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Tonight's Movies!

Tonight's films are about spiritual dismemberment: about decay, about disintegration, about the ephemerality of things. Decasia (2002) is an assemblage of scenes taking from decaying nitrate film stock. The film itself, the medium on which the stories are stored, has disintegrated beyond repair.

Schizopolis (1996) is director Stephen Soderbergh's attempt to break out of the creative rut he was in at the time, a deliberately odd film made unconventionally and on a minimal budget. Soderbergh had hoped that he'd make enough off this that he could go on making weird little movies and live comfortably. That didn't pan out, and now we have Ocean's 13 instead. He's said it's not that complicated of a story: it's about his divorce from his ex-wife (Betsey Brantley, who plays herself in the film) and being artistically frustrated in a system that doesn't make room for artistry. That's what he says. I had to watch it a half-dozen times before the narrative made sense. The film was largely written on-the-spot, scenes were scripted right before they were shot, or improvised. Some sources say it's an homage to the Austrian Dadaist Kurt Schwitters. It has that spirit to it.

Decasia (2002)

A summary stolen from Wikipedia:

Decasia is a 2002 American collage film by Bill Morrison, featuring an original score by Michael Gordon. In 2013, Decasia was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film is a meditation on old, decaying silent films, featuring segments of earlier movies re-edited and integrated into a new narrative. Critic Glen Kenny described Decasia as an "abstract narrative about mortality in all of its manifestations."

It begins and ends with scenes of a dervish and is bookended with old footage showing how film is processed. Nothing was done to accelerate the decomposition of the actual film prints, some of which were copied from the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections as well as deteriorating film footage that Morrison found at the Library of Congress.

The film's musical soundtrack features several detuned pianos and an orchestra playing out of phase with itself, adding to the fractured and decomposing nature of the film.

Various films that were incorporated into Decasia have been positively identified: J. Farrell MacDonald's The Last Egyptian (1914), written, produced, and based on the novel by L. Frank Baum; William S. Hart's Truthful Tulliver (1917); Norman Dawn's A Tokyo Siren (1920); John H. Collins's The Man Who Could Not Sleep (1915); Eddie Lyons's Peace and Quiet (1921) and Phillips Smalley's The Mind Cure (1912). Various Fox Movietone newsreel footage were also used.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/decasia-the-state-of-decay/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303325/

Schizopolis (1996)

From IMDB: Fletcher Munson is a lethargic, passive worker for a Scientology-like self-help corporation called Eventualism. After the death of a colleague, he is promoted to the job of writing speeches for T. Azimuth Schwitters, the founder and head of the group. He uses this as an excuse to be emotionally and romantically distant from his wife, who, he discovers, is having an affair with his doppelganger, a dentist named Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. As Munson fumbles with the speech and Korchek becomes obsessed with a new patient, a psychotic exterminator named Elmo Oxygen goes around the town seducing lonely wives and taking photographs of his genitals.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/schizopolis/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117561/

CWs

Decasia (2002)

None noted anywhere I could find. The knowledge that all that nitrate film stock is rotting and cannot be saved is tragic.

Schizopolis (1996)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117561/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/49459

List

• Full frontal nudity
• Masturbation offscreen
• Pornography as a plot point
• Adultery throughout the film
• Assault, violence (none graphic)
• Some profanity
• Tobacco use
• Sexual harrassment (with consequences)

IMDB Parental Guide:

::: spoiler Sex + Nudity: Mild

• Two separate brief scenes of a fully nude man.
• Fletcher Munson masturbates in the bathroom. (no nudity)
• Elmo Oxygen makes lewd sexual gestures. (A table blocks the view.)
• Munson masturbates in bed. (no nudity and very brief)
• Dr. Jeffrey Korchek masturbates in bed. (no nudity and very brief).
• Mrs. Munson opens a package containing an adult VHS called "Heavy Weight Honeys" and watches a bit of it. (off screen)
• Mrs. Munson commits adultery throughout the film. :::

::: spoiler Violence + Gore: Mild

• Multiple assaults.
• Two fights.
• One act of gun violence.
• None of the violence is graphic, although one scene of assault is rather intense for a comedy. :::

::: spoiler Profanity: Moderate

• Multiple instance of profanity. ("ass" "damn" "fuck" "screw" "shit" "suck")
• Three uses of derogatory terms. ("babe" "bitch")
• Three uses of an insult. ("worm")
• Two instance of religious profanity. ("god" "hell") :::

::: spoiler Alcohol, Drugs + Smoking: Mild

• Three instance of cigarette smoking. :::

::: spoiler Frightening + Intense Scenes: None nothin' here, bub :::

tankie.tube links:

• Decasia (2002): https://tankie.tube/w/fDKx5AtZXXS3LfHr77CUNP
• Schizopolis (1996) https://tankie.tube/w/cK76yadbk47j9WHCg49xaT

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