Severin Films today announced the release of Episode 2 of their new series My Fleapit, My Palace, an international exploration with friends, colleagues and icons through the movie theaters and moviegoing adventures of their youth. In this new episode, writer/director Jörg Buttgereit (NEKROMANTIK, DER TODESKING, NEKROMANTIK 2, SCHRAMM) takes us on a tour of Berlin’s iconic cinema culture, from the still-active Xenon (where Buttgereit worked as a teen projectionist and filmed several memorable scenes from his 1988 genre classic NEKROMANTIK) to the repurposed Metropol (whose exterior is familiar to all fans of Lamberto Bava’s Italian horror hit DEMONS), the long-gone Royal-Palast (once Europe’s largest screen) and more, with special guests that include German Godzilla, The Damned (sans a dosed Dave Vanian), Christiane F. and COMBAT SHOCK writer/director Buddy Giovinazzo who opines, “If your date can sit through NEKROMANTIK, marry them.”
“The only experiences as formative as the movies that made us are the cinemas we saw them in,” says Severin Films co-founder/president and My Fleapit, My Palace creator David Gregory. “I wanted to capture the fading landscapes of both urban and suburban salles de cinéma, while inviting an international coterie of like-minded film nuts to share their own memories of the fleapits and palaces that shaped their unique worldviews.”
The Jörg Buttgereit episode – as well as the premiere episode, in which actor, producer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist David McGillivray (HOUSE OF WHIPCORD, FRIGHTMARE, SATAN’S SLAVE and the indispensable tome Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film) takes us on a tour of London movie houses and cinema clubs – is now available at Severin’s YouTube page.
