Subject: (exotica) "Three Nights With the Secret Cinema" in San Francisco
"Three Nights With the Secret Cinema" at San Francisco's
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco
(415) 978-2700
The San Francisco Cinematheque at the Yerba Buena Center For the Arts will
present "Three Nights With the Secret Cinema."
This retrospective of rare musical films was collected and compiled by The
Secret Cinema, a Philadelphia-based floating repertory cinema that has been
showing offbeat film fare in various locations since 1992. In addition to
regular screenings in the Philadelphia area, The Secret Cinema has
presented programs in New York, Baltimore, and at the Internacional
Festival de Cine de Gijon, in Spain (where, in 1997, the international jury
gave a special award to The Secret Cinema for "collecting, preserving, and
showing the treasures of obscure cinema."
The three programs at Yerba Buena, all shown in 16mm film (no video), are
as follows:
Wednesday, September 15, 8:00 pm - EXOTICA MUSIC FILMS
Friday, September 17, 8:00 pm - EXOTICA FILMS 2: MUSIC AND MORE!
(this uses completely different footage from the September 15 program)
Saturday, September 18, 9:00 pm - SITCOM ROCK: ROCK 'N' ROLL EPISODES OF
CLASSIC TV COMEDIES
Ticket stubs from any "Three Nights With Secret Cinema" screening will be
good for a dollar off the price of admission to Saturday night's "Planet
Tiki: Bongos By The Bay" party, featuring Preston Epps and several other
exotica music and novelty acts, d.j.'s and tiki art exhibits. For more
details, go to tikinews.com
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:23:21
From: jschwart@voicenet.com
Subject: (exotica) EXOTICA FILMS 2: MUSIC AND MORE! in San Francisco
The Secret Cinema presents EXOTICA FILMS 2: MUSIC AND MORE! at Yerba Buena
Center For the Arts
The San Francisco Cinematheque at
Yerba Buena Center For the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco
(415) 978-2700
On Friday, September 17, the San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts will continue its "Three Nights With the Secret Cinema"
series with EXOTICA FILMS 2: MUSIC AND MORE! This collection of ultra-rare
footage will showcase a unique collection of filmed musical performances
from a variety of offbeat jazz, pop, and rock artists from around the
globe. The films come from a variety of sources, including very early TV
shows, film jukeboxes from the 1940s ("Soundies") and 1960s ("Scopitones"),
and select feature film clips. This follow-up to Wednesday's EXOTICA MUSIC
FILMS program features 100% different programming -- little of which is
likely to have been seen before by anybody attending!
All of the films will be projected from 16mm film prints onto a giant movie
screen (not video).
The screening begins at 8:00 pm.
Just some of the performers shown on the big screen will include: Astrud
Gilberto, The Jimmy Smith Trio, Desi Arnaz, Sylvie Vartan, Johnny Hallyday
and Ethel Smith.
Adding extra spice to this celluloid smorgasboard is a selection of equally
arcane short subjects, without musicians but plenty of exoticism:
Technicolor travelogues of Caribbean isles, coming attraction "trailers"
for Maria Montez movies, a 1920s silent film on "Ceylon Devil Dancers and
Buddas," and a look at tiki carving and other customs of the South Seas.
Plus, scenes from a never-shown-in-the-U.S. French TV special, WORLD MUSIC
ET SETECT, featuring organ jazz/pop-rock instro combo Andr=E9 Brasseur et so=
n
Orchestre, Peter Max-like animation and pop-art special effects.=20
PLUS, a sampling of DISK JOCKEY TV TOONS. These lost artifacts from early
50s broadcasting were marketed to local television stations for use as
filler programming during Hit Parade-type shows. The low-budget, bizarre
visualizations are essentially ROCK VIDEOS WITH NO SOUNDTRACKS, and were
made to be shown with suggested popular records.
And if all this weren't enough, there will be a special talk about the
history of film jukeboxes by Secret Cinema curator Jay Schwartz,
illustrated with color slides of rare photos and original advertising
materials.=20
Ticket stubs from any "Three Nights With Secret Cinema" screening will be
good for a dollar off the price of admission to Saturday night's "Planet
Tiki: Bongos By The Bay" party, featuring Preston Epps and several other
exotica music and novelty acts, d.j.'s and tiki art exhibits. For more
details, go to tikinews.com
The Secret Cinema, begun in 1992, is a Philadelphia-based floating
repertory film series that shows unusual and lost film fare of all types at
various locations.
