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Rest in Peace, Carl Reiner

on June 30, 2020

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DESOLATION CENTER

DESOLATION CENTER (Film Review) Featuring Stuart Swezey, Perry Farrell, Mark Pauline, members of Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, Redd Kross, Einst ű rzende Neubauten. Directed by Stuart Swezey. (2018/93 min) ON DIGITAL FROM MU PRODUCTIONS Review by Fluffy the Fearless 😸 Fed up with the local mainstream's overall contempt for the L.A. Punk scene, super fan Stuart Swezey took it onto himself to organize a series of shows – collectively dubbed Desolation Center - that would take place far away from media and police scrutiny. Assembled on-the-fly with few resources and nearly no promotion, these grassroots gigs were mostly held in the remote desert. Ticket buyers, trucked to the locations in old school buses, literally had no idea where they were going on the day of the show (which was part of the experience). The shows themselves featured such underground antiheroes as Minutemen & Sonic Youth, as well as performance artists like Mark Pauline (who bl...

THE PAINTED BIRD: Curse the Beasts and the Children

THE PAINTED BIRD (Film Review) Starring Petr Kotl á r, Nina Š unevi č , Stellan Skarsg å rd, Udo Kier, Harvey Keitel, Jitka Č van č arova, Julian Sands, Barry Pepper, Ala Sakalova. Directed by V á clav Marhoul. (2019/169 min) OPENING IN THEATERS, DRIVE-INS & DIGITAL/VOD ON JULY 17 FROM IFC FILMS Review by Fluffy the Fearless🙀 The metaphor of the title may not be subtle, but it's effective. About a third of the way into this Czechoslovakian film, a bird keeper paints the wings of one of his animals. After releasing it, the bird ascends to join a flock hovering above them. The flock then proceeds to attack and kill it. That bird represents the young boy (Petr Kotlar) who just watched it die. He's a WWII-era Jew whose parents left him with his aunt for his own safety. When she unexpectedly dies, he's on his own to begin a long, terrifying journey through war-ravaged Europe. Along the way, he's seldom treated as human by the adults he meets, most of ...

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Rest in Peace, Carl Reiner

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