Been meaning to link to this for a few weeks now, but Rupert Owen has posted up the slides from a talk he gave about starting a viable streaming video business. Of course, these would be much better with Owen talking along with them, but still very interesting to flip through and gives much to think about.News worth rejoicing over: Waylon Bacon’s putting together a compilation DVD of his amazing short films. He picked the best picture for the cover, too.Felix Vasquez Jr. of Cinema Crazed recently interviewed two of my favorite documentary people, Vic Zimet and Stephanie Silber of Random Lunacy fame.For the L Magazine, Mark Asch has a quick round-up of some of this year’s SXSW films, including the much anticipated The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye by Marie Losier. Asch says it’s “as intensely familiar to the doc’s core...
- 3/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Hey there kids! Here is an updated list of releases for 2011 by Strand Releasing. Enjoy!
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Drama/Fantasy)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Syndromes and a Century, Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours). Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave . the birthplace of his first life. In his signature cinematic style, the acclaimed Thai filmmaker delivers a strange and mystical world of visionary beauty. Winner of the Palme d.Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Thailand.s Official Selection for Best Foreign Language Film for the 84th Annual Academy Awards.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Drama/Fantasy)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Syndromes and a Century, Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours). Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave . the birthplace of his first life. In his signature cinematic style, the acclaimed Thai filmmaker delivers a strange and mystical world of visionary beauty. Winner of the Palme d.Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Thailand.s Official Selection for Best Foreign Language Film for the 84th Annual Academy Awards.
- 3/9/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Harassed director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Richard Wolstencroft, has Tweeted and posted on his Facebook wall that his Diversion Notice was “held and accepted” by Magistrate Luisa Bazzani on Wednesday in Melbourne, Australia. Wolstencroft had been charged for screening an “obscene” movie in defiance of the government’s Office of Film and Literature Classification board.
Down Under, a Diversion Notice can be offered to first time offenders so that felony charges do not appear on the defendant’s record and that the only real penalty is a modest fine. In Wolstencroft’s case, he has been ordered to make a donation to charity.
Wolstencroft’s harassment dates back to the 11th annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival, which was held at the end of August 2010. On the 29th of that month, Muff held a secret screening of Bruce Labruce‘s homoerotic horror movie L.A. Zombie, which had been labeled as unclassified by the Oflc.
Down Under, a Diversion Notice can be offered to first time offenders so that felony charges do not appear on the defendant’s record and that the only real penalty is a modest fine. In Wolstencroft’s case, he has been ordered to make a donation to charity.
Wolstencroft’s harassment dates back to the 11th annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival, which was held at the end of August 2010. On the 29th of that month, Muff held a secret screening of Bruce Labruce‘s homoerotic horror movie L.A. Zombie, which had been labeled as unclassified by the Oflc.
- 2/23/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Richard Wolstencroft, founder and director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, has been offered a Diversion Notice by the Australian Court following his unauthorized screening of the film L.A. Zombie, directed by Bruce Labruce, way back in August, 2010. Wolstencroft’s home was subsequently raided in November by authorities looking for copies of the film. As of this writing, Wolstencroft has not announced whether or not he will accept the notice’s provisions.
In Australia, a Diversion Notice can be granted to a first time offender so that the accused can pay a penalty, but felony charges will not appear on his official record. In Wolstencroft’s case, he’s being offered the choice to simply donate a so-far undisclosed amount of money to a charity for the offense of screening a movie.
Wolstencroft does have the option of refusing the Diversion Notice’s demands. If that were to be the case,...
In Australia, a Diversion Notice can be granted to a first time offender so that the accused can pay a penalty, but felony charges will not appear on his official record. In Wolstencroft’s case, he’s being offered the choice to simply donate a so-far undisclosed amount of money to a charity for the offense of screening a movie.
Wolstencroft does have the option of refusing the Diversion Notice’s demands. If that were to be the case,...
- 1/25/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Jeez people, what the hell? You guys do realize Pajiba Love is a place where we make fun of stupid celebrities and watch funny-cute dog videos, right? Not that I don't appreciate the open exchange of ideas and stuff, but... Yikes. Chill, out guys. Anyway, I'm taking the Figgy route here and posting a hot, muscley shirtless guy in order to soothe you; the only difference is, unlike Figgy's wussy guy, mine is bigger and more imposing because he will not take your shit and if he catches you guys in another us v. them thing again, he will mess you up. I don't care how annoying they are; for the sake of my ever-expanding email box, play nice!
