Update: Honus Honus Added To Tonight’s Real Genius Screening With Sean Agnew!
This just in from Sean Agnew:
Ryan (Honus Honus) from Man Man [pictured, center] and myself have created an ever lasting bond about our love for the film REAL GENIUS. We can quite the movie for days and are giant fans of the soundtrack . We even own shirts that the characters wore in the movie (aka if this movie was a girl i would definitely stalk her and leave her lots of mspace comments). [...] I haven’t seen the movie in about a year and I just got home from a trip, so I am sure we will have lots of funny (aka weird and awkward) things to say but please come out and watch this best movie ever with Ryan, myself and lots of friends ! They serve drinks at this thing and it’s pretty fun.
We know what you’re thinking: We’re FINALLY going to find out if Honus Honus speaks in a Cookie Monster voice, too! Rest of the info for tonight after the jump.
Sean Agnew, of course, is a man who needs no introduction to readers of this blog. Having gotten his start in the mid-90s in Philly booking all-ages punk and indie shows in a time when there were few to be had, he has since come up to be one of the biggest players in the Philly music scene, putting on shows everywhere from West Philly basements to the Academy of Music. A true renaissance man, Agnew is also a cineaste, and when we asked him what movie he’d like to show in our series, his reply was almost instantaneous: Real Genius. Why?
“It struck a chord with my young nerdy self,” he says, via text message from London. “And it has the best unofficial soundtrack — these songs were never released together officially as a soundtrack. The nerd babe is totally hot in an early ’90s ‘emo babe’ way. I also get upset and sympathize when main character Mitch cries when he wants to go home. I did that during freshman orientation (I took the R5 train home after about 20 minutes). Also, I guarantee there is no better feel-good cinema moment than at the end of the movie (and the best use of a Tears for Fears song ever!!! Yes, even beating out Donnie Darko.”
Sean Agnew introduces Real Genius this Thursday at 7:30pm at National Mechanics, 22 S. Third St. As always, the TLA Philebrity Screening Series is free. Next screening: 3/6/08 — Joseph A. Gervasi of Exhumed Films and Diabolik DVD presents The Cremator.
