Long-time locals will remember the venerable Movies Repertory (and for that matter, Mullane's Cafe next door), a small downtown theater that ran classic, indy, foreign and other movies no other theater would go out on a limb for.
What other theater would show an animation festival one night and Abel Gance's 1927 4-hr silent epic, Napoleon, the next?
A favorite moment is the film Mondo New York in which a filmmaker spent 24 hours in NYC talking to odd people, looking for strange things, and generally seeking out the fringe of urban sociocultural normalcy. Needless to say, he found plenty.
The film ended with a live song that almost felled me from my chair. For several years I looked for the soundtrack to no avail. Couldn't find the film, either.
Now, thanks to the blessing that is the internet, I have at last found that song.
And so I present to you, with all the gravitas of a six-and-a-half foot outrageous gender-bending homosexual party animal, the best use of the words "Mary Tyler Moore" in American song history...
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I remember the Movies. I only saw a few films there--Brazil and weird animation--but wish I'd seen more.
Funny, my Limey Brit friends and I have been singing Fuck You a lot lately. Song-and-dance-in-the-middle-of-the-night-after-a-glass-of-wine kind of singing... but it's a completely different song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1P4_YCFtkQ
I think the message is pretty much the same, though.
Before checking the link, I'm guessing Lilly Allen.
Yes, indeed... cool video!
Luv'd Movies Rep....
Most Un-Cincy movie house ever!
Mondo NY rocked....
Karen Finley/Phoebe Legere/Ann Magnuson
& Lydia Lunch...what a cast!!!
Thankx for F U vid find....
I now know what song will be played
while they wheel me into the church
@ my funeral....werd!!!!
I must be very predictable :)
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