go go tales
a highly personal movie, go go tales finds ferrara in a frenzied yet pensive mode .
scope: compared to the altman, the show - must - go - on sentiment in go go tales is obviously more defiant then melancholy .
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ferrara: i wrote it way back: mary, go go tales, and the king of new york prequel that i’m trying to do next—they all kind of came together. you never know when the inspiration is going to come. we were here in cannes seven years ago, trying to get money for go go tales .
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i’m hoping that go go tales gets a run beyond manhattan, but i doubt it. in the meantime, ferrara fanatics (and asia argento devotees) can pick up an import dvd here .
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scenes of a go - jek jacket being burned on the streets made headlines and some go - jek drivers were hurt during the demonstrations .
but there is good news for ferrara fans. his 2007 film go go tales is finally getting a theatrical run, albeit a very limited one, as part of new york city’s anthology film archives tribute “abel ferrara in the 21st century. ”
a bit overdone, as reveries go—but i’ll just blame that on the movies .
if, at this moment, perhaps i’m thinking go go tales may very well be ferrara’s masterpiece, it’s because of all of the above — a fight for the uncommodified body. yet the final sense one’s left with isn’t melancholy, but defiance .
it' s ok to be confused by richard kelly' s
southland tales .
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scope: a few of us critics have compared go go tales to a prairie home companion —they’re both very personal ensemble movies about show business and performance. and the club ambience is reminiscent of killing of a chinese bookie. did you have those films in mind ?
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af: we' re working on the go - go tales, a film that we want to star christopher walken. it' s a comedy feature set in a go - go club. that' s going to be the pilot for a series. it' s like la cage aux folles meets the killing of a chinese bookie. [ laughs. ] if you can figure out how to do that, e - mail me .
a screwball comedy centered on a manhattan go - go dancing club, where a financial struggle between the owner, his accountant and his silent partner brother threatens the business’s future .
production: a massimo gatti presentation of a bellatrix media and go go tales production in association with de nigris prods. (international sales: wild bunch, paris .) produced by massimo gatti. executive producers, enrico coletti, massimo cortesi. directed, written by abel ferrara .
in the 1950s cinecitta was briefly nicknamed
hollywood on tiber
after playing host to a number of large - scale us productions, including ben hur and quo vadis. more recent productions include spike lee' s miracle at st anna and abel ferrara' s go go tales .
a screwball comedy centered on a manhattan go - go dancing club, where a financial struggle between the owner, his accountant and his silent partner brother threatens the business' s future .
for the first question of the go go tales press conference at cannes, moderator henri behar asked abel ferrara to describe ray ruby’s paradise lounge, the manhattan strip club where his new film is set. “it’s a place where you go and they wait on you and you’re in a tuxedo and every drink is 40 euros and up, ” said ferrara, who was clutching a bottle of bud under the table and trying without success to be discreet when he swigged from it between answers. he paused, then drew the connection: “a little bit like cannes. ” behar arched an eyebrow: “where do you see go - go dancers in cannes? ” ferrara replied: “everywhere i go. ”
“chiang mai? ” carla raised a skeptical eyebrow at me. “marco polo didn’t go there. ”
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abel ferrara has a ball with “go go tales, ” a puckish and perpetually lively night out at a new york strip club that’s faring no better than its sweaty, stressed - out impresario. ferrara is in a wonderfully loose and comedic mood after the complex spiritual dramatics of “mary, ” expanding his fascination with big american dreams and [ … ]
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unlike the film that “go go tales” most touchingly references — john cassavetes’ “the killing of a chinese bookie” — a more hopeful end for ray is ironically proposed, until a smashing closing shot that once again brings the entrepreneur’s fantasies crashing back to terra firma, and focuses in on dafoe’s drooping, suddenly frowning visage even as he holds a share of the $ 18 million check .
written and directed by abel ferrara; director of photography, fabio cianchetti; music by francis kuipers; production design by frank decurtis; costumes by gemma mascagni; produced by bellatrix media and go go tales inc. at the anthology film archives, 32 second avenue, at second street, east village. running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. this film is not rated .
singapore - based nsi ventures, which is part of the northstar group, first invested in go - jek in 2014 .
go go tales is ferrara' s valentine to the times square go - go dancing clubs where he used to hang out as a young man. nostalgically, he recalls :
i' d get in under the tent as the house director, and once inside, the first hit of seeing the girls never failed to blow my mind. they were truly fabulous: tall, cool, and g - stringed out. maybe it was the combination of near nude women, writhing in front of the well dressed guys, to music that always sounded better there than anywhere else, which makes the memory so long - lasting and vivid .
