Rock the Lockup

As usual, I didn’t even know about the party.  A few weeks ago there was a Prison Reform Film Festival in Houston.  Despite some sketchy web design, they screened some great movies.

If I Want To Whistle, I’ll Whistle
Directed by Florin Serban   2010  Romania/Sweden

DEATH ROW
Directed by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian    1979  USA  B/W

Don’t Kill My Father
2010  USA  Color

Sweethearts Of The Prison Rodeo
Directed by Bradley Beesley  2009  USA  Color

Meeting With A Killer
2001  USA  Color

Troop 1500
Directed by Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein   2005  USA  Color

Mi Vida Dentro or My Life Inside
Directed by Lucia Gaja  2007  Mexico  Color

TORTURE: America’s Brutal Prisons
Directed and Produced by Nick London   2005  Britain  Color

The Dhamma Brothers
Directed by Jenny Phillips, Anne Marie Stein and Andrew Kukura  2008  USA  Color

Hospice shorts:  Angola Prison Hospice   and  Prison Terminal (work in progress)
Directed by Edgar Barens  1999 and TBA  USA  Color

Was also interested to see that the festival was partly sponsored by “The Prison Show“, a radio program where callers can shout out to incarcerated friends and family.  I knew this kind of programming existed for hostages in Columbia.

Con Air Tonight!

Con Air, in 7th grade… man… that movie scared the shit out of me.

Tonight, Central Cinema is hosting a Con Air Quote Along at 8 pm. Choice lines will be displayed on the screen for the audience to read aloud, and they’re providing everyone in attendance with a cap gun to fire as they please during the performance. (Remember to save a couple caps for the climactic explosion!) Cinematic purists should stay home; this will be a loud, boozy, distracted and distracting night at the movies, for Cage/Bruckheimer fans only.

Cap guns and yelling should neutralize an otherwise toxic movie.

via Slog

Fresh

Rotten Tomatoes has a surprisingly good list of memorable prison break movies.

Cool Hand Luke, Brute Force, and Grand Illusion get to stand side by side with Con Air and Chicken Run.