Posted by Mike on January 27, 2011
Hollywood movie studios spend millions of dollars trying to make comedy films with proven formulas, research groups, hired gun specialty writers that have had proven success in the past like the guy who wrote “Meat Balls 4″. But sometimes the best comedy comes from something as simple as life. Everyday people with no connections, no money, just a cheap camera and a dream. They have a message. A message that needs to be released to a viewing public that has done nothing but suffered for generations without it. Unfortunately the majority of this amazing work is lost or discarded. Unappreciated by an entertainment industry that doesn’t understand or even worse, fears it’s genius. Thank The Sweet Baby Jesus for events like the Found Footage Film Festival(tonight, 1/27/11, at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge). Now, amature film collectors have a place to submit the unlabeled VHS and Beta tapes they find in places like a file cabinet, flea market, yard sale, or dumpster.(Hopefully they also found a decent meal while in that dumpster) Tonight at The Brattle Theater in Cambridge you can see the latest collection of found treasures as well as some classics like the Winnebago Guy and the Seminal “Heavy Metal Parking Lot”, quite possibly the greatest documentary ever made since David Attenborough’s “Life Of Mammals”. Below are some sampler clips but my suggestion would be to see this magic on the Big screen at The Brattle.