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i haven' t stopped thinking about this film. just watched its 1970' s ancestor ,
killing of a chinese bookie
( also about a pathetic but lovable strip joint owner who screws everything up gambling), and kept wanting to be watching
go go tales
instead. i certainly hope it' ll get a second chance and receive a wider audience down the line; it' s one of ferrara' s masterpieces .
ferrara: i don’t think we’re that funny, or we’re more unintentionally funny. no, no, no, we were going for the jokes. there’s a story about the marx brothers—how they’d go on tour, start in providence or new haven or new york, and go across the country with the writers in the theatre and see if they could get two laughs a minute, a guaranteed two, like, ha ha ha laughs a minute. and they kept writing and writing across the whole country, and when they got to l. a. they’d shoot it. and we could do that kind of thing with go go tales because it’s real time. we could get those actors and perform it as a wooster group special .
the population explosion here has created the most congested city in the world ,
says the founder of indonesian motorbike taxi and delivery business go - jek .
my tongue is ineffectual in its pivots; phi phi leh recedes in the darkness behind us. we go through strange rituals to prove things to ourselves in life .
customers can use the app to book a motorbike taxi, order food delivery, cleaning services, and even door - to - door beauticians and masseuses. go - jek has just launched go - car and after partnering with some of indonesia' s biggest banks, the firm is in the process of making its payment system cash free .
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background newscasts in
southland tales
are also constantly referring to earthquakes, wild fires and
red tides .
these are all references to the seven plagues that precede the destruction of babylon .
i didn’t bother him when he stood up to go. the events that transpired as i tried to leave the verandah make so little sense that they are somewhat difficult to recount .
much less literally than in “mary” (in which modine played a film director whom ferrara etched in unflattering autobiographical detail), the metaphor of filmmaking as a crazy capitalist gamble — with the clear implication that capitalism itself is an arena of mad self - destruction — comes through in “go go tales” with spirited effervescence. throwing all caution to the wind and encouraging his cast to improvise a large percentage of the dialogue, ferrara has made a film of considerable risk and bolstered by a supreme confidence that all will turn out alright in the end, much like ray himself .
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figures, it begins right after i leave, end of may and ends the day before i go back again in august. this sounds fantastic. and i have to miss it! wah !
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his firm, go - jek, which was launched in 2011 as a simple motorbike courier business, has evolved into a multifaceted service delivery and app - based transport provider. and it' s taking jakarta by storm .
the tangent universe is an alternate reality to our own. you could argue that all of
southland tales
occurs in the tangent universe - - hence the film' s alternate history of the past three years, and its weird mishmash of pop culture. in
donnie darko ,
the world ends when the tangent universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of
southland tales .
why that happens when the taverners touch, only richard kelly knows .
the power
is a pretty hilarious piece of work. it has a similar plot to
southland tales ,
but with different characters and more gratuitous product placement. its story overlaps with the movie, so it explains some of the back story .
before [ we had investors ] i couldn' t afford myself, so i had to go work for other people ,
he says .
i came onboard full - time in 2014 and we launched the app in 2015 .
“that’s not the point, ” i insisted. “the adventure is in going to a place where you aren’t supposed to go. the charm is in living the novel backwards—going to an exclusive and secretive beach that also happens to be famous. ”
shot in late 2006 and shown out of competition at the cannes film festival in may 2007, “go go tales” is the latest fiction film from mr. ferrara, one of the great undersung american independents. it’s a measure of the lamentable state of independent distribution in this country that the movie, despite receiving some critical support at cannes, never hooked an american buyer, which is why it’s opening in new york at the anthology film archives as part of a special program. that five - title series, “abel ferrara in the 21st century, ” also includes “mary, ” an unhinged 2005 fiction about the making of a jesus movie, and “chelsea on the rocks, ” the director’s 2008 docu - tour through the demimonde haunt known as the chelsea hotel .
if you know me, you know i don’t promote stories of “startup heroism” — those thrilling tales of late nights, fueled by coffee, working everywhere and everytime, for 3 - 5 years until the acquisition ship comes in and you retire with your riches to “mojito island” .
