"The House Of The Rising Punk is a great little one-hour film chronicling the New York punk-rock scene of the late 1970s. Since this film was originally made for television, it really only skims the surface of everything which made up that explosive, multifaceted community of assorted artists, misfits, and revolutionaries. Despite the relatively short run time, it does however do its subject the justice it warrants.
Although most of the key players are covered — from early influences like the Stooges and the Velvet Underground, to trailblazers like the Ramones, Blondie, and Talking Heads there really isn't a lot in the way of new information here. In fact, the real hook here for fans will be the never-before-seen live clips of artists like Patti Smith, Television, and the New York Dolls. The same fans will likely find that this footage — most of which was shot at the famed Bowery punk palace CBGB's is also frustratingly brief, as I did.
But when The House Of The Rising Punk tells its story, it does it well. There are new interviews with Patti Smith, Dee Dee Ramone, and Television's Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine, as well as CBGB's Hilly Krystal, writer Legs McNeil, and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, whose early punk-influenced films are also shown in snippets that are once again all too brief. Although the focal point here is in fact CBGB's and the scene which sprang up around it, other contributing factors are also given the coverage they deserve.
There are segments on McNeil's short-lived Punk Magazine for example, which featured a bizarre mix of punk music and often-hilarious comic art complete with the sort of monsters that would later be popularized in Matt Groening's work on The Simpsons. It really is amazing just how far punk's reach would eventually become. Other landmarks like New York's infamous Chelsea Hotel are also given their due.
The most eye-opening thing about this documentary however, is just how different most of the New York bands who were lumped together under the punk label actually were. Where the Dolls and the Ramones stripped everything down to a basic core of aggression and volume, bands like Television and the Patti Smith Group were actually taking a far more experimental tack. While Debbie Harry and Blondie were a throwback to the early rock of the sixties (they even used a farfisa organ), Patti Smith took the concept of spoken word, or "beat poetry," and gave it an actual beat.
And despite Legs McNeil's prattling on about how punk was a reaction to rock's then bloated virtuoso musicality, it really doesn't get more artistically pretentious than the Talking Heads when you get right down to it.
The story of course reaches its foregone conclusion when England sells punk rock back to America in the form of the Sex Pistols, and Seattle takes it to a mass audience with Nirvana more than ten years later. The interview segments with Dee Dee Ramone really bring all of this home — not so much because of what he says, but because of how he looks. For the guy who was one fourth of the band which most influenced much of everything that followed, its a sad picture that really is worth a thousand words.
For all of its shortness, The House Of The Rising Punk pretty much hits all of the key points and players of the brief supernova that was New York's '70s punk-rock scene. For students of rock history, it's a great crash course while for those who remember, it provides a nice recap."
Evo konačno epizode i o novom primitivizmu, doduše samo u jutjub verziji za sad. Inače, ovo nije cela 24. epizoda Rockovnika, već je čovek iseko samo taj meni najbitniji deo o nju primivtsima, te mu se ovim putem zahvaljujem. Dakle, Nele, Rizo, Malkolm Muharem, Elvis, Sejo, Drale i ostala ekipa pričaju o svemu onom što možda niste znali o dva ubedljivo najluđa a samim tim i najgenijalnija benda sa ovih prostora, da ih ne imenujem sad. Znači, uživajte, kratko ali slatko !
"Documentary which explores the most important day in the career of the legendary Johnny Cash. Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison in California in January 1968 touched a raw nerve in the American psyche and made him a national hero at a troubled time in American history. Using the stark images of rock photographer Jim Marshall, graphic techniques, archive footage and interviews with Merle Haggard, Cash's daughter Rosanne, band members Marshall Grant and WS 'Fluke' Holland, alongside former inmates of the prison, the film documents this explosive concert, the live album that followed and a transformative moment in the lives of Cash, the inmates of Folsom Prison and the American nation in the troubled year of 1968."
Dokumentarac o tzv. ponoćnim filmovima, filmovima koji su definitivno izmenili naše percepcije i zauvek uzburkali mirne vode svetske kinematografije. Naziv ponoćni filmovi proizašao je iz činjenica da zbog eksplicitnih i obscenih sadržaja ovakvi radovi nisu mogli biti puštani preko dana, tako da su išli isključivo posle ponoći i to samo u određenim bioskopima. Radi se o 6 filmova od kojih bi posebno izdvojio El Topo (1970) i naravno, legendarni, neprevaziđeni Pink Flamingos (1972). Tek posle 10-ak i kusur godina ova nenadjebiva remek-dela su ugledala i bukvalno svetlost dana, i iz andergraunda prešla u jednu vrstu mejnstrima i tako izvršila zasigurno najveći uticaj na čitavu kinematografiju, i sve one "weird" filmove koje danas gledamo najnormalnije, najopuštenije, kad god i gde nam se 'oće, a do pre samo 30-ak godina ljudi su morali da čekaju ponoć.
"Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream tells the hidden history of these landmark films, El Topo (1970), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Harder They Come (1973), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Eraserhead (1977). The documentary includes in-depth interviews with the directors, producers, writers and actors who were part of these low-budget, yet monumental productions, the exhibitors and distributors who played them, and the audiences who viewed them."
Prvenac Mladena Đorđevića, i po meni i pored kvazi-dokumentarističkog pristupa za stepen jači rad od Života i Smrti Porno Bande (2009). Naravno, to je samo moj lični trip i to samo iz razloga što Banda ima jako konfuzan i zbrzan kraj, glavni likovi ginu ko zečevi, a da ne pričamo o poslednjoj sceni sa sečenjem vena. Mislim OK, kapiram ja taj trash fazon, al' što je mnogo, mnogo je, a inače film kao celina mi je skroz full, dakle totalno ludilo na svim nivoima, i ja takav fazon apsolutno podržavam, al' opet kažem, džaba sve kad nema tog šuta u mošnice na kraju, gre'ota zaista.
No dobro, dosta o Bandi, pređimo na Mladenov prvenac kojim je doista pokidao domaći dokumentarni film, da čak i taj izvaljeno režirani kvazi deo, koji se bavi mukama glavnog junaka da pronađe "ženu svog života", deluje skroz OK. A na drugu stranu što glavnog lika koji je ujedno i narator, "glumi" jedan od najvećih kraljeva ovih prostora, njegova perverznost Nenad Bekvalac koga znamo i iz kultne TV emisije Šok Koridor. Dakle Beki je definitivno bio pravi izbora za ovu ulogu, što zbog njegovog fanatičnog poznavanja svih vrsta porno filma, od hentaia pa sve do najekstremnijih bondage i S&M akcija, a što zbog totalnog odsustva blama da ga izvadi kad god reditelj to poželi, pa tako pored scena iz ovoga rada tu je i skroz opušteno vađenje kite u već pomenutoj PORNO BANDI, gde igra lokalnog policajca prašinara. Znači brat Beki tu definitivno nema kompleks, i ja mu se povodom toga najiskrenije divim, jer jebiga ipak je to domaći film a nije pornić, a uostalom i u svetskoj kinematografiji retko kad naletimo na eksplicitne kitnjake, sa izuzetkom The Brown Bunny (2003) Vincent Galloa, gde je lik napravio film u kom je ladno sebi dao glavnu ulogu i to samo iz razloga da bi ostvario svoj san da mu prelepa Chloe Sevigny odradi blow job, i to kakav, blow job gde se totalno jasno vidi ceo kurac u gro planu sa sve jajima, i iskreno sam pizdeo gledajući to od ljubomore, ali sam se ujedno i popalio, ma neverovatno nešto. Jebiga, ipak je Chloe jedna jedina i njene usne i jezik na njegovom skroz estetski zadovoljavajućem spolovilu su delovale božanstveno - not of this world, bez zajebancije , jer da je to bila neka kriva budža koja ne liči ni na šta to jednostavno ne bi bilo to. Uostalom pogledajte bar tu scenu pred sam kraj filma pa prosudite sami.
Kurčeva takođe ima i u filmu Antichrist (2009) Lars von Triera, s tim što su tu više zastupljene mošnice Viljema Defoa, koje se skladno njišu dok kurčina prodire u utrobu grešne Charlotte Gainsbourg baš kao nož Richarda Specka u medicinsku sestru. Naravno, ima tu još par primera ali ću navesti još samo detalj iz najjačeg filma ever, Pink Flamingos (1972), gde legendarni Divajn, koga inače odlično kopira genijalni Boki 13, u jednoj sceni pljuga smežurani kurac svom sinu Crackersu koga igra Danny Mills, ne bi li ga oraspoložio. Vaistinu prajsles. Ali na stranu to, jer Beki je Beki a i vala imao je šta da pokaže, dakle bravo kralju, objasnio si šabanadžovićima i beskuricama kao se to radi !
Za kraj mora da spomenem i definitivni hajlajt filma na koji me podsetio kolega Radomir, tj. scenu kad ova baba dole kontaktira režisera i pita ga dal' može da joj sredi još jedan "anganžman" pošto nema para da kupi drva za zimu. Dakle, pregolema tuga ali i surova realnost života u Srbijici. Nema dalje.
