The Fabulous Stains
The Making of “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains” Part I
Part II
July 11th, 2008 - Posted in Film Skool, Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
Memory Screen, an Alien Workshop video
Dir. Chris Carter, Mike Hill and Neil Blender. Skate Video. (1991)
In 1990 a crew of skaters turned their backs on the SoCal-based industry in what would even today be a radical move, by starting their own skate company in Xenia, Ohio (long before it became the setting for Gummo). The result was Alien Workshop, which in the early 90’s epitomized the oddball, avant-garde spirit of skateboarding. Memory Screen broke the mold for a team video by employing abstract, non-skating related video segments with low-fi skate footage. We’re only putting up the first part (out of 5) but you can watch ‘em all on Youtube. The first song that kicks in is a little known J. Mascis instrumental called Little Ethnic Song. And Dyrdek skating to The Lung soon after? Impossibly good.
You can watch the whole video all the way through on Google, below.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9125945272606442461
July 8th, 2008 - Posted in Film Skool, Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
La Jetee
La jetée (The Jetty and The Pier) (1962) is a 28-minute black and white science fiction film by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is the film that inspired David and Janet Peoples to write Twelve Monkeys, directed by Terry Gilliam. Due to it’s length, La Jetée was often screened alongside other films.
Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (1965) was the film with which it was first released. Below, the picture.
July 7th, 2008 - Posted in Film Skool, Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
Scum
Scum is a film made in 1979 portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal. Directed by Alan Clarke and starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, and Julian Firth, it tells the story of a young offender named Carlin as he arrives at the institution, and his rise through violence and self-protection to the top of the inmates’ pecking order, purely as a tool to survive. Beyond Carlin’s individual storyline, it is also cast as an indictment of the borstal system’s flaws in terms of its ineffectiveness at rehabilitating inmates, instead just turning them into even more broken individuals.
The story was originally made for the BBC’s Play for Today strand in 1977 but was not shown at the time, although the BBC version has been broadcast since. Two years later director Alan Clarke and scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a film, which was then shown on Channel 4 in 1983, by which time the borstal system had been abolished (the British public morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse initially won her court case against Channel 4 for showing the film, but Channel 4 later won on appeal). The original BBC production differed slightly from the remade one. Aside from one or two differences in the cast (Mick Ford and Julian Firth did not play their major supporting roles in the 1977 play, for example - these parts were played by David Threlfall and Martin Philips), the main difference was in a homosexual relationship between Carlin and another inmate, which was in the BBC version but dropped from the later film.
Below is the trailer for the remade film, Scum.
July 4th, 2008 - Posted in Film Skool, Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
