NYUFF nyuck nyuck

Funny fuck Todd Levin thinks he's fucking funny translating the arty film descriptions for the New York Underground Film Festival into advice for the everyday filmgoer. Isn't mocking the humorless kind of like beating up a cripple?

"…an ode to lights and color"
"Even my closest friends and family will have second thoughts about attending this film."

"…exaggerates the clichés of femininity and men in power."
Get ready for 75 minutes of women throwing up and the men who constantly try to rape them. And isn't a cliché – if presented without sufficient context – already something of an exaggeration of the truth, anyway? If not by definition, then by implication? Aw forget it. If watching an extended, unedited monologue from a woman with poorly applied black eye makeup is your idea of a good time, have at it.

Additionally, there is a 70% chance of unenthusiastic sex in this film.

"…a freeform documentary…"
If this film has an "editor" in its credits, it is probably a lie. My parents' home movies of me riding the caterpillar at Hoffman's Play Land are technically "freeform documentary."

"a movie poem…"
Almost as promising as a "whisky enema."

"Nutria are a large, odd looking rodent from Argentina…"
HOLY SHIT DO NOT MISS THIS FILM!!!

It'll be fun to see some of these films, if only to see how far whispering the term "filmic apparatus" gets you with your date. The NYUFF runs until March 16. See Todd Levin's hilarious show "How to Kick People" at KGB on March 31.

(links via greg.org via Gawker)

Posted by harry at March 11, 2004 10:00 AM | TrackBack