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cinedelphia lm festival PhilaMOCA SAT April 27, 2013 CLOSING DAY / ERIC’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION by Eric Bresler 7:30 PM WE HATE MOVIES present LADY IN THE WATER (2006) and friends The We Hate Movies gang rolls back into Philadelphia for this special presentation of M. Night Shymalan’s notorious Lady in the Water, the local lmmaker’s infamously wrong-headed fantasy about the relation- LOCATIONS: ship between a handyman (Paul Giamatti) and the sensitive creature he Freeman’s PhilaMOCA nds in an apartment complex’s pool. Competently composed by 1808 Chestnut Street 531 N. 12th Street Director of Photography Chris Doyle, Lady in the Water has nevertheless Philadelphia, PA 19103 Philadelphia, PA 19123 garnered a reputation as one of the most deliriously stupid lms released in the ‘00s, and We Hate Movies will be on hand to provide live Independence Seaport Museum Stoogeum commentary on one of Shymalan’s greatest disasters. 211 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd. 904 Sheble Lane Philadelphia, PA 19106 Ambler, PA 19002 Come on out for a night of big, wildly profane laughs as the gang goes toe-to-toe with one of the worst lms ever shot in the Philadelphia International House Viva Video! area. 3701 Chestnut Street 16 W. Lancaster Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19104 Ardmore, PA 19003 I couldn’t be more excited to present the Philadelphia Premiere 10:00 PM SPONSORS: of the sequel to one of the greatest American independent lms since 2003’s The Room, and with the director, producer, and star in attendance!

2010’s Birdemic: Shock and Terror was an environmentally conscious Hitchcockian thriller that wowed audiences worldwide and became a midnight movie sensation. And now director James Nguyen is back alongside members of the original PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE! lm’s cast and a bevy of completely THANK YOU: unpredictable threats, both new BIRDEMIC 2: THE RESURRECTION Bernadette Frawley, Intern and old. Director James Nguyen, Producer Je Gross, Dan Buskirk, Josh Carter (joshcartersuperartist.com), Samm Deighan, Miguel Gomez/Viva Sequels can be tricky, but I guaran- Video!, Austin Je erson, Marc Walkow, RJ White (fakecriterions.tumblr.com), and star Alan Bagh in attendance. tee you that Birdemic 2 is every bit and the PhilaMOCA and Shooting Wall gangs. as enjoyable, unpredictable, and sincere as its predecessor. 02 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 39 PhilaMOCA SAT April 27, 2013 Message from CFF organizer Eric Bresler: The rst time I attended a lm festival in Philadelphia was as a volunteer for the short-lived Reject Film Festival back in 1997. I remember thinking that the two guys who ran it (one of which is now a big-time lmmaker) must CLOSING DAY / ERIC’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION have had great power and inuence in order to operate their own lm festival, albeit one that showcased work that other festivals had denied (still a noble concept). It was during this experience that I learned that lm I think we’ve mined the most valuable corners of the Philadelphia lm community through the preceding 23 screenings didn’t need to be restricted to the con nes of traditional movie theaters. Old City art galleries served days worth of programs, so let’s celebrate my birthday with a full day’s worth of crazy lm happenings that as the screening venues, each out tted with equipment and seating, and the whole thing was conducted with illustrate the kind of programming we showcase here at PhilaMOCA year-round. the utmost professionalism. These were eye-opening concepts for an 18-year-old movie-loving me who had just recently relocated from upstate New York. I volunteered again the following year and I remember thinking, while serving drinks to John Waters and a room full of weirdos, that someday I wanted to have my own lm festival. I 1:30 PM ROLLERCOASTER (1977) just had to come up with a good gimmick… Welcome to the Cinedelphia Film Festival! Take a look at this schedule! Local nonpro ts, distributors, lmmakers, organizations, all coming together under one masthead to celebrate Philly lm’s rich past and present. A great IN SENSURROUND! diversity of both aesthetics and practice exists in the Philadelphia lm community, as is true for the city itself, and Sure, replicating the 1970s theatrical gimmick is near impossible I think that this program guide sums it all up beautifully. without massive resources, but that’s not stopping us! Local audio experts recently descended upon PhilaMOCA with subwoofers, amps, Philly lm is an exciting, stimulating, and often strange world, and I invite you into the center of it. Again, welcome to the Cinedelphia Film Festival. and audio meters to replicate the Sensurround eect as accurately as possible, and it kinda worked! So prepare to feel the rumbles, crashes, and explosions of one of the four lms that utilized the bass-heavy format. WARNING: the decibal levels may cause nausea and discomfort. TICKETING Advance tickets are available online for all CFF programs, visit cinedelphia lmfestival.com. No A psychopathic bomber (Timothy Bottoms) rages war on the roller- exchanges/refunds on advance tickets. Door admission for PhilaMOCA, Freeman’s, Stoogeum, coaster tracks of California’s amusement parks and it’s up to ride and Viva Video! programs is cash-only. inspector Harry Calder (George Segal) to stop him. Rollercoaster features the only lm appearance of Sparks, Eric’s favorite band, so that Admission for all CFF programs is $10 except: explains that. 4/4 ($9), 4/5 ($9), 4/8 ($8), 4/12 ($9), 4/15 ($8), 4/20 ($12), 4/22 ($8)

