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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 7:53 AM
Movies That Remind You of Burningman
This list was culled from eplaya.burningman.com thread I started. Thought it would be worth while to continue it here. Please add any of your own recommendations or comments on these films.

"Akira Kurosawa's Dreams" - just full of wonderful imagery

"Labyrinth" an "The Dark Crystal" - for the same reasons

"Mad Max" - the whole trilogy

"Fightclub" - infinitely quoteable

"Spirited Away" - what can I say, it was the best film I saw right after BM2002. Lots of parallels

"Dune" - Lynch's version is good, but go get the Sci-Fi Channel's version, especially the Directors Cut DVD. Also snag "Children of Dune". What? You haven't read the book!?!

"Amelie" - cute, fluffy, but with some great moments of creative gifting

"City of Lost Children" for visuals and surrealism

Priscilla Queen of the Desert"
mostly for the costumes. It makes me dream about riding across the playa full speed on top of a school bus with big flapping wings of golden fabric.

"Lawrence of Arabia"

"Straight to Hell,"directed by Alex Cox.After a botched robbery,a band of thieves head for the desert to take shelter,only to find that the wilderness hamlet into which they have stumbled is run buy a murderous,incestous,clan of coffee addicts who are struggling for control against a small band of misfits and a greedy land developer.Highlights include spontaneous song and dance numbers and camoes by Elvis Costello(as a coffee dispensing butler) and the Pogues(as three dead brained cabelleros).Starring cast includes Sy Richardson,Joe Strummer,Courteny Love,Grace Jones and Denis Hopper.Great Desert Fic!

"The Neverending Story"

"Six-String Samurai" Strange costumes, decent music (the Red Elvis'?), fight scenes, general strangeness.

"Shakes The Clown" How many clowns ARE there in BRC?

I will second a vote on the entire "Mad Max" Trilogy.

"Tank Girl" C'mon, they turn a tank and a jet into art cars!

"Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" Especially the Mint 500 motorcycle race.

"tank girl" is number one for me. I love that character's style and find myself mimicking it in my costumes and attitude.

"Siam Sunset" In the final third of the movie, a colorist (!) gets stranded in the desert with a bunch of wankers for a week. What they end up with by doing a lot with a little is very "burner" to me. Plus the main charecter is searching for the color 'siam sunset' because it is the color of peace. this seems like a quintessentially burn-y quest to me.

"from dusk till dawn"??? i swear that movie was inspired by the black rock city!

"A.I." - the demolition derby of robots scene - very BRC.

As well as the dance scene of Zion in "the Matrix: Reloaded"

I have been pushing "Wicker Man" down everybodys throat for about ayear on e-playa.I love Larry as Lord Sumerisle...

"A boy and his Dog". It's a post apocalyptic movie starring Don Johnson from years ago. Lots of desert stuff, and a large amount of innocense amisdt a really screwy backdrop.

'Holes" is a great flick, too. Looks like it was filmed on the playa, or somewhere nearby. Don't let the 'kid's movie' look of it fool you, it's really cool.

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show". Not as much for the movie itself but the way people watch it in a theater. No one is a spectator you yell at the screen and interact with the other people there dess up and act out the movie. If you just watch the movie its no fun. Jut like burning man you get out what you put in. Plus a lot of the costumes could have come right off the playa.

"Phantom Tollbooth" - time is a gift given to you given to you to have the time to take the time to have the time of your life.

"The Muppet Movie" The lovely tale of an earnest young frog who knows there's something more out there than the tiny swamp he grew up in, and finds a host of crazy characters that become his family on the way. Extra points for featuring the first muppet art car, an evil fast food chain, Animal dosing himself to gigantism, and Crazy Harry blowing stuff up because it's fun. Plus, all the Muppets look like Burners I know.

"Mystery Men"! A whole lot of the basis of my camp is stolen directly from it. And it's hilarious.
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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 9:09 AM
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Pitch Black - Lots of scenes of blasted, empty desert and neverending, baking sunlight (until it goes dark).
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Crystal

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 9:12 AM
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Good One and I really liked that movie. It was one of the best B Scifi movies in a long while.
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Sant...

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 9:50 AM
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Yeah, Holes. I kept thinking that the surrounding mountains looked familiar...wishful thinking.
Definitely the Matrix dance scene, and the costuming.
You're not going to leave out the Elven folk of Lord of the Rings, are you?
The director's cut of Blade Runner.
(The Great) Buckaroo Banzai!
David Cronnenberg Anything- for that altered sense.
I saw some of the costumes created for David Lynch's Dune, when the film first came out, and they were SO detailed...very playa.
The Road Warrior, of course.
*The book by Jeff Noon- VURT- there are even two characters whose long dreads are intertwined.
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john...

