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see all genres ›Movies about (or based on) other movies? It's not (necessarily) post-modern. It's just a reflection of how movies have become our primary literature. So why wouldn't new filmmakers comment on them?
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Genres / Adaptation / Cinematic
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Hard Core Logo II
Bruce McDonald, director of the rock doc about Hard Core Logo, has lived with the guilt of immortalizing lead singer Joe Dick's death on film. He is asked to interview Care Failure of the band Die Mannequin, who claims to be channeling Joe's spirit. Bruce is convinced Care is suffering from a case of...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Train Robbery
In this parody of THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, Edwin S. Porter burlesqued his own landmark film by substituting children for adults and using a miniature railroad and playhouse as sets. The young robbers don't take money but candy and dolls. Perhaps unintentionally, this film supported the argument made by...Start your free trial to watch
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Matinee
Contemporary artist Shannon Plumb navigates channels well-traveled by physical comedy legends like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin in this charmingly low-fi compendium. A series of loosely related episodes find her portraying a broad variety of characters in expressive, elastic pantomime, illustrating a number of phrases,...Start your free trial to watch
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Mud and Sand
MUD AND SAND sends up BLOOD AND SAND, a torrid bullfighting melodrama starring Rudolph Valentino. In this version, Stan Laurel is the matador, a dashing if clumsy fighter named Rhubarb Vaseline. With seduction, elaborate costuming, dancing and a climactic bullfight, MUD AND SAND mines the trappings of movie spectaculars for...Start your free trial to watch
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On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Owen Land in the Film On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
The Land Camera Collective presents a (nearly) shot-by-shot remake of the Owen Land 1977 classic experimental film ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE AS CITED BY SIGMUND FREUD IN WIT AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS, OR CAN THE AVANT-GARDE ARTIST BE WHOLED?Start your free trial to watch
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Rupert of Hee Haw
Stan Laurel slips and slides around several palatial sets in this silent spoof of RUPERT OF HENTZAU. Directed by Scott Pembroke (credited as "Percy" in his films of this period), HEE HAW abounds with banana peel pileups, silly swordplay and costume malfunctions.Start your free trial to watch
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Seytan
Forget the notion of remakes, sequels, prequels, extended scenes and modified versions of movies; the Turkish motion picture industry has been making their own versions of American movies for years. After the worldwide success of William Friedkin's 1973 classic film THE EXORCIST, those wacky Turks decided that maybe they...Start your free trial to watch
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SpaceDisco One
In this sequel of sorts to both LOGAN’S RUN and 1984, George Orwell's Winston Smith runs into the daughters of Logan 5 and Francis 7 as they're busy running amok in a park, shooting laser beams at one another. A roller-skating rink in space, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA references and a Ministry of Truth (also known as Universal...Start your free trial to watch
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Tales of the Valley of the Wind
Filmmaker Damon Packard lifts the underlying themes and several of the characters from Hayao Miyazaki's NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (and the manga upon which it was based) and puts them to remarkable use. Sword fights, sorcery and the usual chaotic hybrid of influences makes this loose adaptation a...Start your free trial to watch
