Established in 2014 by a collective of film enthusiasts working in the entertainment industry, Filmbeats is a mobile movie series for the music lover. Its premiere screening, “Detonator,” will be held on Sunday, June 29th at 7:00pm, followed by a DJ set with music from, and inspired by, the movie at The Picture Show.

A tribal gathering of movie mavericks, electronic music muses, soundtrack visionaries rock & roll storytellers, Filmbeats’ mission is to celebrate seminal films by highlighting often overlooked soundtracks.

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This Saturday, Vyer Films will release Himizu by controversial and celebrated Japanese director Sion Sono, marking the films first availability online in the U.S. and Canada. The film follows Yuichi (Shota Sometani), a 15-year-old boy in Japanese town suffering from the after effects of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami. He desires normalcy but is driven to violence. Keiko (Fumi Nikaido) is openly obsessed with Yuichi and makes it her mission to bring him back to the righteous path. Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido jointly won the Best New Actor Award at the 68th Venice Film Festival, where their performances were praised as “extraordinarily intense and effective” by The Hollywood Reporter.

When selecting films, the overarching quality we seek out at Vyer Films is whether or not the film is an experience. For us, “experience” is not about CGI and explosions, it’s a question of a film’s ability to leave an impression. As people, time is the most valuable thing we have, and we want to offer our audience films that respect that. Can the film bring meaning to a viewer even when she isn’t watching it? Is it a film that she would want to discuss at a dinner party, or would ask her friends to see because she is still forming her own opinion? This is what we look for: films that can find a place in our audience’s lives and keep creating meaning long after the credits have rolled.
– K.C. McLeod, Founder and CEO, Vyer Films

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It’s the last weekend to see Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen’s Space Fiction & the Archives, a project about comings and goings, co-habitation, and a UFO landing pad.

The two-faceted research project Space Fiction & the Archives is comprised of a film titled 1967: A People Kind of Place and an installation composed of archival material such as photographs, ephemera, and small sculptures. Through these works the artist investigates a forgotten monument built in the Canadian prairies that was erected as part of the Canada’s Centennary projects.

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Ted Barron, photographer, WFMU DJ extraordinaire, and the man behind seminal music blog Boogie Woogie Flu, will be spinning 45s: rock ‘n roll, soul, blues, and country, tonight at Bar Below Rye. 10pm until LATE. Bar is great, and so is the food.

Ted sez: “I like the meatloaf sandwich.” See his photographic work here.

Friday, June 27, 10pm ’til late
Bar Below Rye
247 So. 1st Street, Williamsburg

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Just in case you didn’t see enough people being murdered by cars in Death Race 2000, Videology brings you even more vehicular homicide in the 1979 Australian classic Mad Max. Set in a dystopian future where oil supplies are limited and gangs of motorcycle maniacs set each other on fire, a lone policeman must seek revenge when his world is shattered by, what else, death by motorcycle. See an enraged 23 year-old Mel Gibson chew the scenery, in what is only his 2nd credited film role.

And if that wasn’t enough, throughout this cinematic masterpiece you’ll get a full drive-in meal. Start with a sampling of flavored popcorns, continue with a special seasonal salad. a choice of nachos or a hot dog, and wrap up you movie concession meal with a delicious chocolate-covered frozen banana.

AT THE DRIVE-IN featuring MAD MAX (1979)
Videology, 7:30pm, $22
308 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg
Friday, June 27th @ 7:30

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