrick] - Video clip (13'50")
[The Pablo Ferro TRAILER for Dr.S] - Full-length & original Dr.S trailer (3'25") -&- [How Pablo Ferro made dee Dr.S trailer?] - great article about his career & with an interview
[Peter Sellers as Dr.S] - Video clip (5''52") - contains spoilers
10:00pm - Come and See (Idi i smotri) [1985, 142', 35mm [1.33:1], B&W/colour, stereo, USSR - language: Russian/Belarusian - w/subtitles]
Dir/Wr: Elem Klimov (July 9, 1933 [Stalingrad, USSR] - Oct 26, 2003 [Moscow: natural causes); wr: Ales Adamovich & Elem Klimov [based on stories by Ales Adamovich]; music: Oleg Yanchenko; non-original music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner [from opera "Die Walküre"]; dop: Aleksei Rodionov; editor: Valeriya Belova; pd/art dir/set dec: Viktor Petrov; cost des: Eleonora Semyonova; snd eng: Viktor Mors; music editor: Mina Blank; pm: S. Tereshchenko; AD's: N. Grakina, I. Levandovskaya, Afanasi Trishkin; make-up: V. Bolotnikov, S. Mikhlina, A. Zhurb; script supervisor: Anatoli Kudryavtsev, Ada Repina; military advisor: P. Gutenko; spFX co-ord: Albert Rudachenko; pyrotechnician's: N. Andreyev, Ya. Goldman, V. Zemnokha; spFX operator: Viktor Zhanov; camera operator: B. Galper; ass't camera: K. Klimin, N. Zuyev.
Cast: Aleksei Kravchenko (Florya Gaishun); Olga Mironova (Glasha); Liubomiras Lauciavicius (Kosachz); Vladas Bagdonas; Juris Lumiste; Viktor Lorents; Kazimir Rabetsky; Yevgeni Tilicheyev; Aleksandr Berda; G. Velts; V. Vasilyev; Igor Gnevashev; Vasili Domrachyov; G. Yelkin; Ye. Kryzhanovsky; N. Lisichenok; Vladimir Manayev; Takhir Matyullin; Pyotr Merkuryev; Valentin Mishatkin; G. Matytsky; Yevgeniya Polyakova; Anatoli Slivnikov; Georgi Strokov; Tatyana Shestakova; Oleg Shapko.
It's a harrowing account of Nazi brutality in Belarus in 1943, and it's the
most brutal war film-ever folks!!! Not for dee faint of heart. And here
I thought Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron (1977) held that
honour. I want to thank Toronto's Ken Hann & Matti from Iceland
for suggesting that I show this amazin' flic. Until their e-mails arrived
I had never heard of this one [but I do see that it's #200 on imdb's top-250
list]. Thanx for all your amazin' e-mails and love - keep them coming. There
are images in this flic that will haunt you until your dying days folks. So
be forewarned. How can you truly make a narrative about dee death of 25 million
Soviet people during WWII - that's over half of everyone killed in that war.
Rennember, for over three-years, the Germans had well-over 75% of all their
resources (personnel & equipment) tied up in that "RUSSIAN FRONT."
If it weren't for dee Soviets literally throwing bodies at them, we would
be speaking 'German' now - no offence to dee German offspring hence folks!!!
OK? D-day was a walk-in-dee-park, compared with what you will
see in tonight's film - with full respect to dee veterans here folks (thanx),
but even they will be shocked at what lurks deep in dee bowels of
C&S!!! Mysteriously, this is Klimov's last film,
a good 18-years before he died - there's a story for you here folks, but at
this time I'm not sure what that is?
"A boy is unwillingly thrust into the atrocities of war in WWII Byelorussia, fighting for a hopelessly unequipped resistance movement against the ruthless German forces. Witnessing scenes of abject terror and accidentally surviving horrifying situations he loses his innocence and then his mind." [imdb]
"Many of the uniforms seen throughout the film are originals. Live ammunition was used in the film - in interviews, actor Aleksei Kravchenko has described actual bullets passing some 10 centimeters above his head. Filmed in chronological sequence. The director planned to have Aleksei Kravchenko hypnotized by a psychotherapist during the most dreadful and violent scenes so that they wouldn't affect his young mind. However Kravchenko turned out not to be susceptible to hypnosis and had to pretend all the way." [imdb] R.I.P. Elem!!!
[dee career of Elem Klimov] - great article in Kinoeye
[10' Video clip] - NB: Spoilers & extreme-brutality!!!!!!
[Order dee 2003 DVD from 'Kino Video'] - dee official distributor
12:45am - The Mirror (Zerkola) [1975, 106', 35mm [1.33:1], B&W/colour, stereo, USSR - language: Russian/Spanish - w/subtitles]
Dir/Wr: Andrei Tarkovsky (April 4, 1932 [Zavrazhe, Ivanono, Belarus] - Dec 29,1986 [Paris, France - lung cancer]); co-wr: Aleksandr Misharin; prod: Erik Waisberg; dop: Georgi Rerberg; editor: Lyudmila Feiginova; pd: Nikolai Dvigubsky; cost des: Yelena Fomina; music: Eduard Artemyev; non-original music: Johann Sebastian Bach (1. Coro "Herr, unser Herrscher, dessen Ruhm" from "Johannespassion" BWV. 245); Johann Sebastian Bach (16. "Das alte Jahre vergangen ist" BWV 614, from "Orgelbüchlein"); Johann Sebastian Bach (33. Retitativo - Evangelist "Und siehe da, der Vorhang im Tempel" from "Johannespassion" BWV. 245); Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (12. "Quando corpus" from "Stabat Mater"); Henry Purcell (song "They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers" from opera "The Indian Queen" Act 4); snd: Semyon Litvinov; spFX: Yuri Potapov & Mosfilm F/X Unit; make-up artist: Vera Rudina; Ass't Dir's: Maria Chugunova, Larisa Tarkovskaya [his wife] .
