Fun City Editions

[vortexx]

Originally Posted by jah13

Thanks for ordering! We listened to the crowd.

Sometimes I subconsciously feel that the person looks like their avatar, although I know with most people it isn't true. So you subconsciously look like Bruce Dern while I look like a evil person with a goat head who likes to dress stylishly.

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by vortexx

Sometimes I subconsciously feel that the person looks like their avatar, although I know with most people it isn't true. So you subconsciously look like Bruce Dern while I look like a evil person with a goat head who likes to dress stylishly.

But in this case I'm almost certain that's what you actually look like...

[Irresistible impulse]

Where do you purchase the shirts from? I don’t see them in the merchandise section on the Fun City site.

[Animatic33]

Originally Posted by Irresistible impulse

Where do you purchase the shirts from? I don’t see them in the merchandise section on the Fun City site.

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti...editions-shirt

[moviegeek1992]

Originally Posted by Irresistible impulse

Where do you purchase the shirts from? I don’t see them in the merchandise section on the Fun City site.

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti...39691579031594

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by Irresistible impulse

Where do you purchase the shirts from? I don’t see them in the merchandise section on the Fun City site.

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti...-city-editions

[gbm82]

*spiderman meme*

[Mushi Minion]

I swear the limited edition of Jungle Trap went under 1000 copies but now it’s back to showing over that.

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by Mushi Minion

I swear the limited edition of Jungle Trap went under 1000 copies but now it’s back to showing over that.

I'm not sure I can trust you when you can't even find the correct thread

But I wouldn't be surprised if VS had some saved for the physical store etc and decided to put more online...

[Mushi Minion]

Originally Posted by gbm82

I'm not sure I can trust you when you can't even find the correct thread

But I wouldn't be surprised if VS had some saved for the physical store etc and decided to put more online...

I’m like ol’ Buck Flower, wandering in drunk and passing out wherever I happen to be.

[gudemameshiba]

I too picked up Walking the Edge and Rancho Deluxe during the sale! Now, the waiting…

Originally Posted by Mushi Minion

I swear the limited edition of Jungle Trap went under 1000 copies but now it’s back to showing over that.

(You are correct, it did.)

[gbm82]

forgive my xposting and clunky writing... but I really really enjoyed this one!



A David Bowie song plays as we watch the credits and then get a very long tracking shot through a house. And there's even someone taking a bath! The selection of Bowie song and the way it's all shot implies this is going to be one of those oddly uplifting revolutionary movies...but experimental late 70s style.

Then things start to unfold rather slowly and mysteriously. Little information is given and soundtrack is actually rather sparse and subdued. Disaffection and modernism are clearly colliding in a drab and sparse world. It's the world the Italian Futurists envisioned except things aren't alright. Things are rather lackluster in fact. Even music fails to please anymore.

One technique oddly foreshadows the grunge movement as songs play loudly for short snippets before it fails to near silence...years before Cobain and friends made loud and brash chorus and subdued verses a rock mainstay for years. (yeah, yeah...Pixies..whatever, they weren't household names). Even the framing and use of "color" (it is B&W) create a sense of despondency. It's not that things are terrible either, just... dull. Day and and day out. It's that Blur song, Parklife I believe, but on film.

Even shots of a busy street full of people and traffic somehow feels drab and lifeless, as though everyone is just going through motions. Newscasts are all bleak as violence and obscenity seem to have taken hold of the UK. This is the worst type of dystopia. Simply uncaring and bored rather than nefarious.

It's not a film where nothing happens.. it's a film about nothing happening. Hi-rises and freeways didn't create the ideal world but instead lead to alienation. A world where you're in close proximity to thousands/millions yet no one at all.

Then the open road hits. We aren't really given a reason, things have been hinted at but perhaps he's decided to simply leave the city behind. In a clever ploy, the point were we may have had a song turned off abruptly earlier in the film the opposite happens. He's free, the sound goes up.

At his first stop we actually hear voices in the background, still subdued but no longer lifeless, it's a nice and subtle touch. The pace is still akin to molasses seeping off a spoon but he's no longer completely alone.

Soon thereafter he appears at his brother's place in another lonely city. And we find the reason for the trip finally.

I had figured this might be something along the lines of Wim Wenders or Jim Jarmusch, two of my favorite directors. But it's unique from them. Similarities exist but the wide eyed wonder of Jarmusch and the "free" nature of Wenders don't belong in this film. And the strange characters we meet are different from either of those film's casts.

Interestingly, from the credits I had thought this was going to be a bit of a "revolutionary" film but this revolution isn't the televised kind, instead it's the kind that requires taking a step back, enjoying the people around you. It doesn't seem to be a coincidence that the car he drives looks to be older and that he gets throwback haircut. Even the decision to film in black and white may have been an artistic one (I'm sure budget had something to do with it though). Rather than an anarchist he's an anachronist, never quite belonging.

Full of existential dread this is a film about finding oneself, yet in a true late "New Wave" fashion one can never really do that. The search is unending. Is it the strangers that he meets who are enigmas or is it him? The film pulled a great trick on me as it seemed like he was going to find some freedom on the road, but all he found was more alienation. It's Wim Wenders but made by Fassbinder. It feels distinctly German before we even meet German speaking characters, echoing the films of the New German Cinema movement more than anything I've watched from Britain.s

Take a break from all that sleaze and slip into this dreary little meditation on existence. Just don't hopelessly long for much action...though there are some hardcore photos to keep your sleaze hangover at bay.

It won't be everyone's genre but it's superbly made and some of the shots are executed so wonderfully that I nearly rewound a few times.

[jah13]

You're forgiven. Thank you for the eloquent write-up.