LIQUID SKY (1982) 4:00 PM PhilaMOCA’s April Tuesday Tune-Out WITH A LIVE SCORE BY Guest curator: Cinedelphia Film Festival Tuesday, April 2 : SWEATHEART plus a surprise screening of an ‘80s teen lm

CHEAP DINOSAURS Tuesday, April 9 : DIVINE HAND ENSEMBLE plus World Premiere of a documentary on them Highly fashionable new wave youths ght aliens, drug habits, and social pariahs throughout Manhattan’s avante garde underground of the Tuesday, April 16 : FARQUAR MUCKENFUSS play The Monkees plus HEAD (1968) early 1980s. Sure, Russian director Slava Tsukerman’s much-loved cult favorite is a tough lm to describe, adjectives such as “insane”, Tuesday, April 23 : LOUD! FAST! PHILLY! video history of Philadelphia hardcore punk “disturbing”, and “weird” immediately spring to mind, but it’s must-see stu for the cinematic adventurous and it will be presented with a live Tuesday, April 30 : PATTERN IS MOVEMENT new album listening/screening event score from Philly’s own electronic-heavy psychedelic prog rock out t Cheap Dinosaurs. It’s gonna be loud, strange, and memorable. Tuesday Tune-Out is PhilaMOCA’s weekly music/movie series. A dierent guest curator selects the bands, the bands select a lm to screen post-live set. Upcoming guest curators: May - yvynyl, June - Guild Shows

38 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 03 ARMY OF WOLVES (p. 18) 7 14 28 21 SCREAMERS / BLADES VIVISECTIONS (p.VIVISECTIONS 19) CINEDELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIMENT (p. 29) PHILADELPHIA GIRLS SCHOOL PhilaMOCA FRI April 26, 2013 at 10:00 PM LUBIN (p. 30) SUN (p. 10) 1 8 15 29 22 FILMADELPHIA (p. 11) TLA ENTERTAINMENTTLA REELBLACK (p. 31) MON (p. 20) 2 9 16 30 23 THE MONKEES (p. 21) PHILLY PUNK (p. 32) ENSEMBLE (p. 12) DIVINE HAND TUE 3 10 17 24 MASSACRE GUN (p. 14) THE CRUMBLES (p. 13) HIGH SCHOOL (p. 22) THE WAYKEVIN TO WED (p. 33) Join us for a casual gathering of ex-TLA Video store FREE EVENT! clerks who will share humorous and heartwarming stories of their time spent working for the Philadel- phia movie rental institution. The panel will be TLA VIDEO FOREVER

SLAUGHTER TALES (p. 34) followed by a surprise screening of a lm that EXHUMED FILMS (p. 15) 4 11 18 REFLECTIVE REMINISCENCES 25 POINT BREAK (p. 23) embodies the “TLA aesthetic”. INTERNATIONAL OPENING NIGHT BUNYIP (p.BUNYIP 35) HOUSE (p. 5) FROM EX-TLA VIDEO STORE THU For nearly three decades, the TLA Video stores were EMPLOYEES. Philadelphia’s most valuable resource for art house, foreign, and hard-to- nd lms. The rst location So join us as we lament the fall of the video rental (South Street, 1985) opened as a response to the industry and share stories of problem customers, VANISHING WAVES (p. 24) 5 12 19 26 THE LOST MAN (p. 36) SECRET CINEMA (p. 6) DAVID GOODIS (p. 16) DANGER AFTER DARK VHS format’s impact on repertory theater screen- strange co-workers, and the typical craziness that TLA TLA VIDEO (p. 37)

APRIL 2013 ings, and the nal location (Bryn Mawr) closed in occurred in-store after hours. Former customers are (p. 25) FRI 2012 as a result of the evolution of movie delivery invited to participate with their own tales from the methods (streaming, OnDemand, etc). But for other side of the counter. those intervening decades, the TLA stores were a second home for movie obsessives, lm students, and the cinematic adventurous. TLA employees URBAN ARCHIVES (p. 27) 6 13 20 SCOTT AND GARY (p. 8) 27 VIDEO VIOLENCE (p. 17) VIDEO PIRATES (p. 9) BURLESQUE (p.BURLESQUE 28) TERMITE (p.TV 26)

STOOGEUM (p. 7) were required to pass a lm trivia exam in order to CLOSING DAY CRAZINESS!