And now, just to show you I still love you all: Zombie Sharks. Specifically, there's a film adaptation of Afterburn starring Gerard Butler and zombie sharks. Did I mention the zombie sharks?...
And now, just to show you I still love you all: Zombie Sharks. Specifically, there's a film adaptation of Afterburn starring Gerard Butler and zombie sharks. Did I mention the zombie sharks?...
- 11/17/2010
- by Jeremy Feist
On Thursday, Australian authorities raided the home of Richard Wolstencroft, director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, looking for a copy of L.A. Zombie, the controversial Bruce Labruce hardcore gay pornographic film that Muff screened back on August 29.
Prior to fest, in July, the government Classification Board refused to grant an exemption to the film so that it could be screened legally in a public setting. In defiance of the ruling, Muff went ahead and held a “secret” screening of the film that was publicly announced as pre-planned, but exact details of the location and time weren’t given out until the day of on Facebook.
Australian newspaper The Age reports that about 200 people attended the screening. Authorities never appeared at the screening and Australian society failed to crumble in the screening’s wake. But, three months later, three detectives brandishing a warrant swept through Wolstencroft’s home looking for...
Prior to fest, in July, the government Classification Board refused to grant an exemption to the film so that it could be screened legally in a public setting. In defiance of the ruling, Muff went ahead and held a “secret” screening of the film that was publicly announced as pre-planned, but exact details of the location and time weren’t given out until the day of on Facebook.
Australian newspaper The Age reports that about 200 people attended the screening. Authorities never appeared at the screening and Australian society failed to crumble in the screening’s wake. But, three months later, three detectives brandishing a warrant swept through Wolstencroft’s home looking for...
- 11/12/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Bruce Labruce's L.A. Zombie, in which gay porn star François Sagat is a Los Angeles zombie (or a schizophrenic homeless man?) who uses (really kinky) sex to bring the dead back to life What's a democracy? A place where police can raid someone's house because its resident has dared to show a banned movie? Nah. Those things would never happen in a democracy. By the way, one such instance has just taken place in Australia. For holding a public "protest screening" of Bruce Labruce's L.A. Zombie, a cinematic mix of sex & gore, at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (Muff) back in August, Melbourne police have raided the home of filmmaker Richard Wolstencroft, Muff's founder and director. You'd think Melbourne police would have better things to do, and you're undoubtedly right. But attempting to confiscate kinky "gay zombie porn" — which had already been destroyed — sounds like so much more...
- 11/12/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Police have raided the home of Australian filmmaker Richard Wolstencroft after he allegedly broke the law by holding a public screening of banned horror movie L.A. Zombie.
The controversial film, directed by Bruce Labruce and starring gay porn actor Francois Sagat, was due to be shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival in July, but the premiere was cancelled after officials at the Australian Classification Board refused to sanction the picture, which has been described as "gay zombie porn".
The Beautiful and The Damned director Wolstencroft, who runs the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, allegedly defied the ban over the summer by hosting a public screening of the film.
Under Australian law, films which are refused classification may not be imported, sold, or distributed, which includes screening at public events.
Cops searched the director's Melbourne home on Thursday morning and questioned him in connection with allegedly "exhibiting and possessing an unclassified film". Wolstencroft will appear in court at a later date to face unspecified charges.
The director tells the Aap, "Obviously we are really surprised that this has happened. We are talking to lawyers and we will prepare a defence... We have exhibited lesbian films, gay films, controversial political films. (L.A. Zombie) is people acting. Bruce Labruce is a well regarded international filmmaker... I'm not sure what the problem is here."...
The controversial film, directed by Bruce Labruce and starring gay porn actor Francois Sagat, was due to be shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival in July, but the premiere was cancelled after officials at the Australian Classification Board refused to sanction the picture, which has been described as "gay zombie porn".
The Beautiful and The Damned director Wolstencroft, who runs the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, allegedly defied the ban over the summer by hosting a public screening of the film.
