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The Mystical Dashboard: Primer and The Frontiers of the Low Budget »

The Mystical Dashboard: Primer and the Frontiers of the Low Budget By Simon Augustine When I was about seven, I went through a period of rapt fascination with “drugstore magic” – trick…

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"The Article That Made America Cringe" features appearences by the Lumiere Brothers, Woody Allen, Wes Craven, Susan Sontag's Notes On Camp, Objectivism Sexualis, Disturbists, underground armies, the advent of the videotape, Times Square, John Keats, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hershell Gordon Lewis, Sean S. Cunningham, Ken Russell, and an enormous list of philias and para-philias. Not in this feature: Andrea Dworkin, Tess of the D'Arbivilles, B.F. Skinner, Lindsay Lohan.

Peer Into My Disease

Cronenberg To Finally Release “The Man With Vaginas Growing On His Arms?” »

Here at Somebody Hit The Lights! we are really excited about our upcoming feature on legendary horror director David Cronenberg,…

Feb 25 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

“Disturbing Night At The Movies” Is Knocking On The Bedroom Door… »

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The Adventurous Spirit

Sucker Punch: The Hidden Hero of The Dark Knight Part I, Section I »

An idiosyncratic look at The Dark Knight, the Star Wars Generation, Jonathan Lethem and subtle heros.…

Feb 24 2010 / No Comment / Read More »

Sucker Punch, Part II: Lethem and The Star Wars Generation »

Sucker Punch, The Hidden Hero of The Dark Knight, Part II: Lethem and The Star Wars Generation by Simon Augustine Recently, in a New York Times article entitled “The Art of Darkness,” writer Jonathan Lethem (his popular novel The Fortress of Solitude features two teenagers who transform…

Oct 30 2008 / No Comment / Read More »
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Filmgoer's Forum

Letter To The Editor: “You Guys Used To Be Good In the 70’s, But Now…”

From time to time, we receive correspondence sent by our adoring readers.  Letters flood in through the mail slot addressed from prisons, treatment centers, rehabilitation facilities, bedrooms under curfew, dark closets, and sometimes come in bottles…

Nov 27 2009 / Read More »
Home Library

Protest Film Politics: Revisiting Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude

I saw Harold and Maude the other night for only the second time, and for the first time in about 8 years. What an extraordinary piece of work it is: only a handful of mainstream American…

Feb 25 2010 / Read More »
Self-Conscious Tomfoolery

Inspiration For The Underground Press #6: "The Sultan Theory"

Sheik Yerbouti circa 1978. J. Savvy, marketing director, “Somebody Hit The Lights!” and www.sploogeonmyface.com : “Sure, you’ve only got 8 unique visitors, and 2 returning visitors, but if those two returning visitors happen to be the goddamn Sultan…

Nov 27 2009 / Read More »
The Bloody Axe

Disturbing Night At The Movies, Section II: Numbers 21-17 Spankwire Edition

The second section of the list of the 25 most disturbing films ever made that was originally published on the indie website GreenCine.  Featuring the infamous Spankwire Video in a special, no-holds-barred addendum!…

Mar 7 2010 / Read More »
Literary Loops

The Public Mind’s Eye. Deeper Into The Page: Writers and Poets On Film, Part I, An Intro.

Deeper Into The Page: Writers and Poets On Film By Simon Augustine Introduction: The Public Mind’s Eye Could writers working prior to the 20th Century have imagined their creations and characters being expressed in films, with all the dramatic…

Feb 26 2010 / Read More »
The Real Thing Baby Brando and Candy in Candy (1968).

Brando’s Last Stand: The Forgotten Interview

The inimitable Brando in an engaging interview from 1980.  A SHTL exclusive.  Questions by Peter Bogdonavich.…

Mar 1 2010 / Read More »
Artsy-Fartsy

Frownland: If You Don’t Like This Movie, Is It Possible It’s Time To See A Shrink? The Limits of Anxiety In The Modern Day Inferno Of Brooklyn, NY

Frownland is the kind of improbable, absolutely uncompromising film that, immediately upon its closing the doors on you, credits rolling, makes you think to yourself, with a certainty the nature of which you are not sure yet,…

Nov 24 2009 / Read More »
Activist's Alley

A Discouraging Word Episode IV: The Word “Retard,” Hipster Censorship, and My Angry Letters To The Weekly Dig

A Discouraging Word: IV Censorship and Letters To The Weekly Dig This is part 4 of an upcoming piece called A Discouraging Word about use of “retard” in the lexicon, the history of 20th century humor,…

Nov 27 2009 / Read More »
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