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2010-09-04T17:29:24Z

Radiohead in Prague - 23 08 2009

Feature: Thomas Edison's plot to hijack the movie industry

2010-09-02T04:30:56Z

It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion picture industry.

"With his beetle brows, long wispy hair, and beatific look, Edison might have seemed the addled inventor," writes the historian Neil Gabler, "but he was a shrewd businessman and a fearsome adversary who was never loath to take credit for any invention, whether he was responsible or not."

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Hank Mirren

2010-08-31T21:21:54Z

In this piece of tape Ed actually tracks down someone on Sid Scheilman’s list who isn’t dead, and doesn’t seem crazy; Hank Mirren. Mirren clearly has something to hide as he is very uncomfortable with the video camera. He further clouds this mystery by revealing his belief that Sid was crazy, and that he killed himself. Who do we believe? What is Hank Mirren hiding?

WE’VE UPLOADED THE TAPE HERE

Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers

2010-08-31T23:00:08Z

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The universe wanted me to be a Roller Girl. Brutal Beauty.

'Here and There': A minimalist tale of Serbian misadventure | 3 stars - Kansas City Star

2010-08-26T20:34:50Z

Kansas City Star

'Here and There': A minimalist tale of Serbian misadventure | 3 stars
Kansas City Star
Darko Lungulov's minor-key romance follows Branko's Stateside travails — his moving van is stolen — and Robert's Serbian misadventures. ...

Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film on Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo

2010-08-24T18:28:18Z

Bradley Beesley's documentary Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo is going on a cross-country screening tour from September to November and will play at

Professor — Sara Vizcarrondo rave in BoxOffice

2010-08-23T13:39:21Z

The subject's wholesome message along with the film's dynamism are an easy sell to most any readymade doc audience, and crossover crowds will love it, too.

Tape 3: Ed Kidnapped by the Bilderbergs?

2010-05-17T12:31:47Z

We finally managed to hack into Ed Crowley’s locksmith site via FTP. (No need for software on this one — The password was a little too obvious) and quickly discovered a video directory with a page titled “Locksmith Cam”

Ed is admittedly being filmed by his accomplice, Dale, but the most interesting aspect is the man in the photograph: who is he? If he really vanished, did Ed suffer the same fate? Is Ed correct by saying the Bilderbergers are responsible? Or is someone higher pulling their strings?

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Twitter / Ray: Great to see the Gogol Bor ...

2010-08-21T21:31:08Z

Great to see the Gogol Bordello Non-Stop DVD finally made it out! http://amzn.to/atzTny

Ed Crowley is Missing

2010-02-18T00:05:50Z

Ed Crowley, the man who seemed to know all about the Zenith Conspiracy, went missing. We are in touch with his recordist and only reliable contact, Dale, but even he claims not to know where Ed is. We have, however, received a mysterious envelope with a digital file a few days ago- it contains a note, claiming that Ed has left a series of tapes behind, which will finally explain the conspiracy. A few days later, we have received a piece of the first tape. We have created a website, where we plan to collect Ed’s tapes. The second piece has been announced and will come soon. Please help us find the tape. The future is up to you…

Interview: Joshua Zeman (Cropsey)