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 9:56 AM
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I think the title is Soldier a sci-fi on the junk yard planet, the colony out of the junk yard parts is very BRC

and my plug sorta off-topic but related to alot of the movies mentioned, The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, describes the plot of every hero movie ever made.

an ad from the 451 Bookmobile in Exile
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dang

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 1:33 PM
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A few weeks ago I saw a short animated film called "Destino." It was originally a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney (1946) but never finished. It was recently completed by some Disney animators.

(Here's some info about it: www.wired.com/news/digiwo...385,00.html)

The film follows a figure of a woman in a desert landscape. I thought it was amazingly evocative of Burning Man. It's been playing as a short subject with a full-length animated movie called "The Triplets of Belleville."
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dang

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 1:35 PM
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Hey! The URL in my above post was cut off! I'll try it again:

www.wired.com/news/digiwo...0385,00.html
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dang

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 1:38 PM
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Me again. Just go to wired.com and search on "destino" and you'll get it. Why do Tribe posts cut off any part of a URL after the ".com"?
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Fran...

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 1:43 PM
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It's not cut off. The whole URL is there, but just the domain is displayed. Try clicking on it.
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jovino

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 1:45 PM
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The whole URL is there, it's just not displaying it all. Click away!
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Rev....

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 4:23 PM
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"Bad day at Black Rock" I know its a contradiction in terms but when you have lines in a movie like "Black Rock is the frendliest town in the west" its a classic.

"TRON" Actually I never liked this movie until I watched at the Bijou Theater in '99. Now it makes me completely homesick.
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Lyin...

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 12:39 PM
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The Bijou..... THAT was US.... did ya make it for Porn Night?

we had SRO every night.... and especially on porn night... LOL!! have to laugh thinkin about when the "cops" came by, told us that porn was illegal, we told them so is nudity, They left and didnt bother us after that...

one of the movies we showed that night was too "artsy-fartsy for some... so some of our Tribesters put on a live show.... we ended up shutting off movie in favor of the live action.....

yummy memories... we even made popcorn, and I still have my Bijou Vest that we wore to seat people......

Ya made me feel nostalgic, now I'll have to go find the pics of the place and upload them to my profile....

when we were setting up that structure we nearly blew away to Winnemucca... 85 mph wind hit... took EVERYONE in vicinity to hold that thing in place.....

Thanks Rev.... ya brought back some really nice memories...

Bare
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Craig

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 4:51 PM
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What about Hedwig and the Angry Inch?

My wife and I bought each other the DVD for Xmas. Shows how much we both like it.
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Sant...

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 5:04 PM
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OK, I was just looking in on my Spankophilia tribe, and the film Secretary definitely reminds me of the playa. Did anyone come across a fella named, Seven?...thankful I was for the ice-cold beer after that brutal hot butt!
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Craig

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 9:21 PM
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oh, definetly Bukaroo Bonsia! (weird watched it on tv last night first time since it came out on vid)
Opening of Star Trek IV? the 'Holes' thing put it in my head.
HBO's Series 'Carnival'
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Unsu...

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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 9:52 PM
Movies That Remind Me of Burning Man from the 1970s
Vanishing Point (not the made-for-TV remake)

Art film and road movie collide for Vanishing Point , an existential car chase across the desert in a post Easy Rider America. Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a taciturn driver who bets that he can drive a new Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. He loads up on amphetamines and begins his odyssey through the contemporary west while a funky black DJ (Cleavon Little) turns the driver into a folk hero and broadcasts advice on dodging the cops.


Zabriskie Point

Antonioni's Zabriskie Point starred Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin, but the real star of Zabriskie Point is the desolate, parched-white landscape of Death Valley, in particular the vista from Zabriskie Point, the desert lookout that gives the movie its name and where the two main characters consummate their brief relationship in a hallucinatory sex scene. It is an eerie, skeletal expanse of stony ridges and dry stream beds, stunning in its ancient, unearthly emptiness.
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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 11:51 PM
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Far From Home...It is a Drew Barrymore movie filmed in Gerlach and on the playa.There are the usual cast of small desert town loonies,and just seeing Gerlach and the playa takes me back there.
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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 11:59 PM
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Until the End of the World, by Wim Wenders. Beautiful images, good story, same edge-of-the-world feeling I get sometimes out at the desert. And oh, the soundtrack. Mm.
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Nich...

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Sat, January 17, 2004 - 1:07 AM
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Woman of the Dunes
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Nich...

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Sat, January 17, 2004 - 1:08 AM
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Blade Runner scenes with jets of burning gas over Los Angeles.
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Nich...

