Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers Du Cinemart Collection - Softcover

Mike White; Leon Chase; Chris Cummins; Skizz Cyzyk; Andrea White; Andrew Grant; Rich Osmond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593935471 ISBN 13: 9781593935474

Publisher: BearManor Media, 2010

Synopsis

Harangue for Hollywood! From the blighted urban squalor of Detroit--Paris of the Midwest--came enfant terrible Mike White and his mutant publication, Cashiers du Cinemart. For fourteen years and fifteen issues the writers of Cashiers du Cinemart provided a treasure trove of writing on film and popular culture. This book collects the best articles from the fifteen year history of Cashiers du Cinemart magazine with sections dedicated to Quentin Tarantino, Star Wars, Black Shampoo, Unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, and much more. Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem.

Featuring 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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Smart without being intellectual. A little bit smart-ass without being arrogant. Obsessive without being didactic. Reverential -- when appropriate -- without being fawning. The scope and breadth of what is reprinted -- along with updates to several pieces -- is staggering and awe-inspiring. Impossibly Funky is a celebration of one of the best film zines -- hell, one of the best film periodicals -- of all time. If you remember [Cashiers du Cinemart], the book will bring you back. If you never read the zine, then you're in for the treat of a lifetime.- Bad Lit

One of the things that becomes easily apparent when reading Impossibly Funky is Mike White's obvious respect for the writers he admires who often toil behind the scenes during film production and rarely get the kind of respect that they deserve. - Movie Morlocks

Mike White makes me cinematically wet. He's a great writer. He's the only guy I know that can give you 3000 words on Alien 3. Mike White is the love child offspring of Pauline Kael and Randall from Kevin Smith's film, Clerks. - Mondo-Video.com

"Mike White and his fellow writers bring insight, humor and knowledge to the diverse word of cinema. Impossibly Funky... Impossibly Entertaining! - Greydon Clark

"Obsessive, indulgent, wildly erratic, yet Impossibly Funky still warms my hardened critic's heart because of the burning passion for movie going of the writer. It's manifested in the nutty, beyond-left-field takes on popular geeky movies, and, even better, the stretch beyond Lucas and Tarantino to Kenneth Fearing, Travis McGee, and the unheralded comic genius of Canadian cinema, John Paizs. I've got to get my butt to Black Shampoo!" - Gerald Peary, critic, The Boston Phoenix

Mike White and his Cashiers approach film writing from a point of the compass I never knew existed. It's wild navigating out there in the film world and Impossibly Funky makes it a brisk and exhilarating trip while keeping one cool hand on the tiller! - Guy Maddin

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: BearManor Media
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1593935471
• ISBN 13: 9781593935474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390
• Illustrator: Jim Rugg