“Lost” exploitation masterpiece comes to town!

When I was a senior in high school I went to a revival screening of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond at Atlanta’s AMC Phipps Plaza Theatre. The print played with some vintage trailers attached, including a violent (to the point of absurdity) trailer for Duke Mitchell’s Massacre Mafia Style.

I knew I had to see that movie. …

Lovers of Film Lovers!

This is a good week to be in Seattle if you are a film lover, or needing a Valentine’s Day gift for that film lover… Take them on a romantic trip around the world in 35mm!
First stop, Italy: Saturday Feb. 13th and Sunday the 14th only at 8pm, get over to the Grand Illusion Cinema …

Spooky sounds

Check out Hollow Earth Radio’s Midnight to Midnight Halloween Observation (see full schedule below), and get inspired to rent horror movies on this Hallow’een.
Then go check out The Degenerate Art Ensemble at the Moore with video visuals by Scarecrow’s own Leo Mayberry.
OR head to the Grand Illusion for the secret TRIPLE FEATURE that starts at …

Looking for something scary?

Halloween quickly approaches, and y’all are probably wondering: To whom do I give my money and time? And where?!
Allow me to make some suggestions:
Today at noon and again on Halloween you can listen FOR FREE to a two-hour radio set of extremely creepy and unsettling music culled from movie soundtracks. I threw in some vintage …

BEFORE THEY WERE BASTERDS

*Last updated 01/27/2010
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is perhaps his most deft handling of reference and homage yet. The video store nerds at Scarecrow Video would like to present to you an unofficial and in progress footnotes companion to Basterds. Some of these films are directly referenced in the film, others are only evoked, while others …

Labor Day

How about celebrating Labor Day with some movies about labor!
Harlan County USA
The Wobblies (Doc on the IWW, the world-wide, non-trade-specific workers union.  Includes a segment about an incident in which Washington State workers were murdered for organizing!)
Salt of the Earth
Matewan
Blue Collar (non-comedic acting from Richard Pryor, directed by Paul Schraeder!)
Norma Rae
The Organizer (Italian but about …

That one moment in time

Let’s all take a minute to exist in peace and harmony in a world where Pixar’s UP is the top grossing movie of the year.
This of course, will not last as the (reportedly) ugly, hateful and boring (at this point do we expect anything less from Michael Bay?) Transformers 2 is sure to overcome UP, …

So long, and thanks for all the fists

RIP David Carradine
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/04/obit.david.carradine/index.html
(CNN) — American actor David Carradine has been found dead, hanging by a nylon rope in a hotel room closet in Bangkok, Thailand, according to a Thai police official.

David Carradine became famous in the 1970s after starring in the television series “Kung Fu.”

Carradine became famous in the 1970s when he starred in the …