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As The World Turns... Heel! Blockbusted Primitive Reality: The Narrative Films Do You See What I Hear: September Special Events The Films of Curtis Harrington of Mark Rappaport Two Nights with “People Like Us” Behind-the-curtain pro-wrestling A series of knock-off blockbusters in THE RUB documentaries with a healthy dose honor of the mainstream ’flicks currently Selection of mostly-untouched films An exhilarating body of work that can At the forefront of audio-visual collage, Dir. Péter Lichter & Bori Máté, 2018 of both puroresu and American devouring America’s paltry remaining from his deep catalogue, each of which feel equal parts familiar and belonging British artist People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) Hungary, 60 min heavyweight action. movie-dollars. Skip the cineplex, grab fuses his love of high camp, Grand to a world of its own, look forward to is a pioneer of editing archival material In Hungarian with English subtitles a cold one (or six), and learn the true Guignol, the occult, & capital-m-Movies. part 2 of the series coming this October. sourced from popular film & music. 9/11 7:30 pm, Director in attendance BEYOND THE MAT: meaning of ‘blockbuster’. 9/12 10 pm, Director in attendance Unrated Director’s Cut NIGHT TIDE LOCAL COLOR THE MIRROR Hungarian experimental filmmaker Dir. Barry Blaustein, 2004 SKYSCRAPER Dir. Curtis Harrington, 1961. 86 min Dir. Mark Rappaport, 1977. USA. 116 min Dir. Vicki Bennett, 2018. 36 min Péter Lichter’s second feature, here in USA. 108 min SKYSCRAPER 9/3 7:30 pm • 9/9 5 pm 9/7 7:30 pm • 9/15 10 pm 9/21 7:30 pm, with Vicki Bennett collaboration with Bori Máté, a kinetic 9/14 7:30 pm, $10, with Director Q&A Dir. Raymond Martino, 1996. 96 min 9/11 10 pm • 9/15 10 pm 9/19 7:30 pm • 9/26 10 pm U.S. premiere! Using the mirror in film reimagining of Hamlet as psychological 9/14 Midnight • 9/17 7:30 pm 9/1 7:30 pm • 9/6 10 pm 9/20 7:30 pm Running through the full gamut of soap as a device for both inward and outward collage. An elegant, ecstatic choreogra- 9/25 7:30 pm 9/15 Midnight • 9/21 Midnight Part thriller, part gothic romance, NIGHT opera devices—including psychically reflection, Bennett unleashes a flurry of phy of the bare electro-photo-chemical Possibly the most notorious documen- “Anna Nicole Smith... action star? TIDE follows the budding relationship connected twins, suicide, incestous reworked sounds and images that flow elements of memory, a self-reflection on tary about professional wrestling ever No. Anna Nicole Smith... erotic star? between a sailor on shore leave (Dennis desire, and more affairs than you can in and out of one another to kaleido- form, and a tactile immersion in a classic. made. In this film you will see: Droz puke Maybe. Anna Nicole Smith... comedian? Hopper in a very early starring role) and shake a stick at, LOCAL COLOR’s scopic effect. Screening with: on command, Jake “the Snake” Roberts Definitely.” —IMDB User Mister-6 a sideshow “mermaid” named Mora who many protean narratives resemble —WE ARE NOT AMUSED 2013. 3 min TANGENT REALMS: smoke crack in a hotel room, the ultra-vi- may or may not be a mythical siren. An something like a dream (as hinted at by —25 YEARS OF PEOPLE LIKE US THE WORLDS OF C.M. KÖSEMEN olent New Jack audition at a Hollywood THE MEG incredibly accomplished debut featuring the film’s opening series of pans across (Special Edit) 31 min. Including: Dir. Kevin Schreck, 2018. 100 min casting agent, Paul Heyman run an THE LAST SHARK lush black and white photography. the eight main characters fast asleep). THE SOUND OF THE END OF 9/27 7:00 pm, $10, with Director ECW pay-per-view from his mother’s (L’ULTIMO SQUALO) MUSIC 2010, BRIDGE 2012, Kevin Schreck and Composers basement, and Mick Foley’s family Dir. Enzo G. Castellari, 1981, 88 min THE KILLING KIND MOZART IN LOVE HERE COME THE OCCUPANTS Grant Cutler & Matt Evans scream in terror as he his repeatedly 9/3 10 pm • 9/8 Midnight Dir. Curtis Harrington, 1973. 95 min Dir. Mark Rappaport, 1975. USA. 99 min 2012, ZOOM 2012, MIRRORS 2012, 9/27 10 pm, $10, with Kevin Schreck beaten over the head with a steel chair 9/18 10 pm • 9/29 Midnight 9/2 7:30 pm • 9/10 7:30 pm 9/6 7:30 pm • 9/9 7:30 pm SHOPPING 2014, JUMP 2012, EVE Tangent Realms trains a keen on eye by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson with his “I went to a DVD store one day and 9/22 Midnight • 9/24 10 pm 9/13 10 pm • 9/30 5 pm OF SUNSHINE 2012 its subject, the titular C.M. Kösemen, hands cuffed behind his back, and much found this movie amongst splatter One of Harrington’s nastier offerings, Recounted in sparse epistolary voice- 9/22 10 pm Screening with: examining the young Turkish artist’s much more! movies. I read the cover describing it the film follows the exploits of Terry over, the story concerns the mainly true —THE ZONE (Trailer) 2012. 