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:28:23
From: jschwart@voicenet.com
Subject: (exotica) "Three Nights With the Secret Cinema" in San Francisco
"Three Nights With the Secret Cinema" at San Francisco's
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco
(415) 978-2700
The San Francisco Cinematheque at the Yerba Buena Center For the Arts will
present "Three Nights With the Secret Cinema."
This retrospective of rare musical films was collected and compiled by The
Secret Cinema, a Philadelphia-based floating repertory cinema that has been
showing offbeat film fare in various locations since 1992. In addition to
regular screenings in the Philadelphia area, The Secret Cinema has
presented programs in New York, Baltimore, and at the Internacional
Festival de Cine de Gijon, in Spain (where, in 1997, the international jury
gave a special award to The Secret Cinema for "collecting, preserving, and
showing the treasures of obscure cinema."
The three programs at Yerba Buena, all shown in 16mm film (no video), are
as follows:
Wednesday, September 15, 8:00 pm - EXOTICA MUSIC FILMS
Friday, September 17, 8:00 pm - EXOTICA FILMS 2: MUSIC AND MORE!
(this uses completely different footage from the September 15 program)
Saturday, September 18, 9:00 pm - SITCOM ROCK: ROCK 'N' ROLL EPISODES OF
CLASSIC TV COMEDIES
Ticket stubs from any "Three Nights With Secret Cinema" screening will be
good for a dollar off the price of admission to Saturday night's "Planet
Tiki: Bongos By The Bay" party, featuring Preston Epps and several other
exotica music and novelty acts, d.j.'s and tiki art exhibits. For more
details, go to tikinews.com
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:28:42
From: jschwart@voicenet.com
Subject: (exotica) "Three Nights With the Secret Cinema" in San Francisco
"Three Nights With the Secret Cinema" at San Francisco's
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco
(415) 978-2700
The San Francisco Cinematheque at the Yerba Buena Center For the Arts will
present "Three Nights With the Secret Cinema."
This retrospective of rare musical films was collected and compiled by The
Secret Cinema, a Philadelphia-based floating repertory cinema that has been
showing offbeat film fare in various locations since 1992. In addition to
regular screenings in the Philadelphia area, The Secret Cinema has
presented programs in New York, Baltimore, and at the Internacional
Festival de Cine de Gijon, in Spain (where, in 1997, the international jury
gave a special award to The Secret Cinema for "collecting, preserving, and
showing the treasures of obscure cinema."
The three programs at Yerba Buena, all shown in 16mm film (no video), are
as follows:
Wednesday, September 15, 8:00 pm - EXOTICA MUSIC FILMS
Friday, September 17, 8:00 pm - EXOTICA FILMS 2: MUSIC AND MORE!
(this uses completely different footage from the September 15 program)
Saturday, September 18, 9:00 pm - SITCOM ROCK: ROCK 'N' ROLL EPISODES OF
CLASSIC TV COMEDIES
Ticket stubs from any "Three Nights With Secret Cinema" screening will be
good for a dollar off the price of admission to Saturday night's "Planet
Tiki: Bongos By The Bay" party, featuring Preston Epps and several other
exotica music and novelty acts, d.j.'s and tiki art exhibits. For more
details, go to tikinews.com
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:30:45
From: jschwart@voicenet.com
Subject: (exotica) Whoops!
Sorry I posted the "Three Nights With Secret Cinema" message three times.
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 04:43:59 EDT
From: Ottotemp@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Re: EXOTICA FILMS 2: MUSIC AND MORE! in San Francisco
The Devil-Ettes make an unannounced FREE performance at the Wed show at about
7:45 or so in the lobby of the Yerba Buena Center
BE THERE!
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:46:54 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "Snowflakes" comp.....
Thanks for the replies - maybe I'll spell Darrell's name right some day =
too!!
BTW - Darrell, that's where I get a great deal of my questions - from =
listening CONSTANTLY to all the Retro shows while I'm at work!!!!
Best -
Nate
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:43:35 -0400
From: <lousmith@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] David Karp,Stanley M. Simmons,Tony Duquette
PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- David Karp, a novelist, screen and television writer, died Saturday of bladder cancer. He was 77.