(p. 38-39) gain employment, and they were always quick to SAT utilize their knowledge in order to help customers nd “that movie with that guy in it”. Sure, the clerks could be intimidating, maybe even downright rude at times, but that was really just part of the fun.

04 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 37 PhilaMOCA FRI April 26, 2013 at 7:30 PM International House THU April 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM Hand Held Day (1975) by Gary Beydler. © Gary Beydler. Courtesy of Mike Beydler. and David © Gary Gary (1975) by Beydler. Hand Held Day Beydler.

SPECIAL EVENT! Sidney Poitier, wearing sunglasses with a dour look In late 2012, the sta of International House INTERNATIONAL HOUSE on his face, stars in this reworking of Carol Reed's Philadelphia’s Arts program started a concerted THE LOST MAN classic Irish Republican Army thriller Odd Man Out. eort to begin examining and working through PHILADELPHIA PRESENTS DIR. ROBERT ALAN AURTHUR, 1969, 122 Here Poitier is Jason Higgs (sounds a little like Tibbs their “archive,” a few rooms overstued with dusty MIN. RARE SCREENING OF A PHILLY-SHOT from In the Heat of the Night, doesn't it?), a cool-as- boxes that hadn’t been touched in years. Through IHP 79 - 13: CLASSIC WITH AN INTRODUCTION a-cucumber black revolutionary, who tries to swipe many hours of lugging, sorting and organizing, a BY IRV SLIFKIN. $200,000 from the payroll of a factory reputedly clearer picture has come through regarding the A SHORT FILM owned by racists. The heist goes bad when a cop legacy of lm and video programming at IHP, a and Higgs are shot, forcing Higgs to try to elude the legacy that reaches back to the mid-1970s. PROGRAM fuzz in the wilds of North Philly. In support of his cause are a former partner (Al Freeman, Jr.) and a IHP 79-13 is the rst of what we hope to be an aged to come early to view the exhibition of letters, white widowed social worker (Joanna Shimkus, ongoing examination that brings our past into the posters, photos and ephemera showcasing the soon-to-be Mrs. Poitier). While dodging the law present and future. In the summer of 1979, IHP history of lm at IHP in our east gallery. amidst burned-out houses, abandoned cars, unruly welcomed the Neighborhood Film Project into the foliage, and an ugly rural landscape close to Temple building and organization. This partnership was The program includes work by the following University, it's revealed that Higgs, in fact, really celebrated with “Rialto Bijou: Films for Summer lmmakers: Gary Beydler, Robert Breer, Je Carpen- wants the money to go to the kids of black revol- Nights,” a series of fun and interesting short lms. ter & Mary Lambert, Sally Cruikshank, Al Jarnow, Jan utionaries in prison Our program for the Cinedelphia Film Festival will Krawitz and Thomas Ott, George Kuchar, Frank and bring together a number of animated, comedic and Caroline Mouris, and David Rimmer. (HS) A valuable peek at Philadelphia’s urban blight in the experimental 16mm short lms that were screened late 1960s, The Lost Man is a must-see Philly lm. (IS) in this series, including work by well-loved lmmakers George Kuchar, Robert Breer and Sally Cruikshank. Audience members will receive a reproduction of the series catalog and are encour-

