Paul Morrissey, the Maysles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Curtis Hanson, Andy Milligan, Dario Argento
Awards
Audience Award - "Best Short Film" 11th Annual Portland Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Festivals
Portland Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Mid-Valley Film and Video Festival, backyard screenings involving a digital projector and an endless supply of cosmopolitans.
About me:
Mike Justice is a writer, film editor, and underground filmmaker who creates avant-garde portraits of the ignored, the attention-starved, and the hopelessly sociopathic in society. His cinéma vérité pastiches have screened in festivals and regional film societies up and down the West Coast, and his film, Goodtime Charlie (2007), won the Audience Award for the Best Short Subject at the 11th Annual Portland Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Hi Mike. I'm in shock and speechless. I can't believe that Jimmy McDonough was actually selling those Milligan films on eBay for $6,666!!! Come on, that's a hell of a lot of money for all that stuff. So, that means McDonough lied to me and Hal Borske years ago when he said he put his friend Johnny Legend in charge of putting out the films and that McDonough no longer had the films in his possession. Maybe that was his original intention to have Legend put out the films but unfortunately it never materialized. I, too have no money which really sucks because I wouldn't hesitate for a second on bidding on those "lost" Milligan films. I would love to see them all. Maybe McDonough will lower the price in the future since no one bidded. We can only hope. I would definitely make sure those prints would be released upon the world through a dvd distributor.
Something Weird found the trailer for Nightbirds in 2006. The trailer is actually pretty explicit and runs over 5 minutes long. It's on both the Twisted Sex #22 compilation and also their double feature "Babette/Monique, My Love" DVD. Nightbirds was shot in b/w in 1970 and was Milligan's first shot in Britain film. It starred Berwick Kaler who was in all 5 of Milligan's shot in England films. I, too, am dying to see Nightbirds and the rest of the "lost" films that Jimmy McDonough found. Movielab ran up a huge bill on Milligan and before Milligan had a chance to pay the bill, Movielab sold the completed Nightbirds theatrical negative. McDonough had the Nightbirds work print which was slightly cut by a few minutes for trailer use. McDonough told Hal Borske and I, a few years ago that he put his friend Johnny Legend in charge of putting out those "lost" films that he found and that Mike Vraney/Something Weird had a chance at putting out those lost Milligan films but Mike Vraney blew it. I emailed Johnny Legend's DVD website, Legend House over a year ago asking when Johnny plans to release those lost Milligan films but no one ever responded back. By the way, Jimmy McDonough is a real asshole. I'll tell you more about it next time.
Hi Mike. Thanks for the friend request. I too, am a huge Andy Milligan fan. In fact, I've spoken to a few people who knew him and acted in his films. I was friends with Hal Borske but lost contact with him. Through out the years I've collected original posters, stills, and lobby cards for most of Milligan's films. I really want to see all of his lost films. The only lost films that I've seen of his are Compass Rose (a masterpiece) and the first 5 episodes of Red Rooster (a very funny show about a pre-Viagra pill for men). Did you know that Something Weird Video found the trailer for Milligan's Nightbirds a few years ago? It looks really dark and intense.
Did we tell you today how beautiful you are and how much you are loved. Well we are telling you NOW!!!...... Did we tell you today how beautiful you are and how much you are loved!! "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
