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Film and Video Studies graduate Alex Lukens will hold a DVD release party for his first feature length film on September 24 in Lowell, Indiana. The film, When I Die, will be on sale at a party that will include the bands who play on the soundtrack.

Friday, September 24, 5:00 p.m.
When I Die DVD Release Party
$5 per person
6903 West 159th Avenue
Lowell, IN 46356

Live bands, food and drinks, swimming pool, halfpipe skateboarding, etc. Also, we will be selling our recently printed DVDs, new t-shirts, stickers, etc.

Here is a link to the trailer for the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH5y2meHEeQ

 

February 26, 2010 - Chicago Tribune article on Lance Duerfahrd's Bad Films class.

Several pieces on Lance Duerfahrd's Bad Films class:

There is a radio interview on CBC, Canada's version of NPR, on a show that aired on 2010-03-04 (my interview folllows the performance by Rufus Wainwright, last 20 minutes of the podcast):
http://www.cbc.ca/q/pastepisodes.html

I am featured on NYTimes.com under "Idea of the Day/Must Reads from the Week in Review Staff": http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/bad-films-are-us/

I was quoted on the Economist's Culture Blog as the "Quote of the Day":
http://moreintelligentlife.com/blog/editors/feed-mar-2nd

And the Columbia University WordPress blog:
http://cuarts.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/in-appreciation-of-bad-movies/#more-1172
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/article/121812-bad-movies-have-a-beauty-all-their-own/

The Lafayette Journal Courier did a nice piece on the class yesterday:
http://www.jconline.com/article/20100307/ENT05/3070313/Purdue-students-dissect-really-bad-movies

And the original Chicago Tribune article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-talk-bad-films-0226-20100225-20,0,6628124.story

The Tribune article circulated in several newspapers this weekend:
Detroit Free Press: http://www.freep.com/article/20100308/ENT01/3080301/1322/Bad-movies-have-a-beauty-all-their-own
And some others:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/04/1513923/bad-movies-have-a-beauty-all-their.html
> http://www.heraldonline.com/2010/03/04/1995127/bad-movies-have-a-beauty-all-their.html
> http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/03/04/1337703/bad-movies-have-a-beauty-all-their.html
> http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/04/1790290/bad-movies-have-a-beauty-all-their.html
http://m.vcstar.com/news/2010/mar/04/bad-movies-have-beauty-all-their-own/

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