Coopercisco: May 31

Hello there People! We have things happening in the San Francisco music and movie world - come see!

We have some meet up's happening all around the city in June as we try to make amore eroma's presence known in the Bay Area. If you have the desire to see something you might not have made it out to ordinarily, come on out and have some fun! (( I'll be the guy with amazing hair drinking martini's at the bar. ))

And, don't forget that amore eroma will host a dinner event in June as well where amore eroma loyalists wil meet, chat, and enjoy the delights of San Francisco's culinary delights! Details TBD - stay tuned!

MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC

Sat Jun 13 2009 8:00P Au Revoir Simone with Findlay Brown

Bimbo’s 1025 Columbus Ave San Francisco, CA 94133 (415) 474-0365

Au Revoir Simone - Fallen Snow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXmKpB9dn3c

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Fri Jun 19 King Sunny Ade & His African Beats

The Independent 628 Divisadero St. San Francisco, CA 94117

King Sunny Ade` and his African Beats / Mo Ti Mo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-CA_gU-7I4

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Sat Jun 20 (Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm) Les Claypool with Yard Dogs Road Show

The Warfield 982 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102

Les Claypool Live 3 @ The Fillmore March 14, 2009 Denver, Co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBXgi5hSvwQ

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Sat Jun 27 (8PM & 10PM) Pharoah Sanders Quartet with very special guest Zakir Hussain

Yoshi's San Francisco 1330 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94115

Pharoah Sanders Quartet, Berne 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPTEP3jUp6U

MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES

ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD INDIE HORROR FESTIVAL
http://www.sfindie.com/

FULL SCHEDULE

The Dead Outside
5:00 PM Sun, Jun 07
TIX - https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66470
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcHbNA6hkZ8
Special guest: Malcolm Johnson!

Detective Story - Takashi Miike 2008
9:30 PM Tue, Jun 09
TIX - https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66478
Special guest: Malcolm Johnson!

Coming Soon - Sopon Sukdapisit 2009

(Playing with MACHINE GIRL LITE!)
7:15 PM Thu, Jun 18
TIX - https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66506
Special guest: Malcolm Johnson!

láska Verushka: May 31, 2009

Ahoj všichni! Hello!

Verushka here with more news about Tanec Praha ("Dance Prague"). I can not tell you how excited I am about seeing Montalva Hervieu and their presentation of “Good Morning, Mr. Gershwin" June 2nd and 3rd! For those attending, we'll be meeting at pOp for dinner at 5:30pm. (Make sure you make reservations – spots are going fast!) amore eroma will provide transportation to and from the event via the amore autobus in the usual amore eroma style. As a special treat, pOp will have a special Tanec Praha menu and some special surprises in store! We'll venture to Music Theater Karlín after dinner, then head back to pOp afterwards for a nightcap and after party – transportation, dinner and after party all included in the pOp cost!
Remember, this is the last event Biennale de Lyon, and most likely the dance season in the Czech Republic. You can't miss it!

