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Written by Miss Death
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Jun 28, 2008 at 10:50 AM |
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Tuesday 1st July
Para(noid) Politics in the Archives
Inside Freemasonry
This documentary investigates
the history of Freemasonry, introducing some of the most famous and well
respected Freemasons throughout history, and discusses some of the conspiracy
theories that claim Freemasons are secretly ruling the world. Both prominent
Freemasons, as well as non-Masons present their views throughout, with both
sides being given the opportunity to have their say, but in the end most of the
conspiracies about Freemasonry are debunked. You need to be able to read
between the lines. If you are a Freemason, this doco offers a unique insight
and introduction into many aspects of the Craft. If you are not a Freemason,
but have an interest in what goes on in the Lodge you will certainly gain some
insight.
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Wednesday 2nd July
Margenalised
Movies
Death Bed: The Bed that Eats (1977)
Prepare yourselves...for the
strangest bedtime stories ever told! Finally rediscovered after 25 years in
obscurity Death Bed, George Barry's uniquely weird journey through a world of
wind demons, carnivorous furnishings and the spirit of Aubrey Beardsley! At the
edge of a grand estate, near a crumbling mansion lies a strange stone building
with just a single room. In the room there lies a bed. Born of demonic power,
the bed seeks the flesh, blood and life essence of unwary travelers. Three
pretty girls arrive on vacation, searching for a place to spend the night.
Instead, they tumble into nightmares - and the cruel, insatiable hunger of the
Bed. Death Bed is a one-of-a kind
experience: comic, horrific and dream like, that truly has to be seen to be
believed. Discover this neglected marvel of American horror for yourself.
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Friday 4th July
The 70's: Bellbottoms to Boogie Shoes
Take a look at the people and events that made the
70's the 70s in a fun an irreverent way. Put on those boogie shoes, work up
that afro and do the hustle! A
celebration of a decade filled with crazy fads and outrageous fashions, which
were really more lighthearted than substantial in their contribution to
society. It's an irreverent look at the people, places and events that may seem
inconsequential in hindsight, but are the foundation and cherished memories of
everyone who came of age during that decade. Watch and be reminded about the
days when platform shoes, polyester, Led watches, AMC Pacers, leisure suit, pet
rocks, mood rings and disco were the order of the day.
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Monday 7th July
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Geek. Now there's an
interesting word, one that has crept back into more common usage since the rise
of Tarantino and his ilk, the term 'film geek' coined with a surprising degree
of pride. But what does it actually mean? 1. An unfashionable or socially inept person. [with adj.]
a person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest : a computer
geek. 2. A carnival performer who does wild or disgusting acts. Get that last one? May be new to you, but this is the original meaning
of the word, and the only one that counts for anything once you've seen Nightmare
Alley. This relatively little-known film is widely hailed by fans of
the macabre. Truly ahead of its time, NIGHTMARE ALLEY is set in the gritty,
surrealistic world of traveling carnivals, where eccentric people of all
possible varieties interact on a daily basis. Hollywood leading man Tyrone
Power plays a morally questionable circus apprentice determined to climb the
carnival ladder no matter what the price and Stanton gets his wish. Director Edmund
Goulding gives the carnival setting a dark, somber feel. NIGHTMARE ALLEY
remains with the viewer even after it's over, haunting them with its bleak
images and melancholy mood.
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Tuesday 8th July
Para(noid) Politics in the Archives
UFO Abductions: A Global Phenomenon
This documentary was shot on
site in ten countries on four continents. Over four million Americans believe
they were victims of the most frightening aspect of the UFO phenomenon: alien
abduction. In this breathtaking documentary both witnesses and internationally
respected researchers reveal the evidence. In addition, they demonstrate that
the closest encounters happen all over the planet. For example, strange
implants of an unknown technology removed from an abductees body in the U.S.; a
British policeman that was abducted by two aliens, one of which he
photographed; two couples in Australia who met for the first time during an
abduction later recall their experience under hypnosis; strange landing marks
and magnetic anomalies found on the ground after abduction experiences; and a
man from Nazareth suffered from severe inflammations after being covered with a
yellow dust during an abduction. Includes Abductees: Whitley Strieber, Linda
Cortile, Kathie Davies, Debbie Jordan, Leah Haley and others. Includes
Researchers: Prof. Dr. John Mack, Prof. Dr. David Jacobs, Budd Hopkins, Dr.