Under Australian law, films which are refused classification may not be imported, sold, or distributed, which includes screening at public events.
Cops searched the director's Melbourne home on Thursday morning and questioned him in connection with allegedly "exhibiting and possessing an unclassified film". Wolstencroft will appear in court at a later date to face unspecified charges.
The director tells the Aap, "Obviously we are really surprised that this has happened. We are talking to lawyers and we will prepare a defence... We have exhibited lesbian films, gay films, controversial political films. (L.A. Zombie) is people acting. Bruce Labruce is a well regarded international filmmaker... I'm not sure what the problem is here."...
- 11/11/2010
- WENN
The camera surveys the scene: a desolate beach, save the cries of a few gulls…until a muscular man in conspicuous, contour-exaggeration makeup appears in the surf. Is this a Fulci-esque killer-corpse movie in the mold of Zombie? No, it’s Bruce Labruce’s take on the ghoul genre, L.A. Zombie, a film that forces the audience to feel the tension between two of horror’s favorite themes: death and sex. To get the gore—and the heart—of this strangely introspective indie film, we have to follow our undead hero through a story that consists almost entirely of situations in which he sexually stimulates male cadavers back to life, often in salacious close-up.
- 11/9/2010
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Karen Oughton)
- Fangoria
François Sagat in Bruce Labruce's L.A. Zombie The 18th MixBrasil Film Festival of Sexual Diversity (a longer but much more appropriate moniker than "queer") will take place Nov. 11-18 in São Paulo and Nov. 26 (only one day) in Rio de Janeiro. MixBrasil will open with a screening of Javier Fuentes-León's Peruvian drama Contracorriente / Undertow, World Cinema (Dramatic) Audience Award winner at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and Peru’s 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission. This supernatural romantic drama has been described as "Ghost meets Brokeback Mountain." Among the other screening films featuring people (and a few zombies) of various sexual orientations are: Bruce Labruce's L.A. Zombie, a psychological, socially conscious, sexually explicit trip through decadent Los Angeles, where XXX superstar François Sagat's flesh-eating zombie brings back to life the dead men he finds on his path. Danish-based Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Oliveira's feature-film debut Rosa Morena,...
- 11/5/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Craig here. It's Halloween and the new horror tv series The Walking Dead is nearly upon us. This is what I've been thinking about day-to-day for the last few weeks. So here's a Tuesday Top Ten Special (i.e. it's on the weekend instead... and it's Halloween themed) to get you thinking about all things zombified. Perfect for a day made for the dead. Alive or recently embalmed, all enter here. But shuffle in s-l-o-w-l-y now...
A Top Ten Undernourished and Underloved Zombie Characters (in no order) are all getting some love this Halloween. Who's first out of the grave...?
1. Colin in Colin (2008)
Colin: the most exotically-named zombie character ever
Poor old Colin. He should rank alongside Day of the Dead’s Bub as one of the most sympathetic cinematic zombies ever. Apparently it only cost director Marc Price £45 to bring Colin to the screen; not a penny was...
A Top Ten Undernourished and Underloved Zombie Characters (in no order) are all getting some love this Halloween. Who's first out of the grave...?
1. Colin in Colin (2008)
Colin: the most exotically-named zombie character ever
Poor old Colin. He should rank alongside Day of the Dead’s Bub as one of the most sympathetic cinematic zombies ever. Apparently it only cost director Marc Price £45 to bring Colin to the screen; not a penny was...
- 10/31/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
German company to distribute gay porn zombie movie? No surprise.
Just when it seemed like you couldn't make a gay porn movie with zombies in it and not cause a controversy anymore, Canadian director Bruce Labruce's L.A. Zombie was picked up for distribution by a Berlin production company M-Appeal which will release L.A. Zombie through their specialty label Raspberry & Cream, intended for projects "outside the art house mainstream." And boy, does L.A. Zombie fit that description.
Starring French porn star Francois Sagat as a schizophrenic homeless man who thinks he can bring the dead back to life by sticking his penis in their orifices, L.A. Zombie just had its premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where a 63-minute, soft-core version. IndieWire's review claims L.A. Zombie "unquestionably works as a meditation on the urban vapidity of Los Angeles" though also says the "five sexual encounters inspire laughter at first,...
