Impolex @ The Boston Underground Film Festival

[Joe Allonby]

I have deep reservations about giving my money to the producers of this film.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I seem to remember that you saw this, Dave?
> recommended?  It sounds like it might be quite good.
> I still haven't seen Pruefstand 7, speaking of derivative works.
>
> Is it true that both those would fit the description of "fair usage"
> of Pynchon's
> intellectual property?
> I wonder how the original author feels about them...
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> Dave Monroe wrote:
>> MARCH 26 » 5:45p
>> MARCH 31 » 5:30p
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>> NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE with ALEX ROSS PERRY
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>> 2009, USA, 75 min.
>> Director/Screenwriter: Alex Ross Perry (in attendance)
>> Cast: Riley O’Brien, Kate Lyn Sheil, Eugene Mirman, Ben Shapiro, Bruno
>> Meyrick Jones
>>
>> View the Trailer
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>> Tyrone S., a U.S. army solider, wanders through an unidentified
>> wilderness searching for missing rockets. Recurring characters
>> (figments of his imagination? figures from his past?) show up
>> o ffering advice and making small talk. An old lover reminds Tyrone of
>> their life back home and what he’s left behind.
>>
>> A little context goes a long way toward understanding Alex Ross
>> Perry’s enigmatic Impolex. Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s
>> Rainbow, the film tells the story, albeit obliquely, of Operation
>> Paperclip, an actual World War II mission to locate undetonated German
>> V2 rockets in the forests of Europe.
>>
>> But to say it’s just about that is too reductive. It’s about a lot of
>> other things too: our connections to objects and to principles and to
>> people, and how tenuous our grip on reality can be. And it manages to
>> be about all these things without much ever happening. The plot of
>> Impolex can only be discerned dimly, as if through a dream-like fog.
>>
>> I realize saying a film is virtually plotless won’t sound like a
>> ringing endorsement to a lot of folks, but I can’t stress enough that
>> Impolex is an extremely compelling and rewarding experience if you
>> give yourself over to the film’s hallucinatory rhythms and deliberate
>> pacing.
>>
>> Riley O’Brien delivers an somnambulistic performance as Tyrone. While
>> he’s admittedly an aquired taste, it’s easy to see why Perry wrote the
>> part for his unique charms. Kate Lyn Sheil deserves a special mention
>> too. Toward the end of the film, she delivers a stunning nine-minute
>> monologue in a single unbroken close-up. She has a penetratingly
>> honest screen presence and it is a joy to watch her perform.
>>
>> In the vein of classic midnight movies like David Lynch’s Eraserhead,
>> Impolex is a puzzling and darkly humorous tone poem that worms its way
>> into your brain and will stick with you long after you leave the
>> theatre.
>>
>> http://bostonunderground.org/schedule/impolex/
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