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MISTER ORGAN Review (by guest critic Anna Boyles)

This review was submitted by my friend Anna Boyles, who viewed Mister Organ earlier this year; it debuts on Amazon Prime November 21, at which point I may review it for myself. My deepest thanks to her for offering her time and talent. Near the beginning of 2016, I went to the True/False film festival. It was a trip provided by the University of Kansas’ film department which I only applied to go…

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Mister Organ / 2022 — IMDb, TMDb

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Identity & Artifice @ Overlook Film Fest 2023

After I happened to spend an entire day watching horror movies about motherhood at this year’s Overlook Film Fest, I found myself searching for patterns in the festival’s programming wherein the movies were communicating with each other just as much as they were provoking the audience.  I didn’t have to squint too hard at my next double-feature to see their thematic connections, since the word…

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2023 BUFF - Dispatch #3

Green’s Party is proud to be covering the 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival, which kicked off Wednesday at the Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA).  I’ve been lucky enough to cover the festival since 2016 (the fest took off in 2020 and 2021, and I was unable to attend 2022).

First up I saw the doc Mister Organ from director David Farrier, director of Tickled. I try not to give much away when describing films, so let’s see how well I can do that with this one: it begins with a look at a strange antique shop in New Zealand that is clamping cars and issuing fines, but then it becomes a look at Michael Organ, a strange and sinister man affiliated with the shop. In a similar approach as he did with Tickled, you don’t know what’s crazier: what he is discovering or the colossal rabbit hole he is going down to discover it. I’m still wrapping my head around this one, but it’s certainly unique and unlike anything else I have seen recently.

Farrier and Organ in Mister Organ

Then I went to a packed screening of the U.K. flick Enys Men. It takes place in 1973 on the Cornish coastline on an uninhabited island, where a wildlife volunteer is observing a rare flower. Little by little, strange occurrences start happening. This is an experimental slow burn that is not going to be for everyone. It seems every few years at BUFF there is something like this (little dialogue, minimal story, loads of editing and sound effects), but this was a little better than most. It felt like it was an obscure 70s horror film the way it was shot on 16mm, and I couldn’t help but be reminded of The Lighthouse. Although that Robert Eggers film was far superior, it had the same remote island vibe and questioning if the isolation is causing craziness or if the person is crazy to begin with. 

Today: The fun continues all day and night with Moon Garden, the Sound + Vision music video program, Piaffe, and Divinity.

For info on this year’s #BUFF23: https://bostonunderground.org/

Stay tuned to Green’s Party for more coverage of this year’s fest!

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DVD review: “Mister Organ” (2022)

“Mister Organ” (2022) Documentary Running Time: 96 minutes Produced by: David Farrier, Alex Reed and Emma Slade Directed by: David Farrier David Farrier: “That does seem quite weird. I mean I’d prefer you didn’t have a key to my house.” Released recently on DVD is the New Zealand documentary “Mister Organ” (2022) that saw what was a long time dispute about parking, towing and an antique…

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Not me furiously taking character notes as I glean new insights about the train twins from this new Pokemas event XD

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props to argentina for winning the copa américa

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even done Before the weekend of this year's christmas extravaganza

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longtime friends and followers are familiar with the incident in 2018 when the man i was dating at the time put me into the ICU under unclear circumstances. anyway if you have ever wondered what that guy was like you should watch a documentary called Mister Organ (2022). it's really interesting portrait of malignant/grandiose narcissism in men and especially of how all those guys are basically identical to each other, which of course makes you even angrier at yourself when you fail to spot one and end up in a situation.

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armored shell kaijuu, shagong | designed by sakamoto toshimi (坂本トシミ)

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Progression of being A Menace

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If they weren't cowards marvel would create a team of mtf mutants called the ex-men who exclusively fight transphobia

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oh thats a ribcage and organs oh okay

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Preview: 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival

From Wed. March 22 to Sun. March 26, the Boston Underground Film Festival takes over Harvard Square at The Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA). The fest is in its 23rd edition and it is a celebration of bizarre, weird and alt cinema!

Here at Green’s Party, I’ve been lucky enough to cover the festival since 2016 (the fest took off in 2020 and 2021, and I was unable to attend 2022). Here are some of the highlights of this year’s BUFF:

Wed. March 22:

Opening Night film is Jeffrey A. Brown’s The Unheard, which is going to be on Shudder later this month. The film finds a young deaf woman undergoing experimental treatment to regain her hearing. Recovering at her family’s beach home, she fears she is not alone - all while uncovering family secrets and experiencing psychological strife and auditory hallucinations. It was filmed in Massachusetts and it was written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen (full disclosure: the writing duo are friends of mine). Then it’s Nightsiren from Slovakia. The trailer is pure WTFery!

Thurs. March 23:

BUFF doesn’t screen nearly as many documentaries as narrative films, but the ones they do are quite noteworthy. The doc Stand By For Failure: A Documentary about Negativeland looks at the experimental Bay area music group Negativeland. Then it’s back to narrative films with the sci-fi Spaghetti Junction, about a teen discovering a mysterious place in the woods. From France, the Canne Film Festival hit Smoking Causes Coughing is a wild bonkers super hero film about the dangers of smoking.

Fri. March 24:

First up is The Dunwich Horrors, a collection of short films about New England. Massachusetts certainly has its history with horror stories, but there’s other states like VT and ME represented here as well. This is usually one of my favorite short collections at the fest and among the shorts is Skin & Bone (full disclosure: director Eli Powers is a friend I worked with on a film previously). Then it’s another doc Mister Organ, the new one from David Farrier, director of Tickled. This one looks at the secrets behind a a man at a small antique shop in New Zealand. From U.K. Enys Men is a throwback to 70s horror on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast.

Sat. March 25:

A matinee screening of Moon Garden, about a little girl who falls into a coma and finds herself in a strange new world. One of my favorite shorts programs at BUFF is Sound + Vision, a collection of music videos that push the envelope. Then it’s Butter My Noodle, a collection of comedy short films. Among them is High Moon, directed by my buddy Kevin J. James (director of Not For Resale). From Germany, Piaffe is about a woman who fills in for her sister as a foley artist and grows a horse’s tail. Not a typo! Then it’s the Sundance hit Divinity, which boasts star power of Stephen Dorf and Scott Bakula as well as producer Steven Soderbergh.

Sun. March 26:

First up is Survival is Insufficient, a collection of shorts including CONTENT: The Lo-Fi Man co-directed by BUFF alumni / my friend Brian Lonano (read my interview with him at BUFF 2018 here) and It Takes a Village co-written and co-starring SNL’s Sarah Sherman. Then it’s Destination, a collection of animated shorts that are not suitable for children. Then it’s the festival hit How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a crime thriller about a group of environmental activists who plan a disruption of an oil pipeline. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is about a brilliant teenage girl who tries to bring back her recently murdered brother from the dead. And finally the Closing Night Film is Rebel from Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the Belgium filmmakers known for Bad Boys for Life and Ms. Marvel. This film focuses on a Muslim family torn apart over the future of its youngest member in Belgium. 

For info on this year’s #BUFF23: https://bostonunderground.org/

Stay tuned to Green’s Party for my coverage of this year’s fest!