Movies
Buster Makes Room for His Mama at the Bargain Counter
Actually, it's Tige who deserves all the credit.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 13, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Shopping, Comics, Children, Dogs, 1900s
The C-3PO ‘Golden Rod’ Card
In 1977, Topps issued a set of Star Wars trading cards. The set included one card that would, arguably, become the most infamous card it ever printed. This was the so-called C-3PO 'golden rod' card — so called because it seems to show C-3PO in a state of prominent arousal.
Mel magazine recently posted an article which explores the history of this card. The article makes a couple of interesting points:
First, Topps not only really did issue this card... it printed a lot of them. This isn't a rare card.
Second (and to me this is the most remarkable thing), no one involved in the creation of the card noticed its most salient feature until after it had been released and word started to spread among card collectors.
Finally, there's no evidence that the card was the work of a rogue artist. The most compelling theory about what happened is that a panel on the side of C-3PO's armor plating must have accidentally fallen open, and was in exactly the right position to create the illusion of robotic arousal. And then, for whatever reason, Topps selected that image, out of all the possible ones, to print.
Eventually Topps released a corrected version of the card (below). Apparently this corrected version is rarer, and more collectible, than the original. Though, ideally, a collector would want to have both.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 09, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Robots, Collectors, 1970s
The Punched Tape of Life
The first 70 seconds are abstract, but then come visuals that--tell a story?View six more of his films here.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 09, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Avant Garde, 1960s, Europe
The Singing Ringing Tree
A snippet, then the whole film.The Wikipedia page, where we learn:
The TV series, partly due to its foreignness as both fairy tale and for the unfamiliarity of its German production, was 'indelibly carved on the psyches'[7] as 'one of the most frightening things ever shown on [UK] children's television'.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 26, 2021 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Horror, Movies, Children, Foreign Customs, 1950s
Stunt Rock
The trailer first, then the backstory.The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 14, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Destruction, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Music, 1980s
Moon Zero Two
Welcome to 2021, the year in which the 1969 movie Moon Zero Two was set. It was promoted as "the first Moon western". From Wikipedia:For some reason the trailer for the movie inexplicably identified the year as 2028, even though in the movie itself the date was clearly shown as 2021.
You can watch the entire movie for free on YouTube:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 01, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Science Fiction, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Close Encounters Hologram
Extraterrestrial-attracting jewelry!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 29, 2020 -
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Category: Aliens, Jewelry, Movies, 1970s
The Night Mayor
Night Mayor, Guy Maddin, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
An explanation.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 25, 2020 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Inventions, Movies, North America, Twenty-first Century
RIP Maria Makowska-Kalinowska, Champion Moviegoer
"Today, Ms. Maria Kalinowska, the greatest Poznań (Polish, and probably the largest in the scale of the universe) cinema lover, has passed away today," wrote the employees of the cinema to which Maria regularly visited her husband. A married couple wrote down each screening in a notebook - they could spend whole days in the cinema, equipped with sandwiches. People from Poznań who regularly visit the Muza Cinema had to meet them at least once.
News article source of quote.
Their Wikipedia page says:
Maria Makowska-Kalinowska (1945 – 14 November 2020) and Bogdan Kalinowski (1939 – 9 November 2017) were a married couple from Poznań, Poland, known as the most avid filmgoers in Poland. They watched films in cinemas of Poznań regularly from 1973 on. In 2010 alone they watched 563 films. Altogether, between 1973 and 2010 they had viewed over 11,000 films together; by mid-2015 the total exceeded 13,000.[
Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski were librarians, and they met during a course for librarians. There was also a library of the films watched, which they meticulously kept. The Kalinowski family went to every film festival, sat down with notebooks in their hands and took notes of every film they watched. And they saw thousands of them together - in 2017, when Mr. Bogdan died, this number probably exceeded 16,000.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 17, 2020 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Eccentrics, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Europe
To Be Alive
Moments of surreal or bizarre imagery in a nice little film about enjoying life.
One weird addendum: you are seeing only one-third of the film. The film was meant to run on three screens simultaneously, with different imagery on each screen, although sometimes, I think, they synchronized.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 15, 2020 -
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Category: Movies, Documentaries, Philosophy, Surrealism, 1960s
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