"Jedan od filmova koji je na Festu 2006. godine "ustalasao duhove" jeste dokumentarno ostvarenje "Made in Serbia" reditelja Mladena Ðordevića. Ovim delom mladi autor je progovorio o srpskoj porno industriji. Kičmu filma čine četiri priče o životima takozvanih porno glumaca u našoj zemlji. One su povezane anegdotama koje na izvestan način ublažavaju dramatičnu temu. Reditelj otkriva da mu je namera bila da kroz prizmu porno industrije, prikaže stanje u današnjoj Srbiji. Osim Mladena Ðordevića u pisanju scenarija učestvovao je i Dragan Nikolić. Ðordevic smatra da će i publika i kritičari umeti film da posmatraju bez osude, sa one prave strane, kroz analizu srpskog društva. Iako je film šokantan, težak i eksplicitan, smisao mu je zapravo pornografija kao sredstvo za prikazivanja nečeg drugog."
"MADE IN SERBIA portrays the Serbian video porn industry by presenting four life stories of domestic porn actors. Unlike their Western counterparts, these people work in porn industry in order to survive and obtain basic life supplies. The film follows the young hot shot porn star who travels to a shoot in Hungary, a bisexual actor who visits hometown, a 40 year old actress that invites her husband into the porn business and a peasant who became a local legend thanks to working in porn industry. The whole story is framed within one young man's search for the long lost girl who appears to have entered the world of porn. He shoots the documentary in order to find her."
Pošto se ja ne bavim filmskom kritikom, tekst na srpskom, bosanskom, hrvatskom, pa čak i crnogorskom napisao je kolega Ognjanović i možete ga pročitati ođe.
"Young director Marko, after several unsuccessful attempts to shoot his first feature film, makes an acquaintance with a porn director Cane and starts making films with him, showing his anger towards the society he lives in. After the conflict with Cane he starts his own porn cabaret club in which the socio-political shows are frequently performed. He gathers porn stars around himself. Gay couple Johnny and Max, a transvestite Ceca, junkies Rade and Darinka and others. However, Cane's brother who is a policeman interrupts a premiere, the press destroys them as well, and Marko decides he should leave Belgrade and have a tour around Serbia with his crew. Shortly after, series of conflicts happen with the viewers from the villages they visited. On the way, they meet a German journalist Franc, who is fascinated with Balkan. Franc suggests Marko to make films with the authentic scenes of sex and violence for him, with the volunteers- victims who did not care for their lives. Porn gang has a possibility to have their revenge on rural Serbia."
On January 27, 2011, prominent defense lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the immediate release of American prisoner Charles Milles Manson.
The Inter-American Commision on Human Rights is a part of the Organization of American States (OAS). Its human rights duties stem from three documents: the OAS Charter, the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, and the American Convention on Human Rights.
In his petition to the IACHR, Mr. Di Stefano refers to Article 8 of the American Convention on Human Rights “Right to a Fair Trial”, specifically (1) - the right to a hearing, with due guarantees… by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal; as well as Article 8 (2d) - the right of the accused to defend himself personally or to be assisted by legal counsel of his own choosing…
The petition on Mr. Mansons’ behalf highlights the fact that Manson was illegally denied his right to pro-per (self representation). The appeal also points to the highly prejudicial and massive pre-trial media coverage.
Mr. Di Stefano closes his petition to the IACHR by stating; “Mr. Manson remains in custody more as a symbol for the US Criminal Justice System, a cult, an example made rather than because of real evidence to sustain a conviction, and under no circumstances did Mr. Manson have a fair trial.”
"On a frigid winter day in London, a group of tenants complained of drainage problems in their apartments. Five days later, a plumber arrived to inspect the pipes and made a grisly discovery... the drains were being blocked by a mass of rotting flesh. The plumber contacted the police. The remains were examined and found to be of human origin. Dennis Nilsen was a serial killer who resided in a London flat and killed no less than fifteen people during a five-year murder spree. He cremated the remains of his victims in his backyard. This method of disposal was no longer possible when he relocated to an apartment without a yard, and so he began dissecting his victims and flushing their remains down the toilet."
Evo još jednog jako zanimljivog slučaja. Priča o liku koji me u nekim akcijama dosta podsetio na Bandija, s tim što je ovaj lovio uglavnom prostitutke pa mu to automatski obara rejting barem u mojim očima. Austrijanac Jack Unterweger je još polovinom 70-ih ubio jednu 18-ogodišnju devojku i za to delo bio osuđen na 25 godina zatvora. U zatvoru je napisao svoju autobiografiju, i postao priznati pisac, te su stručnjaci skontali da se čovek promenio, i skroz ga rehabilitovali, tako da je pušten posle samo 15 godina. Posle izlaska se bacio u novinarske vode, postao celebrity, priznati član društva, ali je odma' nastavio i sa ubistvima. Ostatak pogledajte u dokumentarcu, a malo širu priču o "bečkom davitelju" možete pročitati na trutv crime library sajtu.
"Documentary series exploring major crimes of the 20th century. Using archive footage, reconstructions and interviews, the series profiles the most notorious murderers in recent history. This episode recounts the sensational story of Johann Unterweger, the Austrian media figure who was responsible for a string of murders across Europe and America in the early 1990s."