ronald walks up to martin kefauver' s hummer, which is parked near the ocean. martin has just learned that he' s been drafted to go to iraq and is about to shoot himself in the head. ronald persuades him not to commit suicide, and the two decide to go to mexico. cindy meets vaughn smallhouse at a restaurant and gives him a copy of the sex tape. when vaughn threatens her, she tells him that she has multiple copies, then tasers him in the balls .
initially operating from a small apartment with a few staff taking calls for deliveries
from mostly family and friends
, go - jek has transformed itself into a mobile app service with some 200, 000 freelance drivers together with hundreds of other service providers .
most all the endnotes contain insights about the writing of the story itself. in this way, marco polo didn’t go there might well serve as a quirky travel - writing textbook, since each story is offset by an annotated peek into its own creation .
there’s one more bit of crucial information. go go tales is a new york story—or, more precisely, a story about a classic new york fear and emblem of failure: being forced out of new york—that was filmed entirely in rome, at cinecitta. it’s the first time this hometown boy, one of the great new york filmmakers, has ever had to find a stand - in for his city: a fact that, in the context of this particular film, is at once sad, apt, heroic, and redemptive. ferrara has made a movie about the price of independence that is independent to the core. the film is anything but whiny, but there’s undoubtedly a righteous indignation burbling here: ray never gets any respect, and the director, you can tell, identifies .
no! i hope this doesn’t put you off staying in hostels – or hotels for that matter! sometimes, things can go bad, but out of the hundreds of hostels i’ve stayed in, only a couple of times have i had real hostel nightmares .
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fairy tales have happy endings. they may be dark and scary but the prince always finds cinderella and little red riding hood susses out the big bad wolf. right? all too often many assume that fairy stories are, have always been and should be all about the happily ever after .
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so before we get to go into the woods we should take care not to get too comfortable in the cosiness of the cottage fireside – and remember the dark truth in the history of the fairy tale and the continued possibility of invention, innovation, subversion and disruption .
pokémon go, launched by nintendo in the us and australia on 5 july, involves spotting little animated monsters on a map, catching them with your poké ball by flicking your finger at your screen, and... barring a handful of other features, that’s about it .
the other great attraction in “go go tales, ” though she’s not on screen nearly enough, is the actress and sometime director asia argento, who enters wearing her pretty scowl and tethered to a rottweiler. she certainly gives it her all (well, she keeps on her stockings, leather panties and pasties) as one of the strippers, instantly earning her character’s introduction as “the scariest, sexiest girl in the world. ” ms. argento, who delivers a fantastic star turn in another out - of - competition film here, olivier assayas’s underappreciated “boarding gate, ” has the kind of intense screen presence that could bring out the fire department. actors are paid to emote and recite lines, but ms. argento bares body and soul, throwing herself into both mr. ferrara’s and mr. assayas’s films as if her life depended on it. maybe it does .
a moroccan called majid * got in touch with migrant tales who was deported in october despite marriage to a finnish woman. the finnish immigration service (migri) claims that the marriage was arranged, but he denies such a claim. he is presently awaiting a decision by the administrative court to overturn migri’s decision .
ferrara’s 16th feature—and his second, after mary (2005), since he decamped for rome a few years ago—is his first flat - out comedy. the press book name - checks wilder, sturges, and capra, and he described it in a 2002 interview (it took years to get this project off the ground) as “ cheers meets the killing of a chinese bookie. ” but as you might deduce from that little exchange with behar, go go tales is also an allegory: a portrait of the artist as a hustler, a gambler, a performer, a dreamer, an addict, a throwback, a holdout, and, of course, a purveyor of good old - fashioned t & a, navigating the screw - or - be - screwed questions common to all exploitative professions, indeed to modern capitalist systems. you could say this one comes from the heart .
the theatrical cut of
southland tales
has been extensively reedited - - a subplot has been excised, additional special effects shots have been inserted, a new explanatory sequence opens the movie - - and critics have been considerably kinder to it. as andrew o' hehir put it, the recut film
transcends its adolescent awkwardness and approaches being magnificent .
but even with the changes, the film is still almost impossible to understand, a trait that probably hasn' t helped its box office. it' s too bad, because
southland tales
is one of the more interesting and ambitious american films in recent memory .
