Stealing this idea from another thread.

Ok, you have been given a film festival. We'll say it's two nights. Friday and Saturday.

3 movies Friday night and Saturday they are gonna run it all day, so we'll say 5 movies on Saturday.

What's your fest look like? What movies will you show, what guests will you invite to speak? What's it called?

Who's first? Let's hear it.

This might take a while...
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The speakers would prob be actors/directors/writers/producers from the movies I choose.

The list would maybe be close to this

How many Ernest movies were there?

Well 'Ernest fucks a melon with a hole in it' bombed pretty bad, so I think that was it.
I imagine he's still making them at home, though.

Marsupialized wrote:Well 'Ernest fucks a melon with a hole in it' bombed pretty bad, so I think that was it.
I imagine he's still making them at home, though.

He died like 8 years while making Ernest the Pirate.
I'm not joking about the pirate movie even though I wish I was.

The festival is unnamed and by invitation only. Good homemade fish tacos will be served, an open bar and complimentary weed.

Friday night:




Saturday:






The only speaker will be Jodorowsky because he's so fucking out there.

If I had a film festival I'd do something mildly daring and screen nothing but films about psychological imprisonment.

All of the films in this festival would feature characters who aren't literally in prison but may as well be.


These people are trapped.

Somehow.


Could be like the kids in Nobody Knows, whose mother abandons them, leaving them to fend for themselves while dealing with the unspeakable strain of having to keep up appearances before an uncaring world. (For my money, this is the most accomplished film anyone's made in the 2000s.)

Could be like the priests in Winter Light and Diary of a Country Priest, who can't help but feel as if God has abandoned them, forsaking them with his indifference, relegating them to self-reflexive doubt. (Actually, just about every Bergman or Bresson film could play at this festival. Lotta Fassbinder too.)

Could be like the city man in Woman in the Dunes who, upon being physically trapped in a dune is forced to live out a patently Sisyphisian existence, literally working to survive. All day. Every day. With dead certainty. (At least this guy gets to get laid, though.)

For guests...Ugh...I too busy...D/E too busy...

Friday:

An Otto Mühl/Kurt Kren retrospective running simultaneously across two different screens.

Saturday:

Never seen any Kren films before, but I remember when he died.

Noticed recently that this VERY promising looking Austrian imprint, Index DVD has some of his films for sale. (Gonna wait until Xmas, when Index does their 2-for-1 deal again and snatch up the Peter Tscherkassky and Martin Arnold releases. Possibly do a blind buy, too.)