Get Ready to Get Impossibly Funky
April 11, 2011 - PRLog -- (Detroit, MI - April 11, 2010) For fourteen years Detroit author/editor Mike White toiled nights and weekends on his movie zine Cashiers du Cinemart. Starting as a (s)crappy xerox and stapled publication,
the zine mutated over time to a magazine with international distribution, long after the siren song of the internet wooed most small publishers to its cheap epublishing. The best of Cashiers du Cinemart has been collected into one volume, 2010’s Impossibly Funky, a treasure trove of articles about film and popular culture.
Mike White will be touring New England in Summer 2011, reading, signing copies of his first book, and doing movie/shorts screenings.
White caused a stir the last time he was in New York City during 1995's New York Underground Film Festival; his short film WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLING--a comparison of Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS and Ringo Lam's CITY ON FIRE--earned the ire of Miramax films as they campaigned for the Academy Awards for PULP FICTION.
Read all about the controversy and about White being banned from the New York Underground Film Festival by OLD SCHOOL director Todd Phillips in the opening chapter of Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart
Collection.
Tour Dates:
May 27 - 92Y Tribeca, NYC - Screening: Miami Blues & Shock Treatment (35mm)
May 28 - It Came from Schenectady - Screening: Black Shampoo & Without Warning (DVD)
May 29 - Blue Sunshine, Montreal - Screening: Angel’s Brigade (16mm)
May 31 - Cinema Arts Center, Huntinton, NY - Screening: Black Shampoo (DVD)
June 1 - reRun Theater, Brooklyn - Screning: Black Shampoo (DVD)
June 3 - Coolidge Corner Theater, Boston - Screening: Black Shampoo (DVD)
June 4 - Cable Car Cinema, Providence - Screeing: Black Shampoo (DVD)
More about Impossibly Funky:
Introduction by cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis
Foreword by TV personality Chris Gore
Articles by Leon Chase, Chris Cummins, Skizz Cyzyk, Andrew Grant,
Clifton Howard, Rich Osmond, Mike Thompson, Andrea White, and Mike White.
Cover art by Jim Rugg and Jasen Lex.
Illustrations by Dean Stahl, Pat Lehrner, and Jonathan Higgins.
Copy editing and layout by Lori Hubbard Higgins.
Editor photo by Stacey Walters.
Publisher BearManor Media
ISBN 1-59393-547-1
Length 390pp
Dimensions 6" X 9"
Price $24.95 US
About the Editor:
Often mistaken for the ginger screenwriter/actor of the same name, Mike White has been a frequent contributor to publications such as CinemaScope, Paracinema, Detroit’s Metro Times, WildSideCinema.com, and
Detour-Mag.com. He’s served on juries at the Slamdance, Cinekink and MicroCineFest film festivals. Additionally, he’s been featured in the documentaries David Goodis: To a Pulp and The People Vs. George
Lucas.
CONTACT: Mike White
EMAIL: impossiblefunky@gmail.com
WEB SITE: www.impossiblefunky.com
(PDF COPIES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST, DOWNLOAD PHOTOS FROM www.impossiblefunky.com)