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The Segment: "This House Has People In It" (2016)
The Show: "Infomercials"
Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max, YouTube, Adult Swim
The Pitch: You'll notice I added a section to our usual "Daily Stream" set-up for this one, so allow me to explain. Adult Swim — a network that is now reflexively mentioned when anyone brings up exciting surreal horror in 2022 — has an ongoing shorts series in which they give filmmakers free rein to reinterpret the infomercial style however they see fit. It's not always how you'd picture it — some of the shorts don't even resemble a conventional infomercial. But the series saw many experiments in the concept with varying results.
One of the most strangely successful of these experiments is...
The Segment: "This House Has People In It" (2016)
The Show: "Infomercials"
Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max, YouTube, Adult Swim
The Pitch: You'll notice I added a section to our usual "Daily Stream" set-up for this one, so allow me to explain. Adult Swim — a network that is now reflexively mentioned when anyone brings up exciting surreal horror in 2022 — has an ongoing shorts series in which they give filmmakers free rein to reinterpret the infomercial style however they see fit. It's not always how you'd picture it — some of the shorts don't even resemble a conventional infomercial. But the series saw many experiments in the concept with varying results.
One of the most strangely successful of these experiments is...
- 1/10/2023
- by Lex Briscuso
- Slash Film
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAmy Heckerling on the set of the Off Broadway musical of her film Clueless.We are delighted by the news shared by the New York Times that American auteur Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is producing an Off-Broadway musical of her pop culture landmark film (and so much more!), Clueless. For more on the director, read our 2016 interview.Recommended VIEWINGMarcelo Martinessi's lovely debut film The Heiresses, a delicate drama focusing on the self-discovery of a wealthy, middle-aged queer women in Paraguay, gets an English trailer. We reviewed the film at the 68th Berlinale held earlier this year.The Criterion Collection produced this lovely video exploring the birth and programming vision of New York's Walter Reade cinema. Recommended READINGIt's that time of the year again: Year-end lists of the best films of 2018 have...
- 12/12/2018
- MUBI
Tune in tonight on AdultSwim.com to watch the first episode of a live and interactive experience by the Wham City collective: the same guys who created “Unedited Footage of a Bear,” “The Mirror,” “This House Has People in It,” and “Live Forever as You Are Now With Alan Resnick.”
The comedic troupe’s new project is called “The Cry of Mann” and it is an interactive mini-series comprised of eight episodes, the first of which will be streamed live tonight October 23 on AdultSwim.com/streams at 11 p.m. Et.
There will be a new episode every weekday this week through October 26 and next week from October 30 to November 2, also streaming live at 11 p.m. Et.
Related:‘Rick and Morty’ Season 3 Made Adult Swim History as the Network’s Most Watched Series Ever
Adult Swim has issued the following premise for this inventive mini-series has the following premise: “Tank Mann...
The comedic troupe’s new project is called “The Cry of Mann” and it is an interactive mini-series comprised of eight episodes, the first of which will be streamed live tonight October 23 on AdultSwim.com/streams at 11 p.m. Et.
There will be a new episode every weekday this week through October 26 and next week from October 30 to November 2, also streaming live at 11 p.m. Et.
Related:‘Rick and Morty’ Season 3 Made Adult Swim History as the Network’s Most Watched Series Ever
Adult Swim has issued the following premise for this inventive mini-series has the following premise: “Tank Mann...
- 10/23/2017
- by Alberto Achar
- Indiewire
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