Anthology Film Archives

Right? And one is, like, considered the great, the great of all time.

And the, Jonas Mekas, who was a Lithuanian avant-garde filmmaker and, um, ran and f- developed the Anthology Film Archives, which is the OG experimental film screening space.

You know, I think places like Northwest Film Forum and Beacon owe a little bit to its legacy, but-

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So I end up with a movie.

They sent it, they sent the movie, all the student movies, to the Anthology Film Archives, and then at that moment, my, uh, my short win the night.

It was the best.

Uh, it won, I won the award of the short.

And they needed to be seen.

Yes.

And that's why I said, "I'm gonna go downstairs, find out how much it costs to rent the Anthology Film Archives.

I'm gonna lose a month of salary, and that's what's gonna happen." And that's what I did until, uh, this was two months and a half we was doing the short film festival.

Imagine Kurt McDowell's Thundercrack mixed with a little bit of John Paizs' Crime Wave, and if those two titles mean anything to you, you're a likely candidate to enjoy this movie.

Fresh off its premiere at Fantastic Fest, Screamplay has been playing this week at Anthology Film Archives in New York until October 1st.

Throughout the month of October, it will screen in Portland, Seattle, Austin, Philadelphia, Winnipeg, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Tampa.

We'll have more details in the show notes, and for more information, go to matchboxcine.com. For the rest of this podcast, I'll be joined by director star Rufus Butler Seder as well as Elizabeth Purchell, founder of Muscle Distribution, which has restored and distributed so many great cult films over the last few years.

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Anthology Film Archives is doing another retrospective in October, and they have decided they want to show Battle of Love's Return, which is Oliver Stone's debut, among others, Lynn Lowry, who became a screenwriter and a very good actor.

And some of Warhol's people were in it.

But the movie is unwatchable.

And then the 30th, we're gonna be showing Goodbye Golly Mountain and Playing with Fire.

Then we're gonna go to the film, Anthology Film Archives in New York City, and we're gonna play, uh, two nights of Playing with Fire.

And then we're going to Berlin, and we're doing, uh, a night of Playing with Fire, and we're gonna have this big wedding to fire afterwards.

And the film is also playing in Rio de Janeiro at their Museum of Modern Art on October 23rd.

I'm going to be doing, they're doing a thing in New York basically all through the month of October called Traumageddon.

at a place called Anthology Film Archives downtown in Manhattan.

And I'm gonna be doing Q and A's for Kabuki Man during that time.

Oh, that's fun.

The director's still alive.

He reached out to Anthology Film Archives when Joe and I were doing those screenings and asked for us to screen his films, and we were going to fly him out.

He actively wants his films to be redistributed and seen.

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