Impossibly Funky:

A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection

“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 moviegoing 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

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.
Copyediting and layout by Lori Hubbard Higgins.
Editor photo by Stacey Walters.

Publisher	BearManor Media
ISBN	1-59393-547-1
Length	390pp
Price	$24.95 US
Dimensions	6" X 9"

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Introduction - By Herschell Gordon Lewis
Foreword - By Chris Gore

Features:

A Dynamite Double Feature - CdC favorite Rich Osmond looks at some explosive '70s cinema
Psycho Vixens - Rich Osmond examines two flicks about girls gone wild.
Tragically Obscure: John Paizs's (The Big) Crime Wave - Combination of two articles about Paizs by Skizz Cyzyk from CdC 9 & 10
The Four and a Half Worlds of Parker - Updated piece (formerly "Three and a Half Worlds") which has been edited and expanded. Includes some insight from the creator of Parker, Donald Westlake
Madness in the 20th Century - This article about Charles Willeford has been updated and tightened up
The Serious Moonlight: The Cinematic World of David Goodis - Updated to include discussion of "Goodiscon" as well as expansion of the "Goodis on TV" section
The Dark Places of James Ellroy - Updated to include discussion of Street Kings and L.A. Sheriff's Homicide
The Cashiers du Cinemart Manifesto - So perfectly written, nothing could make it better
All The Good Guys and the Bad Guys that I've Been - One of my favorite pieces from Cashiers du Cinemart, this is an appreciation of Paul Williams by Leon Chase
The Prize is Your Life - I expanded this article to include several other "people hunting people" movies
Oedipal Ketchip - A terrific discussion of Shuji Terayama's films by Andrew Grant
The Highlander Returns! - Two rants from Mike Thompson about the wonder of the Highlander films. This was updated to include cuts of the films that have been made available since the early days of Cashiers du Cinemart
Double Impact: The Duplicity of Jean-Claude Van Damme - Brand new piece
Lone Wolf & Cub - Edited and updated for clarity

Tarantino:

Tale of the Tape - The whole epic story of Who Do You Think You're Fooling? and the controversy surrounding it. Updated and severely rewritten
Ironic Press Release - My facetious discussion of You're Still Not Fooling Anybody
Attention Enemy - Following up with the You're Still Not Fooling Anybody fun
Tarantino in a Can - A look at Tarantino's obsession with the bathroom in his early works

Star Wars:

The Lost Cut - Discussing the early version of Star Wars that will never see the light of day again
Jar Jar Done Gone - How The Phantom Menace put heat behind the Fan Editing movement
Triumph of the Whills - This piece now combines three different rants about the madness of King George Lucas

Scripts:

Not So Super... 8mm - Mike Thompson compares what we saw to what Andrew Kevin Walker wrote
The Uncredible Hulk - Another great Thompson rant, updated to include the latest incarnation of Hulk and the Ang Lee version, too
Cat Woman - Thompson declaws this kitty
Digging up the Bones of Indy Jones - Severely rewritten and updated version of "Jonesing for the New Indy Film" from CdC 9 that traces the trajectory of Jones through several proposed sequels
Travis McGee & The Lonely Silver Screen - Combination of the CdC 14 and 15 articles
Return to the Planet of the Apes - Combining observations about the POTA remake from CdC 10 and 13
Superman: Grounded - Updated to include Superman: Doomsday and the reaction to Singer's reboot of Superman
The Metamorphoses of Alien III - Includes additional content
Gremlins - A thorough look at an early draft of this classic flick by Chris Cummins

Black Shampoo:

Interview: John Daniels - Edited and updated
Interview: Greydon Clark - Edited and updated
Interview: Tanya Boyd - Edited and updated
Interview: Skip E Lowe - Edited and updated
A Few Notes on Black Shampoo - Edited and updated
Can You Feel the Love? - Edited and updated
DVD release - Edited and updated
Interview: Gerald and Gary Lee - Brand new interview with the men who made the music for my favorite film

Interviews:

Crispin Glover - Brand new, never published
James Ellroy - Edited and updated
Guy Maddin - Updated / Additional Content
Monte Hellman - Edited and updated
Richard Crawford - Edited and updated
Taylor Negron - Edited and updated
Svengoolie - Edited and updated
Bruce Campbell - Edited and updated
Keith Gordon - Edited and updated
Dr. Demento - Edited and updated

Life:

Theater Work Story - Highly edited and rewritten
Fish out of Water - Andrea's reaction to the UPC in Bowling Green
Mike & Andrea go to Breakfast - Never before published tale of woe from Andrea White
Brendan Fraser + Monkey = Fun! - A new party game from Skizz Cyzyk

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