IMPORTANT NOTE!
Tickets for the show and the dinner are separate! You must buy pOp tickets AND Music Theater Karlín tickets. Buying tickets for pOp will not automatically get you into the theater!

~~~ Madonna? Oh yes, Baby! ~~~

Madonna...in the flesh! Yours truly, Verushka, will be seeing the legend in the delicious, dancing flesh in August. I have two tickets to give away as well, so you better be nice to me!
I must be honest - at first, I wasn't sure I wanted to go. Like many others, I grew up listening to her and her modern, amazing music. She was in the mix and making things happen and provided the soundtrack to my young life. Now, much older, she's still trying to rock the party and I just was not sure that I wanted to see it. Would she remind me of my mother now? Would she still be able to get me dancing? Starý tanec?

No no! It looks like this will be a super fun show!

MADONNA STICKY & SWEET TOUR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nQurqTGSFA

I think the show will be amazing. Marco Paterier and I will be there with bells on. Will you be one of the lucky ones joining us?

August 13 2009: Madonna
Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet Tour' goes back on the road summer 2009.
Time: 20:00
Price: 995-7995 czk
Where: Chodov Natural Amphitheatre

http://www.madonna.com/stickyandsweet/

láska Verushka

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amore eroma DOUBLE FEATURE

amore eroma presents the amore eroma DOUBLE FEATURE. Two films that we think would make a fantastic double feature for you and your friends to enjoy over a beer, a soda and popcorn, or a fine meal prepared via range stove or BBQ. The possibilities are endless!
Please leave a comment if you try them out and let us know if you enjoyed the pairing!

THIS MONTH:

~ ~ SISTERS and A TALE OF TWO SISTERS ~ ~

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Double Feature: A Tale of Two Sisters

A Tale of Two Sisters (2004) Ji-woon Kim
(original title: Janghwa, Hongryeon)

This little delight comes to us from Korea and is by far one of my favorite films. It's a classic “stepmom” film and has some of the most creepy, sleep disturbing visuals and concepts that I've seen. This is no simple horror, slash and dash, however. This is a film that takes time to tell a story. The plot is developed expertly by Ji-woon Kim and his direction is fantastic. Another of Kim's works – the MEMORIES segment of THREE – also created a feeling of dread that drove me to get TALE at once. I was not disappointed.
The acting is fantastic as well, which sells it for sure. Jung-ah Yum plays the stepmother on the edge perfectly and Su-jeong Lim and Geun-Young Moon play sisters with a tenderness and vulnerability that is touching. They kept me locked into their struggles and in the film - never once being over the top or playing to some caricature of who they were trying to play.
The simple setting lets you settle in and watch as the events unfold. It invites you to roam within it's confines, but once there, you wish you were free to come and go as you please.
If you like character drama, strange goings on, and things that go bump in the night, you'll love A TALE OF TWO SISTERS.

Double Feature: Sisters

Sisters (1973) Brian De Palma

Margot Kidder of SUPERMAN fame stars in this De Palma classic about conjoined, orphan sisters raised by nuns and separated after years of being together. One sister has always been the happy one. The more normal of the two. The other is a depressed, sad girl. Once separated, the sibling rivalry that has always existed to a point becomes more and more painfully apparent.
This is mint De Palma in the 70s. The story is told in an almost noir detective style. The De Palma shooting style is all over the film and split screens and multi angles abound. Kidder musters up a French accent for the film and does a better job at it than Keanu Reeves did with an English accent in DRACULA, but it still slips around a bit from time to time.
This is a pretty strong De Palma story and screenplay and has all the earmarks of it. When looking the movie up, it looks like it's the first in the mainstream horrors that he made starting in the 70s with this film, then moving on to PHANTOM OF PARADISE, CARRIE and THE FURY. Unlike these three, however, SISTERS is based in reality and has more of a real world feel to it. It also has distinct shades of Roman Polanski's 1965 hit REPULSION and strikes a cord that is equally uncomfortable.

malco on remakes

There’s a list of remakes now that is ever growing. Directors and studios remake tons of movies each year for various reasons. Updating something from the past, “revisioning” movies that have done well in the past, a “reboot” of a series and, of course, for money. Cold hard cash will drive a company to reshoot a popular film that has come out a mere year before. Sometimes this pays off, but sometimes it produces trash that doesn’t equal the original. Personally, I think I could do without them, but then I see something like 2004’s DAWN OF THE DEAD remake and I rethink the whole thing.

The new DAWN did it right. They took the general premise - a small group walling themselves up in a mall after zombies rise - and added some modern fun to the mix. I thought it was an amazing, well paced re-do and I loved it. But, this was a film that was remade 26 years after the original. I find that to be an acceptable time frame for sure. 25 years should be the cap.
Robert Rodriguez is remaking the classic BARBARELLA. Sure! Sign me up. I trust him. Give him a remake of a classic, campy, sci fi genre film - no problem! I’m sure he’ll bring a wonderful new look to the film. Why remake the ever awesome A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (The Uninvited - 2008) and wreck it with B-list American actors and actresses and botch the whole of it? It was a DAMN FINE FILM and was in no way, shape or form in need of a remake, IMHO. :) Why remake 2007’s brilliant and creepy [REC] one year later (QUARANTINE - 2008) to failed box office results? Why not just release [REC] the way it is to American audiences?

Maybe it’s the money.

Maybe it’s the possible hit that may come of it.

Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE in 1983 was a remake and it was a huge hit for the studio. It’s still a film that is held up as a modern classic and i bet it’s still making money for the company. The romance hit YOU'VE GOT MAIL was a remake of a film called The Shop Around the Corner. I loved OCEAN'S ELEVEN which was also a remake.

Then why the hell am I against remakes in general? I think I just want to see something new.

Can we put in orders for films we’d like to see remade somewhere? I’d LOVE to see a good remake of the awesome William Castle film THE NIGHTWALKER from 1964! It works if we’re holding to the 25 year law as well. Slap Anne Hathaway into the Barbara Stanwyck role so she can break a little further away from her current image of “princess” or “bride’s maid” and let her try out her range and sink her teeth in. Christian Bale and Johnny Depp would round out the cast nicely. Hell, maybe I’ll redo it myself! Can someone get me telephone numbers for Hathaway, Bale and Depp and loan me a few million dollars?

Dark Castle Entertainment is a division of Silver Pictures whose name pays homage to William Castle, a brilliant horror filmmaker from the 1950s and 60s who was a master at selling his films. When Dark Castle was first formed, it's goal was to remake William Castle's horror films, but after two Castle remakes, it moved on to producing original material, along with remakes of non-Castle films.

There MUST be other stories out there in the world. Other authors and screenwriters that have tales to tell us. It seems like remaking things is taking another slot one of these people could use to get their story out.

Of course, then we might be subjected to another Norbit.

Hmm...never mind.

LIST OF REMAKES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_remakes