Thighs Wide Shut

these are things AND stuffs from this past weekend

Raiders of the Lost Ark:
The Adaptation

sometimes we’re ahead of the curve, and other times we’re behind the curve (NEVER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CURVE!!!).  well, it doesn’t matter where you are in the curve when it comes to the (basically) shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark that these Mississippi kids (Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb) made over the course of 8 years.  we heard about it less than a decade ago and it took us that long to finally see it (there’s no DVD available, and the charity screenings are rare), and it might take you a zillion years before you do, but even if yer 110 years old when you finally do-do, you’ll feel like yer 12 years old all over again, when taking in this improbable masterpiece that’s like Super 8, but like more realer, more awesomer, and even more awesomer cause it’s Raiders of The Lost Ark made by kids and they light themselves on fire and everything!!!

This is like the dream of every young person (we included),  but most young persons don’t turn dreams into reality (we still included), but these young persons did and made their dreams come true, and now there dreams are even coming morer truer!!  And everyone agrees it’s the shiz-balls (Eli Roth!), and it’s even been approved by the gods (Señor Spielbergo AND Turkeyneck Lucas!).  Strompolos & Zala were on hand at the screening for a Q&A, and they have as much enthusiasm for the film now as they did when theys was 12 and making it.  amaze-balls

watch the opening scene!!

+ some mo pics!

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we took in these two eggggzibits and they were lovely and they were free, which made them even lovelier!!

George Tooker (1920-2011): Reality Returns as a Dream at The DC Moore Gallery

this guy is damn goods, and his paintings are like creepy Edward Hopper flazzles, and he died earlier this year, and we didn’t give him peace the forks out props, and so we are sorry, but not as sorry as you if you don’t see this egggggzibit

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then there’s Picasso, who’s like an even more overrateder Fellini, but…

Picasso and Marie-Therese: L’amour fou at The Gagosian Gallery

is a mos fabulous collection of his paintings, sculptures and photos inspired by his muse & lover, with that super-pronounced nose, and it is all a seen to be sighted!!!

check out this CBS Sunday Morn piece on them and the show.  you know if they cover something, it’s gotta be good (cept for Jimmy Fallon)

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Mile End!

man, them were some dang sweet-ass meats treats that beats all others!!!!!

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The Catechism Cataclysm
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
75 min

The good?

We saw it outdoors and seeing movies outdoors is the bestestestest (thanks yous Rooftop Films & BAMcinemaFest), AND it starred Steve Little (Eastbound‘s Stevie Janowski), who can make us laugh juss by smiling.  It doesn’t even matter what he says, cause the way he sez things is somehow betterer than the way other people say the same eggzact things

The bad?

Any bit of the movie that doesn’t let Steve be Stevie, like when other characters talk and this 75 minute movie starts to feels like it’s 750 minutes, and like these Japanese girls show up and like explode heads or something.  it’s a mess, and all the fun & sorta good bits are at the beginning, before it heads down a river without a paddle, or a point

Only Steve Little diehards should apply when it gets released this fall, and so…

Verdictgo: Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badges

Picasso and Braque
Go to the Movies
Gleaming The Cubism
Official Website

Drawing direct comparisons and correlations between two art forms is always a tricky venture.  In college, we wrote a paper about how the architecture of Le Corbusier stacked up against the painters of his time.  It was virtually impossible to find a straight relationship between any of it, and our low grade was a solid confirmation of juss how difficult it is to do.  That did not stop Arne Glimcher from trying, as his hour long doc Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies attempts to find the link between early cinema (and aviation?) and the birth of Cubism.  Martin Scorsese, Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel and numerous others add to the conversation, but in the end, the only conclusions one can draw are that ye olde movies were magical and revolutionary, and the paintings of Pablo and Georges are still stuff to marvel at.  Isn’t this already common knowledge?  Yer better off watching a separate doc on Thomas Edison and The Lumière Bros’ contributions to their art form, and another that examines Picasso and Braque’s avant-garde art movement.  Art snooze-o!

What The Fudge?: crazy lady talks about Martin Scorsese and her painting of him

Verdictgo: Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badges

Picasso & Braque go broke in NY only today

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…