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SECRET CINEMA PRESENTS The Secret Cinema is proud to present this "best of" Filmed while conducting a scienti c research WORLD PREMIERE! edition of From Philadelphia With Love: Industrial, expedition in the expansive outback of Australia, FROM PHILADELPHIA Educational and other Lost Local Films. We'll present Bunyip the Movie is engulfed in both prevailing BUNYIP THE MOVIE many of our favorite selections from the nearly 50 political debate and historic legend. Funded by a DIR. GAVIN HECKER, 2013, 95 MIN. Philadelphia-related short lms we've presented in government grant, Dr. Nick Jenson and Bunyip WITH LOVE: several volumes of this popular (if irregular) series -- enthusiast Lindsay Farland search the continent far WITH DIRECTOR GAVIN HECKER most of which we have not shown for at least seven and wide for the elusive and possibly dangerous IN ATTENDANCE. “BEST OF” EDITION years. creature. Trailing them with camera in hand is a rather eccentric and not always reliable assistant PLUS JAY SCHWARTZ HOSTS The soundtrack for Bunyip the Movie features Just a few highlights will include: Our Changing City who has been generously bestowed upon the team Philly-area musicians Michael Trillions, The AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF (1955), Philadelphia With Love (1972), The Story of by the Australian Minister for Environment. Their Armchairs, Thom McCarthy, Banned Books, and Bubblegum (1952), The Troc (1966), Modern Maga- journeys take them from the wild forests of Tasma- THE SECRET CINEMA. former Beaver Avenue member Aaron Radder as zine Magic (1956), The Philadelphia Story of 1963 nia to the magni cent Ningaloo Reef of Western well as music by The Mattoid. (1963), Friends in Philadelphia (1970), Date With a Australia and what they discover may be more than There is a whole world of locally-made lms that Stranger (1950s), and The Philadelphia-Lancaster they ever bargained for. Dr. Jenson and his team's bunyipthemovie.com have been forgotten -- the “ephemeral” short lms Counterfeiters (1931). More program details will be eorts to nally prove the existence of the mythical that were primarily made by small independent posted at www.thesecretcinema.com Bunyip is a twisted tale lled with beauty, tragedy, companies for a once-booming non-theatrical and adventure. market. While most school districts, television The evening will also include an illustrated talk by stations and traveling salesman have long ago programmer Jay Schwartz on the 21-year history of Footage contained in this lm was originally never discarded their 16mm lm projectors, the Secret the Secret Cinema, which has presented many intended to be seen by or distributed openly to the Cinema have not, and thus can properly present a hundreds of unique screenings, to date still always public. Its release is in large part due to a lawsuit look back at these celluloid time capsules that shown using real lm, "not video -- never ever!" (JS) brought forth by the Australian Zoological Society would otherwise not be seen again. and the Freedom of Information Act.

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wonderfully con dent and charming performance Gary Lassin, a life-long Philadelphia-area SPECIAL EVENT! SLAUGHTER TALES (2012) from its adolescent auteur, who also designed the resident/Three Stooges fan, opened the Ambler, WITH DIRECTOR JOHNNY DICKIE lm's oozing array of practical eects. Slaughter PA-based Stoogeum in 2004. The three story THE STOOGEUM Tales was shot primarily in the con nes of Mollie's complex displays nearly 4,000 of Gary’s 100,000+ IN ATTENDANCE. Books in the heart of the Italian Market and its item collection of Stooge artifacts, many of which & LARRY FINE grimy, video-cam imagery gives this ultimate are one-of-a-kind. From vintage toys, comic books, Gloriously-sustained teenage mayhem as Philadel- teenage freak-out an unmistakably down-home and LPs to Shemp Howard’s 1918 army discharge SPEND THE AFTERNOON AT phia lmmaker Johnny Dickie, writes, directs and Philly avor. (DB) papers (the oldest Stooges-related document stars in a bloody homage to the shot-on-video known to exist), the Stoogeum is a sight to behold AMBLER’S THREE STOOGES micro-budget horrors of the 1980s. In Slaughter “I was utterly endeared to this lm from start to even for those with little or no interest in the MUSEUM. Tales “Larceny Never Pays” as a shoplifted videotape nish.“ - Ain't-it-Cool-News knuckleheads. (EB) wreaks supernatural havoc on a young man's life. This foul-mouthed, gross-out horrorfest overows The screening will be projected from videotape As part of the Cinedelphia Film Festival, Gary Lassin with ve stories in which the real and unreal blur in with the lmmaker in attendance for a post- will host a presentation on Philly’s favorite Stooge, our increasingly-addled protagonist's mind, leading screening Q&A hosted by Phawker.com critic/WPRB Larry Fine. The presentation is free with Stoogeum to hatchet attacks, repeated vomiting and Radio Host Dan Buskirk admission, but seating is limited and advance RSVP attempted slug impregnation. Dickie completed is required to guarantee a seat: this, his rst feature, before the age of 15, and it http://cstoogeum.brownpapertickets.com plays like an adolescent take on Fellini's 8 ½, an autobiographical mind-fuck of boredom, repressed The Stoogeum will be open from 10:00 AM - 3:00 violence, gallows humor and sublimated lust, PM with the discussion being held at 11:00 AM. ltered through Raimi, Henenlotter and Cronen- General admission is $10, $8 students/seniors. berg. Making the most of its $65 budget, this sharply-paced and uently-edited lm has a

