Altered Minds, a film about family secrets and the CIA, sounds intriguing too.Netflix’s ‘Beckham’ Is a Very Good Docuseries with Two Glaring FlawsĪs an official synopsis reads, “From forced underage marriage and pregnancy to a complete unraveling into an oppressive criminal cult under Warren Jeffs’ rule, the story uncovers extraordinary bravery battling tyrannical control in modern America.” Also on Saturday (10:30 pm) The Warriorsis showing, because it has to or this wouldn’t be a Coney Island film festival. at 6 pm) for an awesomely awful contemporary B movie. Oh right, there are film screenings happening at this thing too, featuring movies old and new, big budget and indie, shorts and features. 18) there’s an after party (which will cost you 25 bones only) featuring an open bar from 9:30 pm to 12:30 am, which is so amazing that is seems unreal, and live burlesque. Brilliant, you say? Yeah, we know.īetter yet, the CIFF is bound to get wacky. Ok, Ok, OK– so we know full well that going to a movie is pretty much taking what little is left of summer and spitting on it, but in the case of the Coney Island Film Fest, you have an excuse to get to the beach for maybe one last warm day and if it gets cold, dip into a movie. 20 at Sideshows by the Seashore & the Coney Island Museum: full pass, $50 Saturday pass, $15 Sunday pass, $12, individual passes, $8: all tickets now available at the box office only We all know that tennis is often equated with remarkable genius, so trust as we do that Wittenstein’s got something seriously rad up her sleeve.įriday, Sept. Wittenstein was known for her cool friends and next-level sci-fi creations, but apparently has also been accused of playing too much tennis. If we tell you the filmmaker behind this trilogy is often called the “Queen of the New York Underground,” you’re probably as sold as we are, but hold up coz we don’t want you wandering into a dark theater completely uninformed.įirstly, we want to tell you that filmmaker Alyce Wittenstein will be on hand for questions and ogling if you can make it to Spectacle tonight for “You Call This Progress?”, the first in the Multiple Futures Trilogy. There’s enough drama and outright weirdness around this story to keep a documentary like this one churning for a while.įriday, Sept. 18, 8 pm and Monday, Sept. He was estimated to have more than 70 wives at the height of his creep powers and was once on the FBI’s most wanted list. He’s currently serving a long-ass sentence in prison for raping kids and having a bunch of child brides. The documentary centers on Warren Jeffs, a guy who fashioned himself a prophet and led a polygamist sect on two compounds, one located in a remote part of Arizona and another in Utah. And the documentary Prophet’s Prey, about the corrupt leadership of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is no exception. Yeah it’s pretty twisted, but stories about polygamy are always gripping. And because Light Industry always seems to deliver, Daniel will be present for a Q+A after the screening.įriday, Sept. But through his shadowy essence we’re let in on a bit of the folklore that runs through the train hopping community. We never find out who Bozo Texino is, instead he takes on the shape of a mythical spirit. We meet the guys behind the mysterious hieroglyphs: Palm Tree Herby, Frisco Jack, Waterbed Lou and begin to understand the meaning and purpose of their pictographs. He interviews tons of hobos immersed in their adventurous but strangely checked-out lives, and bravely joins in jumping aboard the trains crisscrossing the country. The doc is beautifully shot, but the journalistic spirit of Daniel doesn’t suffer for aesthetics. As seems only appropriate, filmmaker Bill Daniel made Who is Bozo Texino on a shoestring, embracing lo-fi by digging up an old Super 8 camera to shoot the black-and-white film on. Light industry calls it “a landscape film, an outsider art history, an essay on wanderlust,” which sounds pretty alright to us. This cult classic documentary illuminates not just the mysterious life of train hoppers, but the markings they leave behind. We’ve got some great stuff right here including a totally creepy documentary about notorious polygamist Warren Jeffs, a Coney Island-based film festival for the freaks, and this fascinating looking doc (see the trailer above) about train hoppers and their mysterious hieroglyphs. Don’t even think about having something better to do than checking out a movie this weekend and beyond.
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