He was one of a group of writers such as Paddy Chayesky, Horton Foote, Rod Serling and others, whose careers flourished during the 1950's ``golden age'' of television writing.
Until the 1970s, Karp was a frequent contributor to such dramatic series as ``The Untouchables.'' He was also the author of several television series and movies.
He was an accomplished novelist who published more than a half-dozen books. His most successful novel, ``One,'' was a political science fiction story.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Stanley M. Simmons, who designed sets and costumes for Broadway shows and ballets, died Sept. 4 of heart failure. He was 71.
The designer created costumes for the original production of Tennessee Williams' ``Garden District'' and ``Bar of a Tokyo Hotel'' and for such musicals as ``Show Boat,'' ``The King and I,'' ``Brigadoon'' and ``Lena: The Lady and Her Music.''
He also designed costumes and sets for ``Coppelia'' and costumed major American ballet companies, including the Joffrey Ballet. He also collaborated with the choreographers Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins and worked on sets for ballet and opera productions at the Vienna State Opera and Spoleto Festival.
Simmons was known for creating dance costumes that embodied the essence of ballet, such as the free-flowing dress in Eliot Feld's ``Meadowlark.''
His television credits include the Emmy Award-winning Shirley MacLaine special ``Gypsy in My Soul.''
September 14, 1999
Tony Duquette, 85, a Decorator of Fantasy
By JULIE V. IOVINE, NYTimes
Tony Duquette, the designer whose lavish, whimsically baroque sets and costumes, interiors and jewelry made him a Hollywood favorite for more than five decades, died on Sept. 9. He was 85.
The cause of his death, at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, was complications from a heart attack, said Hutton Wilkinson, his business partner of 30 years.
Exotic excess was the signature of the Tony Duquette style. "He was the only man who could spend $999 in a 99-cent store," Wilkinson said.
Part sly conjurer, part satin-robed aesthete, Duquette was concerned with the dazzling effect of his designs, often using unabashedly cheap materials.
At his Hollywood Hills studio, a roomful of 18th-century French antiques sat amid gilded trees beneath a ceiling studded with glued-on gold plastic serving trays. His talent for overdoing it was appreciated by clients who had acquired their own sense of the grandiose, among them Vincente Minnelli, Doris Duke, Mary Pickford, J. Paul Getty, David O. Selznick and the duchess of Windsor.
"He was doing fantasy from the moment he began, and remained committed to his vision no matter what the fashion of the day dictated," said Liz O'Brien, a New York dealer in 20th-century decorative arts.
Anthony Michael Duquette (the name is pronounced due-KETT) was born in Los Angeles on June 11, 1914. The oldest of four children, Duquette "always just was what he was -- artistic, driven," said his sister, Jeanne Newman. When he was 12, he entertained his siblings with a puppet show of "Scheherazade," making all the costumes himself. The toy houses he built were romantically lighted with birthday candles.
After high school, he attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles on a scholarship. His first job was as a designer at Bullock's department store. As a freelancer, he also worked for the Hollywood designers Billy Haines and James Pendleton.
During World War II, he served as a private in the U.S. Army. In 1949, he married Elizabeth Johnstone, an artist and eager contributor to the Duquette vision. He called her Beegle, and the nickname stuck.
Duquette liked to say that he was discovered by Lady Mendl (who had become famous as an interior decorator as Elsie de Wolfe) when, in her 80s, she decamped from her villa in France to a villa in Los Angeles to avoid the war.
"I want you to make me a meuble," Lady Mendl commanded, putting the word "furniture" into French, after admiring a jewel-bedecked plaster and glass centerpiece that Duquette had designed for a dinner party.
Impressed with the result, a black-lacquered secretary with Moors set against a mirrored background festooned with Venetian glass flowers, she began to promote her new discovery to clients, friends and influential editors.
Their collaboration lasted until her death, in 1951. Duquette became president of the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation and at the time of his death he was organizing an auction of the foundation's Elsie de Wolfe collections, to be held at Christie's in Los Angeles next week.
It did not take long for Duquette to become established as a celebrity decorator, furniture and jewelry maker, and set designer. He furnished a castle for Elizabeth Arden, designed his first piece of jewelry for the duchess of Windsor and built sets for Vincente Minnelli's lavish movies "Ziegfeld Follies of 1944" and "Yolanda and the Thief," with Fred Astaire (1945).
