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Midnight Video

An archive of two chaps, a laptop and a mic attempting to unearth the lost, forgotten and overlooked in cinema.

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.” - Pauline Kael

Midnight Video 21: The Formula, Quest for Fire and The Phantom Carriage

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Show 21 sees Midnight Video come of age and to help us celebrate our legal quaffing of lite beers in the ol' US of A we have ushered in some distinguished guests.
Ladies and gentlemen please raise a bottle and/or glass to the talents of Mr Marlon Brando, Mr George C. Scott and (blink or you'll miss him) Sir John Gielgud in John G Avildsen's fossil fuelled (or is it?) The Formula.
And behind those titans of the silver screen donning their bespoke furs, custom daub designs and downing flaming sambucas: Mr Ron Perlman, Mr Everett McGill and (stark naked) Ms Rae Dawn Chong - put your lighters in the air for Quest For Fire.
Finally pulling up the rear and drinking out of a skull we have Mr Victor Sjostrom: watch that scythe and whatever you do, don't be the last to die before midnight on New Year's Eve or else you'll be going home in The Phantom Carriage.

Phurious Phil