Just when it seemed like you couldn't make a gay porn movie with zombies in it and not cause a controversy anymore, Canadian director Bruce Labruce's L.A. Zombie was picked up for distribution by a Berlin production company M-Appeal which will release L.A. Zombie through their specialty label Raspberry & Cream, intended for projects "outside the art house mainstream." And boy, does L.A. Zombie fit that description.
Starring French porn star Francois Sagat as a schizophrenic homeless man who thinks he can bring the dead back to life by sticking his penis in their orifices, L.A. Zombie just had its premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where a 63-minute, soft-core version. IndieWire's review claims L.A. Zombie "unquestionably works as a meditation on the urban vapidity of Los Angeles" though also says the "five sexual encounters inspire laughter at first,...
- 8/12/2010
- HugAZombie
Cologne, Germany -- Berlin world sales outfit M-Appeal is launching a specialty label Raspberry & Cream for titles outside the art house mainstream, kicking off with Bruce La Bruce's horror/gay porn mash up "L.A. Zombie."
The new feature from the controversial Canadian director features adult film star Francois Sagat as an alien zombie who screws dead men back to life. The soft-core version of "L.A. Zombie" will screen at the Locarno Film Festival (Aug. 4-14).
M-Appeal's managing director Maren Kroymann says the R'n'c label will focus on more "extreme and radical" films including genre titles. Raspberry & Cream won't be solely genre-based but the approach is similar to ventures by several world sales agents including Celluloid Dreams, whose Celluloid Nightmares shingle handles horror titles and Jinga Films' genre brand Uxb (Unexploded Bomb).
Kroymann says the trend is in reaction to problems in the traditional art house market, where television revenues...
The new feature from the controversial Canadian director features adult film star Francois Sagat as an alien zombie who screws dead men back to life. The soft-core version of "L.A. Zombie" will screen at the Locarno Film Festival (Aug. 4-14).
M-Appeal's managing director Maren Kroymann says the R'n'c label will focus on more "extreme and radical" films including genre titles. Raspberry & Cream won't be solely genre-based but the approach is similar to ventures by several world sales agents including Celluloid Dreams, whose Celluloid Nightmares shingle handles horror titles and Jinga Films' genre brand Uxb (Unexploded Bomb).
Kroymann says the trend is in reaction to problems in the traditional art house market, where television revenues...
- 8/3/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We've seen about every kind of zombie film mutation you can imagine over the course of the past few years, but one new twist that film fans attending the Melbourne International Film Festival will not be seeing this August is "gay zombie porn." Controversial filmmaker Bruce Labruce's L.A. Zombie was set to screen at the fest next month but has been pulled after the Australian Film Classification Board found the simulated sex with the dead breached local taste standards. The irony in all of this? This was the softcore version and not the full-on X-rated release.
According to the Wikipedia page, the film follows a homeless schizophrenic (played by French porn star François Sagat -- apparently famous for his scalp tattoo. The more you know!) who's convinced he's an alien zombie -- apparently with a wicked case of rigor mortis. He wanders L.A. looking for dead beefcake to make sexytime with,...
According to the Wikipedia page, the film follows a homeless schizophrenic (played by French porn star François Sagat -- apparently famous for his scalp tattoo. The more you know!) who's convinced he's an alien zombie -- apparently with a wicked case of rigor mortis. He wanders L.A. looking for dead beefcake to make sexytime with,...
- 7/21/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
Toronto -- "L.A. Zombie," a Canadian indie film described by the Melbourne International Film Festival as "gay zombie porn," has been denied an Australian festival berth by local censors.
The banning decision followed a viewing of the Bruce Labruce film by the Australian Film Classification Board, which concluded that implied sex with corpses as alien zombies range across Los Angeles for dead bodies and gay sex breaches local taste standards.
"L.A. Zombie" will receive a world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival on Aug. 5, before the Canuck film receives a North American bow at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, according to the film's producers.
Labruce's latest film was to have screened in Melbourne on Aug. 7 and 8.
The Aug. 7 slot will now be filled with a screening of the French film "Rubber" by Quentin Dupieux, with a replacement for the Aug. 8 slot to be announced at a later date.