He won a Tony award for best costumes for the original 1961 Broadway production of "Camelot." In the late 1940s, he was given a one-man show at the Pavillon de Marsan in the Louvre.
But his own lavishly theatrical homes were perhaps his most astonishing creations. The house on his 175-acre Malibu ranch, named Sortilegium, was an architectural collage of Oriental and Georgian motifs interlarded with bits of unexpected exotica: a window from Greta Garbo and John Gilbert's love nest, a Venetian gondola, and a set of 18th-century doors presented to him and his wife by Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers as a wedding present. It was destroyed by fire in 1993.
Another home, Dawnridge, was a villagelike compound with Balinese pavilions and grand Venetian salons, the whole spiced with 18th-century Chinese window carvings.
Duquette also enjoyed creating what he called celebrational environments. His most famous installation, dedicated in the 1980s, was in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of San Francisco, where Duquette had gained a large following with his opera sets and decorations for debutante balls.
The Duquette Pavilion of St. Francis consisted of a room crowded with monumental 28-foot metal sculptures of archangels and giant jewel-studded tapestries. It, too, was destroyed by fire, in 1989.
His wife died in 1995. In addition to his sister, Ms. Newman of La Canada, Calif., Duquette is survived by a brother, Frank Duquette of Palm Springs, Calif.
Projects he was working on at the time of his death included rooms in the Palazzo Brandolini in Venice, Italy, and a jewelry collection for Gucci.
"Decorating is not a surface performance," Duquette once said, "It's a spiritual impulse, inborn and primordial."
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:13:10 -0400
From: Nat Kone <bruno@yhammer.com>
Subject: (exotica) bird calls by humans
Somebody on this list "collects" records with bird calls.
I bought a couple of LP's for that person, if he/she wants them.
They're by Lorin Whitney and Ralph Platt. Lorin plays the pipe organ and
Ralph does the bird calls.
Maybe that doesn't fit into a "bird call collection". Maybe it has to be
real birds.
But if you're that person and this fits into your collection, lemme know
and I'll send them to you.
I did listen to one of them and I believe it's the single strangest thing
I've ever heard on LP. I know that's a mouthful, especially on this list,
but it's definitely in the ballpark.
BTW, I think this would fit on Citizen Kafka's radio show. And hey, if
you're around, I think I saw you on television.
Tweet tweet.
Nat
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:00:32 -0400
From: Citizen Kafka <ckafka@dti.net>
Subject: (exotica) bird calls
Hi, Nat,
1) i've been filmed in several documentaries, and co-hosted (with Ben
Vereen) a film about NYC street musicians... what did you see??
bluegrass? something else?
2) i stopped collecting bird records (real and vocalized) a while back,
and mainly have 78s, especially from the earlier part of the century.
I'm always interested, though@! what makes these records strange? i
might want to trade for them. Enquiring minds want to know!
thanks,
citizen kafka
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Nat Kone spake thusly:
"I did listen to one of them and I believe it's the single strangest
thing I've ever heard on LP. I know that's a mouthful, especially on
this list, but it's definitely in the ballpark. BTW, I think this would
fit on Citizen Kafka's radio show. And hey, if you're around, I think I
saw you on television.
Tweet tweet."
Nat
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Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air"
NEW!: every Tuesday 6 to 7 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM
& WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM
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http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu'
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:34:17 EDT
From: Pearmania@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Ogerman
>Claus Ogerman
>3 albums on RCA -
>"Watusi Trumpets"
>"Saxes Mexicanos"
>"Latin Rock"
His LP "Soul Searchin' " is good, too. I like it better than "Watusi
Trumpets". I don't have the other two so I can't compare with those two.
Sean
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:23:57 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) bird calls
Also, not that it is exotica, but there is the composer Oliver Messiaen,
who put transcribed bird songs in his music.
Brian Phillips
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:29:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jane Fondle <jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Jane's dumb question of the day...
There is a friendly, but charged, debate going on in
my band right now about the wording on a poster
announcing our forthcoming album...The poster
currently says "new CD." I don't like that, and wish
to call it "album", but some of the more "moderne"
people in my band say I'm being
picky,picky,picky...Whaddaya say? I hate the sound of
somebody saying "The new CD from so-and-so"(even
though in our case, it will only be on CD for the
first run.) One records an album of work, not a CD of
it...but, just write me off-line, unless you think yer
post will edify others...
Much luff-JF69
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