Forty-sixth session, Cine_ilegal

Film screening proposed by Mark Chandler, followed by a debate.
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999) vs. The Trilogy (The Melvins, 1999)

El Stylo Bastardo
I have come to Bilbao a number of times over the last 15 years; I am not trafficking in contraband. I started calling the film I will show The Battle of the San Francisco Giants: The Melvins vs. The Coppola Clan, but that was because I was telling myself stories. We all do that, but I am not a storyteller. I guess I will try to sidestep the narrative. I heard something growing up, about playing a certain record while simultaneously watching a certain film. When I saw Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides in the theater in 2000 I was struck by the use of style(s) in the film. Without putting a finger on it, I picked up on the soundtrack (as one was supposed to) and thought to myself, “what if Ms. Coppola had used the Trilogy as the soundtrack instead?” The Trilogy is a set of 3 albums (The Maggot, The Bootlicker, The Crybaby) the Melvins put out separately around 1999, and that I was listening to at the time. I decided to put an ear on it. This is that “what if…”

Instead of illegal I might use the term illegitimate, but only from another perspective.

Mark Chandler lives and works in his own private Albuquerque.