JIHAD MILKSHAKES
November 20, 2009
by VICE UK
Anjem Choudary, the man behind Islam4uk, wants to turn Buckingham Palace into a mosque, impose sharia law in the UK, and destroy Britain’s porn industry. We took him for a milkshake (his favorite is chocolate). Watch the movie here
RAIDERS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
October 22, 2009
by JASON MOJICA
Americana
Jeff Krulik has been making the kind of videos the Internet was made for long before Al Gore got around to inventing it. Best known for his iconic short film, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Krulik has spent much of the past 20-odd years digging up some of the most awkward and/or dynamic people in America: King of Porn documents the after-hours hobby of a long-time Library of Congress employee; Ernest Borgnine on the Bus documents the star of The Poseidon Adventure driving his luxury coach, the “Sunbum,” around the country; and Hitler’s Hat tells the tale of how the Führer’s top-hat became the centerpiece of a Jewish GI’s magic routine.
THIS MOVIE WILL MAKE YOU CUM
August 27, 2009
by JUAN CARLOS & VICTOR PIÑEIRO ESCORIAZA
Motherboard
This week marks the release of Second Skin, a documentary about virtual worlds and the gamers who live in them and probably the single best movie of this year. It’s gotten a bunch of rave reviews and a lot of press so far, but I think the public at large are blind to the colossal, Brobdingnagian implications this movie brings to the table.
WOODSHOCK, IT'S LOVE
August 14, 2009
by VBS Staff
Since all the olds are busy waxing nauseous once again about the anniversary of goddamn motherfucking Woodstock, we thought you could cleanse your mental palate with this little Linklater mini-doc from the 4th annual Woodshock, Austin, Texas’s mid-80s attempt to rectify the mistakes of generations prior with a wash of drugs, punk music, and swimming. Blah blah guys on acid blah blah blah Daniel Johnston blah blah blah girl in GBH shirt etc. Enjoy your weekend! (And a tip of the hat to @AgentMule).
ADDENDUM
July 27, 2009
by VBS Staff
Art Talk
For the record, Andy Kaufman did not hate public transportation. Quite the contrary. Then again, as Sebastian mentioned, you can never be too sure with that guy. PS: Here’s part two of My Breakfast with Blassie if you get sucked into the thing.
OFF THE GRID
July 10, 2009
by VBS Staff
Toxic
If the name of the producer of our trip to Imperial Valley, California this week is ringing any bells, congratulations, you have excellent taste in independent documentary filmmaking. Prior to teaming up with us, Randy Stulberg spent a bunch of time in the New Mexican desert, filming one of the most remote and isolated communities in the continental US. For those of you who missed it at any of the kajillion festivals it’s played in the last two years, the whole thing revolves around the community’s old guard of hippie farmers, homeschoolers, and mentally ill trying to deal with the recent arrival of a crew of teen runaways who call themselves the Nowhere Kids, which is putting it in absolutely the most boring terms possible. Seriously, the subjects of Off the Grid make Slab City’s assorted denizens look like homeowners board of Celebration, Florida. You can see some more clips from the film here, or if you’re ready to take the plunge, go here to buy a DVD.
THE LADIES OF WILDWOOD
July 06, 2009
by LEROY GUMPTION
Not sure if you caught it on WFMU’s blog, but this highlight reel from Ruth Leitman’s documentary on the Wildwood, NJ, boardwalk circa 1994 is like a Ralph Bakshi cartoon come to life. It’s also prime source material for a game of “Pick Your Wife.” Right now I’m torn between the Island of Dr. Moreauesque Jersey Mallrat/Valley Girl hybrid who shows up at 2:26 and the crimped young lady who murdered. Who’ve you got?
AT HOME WITH STROSZEK
July 06, 2009
by VBS Staff
Practice Space Season 2
While Klaus Kinski is still sopping up the film-student splooge 25 years after his death for that one picture where he’s choking out Werner Herzog, Herzog’s original unhinged actor-antagonist is tooling around Berlin, singing the same toothless street chanteys that paid his bills before Germany’s greatest director decided to make him one of the world’s most depressing stars. The proverbial son of a whore, Bruno S. spent his childhood being handed off between various orphanages and mental institutions before taking up the accordion and venturing out into the exciting career field of courtyard busking. Bear in mind, this was all happening in the middle of the Nazis’ height of power, when things like mental illness and being the illegitimate child of a prostitute weren’t widely considered bankable traits. By the time Herzog discovered him in the early 70s, Bruno had been tramping for nearly 30 years straight and just featured in a small local documentary called Bruno der Schwarze (“Bruno the Black”). Without bothering to check whether or not he could act, Herzog cast him as the titular abandoned mute of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and then specifically wrote him the lead role in Stroszek, the movie that put Cherokee, NC, and Ian Curtis’s suicide on the map.
In tomorrow’s episode of Practice Space Herr Bruno invites us over to his flat (which, provided you’ve seen the movie, you may recognize as the same place that gets invaded at the beginning of Stroszek ) to play us a couple of cheerful accordion ditties. Here’s a little gallery of some of Bruno’s painted work to tide you over until then. And if you’re one of those people who can stomach watching movies on a 10-inch screen with ichat bouncing up every three minutes, here’s the entirety of Kaspar Hauser.
B the dubs, we know this is about Bruno here, but if you’ve got a jones for a little mid-Monday Herzog break, check out this excerpt from his forthcoming Fitzcarraldo production diary in the current issue of Vice.
COFFIN JOE TAKES BRAZIL'S LOVE OF ASS-EATING TO STRANGE, EXCITING NEW PLACES
June 09, 2009
by DAVID FEINBERG
VBS Meets
There’s a scene in José Mojica Marins’s 2008 film Embodiment of Evil in which his Coffin Joe character dissects a chunk of a drugged, hapless young lady’s gluteus maximus (butt cheek) and then proceeds to feed it to her. Sadly this clip did not make it into “VBS Meets Coffin Joe.” However, there are plenty of others to make you feel good on your lunch break.
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