again, we' re not entirely sure. but if
southland tales
follows the same logic as
donnie darko ,
as laid out in that film' s dvd extras, when the fourth dimension is corrupted, it causes the creation of two parallel universes: the tangent universe and the primary universe .
critics have always found it easy to dismiss ferrara—to chuckle at his drunken buffoonery and write off his films as scraps of underbelly anthropology. that attitude reared its head at cannes this year. despite being invited to open the quinzaine, go go tales quite predictably received a midnight slot out of competition and many viewers reacted as they had been programmed to: the hollywood reporter ’s reviewer proclaimed it “dunderheaded”; a few high - profile critics and programmers were only too happy to announce that they walked out. even those who called it a “return to form” are somewhat misstating the case. this may well be ferrara’s best film in years but on the basis of the blackout (1997), r - xmas (2001), and mary, it isn’t “form” so much as the american film industry that has deserted him (the funeral was his last film to receive a proper us release, in 1996) .
the country of birth listed on tania’s american passport changed four times in four successive renewals. until the first time, she believed your country of birth was a fixed point. today she knows better. go with her as she journeys through time and history looking for answers, and finding some .
once krysta departs, boxer receives a phone call from starla instructing him to go to the santa monica pier. boxer gets into a convertible and drives off. the baron phones simon theory (kevin smith), an old bearded man, and instructs him to
remove the body from utopia three .
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in the hopes of helping you make sense of the movie, we' ve decided to unravel
southland tales
as we' ve done for
mulholland drive ,
the wire
and, of course ,
donnie darko .
if you haven' t seen the movie and don' t want to have it - - or the graphic novels - - spoiled, you should stop reading this right now. using the graphic novels, the book of revelation, friends and whatever else we could find, we' ve pieced together everything you need to know (or at least everything we' ve been able to figure out) about
southland tales .
go go tales begins with ray daydreaming on a couch in his office while a ballerina ties her slippers. this poetic interplay of images gives the impression that, to ray, dreams are his only medium for success. his desire, then, to win the lottery—by any means possible—is his way of forcing those dreams to fruition, and implicit in his deceitfulness is a need to maintain a sense of integrity while exploiting a callous capitalist system. how interesting that lilian (miles), despite her repeated threats to sell the paradise to bed, bath and beyond (do not miss miles’s performance of the song “bed, bath and beyond” during the closing credits !), is comfortable hanging out inside the paradise. she’s probably blowing hot air because she understands that ray, like ferrara, is a relic, and keeping the paradise afloat is a means of preserving a lost new yorkness. (pity that the film doesn’t feel as if were actually filmed anywhere near the big apple. )
fairy tales started as a spoken tradition and were written up by the grimm brothers and charles perrault for families – not exclusively for children. what’s more, they contained predatory wolves who had to be killed, children who were abandoned and wicked, and wayward witches. jack zipes demonstrates in his study of red riding hood that often in early versions the endings of the story weren’t so very happy and included our red - capped heroine sometimes defeating the wolf single handed, and in others being eaten all up. as angela carter showed us, these dark cautionary tales for young women were passed down by mothers and grandmothers for good reason. the stories functioned as warnings, life lessons about growing up as a woman .
latif is a great screen player. he succeeded to capture the pure emotion of a woman trying to save marriage that was arranged, not out of love. it' s quite sad if you come to think of it. any woman would try to go out of it but not this one. wonderful screen play too !
i probably wasn' t the first to come up with the idea of go - jek ,
30 - year - old mr makarim admits .
a lot of people before me have thought of it as well. it' s just that we were the first ones to execute this on a large scale .
mr makarim refuses to discuss the firm' s financials, but when asked if he would sell go - jek for the right sum, he says :
sell up? well... our investors need to profit at some point from their investment, but i don' t see a sale happening anytime soon .
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macdonald took out a pen and wrote a phone number down on a napkin. “this is the number for sarah clark. she’s a publicist. you’ll have to go through her if you want to do any interviews. but at most you’ll probably just get an interview with me. ” he didn’t look too thrilled by this possibility .
southland tales
opens on july 4, 2005, in abilene, texas. kids are shooting home video of their independence day barbecue. suddenly, a bright light appears through windows and a mushroom cloud rises in the distance: abilene has been nuked. we zoom out to a satellite view, revealing that another nuclear bomb has been detonated in el paso .
if
southland tales
is a semi - straightforward reinterpretation of the book of revelation, then baron von westphalen is the antichrist, sen. bobby frost is probably his false prophet, krysta now is the whore of babylon, the two witnesses are probably boxer santaros and roland taverner, the white horse is the levitating ice cream truck, and christ is ronald and roland taverner .
southland tales
also borrows from
repo man ,
which ends with a flying car. singer rebekah del rio, who (as herself) performs the
star spangled banner
onboard the mega - zeppelin, is also featured in david lynch' s
mulholland drive .
jericho cane is the name of arnold schwarzenegger' s character in
end of days .
