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My fave moments from 2002

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1) Udo Kier- Mrs Mittlemann! Everyones favorite German effeminate art fag cult star came into Austin like a tormado. There was hardly a restaurant, nightclub or furniture store that didnt have an "Udo story" after he left. ("Im a wegetawian but i weally enjoyed your tek-sass bobba que!") The films werent so much the main attraction as was Udo having a blast being the center of attention and telling stories about the making of his films. You could just tell he felt the actual movies were a nuisance that cut into his speechmaking time. ("Zo let me haff anudder wedbull mit wodka before zee next question") With anyone else this would have gotten annoying but this guy had such an infectious lust for life and passion for storrytelling I enjoyed his moment in the limelight almost as much as he seemed to. I talked him into a pedicab ride thatthe rest of hsi "entourage" wanted no part of. He showed Andy warhols dracula .... but the real highlight was a very rare short featurette ("Mrs Mittelman") with Udo as Hitler in drag hiding in post war London trying to get a letter to Argentina. I wish the producers luck in finishing this marvellously strange movie.
2) Wesley Willis
3) Sweetwater- Im the ONLY one who would consider this "Alamo History." But- like "Least of My brothers" and "Rage in the Cage" it goes down as one of MY fave moments because I worked on it. I was the editor and did a little "pick up" shooting. There was no food service because because they thought there'd be no turn out and there was a HUGE crowd complaining that they couldnt buy food. (and Nelson said 'HA HAAA!')
3) BNAT 4  I saw the end of  House of a thousand corpses- I would have thought this was really cool when I was 13.  Fabulous Harryhausen cartoon, A movie about dwarves I cant mention nor do I want to (Good acting, but was it supposed to funny or serious?)  . And finally some obscure Australian art flick ( That I watched while laying in the aisle as folks dumped hot coffee on me and stepped all over me)
4) Revenge of the AV Geeks,
5) "Weird Wednesday Preview Party." Free admission to see the
first 10 minutes of about 10 different 'so bad theyre funny' drive in abandonees that Tim and Lars werent sure about screening. High;lits were "Alvin Purple"  "Murder by music" an obscure italian heist flick  and some odd gem wherein a Priest saunters into a bar at sunrise and annouces "my job is to take drunks to bed!"  Fred B's critique of "Murder by music" included the classic line " did you notice that when the healthy woman entered into the room the music was an 'aroused organ' ?"
6)  "Redneck" 1972. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069248    I want to say this weird wednesday offering was a bad movie, but then WHY was I on the edge of my seat from beginning to end? It may be unfair to say that Telly Savalas was always Kojack- b
ut he was ALWAYS "Telly Savalas." Horribly miscast as "Memphis,"  a southern drawlin redneck petty criminal- attacks the title role with such fearsome passion and confidence you cant help but (want to) buy his performance. Telly and "Mosquito" (Franco Nero, the guy who always plays badly dubbed italians) accidentally kidnap "Lennox Duncan," (Mark Lester,  the girley boy from "Oliver")  during a botched bank robbery and begin a trek across the alps. The kid is financially spoiled but emotionally neglected, so he tries to bond with these two hudlums as surrogate father figures- leading to the most insane male bonding/role model scenes that I cant believe I bore witness to.  I think the "bedroom mirror" scene was supposed to show that  Lennox had no adult males in his life to be role models- but it comes across as pure pedophilia.  The audience blew the doors off with howls of shocked laughter as "Mos- keeeee to" shows his dangling manhood to little Lennox- who winces at his own
undeveloped package.   As Lennox starts to arouse Memphis's paternal instincts, Memphis  rebels and goes on a homicidal anti-family rampage and drowns a happy family of German campers  by locking their camper shut and steering it into a deep river*.    Get it Kid? The one who sang gospel as he rolled the camper into the river? Bad father figure! The film really captures the sense of geography and space as the twisted trio ascend up the snowy mountain. And I defy any of the audience to deny that they werent hooked and eagerly awaiting to see how this all climaxed as the trio reaches the mountaintop and approach the border.
* ( This was a low budget movie, so I cant imagine they did it any other way than to REALLY toss a camper into a raging river and film it as it floated  away).
7) Fred B ambushing b-movie legend Stuart Gordon after the Premiere of DAGON.
8) Buzz Morans Kung Fu Masterpice theater. Similar to Mr Sinus but they drop ALL the sound and have actors and foley art
ists adding new dialogue and sound effects. The first one I saw was and chop sockey about a kung fu master specializing in throwing nails. The second one was way better- "Hot Skin in 3D," with an actress demonstrating how truly absurd porno dialog is.
9) May 29th, 2003 I cant think of any more. I loved Spiderman, but that played at the Alamo North-Village- so it doesnt count. So did the re-release of the original "EVIL DEAD".