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VIDEO PIRATES PRESENTS From 1983 to 1989, The Scott and Gary Show served The documentary The Way to Kevin focuses upon a PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE! as a lo-tech American Bandstand for the punks, year and a half in the life of Philadelphia-born THE SCOTT & GARY SHOW: outsiders, and new wave kids of the 1980s. Over the minister/mime/gay urban thug porn star Kevin THE WAY TO KEVIN course of 19 episodes, public access audiences were Mines as he attempts to move beyond acting with DIR. ERIN DAVIS & NATHAN EDMONDSON, 2012, 62 MIN. treated to confounding comedy, awkward the establishment of his own pornography-centric 30th ANNIVERSARY interviews, and early live performances from a host production company. WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: of now legendary alternative musicians including DIRECTORS ERIN DAVIS AND NATHAN EDMONDSON, RETROSPECTIVE The Beastie Boys (pre-hip hop), Half Japanese, Kevin, or “Venom” as he’s known in the movies, grew PRODUCER JIM DATTILO, COMPOSER ERIC ZRINSKY, AND DOCUMENTARY SUBJECT KEVIN MINES. WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: Butthole Surfers, Velvet Monkeys, Shockabilly (the up in impoverished North Philadelphia where he singer played a modi ed lawn rake) and Philly local attended church with his mother from a very early SCOTT LEWIS, GARY WINTER, Ben Vaughn. age. He started preaching at the age of 13 and his The Way to Kevin is a celebration of the life of a unique individual and his lively lifestyle. Viewers are AND THE BEATOES ministry expanded through numerous Christian To celebrate the show’s 30th anniversary, Video singing groups and Christian-themed mime perfor- introduced to his loyal family (both symbolic and Pirates will screen a “best of” the show with live mances. singing groups and Christian-themed mime blood-related), his controlling parent-like manager, commentary from Scott and Gary. And then, here’s performances. and the somewhat strange world of gay pornogra- the crazy part, the guys will be donning their old phy where audition sessions include casual orgies costumes, handing out 3D glasses, and re-creating a Kevin was 18 when he realized his sexual preference, and production qualities are as lo-tech as they can classic episode live in the Mausoleum complete with his entry into the world of pornography followed get. The lmmakers succeed in presenting their a reunion performance from Baltimore’s The Beatoes. shortly thereafter. Kevin was ostracized from his subject in a fair, almost tender light, a welcome Dancing and costumes are encouraged! (EB) church once word spread about his new profession approach in these modern times of exploitative yet he remained dedicated to his Christian roots documentary lmmaking. (EB) while exhibiting a spirituality and social awareness that continues to touch those around him.

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JOSEPH A. GERVASI PRESENTS talk about Philly’s vibrant underground, back then For the uninitiated, VP is a live comedy show SPECIAL PREMIERE EVENT! and today. centered around the presentation of original video pieces that are made up of clips from hundreds of VIDEO PIRATES: LOUD! FAST! PHILLY! Nearly forty years on, punk continues to inspire VHS tapes. Highlights of VP’s previous live show A VIDEO HISTORY OF with its DIY ethos and vibrant, creative aggression. included a history of Beanie Babies, an insane Christian anti-internet video, and the strangely PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA’S PUNK SCENE. This is not a post-mortem. tragic story of Japanese game show prisoner Philly-centric found footage Nasubi. This is a celebration. comedy craziness! 1-2-3-Go! This time around, it’s all about Philadelphia! Expect lifted from archaic home video formats. Since its

Featuring McRad, Decontrol, Ruin, Policy of 3, Bleed, a retrospective of a beloved local late night debut at the International House in July 2012, VP Loud! Fast! Philly! explores Philadelphia’s hardcore R.A.M.B.O., Sickoids, F.O.D., 2.5 Children, Atom and infomercial, a heartfelt tribute to a much-loved local has presented a 50 minute video history of Sparks punk underground with a clear-eyed view that His Package, Franklin, Violent Society, The Ghouls, fringe actor, dissections of the worst that indepen- at the PhilaMOCA SPARKStacular, hosted a feature- eschews golden-hued nostalgia and instead brings The More Fiends, Big Hate, Partysaurus Wrecks, The dent Philly lm has to oer, and a seemingly length live show, and served as an opening act for into sharp focus (and blurry VHS) the true ugly Dead Milkmen, Dissystema, Lord Humongous, endless montage of Philly-related clips from Everything Is Terrible! 2013 will see the debut of two beauty of the scene. Featuring rare footage of local Brutal Truth, and many others. (JAG) throughout lm history. additional VP programs: an autobiographical show bands playing basements, churches, bars, crappy This event will also serve as the release party for the and a feature-length career retrospective of one of clubs, and warehouses throughout the city, the rst Video Pirates DVD, it’s gonna be a wild time! the most famous lm actors in the world. program captures what it was like living in a (EB) moment but without the pervasive reek of b.o. Loud! Fast! Philly! has selected footage dating from About: the early 1980s to the now, much of which has CFF organizer Eric Bresler heads up Video Pirates, a never been seen and has been assembled, one-man collective that focuses on the preserva- digitized, and edited for this program. Special tion and presentation of found footage oddities guests will be in attendance to introduce clips and