The banning decision followed a viewing of the Bruce Labruce film by the Australian Film Classification Board, which concluded that implied sex with corpses as alien zombies range across Los Angeles for dead bodies and gay sex breaches local taste standards.
"L.A. Zombie" will receive a world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival on Aug. 5, before the Canuck film receives a North American bow at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, according to the film's producers.
Labruce's latest film was to have screened in Melbourne on Aug. 7 and 8.
The Aug. 7 slot will now be filled with a screening of the French film "Rubber" by Quentin Dupieux, with a replacement for the Aug. 8 slot to be announced at a later date.
- 7/20/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Australian Film Classification Board refused classification for the Canadian film L.A. Zombie, which was scheduled to screen at the Melbourne Film Festival on August 7 and 8.
“Apparently the Australian Classification Board has no problem passing all manner of mainstream torture porn movies which feature, amongst other things, the rape and dismemberment of women, it’s interesting that they have no stomach for a movie that reaffirms life,” said director Bruce Labruce in a statement.
Board director Donald McDonald advised Miff executive director Moore that the film could not be screened because it would be refused classification.
Moore disagrees with the Board’s view of the film, saying it is not porn, but “verges on the edge of porn” as an extreme form of queer cinema with a high art background to it.
The filmmakers describe La.Zombie as a hardcore zombie splatter/gore porn movie, that exists in softcore and hardcore versions.
“Apparently the Australian Classification Board has no problem passing all manner of mainstream torture porn movies which feature, amongst other things, the rape and dismemberment of women, it’s interesting that they have no stomach for a movie that reaffirms life,” said director Bruce Labruce in a statement.
Board director Donald McDonald advised Miff executive director Moore that the film could not be screened because it would be refused classification.
Moore disagrees with the Board’s view of the film, saying it is not porn, but “verges on the edge of porn” as an extreme form of queer cinema with a high art background to it.
The filmmakers describe La.Zombie as a hardcore zombie splatter/gore porn movie, that exists in softcore and hardcore versions.
- 7/20/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
If mixing gay porn and zombies doesn't work as a film, no one's told Canadian director Bruce Labruce.
If mixing gay porn and zombies doesn't work as a film, no one's told Canadian director Bruce Labruce. After 2008's sexually explicit Otto; or, Up With Dead People, Labruce is retuning to mixing zombies and gay themes with L.A. Zombie, which was just accepted to the Locarno Film Festival, which runs August 4-14 in Locarno, Switzerland.
L.A. Zombie stars French porn star Francois Sagat as a schizophrenic homeless man who thinks he's a zombie aso he starts having sex with lots of dudes to bring the dead back to life. Sounds reasonable. Hey, if he has sex with them over some barrels of toxic waste and then snaps their neck, they might come back as a zombie?
As soon as blowjobs and bloody zombies hit hard in Europe, we're sure it's just...
If mixing gay porn and zombies doesn't work as a film, no one's told Canadian director Bruce Labruce. After 2008's sexually explicit Otto; or, Up With Dead People, Labruce is retuning to mixing zombies and gay themes with L.A. Zombie, which was just accepted to the Locarno Film Festival, which runs August 4-14 in Locarno, Switzerland.
L.A. Zombie stars French porn star Francois Sagat as a schizophrenic homeless man who thinks he's a zombie aso he starts having sex with lots of dudes to bring the dead back to life. Sounds reasonable. Hey, if he has sex with them over some barrels of toxic waste and then snaps their neck, they might come back as a zombie?
As soon as blowjobs and bloody zombies hit hard in Europe, we're sure it's just...
- 6/25/2010
- HugAZombie
Canada's Bruce Labruce is treading familiar undead territory. His upcoming film L.A. Zombie has just been accepted into the Locarno Film Festival. Similar to his 2008 Sundance entry Otto, or, Up with Dead People , the film explores not someone who is the walking dead, but believe they are. Francois Sagat plays a gay schizophrenic living in Los Angeles who seeks out dudes to have sex with believing it will bring the dead to life. If you've seen Otto , then you know what you're in for. A button-pushing and graphic experience.
- 6/23/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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