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pokémon go shares geocaching' s treasure hunt element, and the thrill that someone (well, in this case an api) has hidden something for you on a real street that you can visit. this lure has prompted apple and android users all over the world to bypass country restrictions to get access to the game before it is released in their country. (
the problem, however, is that i’m having trouble explaining why i want to go there in the first place. i arrived here yesterday morning to discover that all the affordable lodging on long beach had been sold out. welcoming the ascetic novelty of sleeping on the beach itself, i left my backpack with a friendly restaurant manager and set off to scope things out .
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if ray doesn’t win the lotto, he’s screwed, but — in true ferrara fashion, where characters often go from bad to much worse — even when he does win (in one of dafoe’s several explosive scenes), he’s still screwed. neither he nor jay can find the winning ticket among the stacks and stacks of tickets they’ve bought and squirreled away for safe keeping .
marco polo didn’t go there is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. it is a unique window into travel writing, with each chapter containing a “commentary track”—humorous endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers .
the catch, though, is you can’t do it from your bed or sofa. the game maps the pokémon onto real gps and street maps, so you have to roam around in the real world to find them. this is no candy crush on the tube, or days spent playing fifa in a darkened room. you have to “go” (get it ?) outside .
our routine each day was simple; wake up with sunrise, swim, eat, read, relax, nap, go for another swim and join the small group of other travellers for dinner each night. everyone we met seemed to live by a similar beat. the island motto was to do less each day than we did on the previous, and we lived by it religiously .
with the internet, and going to europe, i feel like i grew up. you’ve got to be like a wall street broker, especially with the internet and digital, watching that tape every minute to know how the film business is going. there’s going to be a way, for the people who want to see my films, where i can go right to them with it .
the treer company is a german defense contractor that employs dr. inga von westphalen, a zeppelin designer and the baron' s mother. in the
southland tales
universe, when war broke out following the nuclear attacks in texas, treer was contracted to build several mega - zeppelins to ferry troops and equipment across the world. kelly has said that this idea was inspired by a real u. s. army project .
interestingly, it’s gender stereotypes that offend most cultural theorists such as henry giroux, who accuse the animated versions of fairy stories in particular of being full of outdated ideology. certainly, early disney didn’t alter the blueprint of the early fairy tales – rags to riches, a happy ending, defeating the baddies – but it is far from cautious in confronting so - called adult themes such as death, jealousy and fear of responsibility .
in the end, having the courage to leave new york—once you do that, you find places. you find they want to shoot films in shanghai, korea. as long as you’re making films, it doesn’t matter, i don’t know if you even need language. there are a lot of ways to go. but the only way is where you’re working with people who respect what you’re doing .
the book of revelation is the last book in the new testament. it foretells the end of the world and the second coming of christ (pilot abilene keeps reading it on the soundtrack). kelly has said in interviews that the film was partially made in response to the rise of apocalyptic evangelism in the united states. for
southland tales ,
he loosely adapted the plot of the book of revelation and set it in an alternate version of the present day .
meanwhile, watching someone play isn’t far off from watching someone text in public. they walk slowly, starting and stopping, while staring obsessively at their phone. conversations are punctuated by squawks of “a bulbasaur! ! ” a friend' s desire to
go check out that park over there
turns a little sour when you realise it' s rooted in the presence of a lake, and therefore the potential for snaring a water
no, it' s not just you. but, then again, you probably shouldn' t try to interpret
southland tales
too literally. it' s filled with so many references and so much self - conscious irony that it' s nearly impossible to make sense of it all. and then you would miss all the jokes and stop enjoying the dance sequences. it does get easier to understand, though, if you' ve read the book of revelation .
the release of into the woods has set this myth on its bewitching way once again. the film is a disney adaptation of stephen sondheim’s musical intertwining of several well - known fairy tales, principally little red riding hood, jack and the beanstalk, rapunzel, and cinderella, and features more death than the typical tale, and other “adult themes” like adultery. predictably, its release has set the worriers worrying that disney’s version will have sugar - spun the original beyond all recognition .
