FREE ZOMBIES! "Night of the Living Dead" is now Public Domain and online!

It has "Duck and Cover"!!!

And this!

Relaxed Wife, The 1957
Remarkable, surreal industrial film promoting "Atarax," a tranquilizer, and asserting how "ataraxic medicines" can help us all to achieve the relaxed state we long for.

And all those anti-reefer and anti-gay fillims!

I am so downloading all this stuff and going home and watching it ripped. This is brilliant.

NotLD is showing at NY MoMA tonight at 6 & 8, and if it's ageist to say seeing it with that audience will be like being at a cast screening...

http://moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=6156

It really should be seen in a big dark room, or a drive-in.

seeing this tonight at our local 'art' theatre at midnight, with a movie I haven't seen "King of the Zombies" right before it. stoked.

btw here is Return of the Living Dead, in its entirety, on YT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CAb_xc6GT0

http://culturemob.com/wp-content/uploads/tarman.jpg

O HAI

Went to see this with Romero introducing yesterday. Very likeable guy--in his 70s, still wears a ponytail.

Although it doesn't have the same impact on me now as when I first saw it (early '80s, I think)--horror films had a much greater effect on me when I was young and, to quote Night, all messed up--I still think it's amazing. Romero says that Duane Jones was cast simply because he was the best actor available--the part was originally assumed to be a white character--and that he was oblivious to the race angle that critics picked up on (and that Jones himself was very conscious of). I'm sure the casting was indeed spontaneous, but once Jones got the role, Romero must have been either weirdly oblivious to resonances that most anyone would pick up on, or else he's fibbing a little. When you've got Jones barricaded inside the farmhouse at the end, and a search party with police dogs on leashes, how can you not think of those photos from Birmingham not five years earlier?

As far as the other most common reading of the film goes, as a comment on Vietnam (or even societal breakdown in general), I honestly think it belongs alongside something like Weekend. When Barbara, in a daze, keeps asking "What's happening? What's happening" near the beginning, it reminded me of "This is not a dream, this is really happening" from Rosemary's Baby (also '68). I was wondering if the TV anchor was meant to evoke Cronkite breaking the news of JFK's assassination--at one point, he says something in a way that is very similar to Cronkite's delivery.

(Nothing to do with anything: two of the three women in the film are extremely attractive.)

via fandor:

George Romero has discovered a previously unseen sequence in Night of the Living Dead (1968), the “largest zombie scene in the film,” reports Mike Vanderbilt at the AV Club. Romero’s found it in a 16mm print he’s dusted off for Martin Scorsese, whose team is currently working on a restoration.

http://www.avclub.com/article/george-romero-digs-lost-scene-night-living-dead-227091

Saw a rep screening tonight. One thing really caught my attention. When they cut to the sheriff for the first time (the laconic guy who says things like "Yeah, they're dead--they're all messed up), he's in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where Trump was shot at. There's one line in that segment that I won't mention myself, but wow, I'm surprised no one has (that I've seen, anyway).