2010-08-10T15:30:00Z

In almost every community there is an urban legend floating around about a madman who disposes of children who aren't careful and become too curious about their surroundings. The boogeyman himself varies from town to town - even within the community itself - but the message is always the same: travel in packs and stay away from dangerous areas....or else! For kids on Staten Island in New York, that boogeyman was known as Cropsey, an escaped mental patient who would snatch kids off the street late at night. Filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio grew up with the legend of Cropsey, but in 1987 the legend took on human form when Andre Rand, a former employee of the Willowbrook mental institute for children, was convicted of the kidnap and murder of Jennifer Schweiger, a 13-year old girl with Down Syndrome. Zeman and Brancaccio teamed up to make the chilling documentary Cropsey, which begins with current and former residents of Staten Island - including the filmmakers - describing the creepy and varied legend of Cropsey. From there, the doc takes on an investigative journalism form, as we learn the facts in the case of Andre Rand and the disappearances of five children over the course of more than a decade. A highlight of this section is old news footage of a young Geraldo Rivera exposing the bureaucratic corruption and the mistreatment of patients at Willowbrook, with difficult to watch sequences of malnourished mentally handicapped children and the filth that they were forced to live in. This segues neatly to the directors forming their own investigation as they piece together Rand's story and even try to line him up for an interview. Over the course of their inquiries they uncover some truly disturbing things about the community they grew up in, and that's what makes Cropsey such a terrifying film: that much of what they thought was fake is actually real, and that maybe, just maybe, that's the case with many of the urban legends we all grew up with. Having played many festivals over the past 18 months, including Tribeca in New York, Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, and Sitges in Spain, Cropsey is playing limited theatrical runs across the U.S. through October and is available on Video-On-Demand through Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, and Brighthouse, among other cable providers, through August 12. We were able to ask co-director Joshua Zeman a couple of questions. Jason Widgington: There are some spooky revelations about Staten Island in the film, like the existence of the underground city below the Willowbrook State School for the mentally handicapped and the rumors of Satan-worshiping in the woods around the hospital. To what extent were you aware of these things beforehand and how much of it was a surprise to you? Joshua Zeman: We knew the Satan-worshipping stories as kids, as well as the stories about the tunnels. Every college, mental institution, prision, they all have urban legends about tunnels, and many of them are bas

The Viewer is now Polarized

2010-08-06T21:19:13Z

THE VIEWER
is now
Polarized!

THE VIEWER, previously only viewable as a Red-Blue Anaglyph, can now be seen in a variety of other formats, including clear polarized projection and shutter based glasses systems. It most recently screened in London as part of the venerable Short & Sweet film program’s first ever 3D event, and it will screen, along with I CAN SEE YOU, on Friday the 13th of August in LA at the Downtown Independent.

I CAN SEE YOU
and
THE VIEWER

are available on DVD from Kino Video.

‘Cropsey’: Documentary probes a ‘real’ urban legend | 3 ½ stars - KansasCity.com

2010-08-07T02:30:57Z

That it succeeds despite giving no easy answers is testament to just how great a film it is.

Rue Morgue Radio - Friday, July 30, 2010

2010-07-30T20:00:00Z

Rue Morgue Radio - Featuring an interview with LARRY FESSENDEN.

When the bogeyman gets caught - Ottawa Citizen

2010-07-26T18:39:45Z

You know that urban legend about the guy with a hook for a hand -- or maybe in your neighbourhood he was a guy with an axe -- who escapes from the mental hospital and waits in the woods for children who have stayed out too late or strayed too far from home?

NWFF has 'Cropsey' | Seattle Times Newspaper

2010-07-26T18:38:49Z

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A thoughtful and undeniably chilling documentary turns up late-night at Northwest Film Forum this weekend.

“Cropsey” | Willamette Week | July 14th, 2010

2010-07-19T21:14:44Z

"an electrifying film dissecting child murder and madness."

Marriage-for-hire tale a touching urban fable - Wisconsin State Journal

2010-07-16T09:58:16Z

Marriage-for-hire tale a touching urban fable
Wisconsin State Journal
First-time writer-director Darko Lungulov has created a low-key and poignant urban fable that touches you in ways you don't see coming. ...

'Here and There' focuses on finding your place in the world - Plain Dealer

2010-07-06T21:08:10Z

Plain Dealer

'Here and There' focuses on finding your place in the world
Plain Dealer
Darko Lungulov's debut focuses on characters caught between America and Serbia. Yes, the US bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 colors the views of a minor ...

The Onion says CROPSEY is "effectively creeply."

2010-06-22T22:26:16Z

"...effectively creepy...raises disturbing questions...compelling as a meditation on how we use stories to explain the inconceivable, and how if no story is handy, we take the available clues and make one up."