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This is a new selection of top-notch cinema from the MUFF director designed to showcase our theme and show some shit hot cinema all at once!
Snuff Movie
Dir: Bernard Rose
The new film from the director of US masterpiece Ivan’s XTC (MUFF 2003) sees Jeroen Krabbe as Boris Arkaddan - a Polanski style movie director - who had his gal and guests bumped off by a psycho cult in the 70s. Now Arkaddan invites a posse of actors to his massive house to shoot recreations of the event using a multitude of in house cameras. A brave and daring concept is played well by director Rose and an excellent Lisa Enos (from Ivan’s XTC), the aforementioned alwayd cool Krabbe and host of new comers. This film has the feel of a modern Jean Rollin film with burnings at the stake and other bizarre scenes of violence and excess.
7pm Sat 22 Sept Glitch
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
Dir: Thomas Clay
Superb and disturbingly violent English home invasion flick that has divided critics worldwide. Shot with a Kubrickian style remove from its subject matter, The Great Ecstasy documents a group of loser English teens with a particular focus on a one dorky Robert Carmichael. The films features a rape at a house party and violent home invasion that even had MUFF director Richard Wolstencroft looking squeamish. But if you can handle it …Robert Carmichael is a brilliant and unsettling experience. As soon as the shy teen Carmichael is seen jerking off to the later pages of Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom … you know you are in trouble. A brilliant debut feature from Clay who is one to watch.
7pm Sun 23 Sept TOFF
The Believer
Dir: Henry Bean
Want to know why Ryan Gosling is on everyone’s lips? This film is why. Gosling plays Danny Balint, an intense Jewish Neo Nazi (based on a true story!). Taking the cliché of the self-hating Jew to a disturbing logical conclusion, Gosling as Balint adheres to an extreme racial Nazism all the while still holding a reverence for the Jewish faith and respect for the Torah. The film explores Balint’s perception of religious fascism in the Jewish faith… as displayed in the extreme authority and unquestioning omnipotence of God and believers adherence thereof. This intense religious devotion seems to unhinge our main character in a act of pious blasphemous rebellion Balint goes skinhead. Contains much controversy like Balint’s speech to a gathering of Neo Nazi New York elite about the only way of defeating the Jews, he claims, is to stop hating them and simply assimilate them completely and will a forgetfulness about their ideas of difference. Gosling’s performance is disturbing and profound. The ending is haunting and powerful. A must see.
7pm Sat 22 Sept LOOP
Dynamic 1: David Lynch Shorts
Dir: David Lynch
Some cool shorts from David Lynch including Out Yonder Neighbour Boy, Bug Crawls and The Darkened Room. These are mostly shot on mini DV. You’ve seen Inland Empire Lynch’s brave new DV masterpiece then enjoy these early explorations in the medium. Lynch is truly a daring and original image maker who is fearless in his intentions to move forward in the medium.
9pm Tues 25 Sept Revolver
Hotel
Dir: Mike Figgis
A Dogma style film from cool director Mike Figgis explores the many different characters of a bizarre haunted hotel as a film crew comes to make a film there. Cast includes Danny Huston, John Malkovitch, Burt Reynolds, Salma Hayek, Rhys Ifans, Julian Sands, Lucy Liu and Saffron Burrows. Hotel is an amazing and adventurous cinematic experiment from the director of Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode.
9pm Sun 23 Sept TOFF
Death Weekend (1976) (aka The House by the Lake)
Dir: William Fruet
The film that inspired Mark Savage’s Marauders and that itself drew on Last House on the Left for inspiration has a rare screening at MUFF 8. Death Weekend is set in the Canadian wilderness where rich dentist dude Harry has a huge mansion 10 square miles from anything or anyone. He has invited pretty model Diane (Brenda Vaccaro) there for the weekend. On the way Diane insists on driving his flashy Corvette & gets involved in an ugly road rage incident with Lep (Don Stroud) & his gang of thugs, Stanley (Don Granberry), Frankie (Kyle Edwards) & Runt (Richard Ayres) which ends up with Lep’s pride & joy parked in a ditch in a stream. Harry & Diane continue their
journey to his place while Lep & his buddies are left understandably upset by being humiliated by a woman,they decide to get even & teach Diane a lesson so follow them to Harry’s house. Cue rape, revenge, mayhem. Stylishly directed by William Fruet (Spasms) and produced by Ivan Reitman Death Weekend is a little known gem of film that portrays very dangerous psychopathologies with brutal clarirty. Highly Recommended. An absoulute classic and rare as fuck!
10.15pm Fri 21 Sept Glitch
