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On August 29, 1970, Miles Davis rocked the Isle Of Wight Festival with one of the earliest of his psychedelic soundscape bands. Since I'...

Who made a much better, funnier, more adeptly timed showbiz caricatures cartoon than Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) by the venerated Di...

While aware that the animation on Tex' later pictures is more sophisticated than what you get in his 1930's Looney Tunes and Merrie ...

This month, we celebrate the late, great Isaac Hayes . Here's the singer-songwriter-arranger-actor-recording producer, etc. performing...

In an election year and time of global energy crisis, it's weirdly appropriate to post a stop-motion animation film about oil. Produced ...

Here's another mind-numbing Busby Berkeley masterpiece, more reminiscent of Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst netherworlds than the jaunty ...

In my book, nothing says dada and surrealism quite like a musical number from the wondrously deranged mind of Busby Berkeley . This is just...

For that special blend of 1960's-style cheesiness, absurdism, both winsome and subtle-as-a-sledgehammer sexiness, AquaNet-drenched haird...

In a quest for a musical clip even more absurd than the last one I posted, here's larger-than-life vaudeville comedienne Winnie Lightne...

Yes, that's comedians' nemesis Vernon Dent singing the lead in this 1934 toga party musical number, which is among many notable ext...

I really like the Burt n' Elvis (Costello) collaborations. Like The White Stripes, too.

The 13th Annual San Francisco Film Festival , another amazing weekend of classic movies in archival 35mm prints, accompanied by world-class ...

The 13th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival starts tomorrow night at the Castro Theatre. I'll be there, and hopefully capable o...

T he producers of the most excellent Thrillville series present T he Thrill-O-Tronic Film Show, a Saturday matinee spotlighting wild and cr...

The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum , Northern California treasure, mecca for historians, culture vultures and film geeks alike, will prese...

Mr. Lobo, "your horror host", wrote this excellent rant as a response to a despairing posting on the Mr. Lobo's Sleepless Knig...

I loathe serving as an R.I.P. blog ! This week, that most wonderful of satiric shit disturbers, George Carlin , passed away at 71. Hope Geor...

For over 15 years, the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival has presented a film archivist jam session. The visual music (cacophony?) draws from ...

Found scribbled on lined stationery in the back of a cab in Trenton, New Jersey, the wise words of Al Confucius Johnson, philosopher, beer d...