Film Beetlemania
posted by on April 24 at 10:02 AM
I’m working on getting all the programs in the Seattle Polish Film Festival (wrapping up this weekend) into our Movie Times calendar, and I stumbled upon this seriously amazing film from 1912. The Cameraman’s Revenge, a stop-motion film about a highly anthropomorphized beetle couple, Mr. and Mrs. Beetle, is part of a program highlighting the work of the early 20th-century filmmaker Władysław Starewicz. If you’ve ever wanted to see beetles wear hats, ride on bicycles, wave their antennae, and cheat on each other…
… this is your lucky week.
The Cameraman’s Revenge plays this Friday at SIFF Cinema. Tickets and more info at polishfilms.org.
Starewicz did amazing work.
Insect's Christmas is one of my all-time favorites
Yes. You should check out his film "The Mascot" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_qGNPVpQigA) .. the "Devil's Ball" sequence is mindbending.
Actually Northwest Film Forum screened this one back during our TSARS TO STARS program last August. It accompanied AMPHIBIAN MAN.
Actually Northwest Film Forum screened this one back during our TSARS TO STARS program last August. It accompanied PLANET OF THE STORMS.
Actually, Adam, no one can go back in time and see a movie last August. Stop bragging! Tell the folks to see it this week!
Not telling people to go back in time, and us screening the film should clearly be an endorsement of the film. Consider this though... you seem averse for some reason to films screening multiple times in the same city in short period of time, well this is one of those ocassions, and clearly I think people should ignore that it screened, or that its on youtube, or even that its available on video, and yes, they should see it in its proper context; a cinema.
Oh, I'm not at all averse to decent shorts screening twice in a year in completely different contexts--I really doubt there will be any crossover whatsoever, but even if there is, those people will get something different in the rest of the program. You're still smarting over LE DOULOS? No big deal, really. It's just easier to get excited about features that we haven't seen in a while.
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