Archives for June 2014

FEAR TOWN, USA
On St. Blevins Day (the most debauched of regional holidays), four boys looking to lose their virginity, a girl haunted by a dark secret, a lonely teenager, and an escaped mental patient all meet at a party in the woods. They were looking for fun but what they found was………FUCKING TERROR.”

Fear Town, USA is a Wet Hot American Summer-like take on classic horror films like Friday The 13th, Last House On The Left, and Sleepaway Camp. Directed by Brandon Bassham and starring a huge ensemble of performers from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

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Nitehawk Cinema presents this 1982 classic as part of their Future Noir midnight screening series, Friday6/20 and Saturday 6/21.

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin and find it in the early 80s new wave scene. 35mm presentation!

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Spectacle is pleased to welcome Su Friedrich in person for a 16mm screening of her masterpiece SINK OR SWIM (1990), followed by a selection of her short films, including the New York Premiere of her latest work QUEEN TAKES PAWN (2013).

“A major filmmaker.” – P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM: THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE

 

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“I am a man of struggle and my cinema is the cinema of the liberation struggle of my people.” -Yilmaz Güney

Critics are fond of separating a filmmaker’s “life” from his “work,” as if the two were related but autonomous spheres. In the case of Yilmaz Güney, the hollow-cheeked, mustachioed action movie star and director whose name has become legend in Turkey, it is clear to everyone that the two are inseparable. A communist Kurd, Güney was looked upon with an unfriendly eye by three successive military regimes in Turkey and spent twelve of his 26 years as a filmmaker behind bars.

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