Roger Leir, Nick Pope, with cases from The U.S., Great
Britain, France,
Finland, Hungary, Israel,
Australia and Brazil.
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Friday 11th July
Dark Planet: Visions of America
First-time filmmaker Jason
Mitchell addresses four different youth subcultures under the umbrella of punk,
examining skinhead, black metal, Christian Zealot, and straightedge ways of
life. The Durham, NC-based Mitchell is a member of the scene himself, and
experienced a revelation upon hearing a straightedge song which led him to
change his life completely. He interviews his wife, who discusses her
"traditional" aspirations of marriage and kids and her rejection of
any remotely feminist leanings. Other interviews include members of Strife,
Murphy's Law, P.O.D., Hero, Brass Knuckle Choir, and Krieg among others, and
live performances punctuate the footage. Members of the black metal underground
discuss the phenomenon of "suicide metal heads," while the
straightedge kids address the viability of a "vegan straightedge"
political movement. A unique film in its intimate documentation of peripheral,
extreme youth tribes, DARK PLANET examines intriguing questions of why young
people choose certain lifestyles, music, and belief systems.
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Sunday 13th July
Miss Deaths Knitting
Group
Do you want to learn how to knit, crochet and any
other craft? Or you just want to come along for a social? For the new ladies
who are coming for the first time bring a friend. Boys are welcome as long as
they do a craft or something useful.
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The Mu-Meson Archives presents
Alternative World Youth Day Film Festival
 Of course it starts with Cult Sinema Monday 14th July at the Annandale Hotel and then continuing @ the Archives with four very diverse nights. You can get a pass of come three nights get the fourth one free but you must attend from Tuesday.
Be prepared for heresy and blasphemy, but you wouldn't expect anything less from Jay Katz and Miss Death
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Monday 14th July
God Told Me Too (1977)
Exploitation and horror
master Larry Cohen, known for cult classics such as IT'S ALIVE and HELL UP IN
HARLEM, as well as penning more commercial fare such as PHONE BOOTH starring
Colin Farrell, presents this mystical murder mystery. A Catholic police
detective (Tony Lo Bianco) searches New
York City's occult underworld for answers to a series
of bizarre and seemingly unrelated killings. In a strange twist, it's not the
murderers themselves he's after -- they didn't even try to elude the law, and
all are in custody. However, each had only four words to say when confessing:
"God told me to." Comedian Andy Kaufman appears in a small role as a
police officer who begins shooting in the middle of New York's St. Patrick's Day parade.
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Tuesday 15th July
Para(noid) Politics in the Archive Gods Banker
An investigation of the
conspiracy surrounding the Vatican.
Was P2 a Masonic take over of the church? Has the Vatican Bank laundered Mafia
Money? Which Popes are suspected of being murdered? What about Ratzinger's Nazi
past and his recent campaign to create more exorcists than any other Pope in
the history of the Vatican. All will be revealed.
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Wednesday 16th July
Margenalised Movies
We can only assume Ron Ormond
made these religious films at the end of his career to atone for all the horrid
B-flicks he inflicted upon moviegoers in the '50s.
If the Footmen Tire you what will the Horses do (1971)
'If Footmen Tire You, What
Will Horses Do must be the apex of the genre. Christian propaganda delivered
here in it's most bizarre form. Exploitation filmmaker Ron Ormond ('Mesa of
Lost Women') together with evangelist Estus W. Pirkle did a handful of movies
to be shown to church-goers in the darkest areas of Tennessee. The plot of 'If Footmen Tire You...' is Mr. Pirkle
preaching to the most clueless looking, southern audience. Apparently America
is doomed if the people don't turn to God and Jesus again and ask for salvation
for their wicked ways of living! Those unspeakable things as TV, dancing,
music, drugs, cartoons, novels and drive-ins! And how is all this going to come
about well God will forsake the people and the evil Cuban communists will be
able to invade America.