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1980’S PHILLY HORROR well below their actual ages, the Mount Airy-shot EARLY WORK features lms by Reelblack Founder SPECIAL EVENT! Girls School Screamers is great fun for the low Mike D, Chinonye Chukwu (AlaskaLand), Rel DOUBLE-FEATURE budget horror-inclined. Dowdell (Changing The Game), Tanya Hamilton (Night Catches Us) and Nadine Patterson (Tango REELBLACK PRESENTS GIRLS SCHOOL SCREAMERS Blades is the story of a killer lawnmower that stalks Macbeth). All have gone on to make feature lms DIR. JOHN P. FINNEGAN, 1986, 80 MIN. its prey on a golf course in South Jersey. F’real. and will be on hand to discuss how lm school and EARLY WORK A COMPILATION OF STUDENT FILMS BY Dismembered body parts begin appearing on the short lmmaking proved to be an integral step in PHILLY-BASED FILMMAKERS BLADES grounds of the Tall Grass Country Club shortly after their development. Most of these lms have not OF COLOR, CURATED BY REELBLACK. DIR. THOMAS R. RONDINELLA, 1989, 101 MIN. the arrival of handsome golf pro Roy Kent. The only been shown on the big screen since their original WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: one who can stop the murders is disgraced former festival runs and are not available on YouTube. “good movies ’bout Black Folks.” Based in Philadel- groundskeeper Deke Slade, a badass survivalist phia, it was founded in 1999 by award-winning DIRECTOR THOMAS R. RONDINELLA type who shares a history with the menacing The program will feature: The Hardest Part (1994, lmmaker Michael Dennis (a.k.a. Mike D.), a gradu- AND PRODUCER WILLIAM PACE machine. Filmed at a nine hole golf course in Rio NYU, Dir. Michael Dennis, 11 min, 16mm) ate of both NYU Film School and The American Film Grande, NJ, Blades succeeds in maintaining a The Killers (1995, Columbia University, Dir. Tanya Institute in Los Angeles. In addition to writing, A double-feature of Philly-area ‘80s horror with strange, Twin Peaks-like atmosphere of dark Hamilton, 20 Minutes, DVD) producing and directing, Mike curates and hosts a special guests Blades director/co-writer Thomas comedy. Are the actors in on the joke? It’s tough to Train Ride (1996, Boston University, Dir. Rel Dowdell, monthly screening series at International House Rondinella and associate producer/co-writer tell, and that’s part of the fun. 30 min, 16mm) called REELBLACK PRESENTS, which promotes William Pace. Release (2005, London Film School, Dir. Nadine “discoveries and rediscoveries in African-American John P. Finnegan recruited Thomas Rondinella and Patterson, 13 min, DVD) lm.” DINNER AND A MOVIE is a more intimate A group of students from the Trinity School for Girls William Pace to work on GSS while they were still The Dance Lesson (2010, Temple U., Dir. Chinonye event that takes place at Cafe Mills; MOVIE MEET- are tasked with cataloguing the inventory of a vast students at NYU, they each played multiple roles on Chukwu, 14 min, DVD) UPS are designed to show nancial support to mansion. The bodies begin to pile up as a secret the crew. Finnegan then chose Rondinella to direct targeted lms. For more info, visit family history is revealed in this Satanic-tinged his follow up lm, Blades, which was co-written by Reelblack is a full-service lm and video production www.reelblack.com. (MD) ghost story. Filled with lo-tech gore e ects, tedious Rondinella and Pace with Finnegan acting as company dedicated to creating and promoting banter, and a cast of amateurs that are shooting producer. (EB)

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PhilaMOCA SUN April 21, 2013 at 7:00 PM PhilaMOCA MON April 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM

