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I'm sure that each and every one of you are fully aware of Original Series Garbage Pail Kid Adam Bomb, right? He's the kid who's pressing the button and blowing a mushroom cloud out of his head - he's basically the most famous GPK image. Point being, I turned into Adam Bomb when I read the news that MoMA is doing a double-feature this weekend of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. KABOOM. They're doing an entire series on experimental melodramas.
Ali is of course Fassbinder's loose remake of Sirk's film and his most obvious tribute to his favorite fore-bearer in strangely detached soap (see another tribute here); it's also my favorite of RWF's films. I was just complaining the other week that I wanted MoMA to show more Fassbinder - somebody was listening! Thank you, somebody!
The only thing that would make it better would be them making it a straight-up three-way with Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, which is also a remake of Sirk's film and spins his world off into Haynes' beautiful orbit - they are showing FFH, but not until the following Saturday. Looking back through my Fassbinder posts I even see I called out for such a triple-feature way back in 2009! I am the future.
Oh and I should go ahead and note here that MoMA's also starting their Kathryn Bigelow retrospective tomorrow - she'll be there for a Q&A following a screening of her 1982 Fifties biker movie with Willem Dafoe called The Loveless - which'll include screenings of awesomenesses like Near Dark (see my love for that movie here) and Point Break (!!!) and Strange Days, as well as her Jamie Lee Curtis is a sexy rookie cop being hunted movie Blue Steel that I've never seen but always wanted to.
And I should also also note that, as part of the same series that's giving us Sirk and Fassbinder and Haynes Oh My, they're showing John Waters' Pink Flamingos on Sunday. Goddamn, MoMA. Good goddamn.
Oh and I should go ahead and note here that MoMA's also starting their Kathryn Bigelow retrospective tomorrow - she'll be there for a Q&A following a screening of her 1982 Fifties biker movie with Willem Dafoe called The Loveless - which'll include screenings of awesomenesses like Near Dark (see my love for that movie here) and Point Break (!!!) and Strange Days, as well as her Jamie Lee Curtis is a sexy rookie cop being hunted movie Blue Steel that I've never seen but always wanted to.
And I should also also note that, as part of the same series that's giving us Sirk and Fassbinder and Haynes Oh My, they're showing John Waters' Pink Flamingos on Sunday. Goddamn, MoMA. Good goddamn.
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Welcome back. I'm curious to hear what you think of Blue Steel. I haven't seen it in years but I remember being very offended by it. So much so that I was emphatically NOT a Bigelow fan (despite liking Strange Days) until Hurt Locker. Still haven't reconciled with JLC or Ron Silver. Should be interesting.
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