i need some. will you be mine?
san francisco indie film festival will be in town starting next week. there’s some movies i really want to see. here i will list them for you and you may drool, or spit, or cast doubts upon me. and if you’d like to go with me to a movie, you may say, ‘please, michele, can not i be your friend?’ only you should try to pronounce ‘friend’ like frankenstein. because that would be funnier. fwwwwrrrreeeeeiiiieeennnd.
feb 2, 9:15pm, castro
angel getting sexually assaulted by 3 teenage girls!!!!
(so far, kristen, nuala, christine, and i are going to this one)
feb 5, 4:30pm, woman’s building
pirate boys on the salt lake!!
this looks funny, has boys pretending to be pirates, and, well, what else do you need? pirates, people. pirates. (kristen and i are going to yell “AR!” at the pirate boys so far)
february 7, 7pm, roxie cinema
intial d!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy crap. my delight at this is boundless. you would understand my delight more if you had sat through hours and hours of the HORRIBLE anime show this is based on. it was all just computer generated cars doing skids down the mountain roads. oh man. fucking brilliant. i watched episode after episode. and then i sold it all to robin at the bookstore for like $1 a tape.
feb 11, 11:45pm, roxie
stephen fung. he’s a hong kong actor turned director. i haven’t seen any of his director efforts but he’s none too shabby of an actor. if you like cute asian boys. and i do. i really, really do. plus it’s got some other really good hong kong actors in it, so my hopes for this movie are probably not unfounded. also, it’s on the saturday i was going to make people go to burma superstar for my birthday dinner. so if you’re coming to that, you might as well stick around and go to the movies really late with me. i’ll buy you coffee. (a maybe jacob and i are going)
feb 12, 7pm, roxie
takashi miike with a horror for children. if you know takashi, then i really don’t have to say anything else. but this looks sweet (fucking, not candy) and surreal and all together awesome. (so far going are jacob, christine, and i).
if you look around and there’s anything else there you want to see, let me know. i could be your friend too.
I’ll be your friend! Count me in for The Great Yokai War and (if I can stay up that late) House of Fury.
I should point out, though, that the Great Yokai War is by Takashi Miike, not Takeshi Kitano. Compared to Kitano, Miike is absolutely insane. Compared to *anyone*, Miike is absolutely insane. For examples, check out Gozu, Dead or Alive, or Ichi the Killer.
ah-ha! that explains why his name is spelt wrong. a, e, heh. i’ll fix that.
I too would like to see The Great Yokai War and Angel getting blackmailed into sex.
You’ve got a friend in me.