{"id":2858,"date":"2009-01-20T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/20\/come-one-come-all-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T12:09:00","slug":"come-one-come-all-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/01\/20\/come-one-come-all-2\/","title":{"rendered":"come one, come all"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secret Film School presents Todd Rohal’s “Guatemalan Handshake<\/a>” tonight.<\/b> <\/p>\n


\n“A feast for the senses… a challenge for the brain.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Film at 7 sharp. 400 West Hastings. Arrive early as doors will be locked.<\/center><\/p>\n

In the confusion following a massive power outage in small-town America, human doormat Donald Turnupseed (actor-musician Will Oldham, Old Joy) suddenly vanishes, setting in motion a surreal series of events affecting his hapless father, his pregnant girlfriend, a pack of wild boy scouts, a lactose-intolerant roller rink employee, an elderly woman in search of her lost poodle, and his best friend: a ten-year-old girl named Turkeylegs.<\/p>\n

One of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, writer-director Todd Rohal charts strange new cinematic waters with his madly innovative feature debut, The Guatemalan Handshake. Winner of Special Jury Prizes at 2006 Slamdance and Torino, Rohal’s vivacious feast for the senses “bristles with his anarchic visual language, offbeat humor, ephemeral sense of narrative, circuitous character sketches, and freewheeling sense of mirth” (Baltimore City Paper).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Corey McAbee, (Billy Nayer Show, The American Astronaut), also stars, and has sent me some anecdotes about making the film to pass on to everyone who attends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secret Film School presents Todd Rohal’s “Guatemalan Handshake” tonight. “A feast for the senses… a challenge for the brain.” Film at 7 sharp. 400 West Hastings. Arrive early as doors will be locked. In the confusion following a massive power outage in small-town America, human doormat Donald Turnupseed (actor-musician Will Oldham, Old Joy) suddenly vanishes, … Continue reading “come one, come all”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,189],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-film","tag-movie-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}