This is the trailer for William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID LOL), a documentary about you guessed it, Einstein P. Smartbrain, William S. Burroughs. It features appearances by David Cronenberg, Peter Weller (who’ll surely have important things to say about Burroughs’ contribution to the literary canon because he played Robocop), Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Jello Biafra, and everyone’s favorite, Genesis P-Orridge. (I don’t even know, dude, just keep walking and try to avoid eye contact). Anyway, it’s a good thing William Burroughs shot his wife and was into guns and gay sex and gay sex with guns, because otherwise all they’d have to talk about is that f-ing unreadable heroin ramble of a book he wrote.
This is the trailer for No Impact Man, a documentary about Colin Beavan, a New Yorker who tried to go a year while living a no-impact-on-the-environment lifestyle in order to raise awareness about responsible consumption have a gimmick that sounded good in a book proposal. Many of our top experts agree that the best way to get people to be more green is to show them what an extreme, impractical, primitive, and annoying existence green living can be.
The rules of the experiment included producing no trash save for compost, purchasing no goods except for food grown within a 250-mile radius, using no carbon-based transportation, and using no paper products, including toilet paper. [Wikipedia]
No Impact Man beat out the film’s original title, Smelly Annoying Unemployed Guy. 2:20 of the trailer: “I get upset to see things individually wrapped in plastic.” Yeah, me too, guy. It’d be so unnecessary if there weren’t people walking around who didn’t use toilet paper.
[also available in HD at Apple]
Chipotle has announced that it will be sponsoring the food industry documentary/exposé Food Inc. (watch the first three minutes here). Here’s the lede from Hollywood Reporter:
Now consumers can get a side of knowledge with their next burrito.
Damn, I can’t decide whether to make a sex joke, a Mexican joke, or a sex with Mexicans joke. Maybe the new punchline to “You know why Mexican girls are always getting pregnant?” could be “Because their burritos come with a side of knowledge.” (Current punchline: “Because their teachers are always telling them to go home and do their essays.”) Bottom line, I’ve digressed horribly.
Beginning Tuesday, the chain will sponsor free screenings of the film in 32 U.S. cities. It will also place promotional material in all of its more than 860 restaurants.
“Food, Inc.,” now playing in theaters, examines unsavory practices within America’s food industry. The film features the commentary of authors Michael Pollan (”The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) and Eric Schlosser (”Fast Food Nation”), who discuss the ills of modern food production practices and the influence of major agriculture companies in shaping government policy. Bringing this message to consumers gives Chipotle an opportunity to showcase its eco-friendly “food with integrity” philosophy. Chipotle says that 35% of the beans it uses are organically grown and that it serves more naturally raised meat than any other restaurant worldwide. [THR]
And in case you were wondering, Chipotle was once owned by McDonald’s starting in 2001, but as Chipotle is careful to point out, Mickey D’s “divested” themselves of all their stock in 2006. What they don’t tell you is that their shares were bought be the DeBeer Blood Diamonds and Mink Corporation.
One of my favorite YouTube videos of all time has to be Guido Beach, the landmark anthropological study of the douchebag and douchette in their natural habitwat. Recently, Flubby over on KSK dug up this classic video (watch it below), a compilation of clips from the 1994 documentary Wildwood, NJ, which is basically like Guido Beach but with worse hair and stupider clothes. Some of my favorite moments:
Ahh, Jersey, don’t ever change. This should be the new New Jersey tourism video. “New Jersey: Everyone has white trash, but ours is the greasiest.”
After The Devil Wears Prada, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Ugly Betty, etc., a documentary on Anna Wintour, the woman who actually inspired The Devil Wears Prada, almost seems unnecessary. But that’s what The September Issue is, and even I have to admit it’s fun watching insanely self-important faux-British phonies deliver pronouncements like “September is the John-uary of fahshion,” that are apparently Earth-shatteringly profound in their world. I guess it’s just nice to know that if you ever find yourself growing more cold, bitchy, and alone, there’s an alternative to raising a house full of cats. You can collect cute outfits instead.
Opens in September, natch.
[via Collider]
