if you are the parkland marketplace grocery store in tacoma, washington i just watched your copy of CHARLIE BARNETT’S OF ENROLLMENT.
VHS.
trippy-drippy thrifty-drifty, filmmaker is obviously an idiot but we wear same size dunce cap (and share a mirror) so i could skitch behind this souped-up jalopy.
performances, craft and score were aces! the editor was an energy-drink chupacabra.
at the world premiere on national VCR day at the hollywood theatre as part of PORTLAND HORROR FESTIVAL!
SHOT ON VHSSS.
Didn't realize the female lead was Penelope's sister until I heard someone mention it in the lobby afterward. No wonder she got such intimate/intense stuff. Another long bath-tub scene -- revealing, sad and warm. Doesn't feel like a 46 year-old movie.
"I've had my nose broken four times."
haha. I cracked-up when the guy at the restaurant said “the menu is very big” and I didn’t know why. Felt like some real cinema-ass cinema. Really intoxicating rhythms. I appreciate the roadshow element, naturally juices the myth of this 35mm print being ed around from theatre to theatre, slowly and methodically accumulating memories, becoming more and more potent/powerful with each audience member’s sacrificial reaction (MEMORIA is a lot like THE HIGHLANDER in this way).
I’ll get to do my…