On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.The Pitch: Deathly Afraid of Tits? I’ve Got Just the Movie for YouNot since “The Idol” has the city of Los Angeles been hit with something as overhyped as Hurricane Hilary — and the 5.1 magnitude earthquake that followed it.
A week of hysterical doomsday prepping from a populace conditioned to expect climate perfection concluded in a tepid rainstorm that would be completely unremarkable in any other state.
And it’s quite possible that the constant alert vibrations from our cell phones shook the city more than the actual earthquake did.I…
Read full article