Dangerous Minds couldn’t think of a better 111th birthday salute to the Hitch than to review his far-too-short dream-sequence collaboration in Spellbound with the clown-prince of surrealism, Salvador Dali.
Rachel Campbell-Johnson wrote in detail about the team-up for the Times Online, and Joel Gunz at Alfred Hitchcock Geek went into Hitch’s affinity with surrealism.
Get: Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound [DVD]
Soothe me with your caress
Sweet marijuana… marijuana…
Help me in my distress
Sweet marijuana… please do…You alone can bring my lover back to me
Even though I know it’s all a fantasyAnd then put me to sleep
Sweet marijuana… marijuana…
Sweet Marijuana from the 1934 film ‘Murder At The Vanites’, pre-Hays code.
70 years before Lady Gaga, there was Carmen Miranda. In this wild and wonderful clip form The Gangs All Here, Carmen sings her signature tune ‘The Lady In The Tutti Frutti Hat’.
The Gangs All Here was made in 1943 and was Busby Berkeley’s first color film and, like in all of his films, he held nothing back. The colors, choreography and Carmen Miranda all come together in a surreal spectacle. Wow!
Although it screams of rip-off in flashing letters each the size of a New York brownstone, James Cameron’s Avatar is being re-released with eight additional minutes. Eight measly minutes? Shouldn’t there be some kind of ten year rule before “Director’s Cuts” get to pick our pockets again? And then I saw these two words “Na’vi Sex.” From MTV:
“You mean the alien kink scene?” [Cameron] joked. “It’s been restored, every last frame of it. Seriously,” he said, adding that the scene in question won’t break any records — it lasts all of about 20 seconds. “I would say, just so that we correctly manage people’s expectations,” he explained carefully, “it does not change our rating at all. I would call it more of an alien foreplay scene. It’s not like they’re ripping their clothes off and going at it.”
Fan-f*cking-tastic!
There’s a bonus shot of a nude Matt Berry at the end. Blink and you’ll miss it!
(via Nerdcore)
Here’s a fun space helmet collage. Now, can you name all the famous faces?
(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)
A funny and clever student film from 1978, heavily influenced by Firesign Theater, about a paranoiac’s dream device which might actually be useful, if not extremely amusing to wear. This is somehow related to the Orchid Spangiafora LP (but I’m not quite sure how, exactly) which features in the 2nd installment of the Dangerous Minds Radio Hour, coming soon to an internet near you.
Wherever you go, there you are. Wherever you are, there you go… Follow yourself to unknown destinations. Chase after yourself on a mysterious voyage of self-discovery…
The Bangladesh film industry is located in the city of Dhaka and is playfully referred to as Dhallywood. It produces about 100 films a year, a fraction of neighboring India’s Bollywood output.
Here’s a trailer of Dhallywood’s take on The Hulk. The special effects are pretty cheesy, but by Dhallywood standards this is big budget. It can’t be any worse than Ang Lee’s version