If you didn’t get your stop-motion fix last Friday night at the Ray Harryhausen Tribute, you’ll have a chance this weekend to take in the astonishing 9-minute horror short Abyssus Abyssum Invocat when it plays here as part of the St. Louis International film festival.
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a Latin phrase that means ‘Deep thinking leads to deep understanding’, though the filmmakers note that it can mean ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’. Whatever the translation, the film is clearly inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, the American Brothers Quay, and Russian animator Wladyslaw Starewicz by way of David Lynch and the Saw franchise. Abyssus Abyssum Invocat utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion. I’ve seen Abyssus Abyssum Invocat and it’s a haunting trip. The animation isn’t particularly smooth but that crudeness works in the film’s favor,...
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a Latin phrase that means ‘Deep thinking leads to deep understanding’, though the filmmakers note that it can mean ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’. Whatever the translation, the film is clearly inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, the American Brothers Quay, and Russian animator Wladyslaw Starewicz by way of David Lynch and the Saw franchise. Abyssus Abyssum Invocat utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion. I’ve seen Abyssus Abyssum Invocat and it’s a haunting trip. The animation isn’t particularly smooth but that crudeness works in the film’s favor,...
- 11/20/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com (Massive!) Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 500 pairs – yes, that’s 1,000 people! – of movie passes (normally $11.54 each!) up for grabs to the one-week engagement of the unromatic comedy “Love Stalker” at the Portage Theater! That’s $11,540 worth of free movie tickets!
The two Columbia College film alums behind “Love Stalker” return to Chicago from Sept. 7 to Sept. 13, 2012 to celebrate the Portage Theater’s victory over the Tabernacle Church’s failed takeover of the property. Mount Prospect’s Matt Glasson, who works as a film editor in New York for Comedy Central, joined fellow Columbia alum and St. Louis filmmaker Bowls MacLean to make their film “Love Stalker” based on their own personal experiences on the dating scene.
The film screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, but the rom-com’s funny story about one man’s sexual exploits inadvertently became the...
The two Columbia College film alums behind “Love Stalker” return to Chicago from Sept. 7 to Sept. 13, 2012 to celebrate the Portage Theater’s victory over the Tabernacle Church’s failed takeover of the property. Mount Prospect’s Matt Glasson, who works as a film editor in New York for Comedy Central, joined fellow Columbia alum and St. Louis filmmaker Bowls MacLean to make their film “Love Stalker” based on their own personal experiences on the dating scene.
The film screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, but the rom-com’s funny story about one man’s sexual exploits inadvertently became the...
- 9/1/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Love Stalker was originally reviewed during the St. Louis Filmmaker.s Showcase.
Pete, the main character in Love Stalker, a terrific new comedy about a young St. Louis dude cruising for his 75th sexual conquest (it’s his Golden number he explains), does a lot of things you’d expect from a guy whose life revolves around getting laid. As played by Matt Glasson, he jostles and swaggers, hangs out at bars drinking bourbon, and approaches every woman with a lame pick-up line, some which actually work. At home he sleeps on leopard-print sheets in matching underpants but his apartment is otherwise mostly barren because he’s a player, and players don’t stay home much. The self-aggrandizing Pete’s not quite the chick magnet he thinks he is but, despite his obvious sleaze, manages to score plenty just because he works so darn hard at it. Tony (Darek Russell...
Pete, the main character in Love Stalker, a terrific new comedy about a young St. Louis dude cruising for his 75th sexual conquest (it’s his Golden number he explains), does a lot of things you’d expect from a guy whose life revolves around getting laid. As played by Matt Glasson, he jostles and swaggers, hangs out at bars drinking bourbon, and approaches every woman with a lame pick-up line, some which actually work. At home he sleeps on leopard-print sheets in matching underpants but his apartment is otherwise mostly barren because he’s a player, and players don’t stay home much. The self-aggrandizing Pete’s not quite the chick magnet he thinks he is but, despite his obvious sleaze, manages to score plenty just because he works so darn hard at it. Tony (Darek Russell...