ferrara: there was that period in the ’90s when all these guys sold out—harvey and all that. when every studio had an independent branch, it was the wrong way to go, 100 percent. you’re either going to battle them on that level or be a change on that level. you’re going to say, oh right, being a part of disney is going to help independent films? that’s fucking bullshit, man. who are you kidding ?
imagine creating your italian dream vacation with a fun - loving savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear. go along with writer susan van allen on a femme - friendly ride up and down the boot, to explore this extraordinarily enchanting country where venus (vixen goddess of love and beauty) and the madonna (nurturing mother of compassion) reign side - by - side. with humor, passion, and practical details, this uniquely anecdotal guidebook will enrich your italian days .
after the show, the celebration continues with the harambe nights street party, filled with music, characters, and live performers, encouraging everyone to join in and “go wild! ” you can enjoy an all - inclusive buffet of sophisticated and flavorful african cuisine and gourmet desserts. exclusive lion king merchandise and collectibles will be available for purchase during the event, and you’ll want to stick around for a special finale to bid “kwaherini” to a magical evening that could only happen at disney’s animal kingdom !
but the main thing that struck me was the half - naked guy in the middle of the floor. passed out from the night before, not a pretty sight. climbing over him, which was the only way around him, i dumped my bags and popped into the en suite bathroom. it was a similar theme, basically mess everywhere and you certainly wouldn’t want to go in there to get clean! since i was only booked for one night i couldn’t be bothered to change rooms but
in a sense, “postmodern” is a confusing appellation, since the word is used in slightly different ways when describing, say, literary theory, or interior design, or tv commercials. i use the word to describe the increasing placelessness that accompanies any information - age journey. many recurring themes of the travel tales in this book (the weird gap between expectations and reality; the challenge of identifying “authenticity” in post - traditional settings; the realization that unexpected encounters help you better see places for what they are) are the result of this dislocation .
harambe nights takes place every saturday from june 7 – august 9, 2014, with the welcome reception starting at 7 p. m. and a 7: 30 p. m. show time. tickets are $ 119 for adults, $ 79 for ages 3 - 9, plus tax. tickets with premium floor seating are $ 134 for adults, $ 94 for ages 3 - 9, plus tax. capacity is limited, so you’ll want to go ahead and get your tickets by visiting urltoken or calling 407 - 939 - 1319 .
hello tracy, i believe and shawn can correct me if i am wrong but tbd means to be determined or announced. the food and drinks are included in the price. i am attending june the 7th. i am thrilled that i saw the information about it just days after if was announced but the more expensive closer seats were already sold out in less than a week. so, book, book, book if you want to go. it is a non - refundable ticket and not inexpensive so be sure you want to attend .
what follows is a hyperkinetic fox news - style summary of the following three years in the
southland tales'
alternate universe: after the nuclear attacks in texas, the united states reinstates the draft, and by october 2005, war (sponsored by hustler and bud light) breaks out with iran, syria, afghanistan, north korea and iraq - - where pilot abilene, the film' s narrator, is injured in a friendly - fire accident. a blockade in the strait of hormuz impedes the flow of oil to the united states, causing an increased demand for alternative fuel sources .
unlike most of the longtail operators i met in ton sai, jimmy is a quiet, introspective man. when we were negotiating the trip yesterday afternoon, he nodded silently as i took out a dive - shop map of phi phi leh and told him where i wanted to go. at first i thought he couldn’t speak any english, but he cut me short when i tried to use my thai phrase book on him. “three in the morning, o. k. , ” he’d said. “i know loh saman bay. ” i suspect he is working to support a wife and kids somewhere .
to three girls bringing home “guests”, including the girl in the bunk underneath mine. as the bunk bed shook and i was completely unable to sleep despite asking everyone to go somewhere else, i just grabbed my stuff and decided it was the final thread. i complained to a staff member who gave me a full refund and i immediately left with my bags ready to explore the rest of the city (albeit with my carry - on bag). i left on a bus to lisbon after discovering the fish market ready for a change. i still occasionally stay at hostels, but read the reviews carefully and avoid party hostels like the plague .