SPECIAL EVENT! his neighbors by lming circus, vaudeville and Who says Philly lm is limited to Rocky, Trading SPECIAL EVENT! burlesque acts in his backyard on North 15th Street. Places or The Sixth Sense? Irv Slifkin, author of the SIEGMUND LUBIN From these humble beginnings, Lubin went on to acclaimed book Filmadelphia: A Celebration of a create one of the worlds’ largest and most success- City's Movies, takes you through the wide world of FILMADELPHIA: ful lm production, distribution, and exhibition Philly lms with this feature-length, clip- lled BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION enterprises. His studios in Philadelphia made the presentation. Witness examples of silent lms shot A CELEBRATION OF A JOSEPH P. ECKHARDT HOSTS city a major hub of lm production in the rst in the Delaware Valley, early indie eorts, exploita- CITY’S MOVIES AN OVERVIEW OF LUBIN’S CAREER decade of the twentieth century. Branching out, tion pictures, and lots more. From John Gar eld in Lubin built a motion picture empire with studios in Pride of the Marines (1945) to Jayne Mans eld in The HOSTED BY IRV SLIFKIN PLUS LOCAL MUSICIANS PERFORM Florida, Arizona, and California. As he amassed a Burglar (1957); from the stark David and Lisa (1962) fortune and achieved worldwide fame and celeb- to the wacky Disk-O-Tek Holiday (1966) with LIVE SCORES TO 16MM FILMS. rity, Lubin bestowed upon himself the title of “King Philly-based disc jockey Hy Lit, this 90 minute of the Movies.” His reign was short lived, however. showcase is sure to entertain and make you want a Joseph P. Eckhardt, author of the Lubin biography By 1916, Lubin’s empire had collapsed, forcing him soft pretzel with mustard at the same time. (IS) The King of the Movies, hosts a career overview of to declare bankruptcy and return to his optical Philadelphia’s moviemaking pioneer. Secret shop. He died in 1923, impoverished and nearly Slifkin will be signing his book post-presentation. Cinema will project 16mm Lubin lms accompa- forgotten. nied by original live scores from local musicians including Jesse Kudler, Monique Canniere, Keith This program is in celebration of both Lubin’s 161st Birthday, and Birdie Busch & Carl Cheeseman. birthday and the 90th anniversary of his passing. (JE) In 1897, an immigrant optician named Siegmund Lubin began experimenting with a new photo- graphic technology called Life Motion Pictures. With a crude camera he built himself, he outraged

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WORLD PREMIERE! THE DIVINE HAND 21st Century Classical Music is a document of the “In 1943, the U.S. Navy conducted a series of tests to SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY SCREENING! rst year of this one-of-a-kind chamber ensemble’s render allied ships invisible to enemy radar. The ENSEMBLE PRESENTS existence, lmed entirely in Philly. Director Sergio results of these tests have never been made public. THE PHILADELPHIA Valentino was granted full access to the group’s The nal test, which resulted in the project’s 21st CENTURY activities throughout 2010 with the result being a termination, has come to be known as...The Philadelphia Experiment.” EXPERIMENT lm lled with interviews, rehearsal footage, press Dir. Stewart Ra ll, 1984, 102 min. CLASSICAL MUSIC junkets, a history of the theremin and plenty of live Philadelphia’s favorite urban legend turns 70 this year DIR. SERGIO VALENTINO, 2013, 84 MIN. performance footage that includes everything from So begins this tale of time displaced Navy sailors and we’re celebrating the anniversary with a family- friendly lm screening at the Independence Seaport classical pieces to funerary music to covers of David (Michael Paré) and Jim (Bobby Di Cicco), PREMIERE OF A DOCUMENTARY victims of a military experiment that tears a hole in Museum featuring a special introduction from classic horror and sci- theme songs. A quick novelist Paul Malmont. the space time continuum. Sure, it’s your average ON THE DIVINE HAND ENSEMBLE catch-me-up for the uninitiated and a behind-the- sh-out-of-time story complete with puzzlement have broadened the initial incident to include scenes joy for the converted, 21st Century Classical FOLLOWED BY A LIVE PERFORMANCE over the devices and fashions of the mid-80s, but elements of time travel and atom-smashing that Music is an enjoyable portrait of one of the special eects common to the era are great fun resulted in sailors’ bodies being fused with their Philadelphia’s most valuable musical out ts FROM THE GROUP. and the lm’s mounting sense of danger is actually vessel. It’s interesting stu despite the implausibil- rather eective (a remarkable feat from the director ity of it all, and special guest speaker Paul Malmont The lm will be followed by a live performance from Since 2010, local chamber ensemble The Divine of Mac and Me and Tammy and the T-Rex). But the will be on hand to separate the fact from the ction, the Divine Hand Ensemble that will feature new Hand Ensemble have been demonstrating that real attraction here is the hometown connection... the myth from the merit. (EB) material as well as current fan favorites. classical music can still captivate audiences in these modern technological times. Formed and led by Now regarded as a hoax by most, but not by any Admission to the 1:00 PM screening is free with Tuesday Tune-Out is PhilaMOCA’s ongoing weekly means all, South Philly’s Naval Shipyard (now home accomplished theremin pioneer Mano Divina, the Museum admission. The Independence Seaport series of local music/ lm that is programmed by a to that local clothing giant) was supposedly the site Divine Hand Ensemble have the distinction of Museum will be open from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM; dierent guest curator every month. of a military experiment that successfully turned a admission is $13.50 for adults, $10 children being the only group in the world who perform battleship invisible back in 1943. The legend has /students/seniors. Museum attractions include serious classical work in which the theremin plays grown over the decades thanks to conspiracy interactive exhibits, the Workshop on the Water, the role of lead singer. theorists and open-minded academic types who and two historic ships, the Olympia and the Becuna.

