Re: Screenwriters, Actors, Filmmakers, Producers...
Date: July 01, 2008 08:39AM
For those REALLY interested in Fine Cinema and Good Filmaking and want to stay in Fairfax County, the Legendary Lloyd Kauffman will be making an appearance at the Cinema Arts theater in July. I am thinking a perfect place for the next FU Summit. Here is the press release.
Added: (Fri May 30 2008)
LLOYD KAUFMAN PREMIERES “POULTRYGEIST” AT THE SPOOKY MOVIE FILM FESTIVAL: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SCREAM
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008 | FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA
THE SPOOKY MOVIE FILM FESTIVAL is proud to announce that director and president of Troma Films, Lloyd Kaufman, will be on hand for the D.C. area premiere of his latest film POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD on Thursday, July 17, 2008.
The CITIZEN KANE of zombie chicken movies, Lloyd Kaufman’s most impressive tour-de-farce since the original and wildly influential TOXIC AVENGER, has taken audiences, and critics, by storm one city, and one theatre, at a time. A cautionary tale of what happens when you build a fast food (chicken) restaurant on top of an ancient Native American burial ground, and then set it to music; POULTRYGEIST helps anchor our inaugural “TSMFF: Midsummer Night’s Scream.”
“We're looking forward to bringing our fowl movement to D.C.,” said Mr. Kaufman. “The home of so many wonderful chicken zombies!”
In a summer over-stuffed with remakes, sequels, reboots and remakes of sequel reboots, it’s nice to know that Troma, celebrating its 35th Anniversary, is looking out for us. “It's a veritable Cluckwork Orange!” raves Lisa Nesselson, from Variety. “It takes up where the punctured glutton in MONTY PYTHON’S THE MEANING OF LIFE left off!”
And from Nathan Lee in The New York Times: “Within the context of its genre – the satirical sexploitation zombie chicken gross-out musical extravaganza – it is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be...POULTRYGEIST plays like a grindhouse analogue to the sloppy, psychosexual provocations of the performance artist Paul McCarthy and is, in its lowbrow way, every bit as liberating.”
“A masterpiece!” declares Ain’t It Cool News. “FAST FOOD NATION meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD!”
And from Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman: “POULTYGEIST is as savage as DAWN OF THE DEAD, as slapstick nutzoid as EVIL DEAD 2, as gag-on-your-popcorn gross as PINK FLAMINGOS and as dementedly foulmouthed literate as a Kevin Smith raunchfest. It's genuine sick fun, and there isn't a boring moment in it!”
This exciting premiere of POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD will anchor an evening of new horror films presented by THE SPOOKY MOVIE FILM FESTIVAL, and will be followed by a rousing question and answering session led by Mr. Kaufman and hosted by local television personality Count Gore De Vol.
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Presented by Spooky Fests, LLC,, THE SPOOKY MOVIE FILM FESTIVAL: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SCREAM will be held at Cinema Arts Theatre at Fair City Mall in Fairfax, Virginia (www.cinemaartstheatre.com) Thursday, July 17, 2008 from 6:30 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. Admission for the evening is only $12.00. For more information on this event, and updates on THE 2008 SPOOKY MOVIE FILM FESTIVAL (October 16-19), please visit our website: www.thespookymovie.com.