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MELBOURNE - TIME FOR THE CRISPIN PUPPET SHOW

Last Sunday I and a few friends had dinner with Crispin Glover. He was very polite and easy to talk to. He had a pumpkin salad as a main course while I had the chorizo burrito. It was pretty good. Here is the trailer for Crispin's film What Is It? that he is in town to showcase. Tonight at ACMI he will be showing this piece of cinematic genius along with the second part of his 'It' trilogy It's Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE, which will be screened tomorrow evening at the same venue. He'll also be doing a Q&A session after the film each night. Please get your River's Edge questions together and try not to have a visible hard-on while asking them.

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Wednesday 24 September 2008, 7pm
What is it?
Glover's first effort as a director will not disappoint fans of his offbeat sensibilities and eccentric taste. Featuring a cast largely comprised of actors with Down's Syndrome, What is it? is not about Down's Syndrome. Glover describes it as "Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails, salt, a pipe and how to get home as tormented by an hubristic racist inner psyche."

Thursday 25 September 2008, 9.30pm
It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE (35mm)
A film that goes deep into uncharted cinematic territory, with screenwriter Steven C. Stewart starring in a semi-autobiographical, psycho-sexual tale about a man with severe cerebral palsy and a fetish for girls with long hair. Part horror film, part exploitation picture and part documentary, this fantastical and often humorous tale is told completely from Stewart's actual point of view - that of someone who has lived for years watching people do things he will never be able to do. According to Crispin Glover, Stewart "wanted to show that handicapped people are human, sexual and can be horrible."

For tickets google Cripsin Glover ACMI, goober!