At the Cinema
 

I know we have a thread for movie musings, but this could be a nice place for trailers, limited and new releases, classic film showings, special appearances, etc.

Here is one to start. It's a bit odd

The Human Centipede

You may want to add "nightmare inducing". Hilarious, but holy crap, I kind of wish I hadn't seen that...

I thought about that later. Yeh, I should have mentioned that.

Wow. At first it seemed a little cheesy so I thought it was a joke. Then it got darker and I still couldn't believe it was real. Then I went to the IFC site and it turns out it's definitely coming out on April 30. I am... surprised?

Gross.

A zombie-western! Survival of the Dead (NSFW)

The Human Centipede looks revolting and silly, traits that were once catnip for me. I guess I'm mostly put off by the tone- too much metallic clanging on the soundtrack and a torture porn aesthetic. Makes me nostalgic for the days when such a concept would be treated with tongue in cheek humor, over the top visuals or a camp sensibility. (yes, it occurs to me that my choice of the phrase "tongue in cheek" was really unfortunate in this case.) I feel like I've seen enough would-be disturbing body mutilation horror in the Miike/Roth style to last me the rest of this lifetime, but I've got plenty of room left for more Cronenberg or Stuart Gordon. Heck, I want to see The Human Centipede as a musical by John Waters or a low budget fever dream by Stephen Sayadian. (thanks again for that one, mr. Pod!)

San Francisco
 

The San Francisco Symphony will accompany Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush with the comedian's original score at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 15; 8 p.m. Friday, April 16; and at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 17 at Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. (415) 864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org .

For more info, click here

What a great way to celebrate his birthday! I wish I could go.