The lessons about the evil of communism is dramatized in various vignettes, the
evil commies in home-made uniforms and black face, do lynching's, rape women,
be-head children, line corpses on the sideways and gun down large groups of
people. Ormond and Pirkle made more movies together but their partnership was
dissolved when Ormond discovered Pirkle was keeping the donations for himself.
'If Footmen Tire You...' is a movie beyond imagination and should be seen by
anyone! Amen!
 Burning Hell (1974)
"The Burning Hell"
was exhibited mainly in southern Protestant churches, Sunday schools and
Christian schools - who then plastered every storefront in town with placards
advertising the film ("20,000 Degrees Fahrenheit - and Not a Drop of
Water!" One wonders how they came up with that measurement). The
Southern-accented Moses with the fake beard ("Y'all let mah people
go") - the idiot teen bouncing around on the seat of his motorcycle before
crashing it and plunging into HAYull - and the silly Satan whose face was
painted like the Partridge Family's bus - you can only say that with the
amateur histrionics and Ormond's inept-as-ever direction, those who view this
film may well enter heaven, for they've already been through "The Burning
Hell."
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Thursday 17th July
Christian Propaganda
It's Film-Nite again! Those old-time Church Films you
can't resist! Educational, inspiring,...sometimes wacky great fun for everyone!
The advent of consumer videotape products
heralded the end of a decades-old industry: Religious film production and the
related industry involving their distribution. Large distributorships such as
"Century Gospel Films" and others were responsible to see that
literally hundreds of Churches received their weekly or monthly films in the
mail to show to eager congregations. By and large those days are gone...but you
can re-live the experience because we have the films on original 16mm: Enjoy
titles such as Heathen Redeemed, Betrayed, Pay The Piper just to name a few but
to kick off the night we have a special live performance. Fat Fat Ho is Australia's #1 'chippie'. That is,
a Chinese hippie. His mission is to spread peace, love and understanding
throughout the entire known universe. Please do not make fun of the way he
speaks. (World Premmy-Bloody-Air).Its going to probably be a very un-pc
evening, how mu-mesonarchives of us.
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Friday 18th July
Demonia (1990)
And of course the week would not be complete unless we screened a
Nunsploitation film. Lucio Fulci is one of Italy's
great masters of horror along with the likes of Dario Argento and Mario Bava,
in 1990 he made Demonia Professor Malcolm Evans leads his archaeological
expedition into the Valley of Temples in southeast Sicily. His companion and former student,
Liza Harris, is looking forward to her very first dig. But Liza feels a strange
sympathy with the valley and her recurring nightmares seems strongly tied to
the nearby ruins. She is drawn to the remains of a 16th Century convent and its
grisly legend of Satan worshiping nuns and crucifixion. The local villagers
rise to protect the entombed secrets of their ancestors, as Liza's obsession
with uncovering truth takes her deeper into the forbidden ruins and further
from sanity!
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Monday 21st July
Best Friends (1975)
Mature, stable Jesse (Richard
Hatch), his more nutty and impulsive immature best friend Pat (Doug Chapin),
Jesse's caring fiancé Kathy (Susanne Benton of "A Boy and His Dog"
fame"), and Pat's fragile gal pal Jo Ella Ann Noland) all decide to embark
on a cross country road trip in a Winnebago prior to facing the challenges of
encroaching adulthood. Relationships between everyone become increasingly
strained by this journey: Jesse has a fling with Jo Ella, Pat attempts to rape
Kathy, and the whole thing culminates with the now deranged Pat terrorizing the
other three on a beach while riding around on a motorcycle. This movie hits an
appealingly mellow and laid-back distinctly 70's groove early on and offers
some poignant insights into the difficulty of growing up and facing
responsibility. Moreover, there are quite a few bitter truths to be found in
the tense and homo erotic friendship between Jesse and Pat.
