Midnight Movies from The Public Domain

Sex Madness
"This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis.

Wild parties, lesbianism and premarital sex are some of the forms of "madness" portrayed. The "educational" aspect of the film allowed it to portray a taboo subject which was otherwise forbidden by the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930.

Films like this would tour the United States for years - mostly being shown in rundown, skid row theaters. This film has been re-edited and re-titled ("Human Wreckage", "They Must Be Told", "Trial Marriage", "About Trial Marriage") many times to attract the same audience to film, to take advantage of a taboo subject which may have gotten press recently or to appease local censors who disapproved of the film's content."

Sex Madness from 1938

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Midnight Movies from The Public Domain

Suddenly (1954) is an American film noir directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale. The drama features Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates, among others.

The tranquility of a small town, Suddenly California, is jarred when the U.S. President is scheduled to pass through and a hired assassin takes over the Benson home as a perfect location to ambush the president.

“It's known that the President will be passing through a certain small town... and it's known that someone will attempt to kill him there.”

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The Last Laugh/Der letzte Mann

The Last Laugh (German: Der letzte Mann) is a German 1924 silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer which was based on a Broadway play by Charles W. Goddard. It is the most famous example of the short-lived Kammerspiel or "chamber-drama" genre.
In 2000, it was added to Roger Ebert's list of Great Movies



and since I think the title card is in Portugese (?) here’s a translation
"Here the story should really end, for, in real life, the forlorn old man would have little to look forward to but death. The author took pity on him and has provided a quite improbable epilogue.”

Roger Ebert’s “Review”

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Midnight Movies from The Public Domain

The Avenging Conscience or “Thou Shalt Not Kill”
From 1914 directed by D.W. Griffith from an Edgar Allen Poe story (guess which one)

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Midnight Movies from The Public Domain

Thank heaven for archive.org

This week's offering:
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) directed by Robert Weine from 1920
"The film tells the story of the deranged Dr. Caligari and his faithful sleepwalking Cesare and their connection to a string of murders in a German mountain village, Holstenwall.
Critics worldwide have praised the film for its Expressionist style, complete with wild, distorted set design. Caligari has been cited as an influence on film noir, one of the earliest horror films, and a model for directors for many decades."

And it’s #186 on imdb’s Top 250







Du mußt Caligari werden.
You must become Caligari.

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"Ladies and gentlemen*, whether you like it or not-Hedwig!"

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been in Nevada, outside Vegas since late last Sunday working for a Miracle and the Edwards Campaign in preparation for the caucuse on the 19th, so that's where I'll be until next Sunday. And I'll be sure to write more about my feelings and all that jazz later but this weekend is a huge statewide canvassing effort so I need to rest up so I can be at my persuasive best.
Anyway now that apologies are out of the way, I had also been stuck because my next post (this post) would be my 1000th post and I wanted to make it somewhat special and so since I couldn't think of anything that would stand out and because this movie is my absolute favorite and an inspiration for this site I decided to (after a lot of ripping and uploading and all other types of illegal technological mayhem) post it.
And so here is 2001's so utterly beyond fabulous "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (a movie I loved so much that I saw the stage play in Rome, in Italian, which was quite an experience.) But... I hope you love it as much as I do

*and those in between
(and just remember the fat lady has never sung after the first two scenes)

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Midnight Movie Transmission

This is Leni Riefenstahl's infamous masterpiece of Nazi propaganda and film making, Triumph of The Will. I thought of it today because I guess someone mentioned a similar phrase and so I googled to make sure I knew where it was from, and voila (plus I really like that title and the Nietzschaen feel to it.) The film is rightfully controversial and the speeches and ideology behind those cheering white faces are vile, horrible and disgusting but... it is art in its way and incredibly well made. And now historical and famous.
From 1935 a film praising "the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the True German" Triumph of The Will

If that is/was too hard to watch just remember that the good guys won in the end and that most everyone in the film is dead.