4 min imagined worlds both vastly cosmic & as a real success at the 80’s and how Lambert and his uncomfortably affec- tale of Mozart’s affair with a trio of sisters —THE SOUND OF THE deeply personal. By merging science FAKE IT SO REAL mad Spielberg was when the movie got tionate mother as he “re-acclimates” to & the various romantic dramas that END OF MUSIC 2010. 4 min with art, evidence with surrealism, the Dir. Robert Greene, 2012. USA. 94 min released. When I watched the movie society after a 2 year stint in prison for a ensued. Plot, however, takes second —THE GOLEM – AN INANIMATE natural world with mythology, Kösemen 9/4 10 pm, $10, with Director Q&A I almost smiled the whole time. And gang rape he was ‘forced’ to participate place to long unbroken chunks of actors MATTER 2013. 3 min plumbs the depths of his past, present, 9/8 10 pm • 9/13 7:30 pm that scene with the helicopter... the in. The film has aged all too well as lip-syncing Mozart’s arias in painterly —SPINNING (with Ergo Phizmiz) & future by continuously asking a 9/17 10 pm • 9/30 7:30 pm gore... his legs! Amazing!” —IMDB User a portrait of privilege and denial, not static compositions set against artificial 2010. 4 min dominant theme: “What If...?” A total immersion in the world of Chipsmannen letting anyone off the hook as each char- backgrounds. —CONSEQUENCES (One Thing Leads bottom-of-the-barrel independent acter attempts to deflect responsibility To Another) (Special Edit) 2012. 18 min QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK wrestling, FAKE IT SO REAL looks THE HAPPY TIME MURDERS for their own terrible deeds. CASUAL RELATIONS A REVOLUTION at the personalities involved with the MEET THE FEEBLES Dir. Mark Rappaport, 1974. USA. 80 min CITATION CITY Dir. Yony Leyser, 2018 Millennium Wrestling Federation (MWF) Dir. Peter Jackson, 1989. 97 min RUBY 9/5 7:30 pm • 9/10 7:30 pm Dir. Vicki Bennett, 2015. 40 min Germany/USA, 83 min in Lincolnton, North Carolina. 9/1 Midnight • 9/5 10 pm Dir. Curtis Harrington, 1977. 85 min 9/15 7:30 pm • 9/29 10 pm 9/21 10 pm 9/23 5 pm, $10, with Director Q&A 9/18 7:30 pm • 9/29 Midnight 9/4 7:30 pm • 9/7 Midnight A vampire movie, a skin flick, a murder NYC premiere! Collage-edit of over 9/23 7:30 pm, $10, with Director Q&A GAEA GIRLS “This movie is crazy! It's a puppet flick 9/12 7:30 pm • 9/19 10 pm mystery, a structuralist film, and a soap 300 feature films either shot or set in 9/28 7:30 pm • 9/29 10 pm Dir. Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams, 2000 full of drugs, sex, guns and porn. As an To call Ruby an EXORCIST/CARRIE opera all rolled into one – Rappaport’s London. Drawing inspiration from The In the mid-1980s Bruce LaBruce & G. B. England/Japan.106 min early Peter "Lorde of the Rings" Jackson knockoff misses the point entirely. Easily first film is a formidable exercise in Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin’s Jones introduced the world to the In Japanese with English subtitles. flick it also features a bit of gore. his biggest ‘hit’ (he happily touted it the narrative ambiguities that would study of Paris, by bringing collective cin- burgeoning Toronto queer punk scene 9/2 5 pm • 9/8 7:30 pm The puppets don't just die, they get as the most profitable horror movie dominate many of his films to come. The ematic associations of London together, through homemade zines & films. In 9/20 10 pm • 9/25 10 pm mushed.” —IMDB User Tom Holly pre-Halloween), Harrington’s love of characters that we encounter through resulting in a dizzying journey through this pre-Internet era, there was no way Whether or not you’re a fan of pro- southern Gothic and period pieces the film’s episodes all seem to exist in multiple narratives. Screening with: of knowing that queercore consisted wrestling, GAEA GIRLS is a compelling is in full display here, as always more a pointless sort of casualness to their —GONE, GONE BEYOND (Trailer) of just two people. Soon enough, their look at the world of women’s wrestling interested in creeping dread than shock. environment that is equal parts droll and 2018. 3 min subversive creation spread beyond their in Japan and the grueling training Ruby follows the titular Ruby Claire melancholic. Shot in pieces over a year —MAGICAL MISERY TOUR (Special bedrooms to attract actual adherents, program, consisiting of ritual hazing and her mute daughter, Leslie, sixteen and a half, CASUAL RELATIONS is an Edit) 2011. 30 min spawning a radical underground subcul- & humiliation, that trainees must go years after Ruby’s mobster beau was important testament to the inventiveness ture that challenged both the mainstream through to break into the industry Visit spectacletheater.com for murdered while she was pregnant with of DIY filmmaking and the underground gay and homophobic punk scenes. & become professionals. a full listing of films and events. their daughter. New York film scene of the 1970s.