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Sat, January 17, 2004 - 1:10 AM
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"Walkabout", "Bad Day at Blackrock"
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Gigi-D

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 11:21 PM
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YES thank you
Untill the end of the world
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Tricia

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Sat, January 17, 2004 - 1:11 AM
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Moulin Rouge for me definately!
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Tricia

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Sat, January 17, 2004 - 1:12 AM
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....anything Fellini
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Craig

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Wed, January 21, 2004 - 12:07 AM
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HIGHWAY beyond any doubt.
Boy and his dog. ya definitly thanks for reminding me.
Any Jean Cluade Van Dam movie (makes me want get away from this world)
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Shaman

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Wed, January 21, 2004 - 1:03 AM
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for some weird reason, Heavy Metal
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Patr...

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Thu, January 22, 2004 - 9:13 PM
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definitely Satyricon....!!! by Fellini
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mura...

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Wed, January 21, 2004 - 1:20 AM
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Just was watching "The Big Lebowski" the other night with friends as a drinking game (can you guess how many times they say f*** or some version thereof over the course of those 98 minutes?), and when it came to the scene of revelry at Jackie Treehorn's (the porn king) place my friends asked me (as the only Burner there), "is that what Burning Man is like?" And i had to admit... "yeah... there are times like that..."
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Julian

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Wed, January 21, 2004 - 5:51 PM
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A lot of the car commercials on TV. They love to show them new cars zip zip accross the playa. I buy a new car every time I see an ad shot in the desert. Can't help myself.

There's that old rad odd movie that very much remided me of Burning Man. What was the name? Ya, add that one to the list also.

-fucker
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Willow

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Thu, January 22, 2004 - 1:20 PM
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Here's my entry from the ePlaya thread mentioned above...

"The Beach"

At the end, L.D.'s character writes an e-mail from a Net-cafe that floored me...I was totaly NOT expecting to be zapped into "playa state" but there I was with tears in my eyes wanting to be home.

*sigh*

'04...here I come, baby!
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rodent

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Sat, February 28, 2004 - 10:27 AM
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Does anyone have a full list of Burningman films? The only ones I know of are...

Aquaburn
Burningman 1994
Eye of Rudra
Juicy Danger Meets Burningman
Gifting It

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rodent (putting the eek in geek)
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Lyin...

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 12:28 PM
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Sensation... french made.... I enjoyed it.... we have all the others you mentioned.. Oops!! we dont have Rudra, havent seen that one... Oh! ... and we have Drama in the Desert... I like that one for the music...... put it on and let it play.....


bare
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rodent

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 12:18 PM
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**bump**

Wow, the things you find in the archive...

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rodent (putting the eek in geek)
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Mois...

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 2:12 PM
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I saw a really bad movie from 1987 that had portions filmed out on the playa. It was called "Promised Land" and stars Meg Ryan, Kiefer Sutherland. It was truelly terrible until I realized "Hey! That's the playa!" and then I got all nostalgic and happy for a good 5-10 minuts of the film.
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~ela...

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 2:35 PM
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mad max. Especially the thunderdome parts.
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Cath...

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 2:31 PM
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The 10 Commandments, just for the scene where Moses is walking thru the desert in a sandstorm, and This Quiet Earth, because so few people are left, they have to band together for to survival and love, have to learn how to hook up generators and stuff, and realize they can wear pretty much whatever they want now, and oh- the scene where the guy who thinks he's all alone has set up cardboard people as his own private audience, and he gives speeches with a microphone and speakers, complete with canned applause.
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Pneuma

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 5:14 PM
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The Wicker Man

That movie was a real favorite of mine long ago. In fact, friends came to me in the early 90's and told me about Burning Man simply because I raved about the movie so much. Sure, it's a bit dark - I don't actually support burning police officers inside the Man... but, hey it's art, right?
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Sain...

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 5:29 PM
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Just a shout out about well, heel, most of the list so far - but rather than mee too myself to death I wanted to mention that the muppet movie is pretty much based on the Merry Pranksters - Whether intenally or not (it's hard to believe it wasn't intentional) Read Kesey's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"

Ah.. back in the days when Kool-aid was laced with things besides cyanide.
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Vert...

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 8:49 PM
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The 5000 fingers of Dr. T by Dr. Suess

non animated crazy man- just crazy
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~ela...

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Thu, June 2, 2005 - 9:30 PM
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Oh god the wicker man. Worth sitting through just for the ending and the scene where the naked chick does some sort of witchy dance in a bedroom of an inn to , I guess, lure the policeman who is in the next room into carnal thoughts.. At least thats what I thought she was doing, i was drunk at the time.


Wierd movie.
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Larissa

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Fri, June 3, 2005 - 8:46 AM
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Hero by Zhang Yimou

I saw this in the theatre the day I got back from BM 2004. There's a tonne of beautiful desert imagery, flowign fabric and bright colours. Beautiful cinematography all around.
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Ms. ...

