February 2012
10 posts
7 tags
ISMN: "Yor, The Hunter From the Future" -...
Not Available on Netflix #26 This week’s feature: “Yor, The Hunter From the Future” (1983)
DVD/88 Mins/English/PG
Due to some miscommunication, this film was canceled this week at Brewvies. However, because it is part of our “not available on netflix” series, we are going to show it this Thursday in Springville. (Perhaps it will return to...
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ISMN: "Zui hou nu" (aka "The Ape Girl", 1979) -...
Not available on Netflix #25
This week’s feature: “Zui hou nu” (Taiwan, 1979)
Aka: “The Ape Girl” or “Lady Iron Monkey”
VHS Transfer/80 Mins/Chinese with English Subtitles/Not Rated
Found in the back room of Hollywood video in SLC where they kept a huge stash of Chinese VHS that they didn’t know what to do...
7 tags
ISMN: "Outsiders" (The Documentary) + "Larry...
Not available on NetFlix #24:
This week’s documentary is about a topic very close to my heart.
Before I knew what outsider music was, starting at the age of 21 during the mid 90’s I was playing artists like The Shaggs, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Tiny Tim, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Wild Man Fischer etc on my “Oddity Rock Radio Show” @ KWCR in Ogden,...
2 tags
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ISMN: Xiao Qian (1997) - Friday Feb. 10th @ 8 PM
Not Available on NetFlix #23
Happy belated Chinese New Year!!! I meant to show this film a couple weeks ago but things were too crazy with work and the Sundance film festival.
This week’s feature: “Xiao Qian” (1997) aka: “The Animated Chinese Ghost Story” DVD/Dubbed/84 Mins/Not Rated
Our favorite tax collector returns in an animated version of...
January 2012
11 posts
ISMN: "Frankenstein's Planet of Monsters" &...
Our 2nd public screening of each of these films!
By permission Lost Media is releasing “Frankestein’s Planet of Monsters” for the first time on DVD! Available the night of this event :)
Half the proceeds go to the original producer/screen writer/actor etc.
The DVD includes photos of the original VHS artwork plus bonus short film “Alone” by T.R. Brooks.
...
ISMN: "The Wishing Machine" (1967) - Thursday,...
(aka AUTOMAT NA PRÁNÍ) (1967, Czechoslovakia/France) Not available on Netflix #22
VHS/Color/Dubbed/83 Mins/Not Rated
Another from the rare Xerox Films VHS collection. It’s been a while since I’ve viewed this one, but I remember it being quit surreal, beautiful and perfect for a group ISMN.
They just don’t make films like this anymore. Especially thoughtful sci-fi and...
ISMN: "Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of His Mind"...
Not Available on Netflix #21
DVDR/60 Mins/BBC Documentary
I suppose I never got into the band “Death Cab for Cutie”, because they were named after a song written by Vivian Stanshall. My guess had been that they probably saw him perform it in The Beatles’ movie “Magical Mystery Tour”, but had never listened to his other music and I...
ISMN: "Johnny in the Valley of the Giants" (1950)...
(Not available on Netflix #20)
This week’s feature: “Johnny in the Valley of the Giants” (France, 1950) (aka “Johnny the Giant Killer” or “Joe Petit Boum-Boum”)
DVD/Technicolor/Dubbed/80 Mins/Not Rated
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Let’s ring in our new year of adulthood with a foreign French forgotten animated matinee oddity!
If my life were an...
December 2011
6 posts
7 tags
ISMN: "Terror in the Jungle" (1968) - Tonight!...
AKA: “Flug 413 nach Rio meldet sich nicht” and “Verdammt in grüner Hölle”
VHS/Color/84 Mins/Not Rated
(Not Available on Netflix #19)
I can’t believe this film isn’t more well known or talked about by the “so bad it’s good” film fans. A total no-budget independent bizarro camp curio that nothing can prepare you for. Found many...
ISMN: "Christmas Torture" (2011) - Tuesday Dec....
Wait till you see what new footage we’ve dug up! See you there!
-BC
ISMN: "Supersonic Saucer" (1956) - Thursday Dec....
(Not Available on Netflix #18)
DVDR/Black and White/50 Mins
The original E.T.? Many reviews claim that this is where Spielberg got his inspiration. Although there are similarities between Supersonic and E.T., both films are no doubt loosely based on the story of Ebe the captured alien from 1949.
This week’s feature comes to us from the British Children’s...
ISMN: "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King" (1979) -...
(Not Available on Netflix #17)
This week’s feature: “Nezha Conquers the Dragon King” (1979)
DVD/105 Mins/Mandarin with English Subtitles/Not Rated
It’s rare that you see Chinese feature animation especially from 1979, and this film is absolutely beautiful full animation and perfectly eccentric.
