The second Midnight Video of 2012 has docked in the harbour of Podcast Bay and what cinematic treasures have we recovered from the ocean bed of film flotsam and jetsam.
The Artist is the film that has been on everyone's lip for months now. A loving homage to the silent cinema years of yore, but in 2007 Australian auteur Rolf De Heer had a similar idea to Michel Hazanavicius and gave the world Dr Plonk - a loving homage to the silent era that tips it's hats to the likes of Keaton, Lloyd and the Keystone Kops.
Next up is Poland's best selling film of all time (as of writing this still stands). Sexmission could be the utopian dreams of randy teenage boys the world over, but for Max and Albert the bizarre realities of a female-only world prove anything but dreamlike in this thinly veiled satire about life in a communist regime.
To round things off, we continue our 'British rock stars in the movies' season with the apparently little seen Julien Temple directed vanity project of a certain Michael Jagger. Running Out Of Luck sees The Jagger abandoned and lost in the middle of Brazil and presumed dead. Cue extensive music videos, cross dressing, hallucinations and one half of Cheech and Chong's female offspring.
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"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them." - Pauline Kael
Nowt to do with your latest podcast, but it is to do with the last MV Pissup at The Blue Posts tavern. It was said that the pub featured in the 1925 version of 'The Lost World', so having dug out my DVD of that fillum, I can confirm that the rampaging brontosaurus (or, for pedants, apatosaurus) does indeed attack a pub called The Blue Posts, but that the model of the pub in the film bears a street sign reading 'Berwick Street', on one corner of which there is a Blue Posts pub in real life (though it doesn't look much like the one in the fillum), so can't be the one we went to (which was on the corner of Newman St and Eastcastle St, and which also doesn't look much like the movie pub)...
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I reckon they've simply got mixed up. That pub resembles the one we went o, but maybe the model makers were familiar with The Blue Posts on Berwick St (I know that well as all the record shops are round there) - like you say it doesn't resemble the one in the film at all.
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