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Jan 18 · 5 notes

internet!

we are going on a road trip; the tentative itinerary is iowa, chicago, cleveland, buffalo/upstate new york?, nyc. do you know fun things we should do in any of these places? we have iowa and chicago (and nyc, natch, although i always want to hear about new things in the city) pretty well covered. do you want to hang out with two internet weirdos? do you have suggestions for songs/albums we should listen to on the drive? drop a line.

Aug 21 · 7 notes
not to brag, but next week is actually an amazing week for film in ny: skolimowski at the museum of the moving image, rivette (duelle) & robbe-grillet (trans-europ express) plus mala morska at spectacle, les blank at moma, bam cinemafest. i actually have to make some sophie’s choice-esque decisions.

not to brag, but next week is actually an amazing week for film in ny: skolimowski at the museum of the moving image, rivette (duelle) & robbe-grillet (trans-europ express) plus mala morska at spectacle, les blank at moma, bam cinemafest. i actually have to make some sophie’s choice-esque decisions.

Jun 16 · 18 notes
have any of you been to iceland?

hit me up if you have. i have antsy pants and a lot of questions.

Feb 23
i need more help, tumblr

how can i get ups to leave a package at our door since our buzzer doesn’t work?

i signed the first slip, stuck it up this morning, and the delivery guy today left another slip right next to that one. what the fuck dude i hate you so much. GIVE ME MY FUCKING GAP.COM ORDER SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO COME BACK.

Oct 13
y/n?

y/n?

Oct 12
unbearablevision: The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971) “Shot at Pinewood on awe-inspiringly pristine sets designed by fledgling artist Derek Jarman to evoke Huxley’s image of “a rape in a public toilet”, The Devils was a controversial project from the outset. Initially written for United Artists, for whom Russell had already directed three successful movies (Billion Dollar Brain, 1967; Women in Love, 1969; The Music Lovers, 1970), The Devils was promptly dropped when “somebody at UA actually read the script” and was subsequently picked up by a rival studio. Even before shooting was complete, salacious stories began to appear in the British press of naked nuns being sexually assaulted by drunken extras during the filming of the demonic orgy scenes, and of underage performers being present during the rehearsals for a scene involving nudity. Lengthy negotiations with the British censors resulted finally in the granting of an ‘X’ certificate, which was promptly overturned by many local councils (which simply banned the film outright) and vociferously opposed by Festival of Light spokesman Peter Thompson, who called for the certificate to be withdrawn and for new chief censor Stephen Murphy to resign. Meanwhile, the howl of critical outrage that greeted the film’s release in the summer of 1971 came to a head when an apoplectic Russell physically attacked Evening Standard writer Alexander Walker live on national television, striking him about the head with a copy of his own review in a confrontation that has gone down in the annals of British television history. But for all the public agitation The Devils provoked, it has only ever been seen in versions which dilute the unfettered excesses of Russell’s intentionally ferocious vision and which temper the on-screen extremities the director had worked such magic to conjure. Twice butchered in America by its own distributors (for both ‘X’- and later ‘R’-rated US releases), the most complete version remains the British ‘X’-rated edition which BBFC records log as having been trimmed by 89 seconds prior to the film’s UK release. Yet my own investigations have revealed that somewhere between four and five minutes of footage which Russell intended for inclusion was slashed from The Devils prior to BBFC submission, consigning entire sequences to the cutting-room floor, most notoriously the orgiastic centrepiece that has become known as the holy grail of Russell’s black mass: the ‘rape of Christ’. In Russell’s original vision this sequence was to be both the thematic and visual climax of The Devils, bringing the various threads of political, religious and sexual corruption together in a scene of spectacular perversion. In the original assembly this sequence immediately followed an act of deception by the king, who visits the carousing nuns of Loudun in disguise to see for himself the “miracle” of their alleged demonic possession. Handing Father Barre a holy relic which he claims to be a phial of Christ’s own blood, the king watches in amusement as his gift swiftly drives the demons from the gibbering nuns before being revealed to be nothing but an empty box. Spurred to new heights of hysteria, the nuns batter Father Barre to the floor and unclothe a priest before charging the altar where hangs a vast statue of an anguished Christ. Tearing down the crucifix and laying it on the floor, the nuns proceed to engage in a maniacal ravaging of the statue, watched from on high by a masturbating Father Mignon whose breathless exertions are matched by a series of eye-popping crash-zooms from an overhead view of the blasphemous orgy.” (via BFI) so: the version i have (grabbed from cg, i believe) is the relatively standard, from what i’ve heard, 111 minute version that does have the rape of christ scene intact, but not the final scene of sister jeanne masturbating with the charred bone. where can i find the version with those extra few minutes? yeah, yeah, pervert.

