#Allen Danzinger

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Celebrating 50 Years of Chainsaw Jerry

Practically every cinema in town has offered a screening of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre this month, since the movie is currently enjoying its 50th anniversary and those Halloween-season marquees have to be filled by something.  No other venue rolled out as much novelty & ceremony for the occasion as The Broad, though, as they played host to Screamfest NOLA‘s Texas Chain Saw…

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

This is supposed to be the mother of slasher movies. It gave all the other slasher movies ideas. At the time it was super gory and violent. Countries banned it. Can you picture this movie being banned now? They don’t even show anyone being actually butchered. It’s all so fake and ridiculous. They spend 5 minutes filming a girl screaming and thrashing around. It’s pretty bad. It’s about these kids who go to investigate vandalism on their own property but wander onto a crazy family’s property instead, and Leatherface kills them all and feeds them to his family. Basically. Based on a moderately true story about a serial killer in the 50s named Ed Gein.

Rating: F. At the time, I suppose this was groundbreaking. Over 40 years later....... Opposite.

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Live Picks: 2/26

Yo La Tengo

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Rock ‘n’ roll, or something more radical.

The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Thalia Hall

Sam Green’s live documentary about the radical architect is presented tonight at Thalia Hall. The collaboration between Green and none other than Yo La Tengo was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Design and Architecture Department; it consists of Green narrating the images on screen while the band performs a live score.

There are two showings tonight, one with doors at 6:30 and one with doors at 10:00.

Steve Earle, City Winery

The alt-country legend concludes his annual winter residency at City Winery tonight. (He played two dates in January, and he played last night.) He’s releasing a new album with his band The Dukes out on March 29th. But it’s not of original material. GUY is a tribute album to Guy Clark in which Earle covers Clark songs to varying degrees of faith. The weary “Desperados Waiting For A Train”, the powerful and emotive “The Last Gunfighter Ballad”, and the sing-speaking of “The Randall Knife” really evoke Clark’s spirit. On the flip side, Earle adopts a gruffer persona on “Dublin Blues”, “Heartbroke”, and “She Ain’t Goin Nowhere”, while The Dukes speed up “Anyhow I Love You”, burner “Out in the Parking Lot”, and bluegrass jams “Sis Draper” and “New Cut Road” (and they slow down “The Ballad of Laverne and Captain Flint”). And for closer “Old Friends”, Earle assembles a who’s who of guests to help out, including Terry Allen, Emmylou Harris, and Rodney Crowell.

Americana singer-songwriter Shannon McNally opens.

Set It Off, Metro

It was clear from the release of “Killer in the Mirror”, an overcooked song with hand-claps, a shuffling beat, buzzy guitars, and horns, that Set It Off were going to be piling more toppings on their pizza. Midnight, the band’s Fearless Records debut, is riddled with sonic overproduction and lyrical cliches, from introvert anthem “Lonely Dance” to smarmy piano ballad “Unopened Windows”. (Don’t even get me started on the oh-no-they-didn’t gospel choir on the closer.) Yet, there are a few unexpected aspects that work, like the Latin melody of the former, the 80′s deep bass synth pop of “For You Forever”, and bop “Go To Bed Angry” featuring Katie Cecil of Wayfarers. When the symphonic rock band embraces full-on pop, at this point, they’re more effective than when they’re touching it with gloves on. It’s fitting, then, that among their own material, live, the band has been covering pop stars like Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, and Halsey.

Australian pop punks With Confidence, California alt-rockers Super Whatevr, and San Diego emo hip hop band L.I.F.T open.

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terri mcminn, will vail, john dugan, allen danzinger, and paul partain deserved full financial compensation and long and healthy careers. marilyn burns, ed neal, jim siedow, and gunnar hansen deserved revenge

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) starring Marilyn Burns and Allen Danzinger.

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67° Festival de Cannes – Film Presentations May 22nd

67° Festival de Cannes – Film Presentations May 22nd

Jimmy’s Hall directed by Ken Loach with Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott, Jim Norton, Brian F. O’Byrne, Francis Magee, Karl Geary, Denise Gough, Aisling Franciosi, Donal O’Kelly, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Conor McDermottroe, Mikel Murfi, Seamus Hughes, Martin Lucey, Shane O’Brien, Sorcha Fox and Aileen Henry.

Jimmy’s Halldi Ken…