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I’M NOT FASCINATING—THE MOVIE! , 20th Anniversary Edition
Original release date: February 14, 1996
Re-release date: February 14, 2017

Brace yourselves for one of the most resplendent footnotes of rock ‘n’ roll anti-history ever to grace the silver screen. Danny Plotnick’s I’m Not Fascinating—The Movie! chronicles the pointless shenanigans of San Francisco rock ‘n’ roll ne’er-do-wells the Icky Boyfriends and their futile quest for rock stardom. Undaunted by the universal hatred of both their music and their look, the band perserveres, somehow netting themselves a hefty major label c-ontract. But stardom proves elusive as they descend into a world of intrigue, nepotism, consumer research groups, excessive use of caffeine-laden soda pop and murder. Who kills the Ickys? You’ll wish you had!

20 years removed from its world premiere on Valentine’s Day 1996 at The Viper Room in Los Angeles, this movie – shot entirely on now-obsolete Super-8 sync sound film stock and precariously held together by splicing tape – is finally being given the deluxe re-release treatment with a brand new digital transfer and accompanied by a gut-busting smorgasbord of bonus features and never-before-released live concert footage of the band. This new transfer is undoubtedly better than the film deserves but despite its hi-def sheen (*cough*), no-budget cinephile purists can rest easy knowing that the original’s many “weirdly beautiful” visual flaws are all still ingloriously intact.

After its initial release, I’m Not Fascinating—The Movie! toured film festivals (New York Underground Film Fest, Chicago Underground Film Fest), rock clubs (Knitting Factory NYC, The Casbah in San Diego, Khyber Pass in Philadelphia), art galleries in New Zealand, and even a mortuary in Baltimore. In 1997, it was an official selection of the inaugural Bay Area Now contemporary art show at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Later that year, the film was released on VHS into nationwide distribution where it found a long shelf life in the cult movie sections of many now-defunct video stores including the Tower Video chain.