unbearablevision:

The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)

“Shot at Pinewood on awe-inspiringly pristine sets designed by fledgling artist Derek Jarman to evoke Huxley’s image of “a rape in a public toilet”, The Devils was a controversial project from the outset. Initially written for United Artists, for whom Russell had already directed three successful movies (Billion Dollar Brain, 1967; Women in Love, 1969; The Music Lovers, 1970), The Devils was promptly dropped when “somebody at UA actually read the script” and was subsequently picked up by a rival studio. Even before shooting was complete, salacious stories began to appear in the British press of naked nuns being sexually assaulted by drunken extras during the filming of the demonic orgy scenes, and of underage performers being present during the rehearsals for a scene involving nudity. Lengthy negotiations with the British censors resulted finally in the granting of an ‘X’ certificate, which was promptly overturned by many local councils (which simply banned the film outright) and vociferously opposed by Festival of Light spokesman Peter Thompson, who called for the certificate to be withdrawn and for new chief censor Stephen Murphy to resign. Meanwhile, the howl of critical outrage that greeted the film’s release in the summer of 1971 came to a head when an apoplectic Russell physically attacked Evening Standard writer Alexander Walker live on national television, striking him about the head with a copy of his own review in a confrontation that has gone down in the annals of British television history.

But for all the public agitation The Devils provoked, it has only ever been seen in versions which dilute the unfettered excesses of Russell’s intentionally ferocious vision and which temper the on-screen extremities the director had worked such magic to conjure. Twice butchered in America by its own distributors (for both ‘X’- and later ‘R’-rated US releases), the most complete version remains the British ‘X’-rated edition which BBFC records log as having been trimmed by 89 seconds prior to the film’s UK release. Yet my own investigations have revealed that somewhere between four and five minutes of footage which Russell intended for inclusion was slashed from The Devils prior to BBFC submission, consigning entire sequences to the cutting-room floor, most notoriously the orgiastic centrepiece that has become known as the holy grail of Russell’s black mass: the ‘rape of Christ’.

In Russell’s original vision this sequence was to be both the thematic and visual climax of The Devils, bringing the various threads of political, religious and sexual corruption together in a scene of spectacular perversion. In the original assembly this sequence immediately followed an act of deception by the king, who visits the carousing nuns of Loudun in disguise to see for himself the “miracle” of their alleged demonic possession. Handing Father Barre a holy relic which he claims to be a phial of Christ’s own blood, the king watches in amusement as his gift swiftly drives the demons from the gibbering nuns before being revealed to be nothing but an empty box. Spurred to new heights of hysteria, the nuns batter Father Barre to the floor and unclothe a priest before charging the altar where hangs a vast statue of an anguished Christ. Tearing down the crucifix and laying it on the floor, the nuns proceed to engage in a maniacal ravaging of the statue, watched from on high by a masturbating Father Mignon whose breathless exertions are matched by a series of eye-popping crash-zooms from an overhead view of the blasphemous orgy.”

(via BFI)

so: the version i have (grabbed from cg, i believe) is the relatively standard, from what i’ve heard, 111 minute version that does have the rape of christ scene intact, but not the final scene of sister jeanne masturbating with the charred bone. where can i find the version with those extra few minutes? yeah, yeah, pervert.

Jul 7 · 33 notes
those of you who know better than i: tell me which of these films (except belle de jour) are most essential to see during this program. i have some ideas, but i love a second opinion.

those of you who know better than i: tell me which of these films (except belle de jour) are most essential to see during this program. i have some ideas, but i love a second opinion.

Jun 9