This movie was shown during...
November 2011
6 posts
ISMN: Ed Wood's "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died"...
(Not Available on Netflix #16)
*TUESDAY Nov. 29th @ Brewvies:
ISMN will resume this coming Tuesday with one of the greatest indie films of the 90’s!
Ed Wood Jr’s lost screenplay:
“I Woke Up Early the Day I Died” (1998)
You would think an Ed Wood story filmed in the 90’s wouldn’t work, but it does! And completely...
ISMN: "The Little Magician and the Bad Mark" (Nov....
Not Available on Netflix #15
This post is just to document what took place on Nov. 17th. Our email announcement went as follows:
Before going crazy with the new Twilight film this weekend, come see the pre-Harry Potter!
Our film this week is:
“The Little Magician and the Bad Mark” (1977) VHS/70 Mins/Dubbed/Color/Not Rated This rare...
ISMN: "Kingdom in the Clouds" (1970) - Thursday...
Not Available on NetFlix Vol. 14!
This week’s feature, Romanian fantasy: ”Kingdom in the Clouds” (1970)
VHS/87 Mins/Dubbed/Rated G
I found out about this film a couple years ago while seeking out rare and unusual kiddie matinee and foreign fantasy. I began collecting the Xerox ‘Specially for Kids” VHS series which seems to carry some of the...
October 2011
9 posts
ISMN: "Encounters of the Spooky Kind" (1980) -...
Just a reminder about the Brewvies event for free, TONIGHT!
Time Today at 10:00pm - Tomorrow at 1:00am
LocationBrewvies Cinema Pub677 South 200 WestSalt Lake City, UT
Created ByBlair Sterrett
More InfoPeople often complain that there’s nothing to do, that’s cool, late on a week night in SLC. Well, here it is: Our free Halloween film event at Brewvies!!! Co-sponsored...
ISMN: Roger Corman's "The Undead" (1957) -...
Not available on NetFlix #13 - (Notice the location change again this week! We’ll be screening once again in Springville)
Continuing our Halloween setlist this year, it’s one of the rarest films by Roger Corman:
“The Undead” (1957)
DVDR/Sourced from two VHS tapes/B&W/76 Mins/Unrated
Right before typing this, I transferred this film from two video sources! Years...
ISMN: "Return of the Demon" (1987) - Saturday Oct....
Please notice the location change this week! See address below :)
This week’s feature - Not Available on Netflix #12: ”Return of the Demon” (1987) aka “Mo Gao Yi Zhang”
DVDR/English Subtitles/96 Mins/Not Rated
In spite of it’s title, this film is NOT a sequel! But, as you can see at the top of the Videodisc image above, yes this is a Mr. Vampire cash-in...
ISMN Double Feature: Frankenstein's Planet of...
Not Available on NetFlix Vol. 10 & 11
Think you know what true independent films are all about?
This week only, a double feature of Sci-Fi/Horror Grade Z films!!!
Z grade films aren’t for everyone, especially if you have a low tolerance for very low budget entertainment. But they are about as rare as dinosaur teeth.
Our first feature: FRANKENSTEIN’S PLANET OF MONSTERS!...
September 2011
9 posts
ISMN: "Viy" (1967) - Brewvies Cinema, Tues. Sept...
“Officially the first Soviet-era horror film released in the USSR”
We’re starting the Halloween films early! This month’s film is co-sponsored by The Salty International Horror Film Festival :)
This month’s feature:
“Viy” (1967)
77 Mins/Color/Russian with English Subtitles/Not Rated
Come see one of the finest examples of how amazing and...
Lost Media Archive wins an "Arty" award from City...
BEST WEIRD FILM AFICIONADOS Lost Media’s Incredibly Weird Film Night Lost Media Archive’s curators of the curious, Tyrone Davies and Blair Sterrett, have brought their “Incredibly Strange Movie Night”—started in Provo in 2001—to Brewvies Cinema Pub. Now, Salt Lakers can enjoy a free monthly screenings of such hidden gems as The Swimmer, a 1968 film where a man swims through a series of swimming...
Mutations: A slide show of cultural effects and...
No ISMN this week, since I need all the time possible to work on other projects.
However, if you are so inclined you’re welcome to see my first odd public presentation entitled “Mutations” at the Salt Lake City Library this coming Monday Sept. 19th.
Check out the event page on facebook :) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=244289155591273
Or see the announcement on the...
WatchMy friend Emily Jacobson (who did the makeup and costumes for the Craft Lady episodes) worked on this new grill commercial. Check it out :)