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Tuesday 22nd July
Para(noid) Politics in the Archives
Buckminster Fuller the Lost Interviews
Buckminster Fuller described
himself as a "living verb." Holder of 48 honorary doctorate degrees,
he was a philosopher and engineer whose experience and global view of humanity
and science enabled him to transcend nationalism and temporary current
conditions to foresee the direction of major events in the future. He created
the geodesic dome to show how much can be accomplished by utilizing very
little. In this program and series of interviews, he points out how mankind is
moving from the tangible world--which can be evidenced by sight, sound, smell and
touch--into the invisible world of energy, ions, and electrical forces; so much
so that 99.9999% of what affects our reality will be undetectable by our
senses.
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Friday 25th July
The Punk Rock Movie (1977)
In 1977 former Acme
attractions worker and then Roxy Club DJ Don Letts was given a Super 8 camera.
He didn't know how to work it but began filming at the Roxy Club bands and fans
alike. He continued filming after he left the Roxy Club too capturing more
bands on the scene. It features live performances from key bands from the
club including Eater (complete with pigs head), Slaughter & the Dogs,
Generation X, Heartbreakers, Siouxsie & the Banshees and X Ray Spex ripping
it up. The film features footage and songs from the Clash, Subway Sect and the
Slits at the Harlesden Roxy and White Riot tour. It has the Sex Pistols at the
electrifying Screen on the Green gig, their first with Sid Vicious on bass.
Importantly, it records the fans, club goers and pogoing Punks including Arcane
Vendetta and Sharon Spike in the Eater crowd. A Cambridge Rapist impersonator
makes an appearance and a Punk is mutilating himself. in fact the audience are
as much the stars.
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Saturday 26th July
Sounds of Seduction Saints & Sinners
Get out your habit, clerical collars, crucifix and get down to Hermann's Bar for groovy,
funky dance floor action. You will be able to dance to the rarest grooves with
the original crew Jay Katz, Miss Death, guest DJ's and of course Go-Go action.
Put on your dancing sandals and get on down for a Go-Go frenzy. Hermann's Bar Crn City Road and Butlins Ave, Sydney Uni
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Monday 28th July
Skate town USA (1979)
Sure, ROLLER BOOGIE's on DVD, but this one couldn't
possibly come out and we would be totally impressed with Sony if they put this
out on DVD, but clearing the soundtrack today might be pricey. But a copy has
been tracked down just for Cult Sinema Monday. This is
the kind of kitschy 1970s trash that makes cult film fans weep with joy.
Opening with a mundane scene of a girl skating down a suburban sidewalk, we
finally cut to when skating was "happening" (i.e., 1979) and hear non-stop
disco music as a typical romance is acted out at the local roller rink. Flip Wilson is the DJ, Ruth
Buzzi offers ridiculous comic relief, Scott Baio is a young roller skating
stud, and Patrick Swayze is the dark bad guy who challenges our hero to a skating
duel. See it to believe it! We bet the soundtrack LP goes for top dollar these days.
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Tuesday 29th July
Para(noid) Politics in the Archives
Contact UFO
On September 19th, 1961,
Barney Hill and his wife Betty were traveling from Canada
to their home in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. While outside Lancaster, Mr. Hill
noticed a strange light hovering in the sky, just below the moon. He kept
driving, but the light kept dancing in odd patterns, stopping and starting,
drawing his attention from the road. Baffled, Mr. Hill stopped the car, grabbed
his binoculars from the backseat, and set his gaze upon the strange light. The
rest is history. The Hill's story is considered to be the first widely
publicized alien abduction. It is this story that has laid the foundation for
this investigation into what is causing the sudden rash of reports of alien
abduction. Featuring interviews with abductees and various experts/aficionados
of extraterrestrial life and alien abductions, this video attempts to unearth
the answers behind the strange events that cause people to claim that they have
been lifted from Earth and probed by devious scientists from another galaxy.
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Last Updated ( Jul 03, 2008 at 09:58 AM )
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