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TMI: Last Night's Dream

I told you I'd try to slut things up and so since my dream last night was really interesting and fun to experience, plus the fact it's stuck with me and I've really had nothing for TMI in weeks, what the hey.
Anyway the dream started and I feel like I was working for a local politician in one of the big cities of Australia. She was really attractive and a lesbian but I think she left office or something because I stopped working for her, and she sort of vanished. The next thing I rememeber is moving into like an apartment building filled with some other girls but it was more like a dorm because the showers and bathrooms were communal and so there would be a pretty regular stream of girls leaving it wearing very similar bathrobes made out of what seemed to be taffeta and terry cloth that was a dark coral color. Anyway when I went to the bathroom to take a shower before I could open it I had to hurry back to my room because I had forgotten my robe and it seemed to be like mandatory. And so I made it back to the bathroom and inside was a guy that I felt I knew, maybe we had worked together or something because it was comfortable and fun and mildly flirty. I think he said something like "we're both in here at the same time I guess we have to shower together" which made perfect sense to me. So we get in and I feel he suggested that since we were in their that I "help him out" and so I guess I was either in a very horny or just suppliant mood because I reached for his dick but it was like really small, like even hard it was only like two inches, it only reached to my ring finger and I told him that i couldn't work with that at which point he got out of the shower and, this part is a little hazy but I'm not sure if he turned from a black guy into a guy that looked exactly like Dermot Mulroney (i have no! clue where that came from) or from Dermot Mulroney into a black guy but his cock got huge and so I welcomed him back into the shower. I then proceeded to give him a hand job and then to grind like a stripper against him, and there was a full body mirror right under the showerhead so I could see anything and I saw I looked like Kristen Bell as she looks on Heroes kinda with the bangs and so I was giving Dermot Mulroney a standing up lap dance (if you will.) That scene ended and I found us on the harbor in like a katamaran and we were chasing something , I can't remember what, but Dermot at some point told me that my (former) boss was really attracted to me but she knew I was a guy and so she couldn't do it. And then I was rearranging my place in the most perfect manner that I wish I could remember right now.

No I don't know what it means exactly, though I'm sure it's ripe for interpreattion, but it was one of those dreams that while you're dreaming it it just felt so funa dn awesome.


(ok and the experience of writing this has been so full of deja vu it's a little unsettling.)

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Midnight Movie Transmission

I had originally planned on doing this post on Sunday night but then I stumbled upon Zeitgeist and that rocked my world and I decided that this way would actually be better that this way over the long weekend I could leave you with something amazing and tragic but uplifting and hopeful. I first heard of Randy Pausch through this article in the New York Times and I was immediately intrigued. He's a 47 year old professor who has been diagnosed with being in the last stages of terminal pancreatic cancer and he still has such an amazing outlook and sense of humor and vitality, it really makes you stop and think about what you really have to complain about. He seems like such a one in a million person. You can read more about him from the article or through google, of course.

But what sparked his unexpected and great fame was a series at Carnegie Mellon where I believe select professors were to write and deliver what would be their "last lecture" only in this case, for Dr. Pausch it very well could have been.

One of his proteges and friends has maintained and archive of some of his other lectures at Dr. Pausch's personal website which includes his personal favorite, one on Time Management (that I could've used years ago but is still really helpful.) It is from ten years ago so some of it is talk about technology is horribly outdated but he does give really effective and practical advice that anyone can utilize. Here's "Time Management" given at UVA:

and here is the world famous "Last Lecture" of Dr. Pausch, it is so well worth your time ( and you know it has to be- I never agree with Oprah)


Have an amazing holiday...live your life and love every moment of it, everyone. That's all we can do.

I'll see you monday.

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Midnight Movie Transmission

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it"- Flannery O'Connor.

This is one of those things that fell into my lap almost by providence, or in this case because of a facebook wall post in response to a misinterpreted status, but within 5 minutes I was hooked and by the end I couldn't stop thinking about it, and still can't. I actually debated putting this as my last post on Wednesday so it would have a predominant spot for the Holiday weekend but I knew I would not be able to think about anything else or get it off my mind before then. I've already spent so many hours today following up on some of the salient points in the film and recommended it to a lot of my friends (and I'm sure I'll be thinking a lot about it as I fail to sleep tonight.)

It's Zeitgeist: The Movie and it is one of the most important things I've ever seen. It touches on everything from the founding myths of Christianity to the myths of the 9-11 attacks in order to tell people to not trust everything you're told and to think for yourself!

I'm not generally a conspiracy theory type, though I was thinking about it and realized I believe in Kennedy and King assassination conspiracy theories, and I certainly didn't want to believe all those I deemed wackos who thought that 9-11 was a government job; i may be naive, but I didn't want to believe that our government would just kill 3,000 of it's own people. And yes I agree there are too many times where they use an unattributed voice overs but I was so hooked and already believed in what they were putting forth in Part One that I gave them the benefit of the doubt- well that and I do believe that this Administration would do anything and the immorality of power)

It's staggering and terrifying and devastating. Seriously watch it- there are very few things that I can honestly say blew my mind or changed my way of thinking and seeing the world but this is definitely one of them.
Zeitgeist: The Movie


"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken the authority as the truth, rather than the truth as the authority"-Gerald Massey

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