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Fri, June 3, 2005 - 10:02 AM
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So, I'm a Burning Man Virgin this year and I know I shouldn't have any preconceived notions about it, but for some reason I'm expecting something along the lines of "the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"
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Lyin...

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Fri, June 3, 2005 - 10:15 AM
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"I'm expecting something along the lines of "the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert""

Yep..... something along those lines..... and then add Max Max, and, well, just about all the others that were mentioned here...

Shake, dont stir, and THAT's Burningman.....


Hey.... Have a GREAT First time.... it usually just keeps gettin better and better.... Hope it Rocks for ya....

Bare
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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 11:50 AM
Movies That Remind Me of Burningman
Nothing Without You
Gifting It
Burn Baby Burn
Aquaburn
Off the Deep End
The Heart of Burning Man
Dust Devils

Burning Man has this cool system of making Burning Man films available to local communities - I think it's called Burning Man in a box. They'll send your region whichever films you like, you hold a film festival. they've been doing it in SF and Santa Cruz for years. We did it in Portland last year. I've been collecting playa films for a while now. It's nice to have that reminder, on film, of what's out there.
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josh

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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 12:24 PM
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i cant believe that no one has mentioned the 80's new wave classic "liquid sky": sexy,androgynous, brightly colored, new wave punks partying like rock stars until they are killed by having sex with teensyweensy aliens who want their sex fluids.
pretty much sums up last year, for me anyway.

also german expressionist classic "the cabinet of dr. caligari", as well as the 80's new wave update "dr.caligari." the former has an aesthetic surrealism and style that is reminiscent of several camps/neighborhoods. the latter was directed by new wave porn auteur Rinse Dream (of "Cafe Flesh" fame), and blends visual sophistication with absurdist theatre and kinky sex. hard to find, yet VERY reminiscent of burning man.

while i am at it, i'll go ahead and plug "cafe flesh", while "dr caligari" is not a porn, "cafe flesh" is. (perhaps one of the coolest, definitely one of the strangest. )set in the future where only like 1 percent of the population can have sex, the ruling class puts the capable 1 percent on display like sexual gladiators, for their enjoyment or arousal. anyoned who has walked into the wrong dome at the right time, or witnessed the "canadian beaver eating contest" - may very well appreciate how this film incorporates graphic sex with a sci-fi neon 1980's flair.
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Russell

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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 12:36 PM
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Tremors! Those snakes would be scary! I know our camp sends of some great vibes!! I hope they would acquire a taste for trolls!!!

I recommend reading the Beach!!!! WAaaay better than the movie (as most books are)
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Jason

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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 12:37 PM
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Rodent, just got Six String Samurai from Netflix the other day. I only got about halfway into it but so far it really just plain had me laughing out lout wanting to get to the playa.

I think you posted a bunch on these on the E-playa and I added a ton to my list on Netflix. So far you have been right on.
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Jason

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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 12:39 PM
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I just realized no one here has mentioned "Waking Life" fucking great in my opinion. You feel like you are daydreaming on the playa when a boat car pulls up. Just watch it and you will know.

Jason
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Henry

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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 12:46 PM
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priscilla queen of the desert
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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 4:34 PM
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Six String Samurai is a strange and wonderful movie. Music by the Red Elvises, the best of the Siberian surf roken roll genre.

There isn't much dialog, but I love this exchange:

bad guy: "if I were you, I'd run"
Good guy: "if you were me, you'd be good lookin'"
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"Joe

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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 4:51 PM
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The Sheltering Sky, Koyaanisqatski, Bagdad Cafe, & the pleasure island part of Disney's "Pinocchio".
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red

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Tue, June 14, 2005 - 5:46 PM
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i will never watch these movies again withouth thinking...burningman!
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Miss...

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Wed, June 15, 2005 - 3:05 AM
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terrible movie, but the concert scene in Queen of the Damned makes me homesick (large desert scene, lots of fire, costumes etc)
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Thu, June 23, 2005 - 11:03 AM
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from the dead letter truck guy...

In a terrific movie called "The Big Empty", a very confused guy is
standing on the playa (yes, the playa!) when a huge bank of lights
comes up - is it an alien ship? No! It's an RV with a huge bank of
lights. We hope to creep up on a party and switch on the floods, for
effect.
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oo

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Thu, June 23, 2005 - 11:19 AM
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this will be my first year but I imagine it to be like Prospero's Books of Greenaway visually and maybe a little bit of Sebastian by Derek Jarman
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The Legand of Leigh Bowery

Check.

tribes.tribe.net/playafilms