the film that is most obviously referenced is
kiss me deadly ,
a 1955 film noir about a private detective who uncovers a plot to detonate a nuclear device. the movie plays in the background in several scenes, and in the
prequel saga ,
krysta tells boxer it is his favorite movie. as in
southland tales ,
a character in
kiss me deadly
picks up a stranger in the desert, and one of the main characters in the film is named after a poet. the name of dr. severin exx is a reference to the name of an evil doctor in the movie
kiss me deadly ,
and boxer santaros' convertible is the same car driven by ralph meeker in the 1955 film .
af: i grew up in the' 60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn' t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera. i was born in the bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age. but it was a creative country. my original screenwriter, nikky st. john, and this great writer, t. c. boyle, were from this town. mel gibson was from this town. pee - wee herman was from this town. hey, how about that group? [ laughs. ] when you' re surrounded by people like that, you' d better do something .
logistics and marketing aside, however, i came to realize that “marco polo didn’t go there” was not just a statement of geography: intentional or not, it was a keen observation about the postmodern reality of far - flung lands. unlike marco, my travels were not a simple journey from home to the other and back. at any given moment in southeast asia, i was likely to run into a burmese shan refugee who could quote west coast hip - hop to illustrate his plight, a laotian hmong tribesman who’d recently visited his relatives in minneapolis, or a jewish - american buddhist who’d slept in suburban maryland thirty - six hours earlier. whereas marco had traveled into a mysterious and frightening terra incognita, i was traveling into a globalized asia that had long since been visited by the oracle of mass media and the shock troops of mass tourism .
ferrara: we wrote the part for walken and chris never really got it. willem and i had worked together in new rose hotel (1998). we had our differences but he’s now also living in rome, and when he read it he got it. if you’re gonna have a film where someone’s got his name on the cuff of his shirt, that’s a pretty big ego you have to play. and he got it, he did it, he sang. it’s so sad he wasn’t there that night, but he’s shooting this movie [ paul schrader’s adam resurrected ] where he’s playing the head of the gestapo or a concentration camp. willem understands the idea with entertainment, that the show must go on, from a theatrical point of view, and he made it happen. we’ve been trying to make this film for seven years, but we never really had the guy .
the fact that the information commissioner’s office has launched an investigation into whether the metropolitan police service trident gangs matrix breaches the data protection act is welcome, but the dangers go beyond this. [ 1 ] the home office, local authorities and all other public sector agencies involved in the multi - agency approach to combating ‘gang - associated activity’ should, according to the irr, review procedures to ensure that they are not contributing to a form of racialised data profiling that has serious repercussions for the human rights of young people, particularly black boys and young black men. for there is evidence to suggest we are witnessing a continuation of the ‘windrush scandal’, only, this time it is the grandchildren of the windrush generation that have been let down by the expansive scope of the ‘hostile environment’ precept, targeted now at inhabitants of certain neighbourhoods and particular estates in london and, in other areas of the uk. [ 2 ]
af: every one is a different story. the story with the blackout is unbelievable. there' s a big lawsuit now in an l. a. bankruptcy court about it. we made a deal with destination films that set up a distribution system. they bought two or three films, including the blackout, raised $ 100 million, and never distributed anything. five years later, they' re trying to go bankrupt, saying all that' s left is $ 35, 000 out of $ 100 million, even though they never distributed one film. now, i don' t know what' s going on. i' d love to show you the paperwork. i' m getting thousands and thousands of documents. i' m just one of a ton of people this company screwed over. can you imagine these pricks? they' re basically trying to steal $ 100 million. it' s a fucking robbery.
go go tales is an independent 2007 film by abel ferrara . ferrara based the film on the killing of a chinese bookie , directed by john cassavetes . it stars willem dafoe as a strip club owner and co-stars bob hoskins . ferrara had the cast improvise much of their lines . he described the film as his " first intentional comedy " . 
go go tales is an independent 2007 film by abel ferrara. ferrara based the film on the killing of a chinese bookie, directed by john cassavetes. it stars willem dafoe as a strip club owner and co-stars bob hoskins. ferrara had the cast improvise much of their lines. he described the film as his " first intentional comedy ".
go go tales is an independent 2007 film by abel ferrara. ferrara based the film on the killing of a chinese bookie, directed by john cassavetes. it stars willem dafoe as a strip club owner and co-stars bob hoskins. ferrara had the cast improvise much of their lines. he described the film as his " first intentional comedy ".