Glad to see this getting more exposure! CBS Sunday Morning also did a profile with video clips of some performances:
Huh. So Samuel Beckett wrote one film script, specifically for Buster Keaton, the 20-minute “Film,” which someone youtubed. What a world!
Heads up, shady-looking dudes!
Sorry I don’t know the source. Maybe it’s for Scorsese’s filming of Killers of the Flower Moon?
That’s what the web says is being filmed there. Unless, of course, Asylum is doing a rival production around the corner.
I enjoyed the book, and the state and era are right, so not a tough guess. 
Crap. Too far away.
I saw Yella, a German revamping of Carnival of Souls. Creepy and eerie in its own way, worth watching if you’ve seen C of S, but I’m not sure I quite understood it. None of the critics reviews I read indicated any awareness that Yella is based on C of S.
Was holding out on that until I watched Carnival of Souls, which I was planning on this summer.
I really liked the State I am in the most of the four or five of his films I’ve seen. It’s about a couple of RAF terrorists (I think) retired and living in the run as their daughter grows up. It’s a mash up inverse film noir /bildungsroman
Strongly recommend.
Shouldn’t critics have some basic understanding of film history? Is C of S just too obscure for the average critic?
I first saw C of Souls at the local indie theater where they have the Silver Scream Spook Show, which (used to be) monthly where they’d show a classic horror film and have this hilarious low-budget (like cardboard everything, etc) live show before hand and then show the film as god intended, on film, not off some DVD… they always had a matintee for families and then a late night show with their live stuff being a bit more blue… it was easily the scariest film they ever showed. Genuinely creepy.
Looking forward to seeing this… is it on a streaming service? If so, which one?
Most of his films are on Mubi right now. Well about ten are which must be most.
ETA
Most of his films seem to reference other texts, or several of them and reorder the elements.
Well, there are critics and reviewers, and I don’t think reviewers generally have an especially deep knowledge of film history.
Critics could know it, although old low budget indie horror films I could easily see many critics ignoring.
IMDb says that it’s an uncredited remake. That’s another reason people might not catch on. Even if they’ve seen CoS, maybe they just don’t remember it well enough to catch on.
I give up… there are just too many streaming platforms now a days…
Maybe I can add it to my DVD list at netflix!
That sounds cool. I love stuff like that…
We have a one in, one out policy on streaming. So if they want Crunchyroll, or Disney, Funimate goes. We drop Netflix if we want Now (HBO/Sky here) for a bit. It’s easier now as there was a shortage of new shows and they cancelled stuff we liked… I’d drop Mubi and swap in Criterion if they sold it here.
I may also be sharing passwords on some. But don’t tell the IP popo.
I did mean reviewers, but still, I agree the C of S shouldn’t be THAT unknown to them.
The director seems to be commenting on soul-less predatory capitalism, maybe on East Germany’s Transition, but as i said, I may have missed any deeper meanings about all of that.
I too saw it on MUBI. It’s a good service, with mostly obscure offerings (though not all that many at once).
Yeah, to be fair, that can be very different categories of people…
Always a worthwhile idea to explore! And I’d argue that the two overlap…
I knew a guy who was a sound production assistant for The Godfather.
He got drafted in as an extra because he was one of the few people working in film production in the early 70’s with short hair.
This movie had a 2020 release date. I feel like this is one of those moments where the past was changed and we can’t really notice but we somehow just feel it. I am afraid to watch it.
Does anyone else smell burnt toast?