I'd quibble with his haircut being called "throwback," though. In fact, it's the opposite for the time; it's very much a punk / New Wave style cut that he gets. Would fit right in on the album covers of those late '70s Stiff Records artists that play on the soundtrack. The punks were, in many ways, bringing back the '50s--whether through fashion and style or the stripped-down music--so you might call those buzzcuts "throwback" if looked at through that lens.

Originally Posted by gbm82

forgive my xposting and clunky writing... but I really really enjoyed this one!



A David Bowie song plays as we watch the credits and then get a very long tracking shot through a house. And there's even someone taking a bath! The selection of Bowie song and the way it's all shot implies this is going to be one of those oddly uplifting revolutionary movies...but experimental late 70s style.

Then things start to unfold rather slowly and mysteriously. Little information is given and soundtrack is actually rather sparse and subdued. Disaffection and modernism are clearly colliding in a drab and sparse world. It's the world the Italian Futurists envisioned except things aren't alright. Things are rather lackluster in fact. Even music fails to please anymore.

One technique oddly foreshadows the grunge movement as songs play loudly for short snippets before it fails to near silence...years before Cobain and friends made loud and brash chorus and subdued verses a rock mainstay for years. (yeah, yeah...Pixies..whatever, they weren't household names). Even the framing and use of "color" (it is B&W) create a sense of despondency. It's not that things are terrible either, just... dull. Day and and day out. It's that Blur song, Parklife I believe, but on film.

Even shots of a busy street full of people and traffic somehow feels drab and lifeless, as though everyone is just going through motions. Newscasts are all bleak as violence and obscenity seem to have taken hold of the UK. This is the worst type of dystopia. Simply uncaring and bored rather than nefarious.

It's not a film where nothing happens.. it's a film about nothing happening. Hi-rises and freeways didn't create the ideal world but instead lead to alienation. A world where you're in close proximity to thousands/millions yet no one at all.

Then the open road hits. We aren't really given a reason, things have been hinted at but perhaps he's decided to simply leave the city behind. In a clever ploy, the point were we may have had a song turned off abruptly earlier in the film the opposite happens. He's free, the sound goes up.

At his first stop we actually hear voices in the background, still subdued but no longer lifeless, it's a nice and subtle touch. The pace is still akin to molasses seeping off a spoon but he's no longer completely alone.

Soon thereafter he appears at his brother's place in another lonely city. And we find the reason for the trip finally.

I had figured this might be something along the lines of Wim Wenders or Jim Jarmusch, two of my favorite directors. But it's unique from them. Similarities exist but the wide eyed wonder of Jarmusch and the "free" nature of Wenders don't belong in this film. And the strange characters we meet are different from either of those film's casts.

Interestingly, from the credits I had thought this was going to be a bit of a "revolutionary" film but this revolution isn't the televised kind, instead it's the kind that requires taking a step back, enjoying the people around you. It doesn't seem to be a coincidence that the car he drives looks to be older and that he gets throwback haircut. Even the decision to film in black and white may have been an artistic one (I'm sure budget had something to do with it though). Rather than an anarchist he's an anachronist, never quite belonging.

Full of existential dread this is a film about finding oneself, yet in a true late "New Wave" fashion one can never really do that. The search is unending. Is it the strangers that he meets who are enigmas or is it him? The film pulled a great trick on me as it seemed like he was going to find some freedom on the road, but all he found was more alienation. It's Wim Wenders but made by Fassbinder. It feels distinctly German before we even meet German speaking characters, echoing the films of the New German Cinema movement more than anything I've watched from Britain.s

Take a break from all that sleaze and slip into this dreary little meditation on existence. Just don't hopelessly long for much action...though there are some hardcore photos to keep your sleaze hangover at bay.

It won't be everyone's genre but it's superbly made and some of the shots are executed so wonderfully that I nearly rewound a few times.

[A Tortured Duckling]

Originally Posted by jah13

...

Jah,

I received Radio On today and, while I genuinely appreciate the design of the slipcover and understand why you chose to go with this particular side-loading variant, I have to admit I do not like the thin card stock at all. Compared to the overall quality of your previous slipcovers, this one feels rather flimsy and no matter what I do, the spine on my copy won't stay closed and flat. Could this be a case of faulty folding or gluing? If so, could I get it replaced?

Thank you.

[Mike_C]

Originally Posted by A Tortured Duckling

Jah,

I received Radio On today and, while I genuinely appreciate the design of the slipcover and understand why you chose to go with this particular side-loading variant, I have to admit I do not like the thin card stock at all. Compared to the overall quality of your previous slipcovers, this one feels rather flimsy and no matter what I do, the spine on my copy won't stay closed and flat. Could this be a case of faulty folding or gluing? If so, could I get it replaced?

Thank you.

Or, you could just...I dunno...perhaps apply a bit of glue yourself and fix the problem? Just trying to help.

[Bradsdadg]

Is the slip thinner than the other covers?

[tehthomas]

Any chance FCE could get the rights to 'Night of the Juggler'?

[Danallen92]

Originally Posted by tehthomas

Any chance FCE could get the rights to 'Night of the Juggler'?

That would be a dream release !

[LordMatthias]

Not sure if this has been answered anywhere else but has there been anything mentioned of any upcoming releases soon in 2022? Possibly one of the 20 VS releases on New Years day? Any announced titles or even clues? Something? Sorry but I'm ready for some more FCE!

[Vincent Dawn]

Originally Posted by LordMatthias

Not sure if this has been answered anywhere else but has there been anything mentioned of any upcoming releases soon in 2022? Possibly one of the 20 VS releases on New Years day? Any announced titles or even clues? Something? Sorry but I'm ready for some more FCE!

After Radio On came out, they said their next release was in January.

Edit:

Originally Posted by jah13

Dry those eyes! And, keep a look out on January 1.