- 11/14/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 20th Annual Stella Artois St. Louis International Film Festival (better known to local movie buffs as Sliff) is presented by Cinema St. Louis and begins this Thursday, November 10th. The fest looks like another exciting event for film buffs. Now in its 20th year, Sliff is one of the largest international film festivals in the Midwest. This year’s event will be held Nov. 10-20. Sliff’s main venues are the Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, and Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium with additional screenings at the Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, Il, and Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University. Sliff showcases the best in cutting-edge features and shorts from around the globe. The majority of the more than 300 films screened – many of them critically lauded award-winners will receive their only St. Louis exposure at the festival. We Are Movie Geeks.com will be posting reviews of...
- 11/7/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
And the winner is……St. Louis!
Independent filmmaking thrives here and we’re lucky to have such a top-notch cinema-related event planning group like Cinema St. Louis to organize an event like last week’s Stella Artois St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase at the Tivoli Theater. After Thursday night’s final film, an awards party was held in the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill.
Congratulations to all the winners……and here they are:
Best Film (Narrative Feature): “Joint Body” by Brian Jun
Best Documentary Feature: “Give a Damn?” by Dan Parris
Best Actor: Mark Pellegrino “Joint Body”
Best Actress: Libby Bibb “All Those Yesterdays”
Best Supporting Actor: David Martyn Conley “Bedlam Street”
Best Supporting Actress: Julie Layton “Bedlam Street”
Best Actor In A Comedic Role: Doug Jones “Sudden Death!”
Best Actress In A Comedic Role: Michelle Davidson “Ready to Pop”
Best Juvenile Actor: Caden Self “Hidden Treasure”
Best Juvenile Actress:...
Independent filmmaking thrives here and we’re lucky to have such a top-notch cinema-related event planning group like Cinema St. Louis to organize an event like last week’s Stella Artois St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase at the Tivoli Theater. After Thursday night’s final film, an awards party was held in the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill.
Congratulations to all the winners……and here they are:
Best Film (Narrative Feature): “Joint Body” by Brian Jun
Best Documentary Feature: “Give a Damn?” by Dan Parris
Best Actor: Mark Pellegrino “Joint Body”
Best Actress: Libby Bibb “All Those Yesterdays”
Best Supporting Actor: David Martyn Conley “Bedlam Street”
Best Supporting Actress: Julie Layton “Bedlam Street”
Best Actor In A Comedic Role: Doug Jones “Sudden Death!”
Best Actress In A Comedic Role: Michelle Davidson “Ready to Pop”
Best Juvenile Actor: Caden Self “Hidden Treasure”
Best Juvenile Actress:...
- 8/22/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Pete, the main character in Love Stalker, a terrific new comedy about a young St. Louis dude cruising for his 75th sexual conquest (it’s his Golden number he explains), does a lot of things you’d expect from a guy whose life revolves around getting laid. As played by Matt Glasson, he jostles and swaggers, hangs out at bars drinking bourbon, and approaches every woman with a lame pick-up line, some which actually work. At home he sleeps on leopard-print sheets in matching underpants but his apartment is otherwise mostly barren because he’s a player, and players don’t stay home much. The self-aggrandizing Pete’s not quite the chick magnet he thinks he is but, despite his obvious sleaze, manages to score plenty just because he works so darn hard at it. Tony (Darek Russell), his nice-guy best friend with no desire to emulate him, finds Pete...
- 8/15/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cinema St. Louis, our city’s non-profit cinema-related event planning group, will presenting its 11th annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase which begins this Saturday, August 13th at the Tivoli Theater (and ends with a party on the 18th at Blueberry Hill). The showcase, sponsored by Stella Artois Beer, is a chance for St. Louis-based filmmakers to show off their art. All of these films were written, directed, edited or produced by St. Louis natives or those with strong local ties. The 16 film programs that screen at the Tivoli from Aug. 14-18 serve as St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.s centerpiece. The programs range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. Watch for more coverage of this important local event here at We Are Movie Geeks.com over the coming days
Here’s the schedule:
Saturday, Aug.
Here’s the schedule:
Saturday, Aug.
- 8/10/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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