Cast: Margarita Terekhova (Mother/Natalya); Ignat Daniltsev (Ignat, Alyosha [Aleksei]); [Tarkovsky's wife since 1964 & Mother of Andrei Tarkovsky Jr.] Larisa Tarkovskaya (Nadezha [Wealthy woman]); Alla Demidova (Lisa, Mother's friend at printing house); Anatoli Solonitsyn (Forensic doctor/Pedestrian); Tamara Ogorodnikova (Nanny/Neighbour/Strange woman at the tea table); Yuri Nazarov (Military trainer); Oleg Yankovsky (Father); Filipp Yankovsky (Aleksei, age 5); Yuri Sventisov (Yuri Zhary); Tamara Reshetnikova; Innokenti Smoktunovsky (Narrator [voice]); [Tarkovsky's father] Arseni Tarkovsky (Narrator [poetry]); [Tarkovsky's mother] Maria Ivanovna; [rest of cast listed alphabetically]: L. Correcer; E. Del Bosque; Tatiana Del Bosque; Teresa Del Bosque; Diego García; Nikolai Grinko (Director of printery); Alejandro Gutiérrez; Teresa Rames; [Tarkovsky's Stepdaughter] Olga Kizilova (Redhead [uncredited]).
Originally
shot in 35mm, 16mm & 8mm!!! "The
Mirror, also known as Mirror or Zerkalo, is a 1975 Mosfilm's movie by Andrei
Tarkovsky, which has spawned a cult following among Soviet intellectuals.
It has been hailed as the most poetic of Tarkovsky's films. The movie is autobiographical,
with some poems by Tarkovsky's father being recited and his mother's voice
being heard. The film rhythmically blends contemporary scenes with scenes
of childhood and newsreel footage. It has no apparent plot, and its loose
flow of visually oneiric images was compared to the "stream of consciousness"
technique in literature. Innokenty Smoktunovsky provides the voice of
the unseen narrator, Margarita Terekhova plays both his mother and wife, Alla
Demidova appears as her friend, while Oleg Yankovsky and his 4-year-old son
Philip make brief but memorable appearances as the narrator's father and son,
respectively." [quote]
"Tarkovsky was born in 1932 in Zavrazhe in what is now Belarus. He was the son of noted poet Arseni Tarkovski and actress Maria Ivanovna. His parents divorced while he was still a child. His father's poetry features in Mirror, Stalker and Nostalgia (1983), and his mother appears in Mirror" [quote] R.I.P. Andrei!!!
[dee career of Andrei Tarkovsky] - great article!!!
[THREE great Video's about dee "Poet of the cinema" Tarkovsky]
[Order dee 2004 DVD from 'Kino Video'] - dee official distributor
See you Saturday @Majlis: 163 Walnut AVE!!!
---1-1/2 bks S. of Queen; 1-bk W. Niagara [2-lil'Lights W. Bathurst]---[map]
We have TWO big propane heaters, and with all you lovely folks here... it will be toasty!!! Majlis was kindly donated to shangOrama.com by Trish & Ed (big up!) P.P.-heaven folks. The space is an indoor/outdoor combined venue with a huge open wall (25'-ish by 9') separating them so you smokers can certainly smoke-away DURING dee screenings!!! Now is that not a civilized way to watch movies.... (((beep! beep!))) We have a HUGE screen (13.5' x 10'), 6 hi-fi speakers, all dee above aspect ratio's will be honoured here, and lots of refreshments. They don't call me dee "Worlds only archival filmmaker" for nothing folks!!! As always Shanger Lattes & Shanger Vegan pasta will be served for your viewing pleasure!!! Don't forget that dee last event was our 12-hr 'Friday dee 13th' Movie Marathon? So dress warmly in layers, because I want you to get used to this idea of having more of these movie marathons in dee very near future. We Canadian's should specialize in covered outdoor screenings in dee WINTER. Dee key folks, it must be toasty, and it will be!!!(((imagine a: 36-hr Stanley Kubrick MM; or a 33-hr David Lynch MM; a 24-hr Peter Mettler MM; or, a 10-day Stan Brakhage fest; or, my fave dee, 88-hr Frank Zappa MM - he directed over 28-films folks))) Bring a friend, or two, hunker down, and enjoy this great line-up of films. Another big-up thanx to dee OMee's (Sumkidz) for everything - respect!!! Shang shang!!! Just relax, sit back, and enjoy. As always, yours truly MC Shanger, will introduce every film, just to put it all in perspective, and again for your viewing pleasure. Ciao, and Shang Shang Shangers!!! (((Toot! Toot!!!)))
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