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New from Philadelphia’s founder of lmlesque MISS ROSE’S SEXPLOITATION The Crumbles is an indie rock slice-of life PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE! comes the ideal spring-time show featuring a tragicomedy about Darla, an overly serious FOLLIES PRESENTS collusion of color and quirk in a sea of ecdysiast musician whose stagnant life is shaken up when her THE CRUMBLES (2012) homage. Join the ladies and gents of Miss Rose’s long lost best friend Elisa shows up and crashes on DIR. AKIRA BOCH, 2012, 75 MIN. Sexploitation Follies as they pull out all the stops AN EVENING OF her couch...inde nitely. Free-spirited Elisa has just and every color rhinestone in the rainbow to bring moved back to Los Angeles after a devastating PRESENTED BY THE PHILADELPHIA you an evening of Wes Anderson Burlesque. Come WES ANDERSON-THEMED break-up, and no one else in her funky group of ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL see that ower you’d love to pluck, Miss Rose, as she friends is willing to help her out. She is charismatic presents a night of sexy skits and fascinating strips BURLESQUE and musically gifted, making her the perfect that even the director of The Max Fischer Players partner in the band that Darla has long wanted to would love. Hosting the evening of lm fantasy is start up. But when the band gets rolling, obsession, Philadelphia’s own female farce duo, a spectacle of will be honoring the life works of young Max Fischer heartache, insecurity, and oversized egos all work side notes and sass, Sidetracked! with her strip portrayal of Rushmore. against them. While they both share dreams of rocking the globe, it becomes a monumental The evening features performances in tribute to Wes Miss Rose’s Sexploitation Follies is director-based struggle getting their new band out of the garage. Anderson’s lms, including a wondrous watery burlesque, incorporating memorable cult lm vision from Ruby Solitaire’s tribute to The Life Aquatic characters, large scale set dressings and props, and The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival with Steve Zissou, Hayley Jane will take you to a handpicked performers. Miss Rose brings a little (PAAFF) is the rst event of its kind in Philadelphia: far-o whimsical land with her mysterious Darjeeling movie magic to each Sexploitation Follies show, a an award winning lm festival celebrating and Limited number, Philadelphia boylesque stars Mr. night of lm fantasy that’s sure to please. (MR) elevating the Asian American experience. In its ve Fahrenheit and Brettzo team up to bring you some years, PAAFF is proud to have presented dozens of brotherly love straight out of The Royal Tenenbaums, Admission: $12 culturally relevant lms and exciting programming Miss Mary Wanna promises to shake that tail of hers to broad and diverse audiences from Chinatown to in honor of Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Miss Rose herself Center City to University City.

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UNKNOWN JAPAN PRESENTS Stray Cat Rock series, and some very politically Temple University Libraries' Special Collections FREE EVENT! incorrect Roman Pornos. But Massacre Gun nds Research Center presents selections from the Urban MASSACRE GUN him in full-on dark noir mode, and the heavy Archives collection. Footage spans the late 1940s UNEDITED PHILADELPHIA: DIR. YASUHARU HASEBE, 1967, 89 MIN. atmosphere of the lm foreshadows many of the through early 1980s and highlights the last year of rough subjects he tackled in later lms. Hasebe preservation work, research requests, and digitiza- WITH SPECIAL GUEST CURATOR manages to enliven the gloom with a jazzy milieu tion as part of our Civil Rights in a Northern City ARCHIVAL NEWS FOOTAGE and some colorful minor characters. Action scenes web portal. Selections are a mix of unedited news MARC WALKOW are relegated to the lm’s second half, but they footage and produced public aairs documentaries FROM TEMPLE U. LIBRARIES Three brothers take on the mob in a hard-boiled, more than make up for the wait, from one that oer glimpses of both exceptional and every- doom-laden, little-seen gangster lm from the character’s execution by headlight to the nal day moments in the Philadelphia region’s history. images from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, the height of Nikkatsu’s period of “Borderless Action” showdown on a deserted road. Don’t miss your Philadelphia Inquirer, and Daily News as well as productivity. Eldest brother Ryuichi Kuroda is a only chance to discover a new classic of 1960s Temple University Libraries’ Special Collections scores of other images collections provide a hitman for the Akazawa gang who, at the whim of Japanese genre cinema! (MW) Research Center holds rare and archival materials comprehensive view of life in our region. Here we his stern boss, is forced to eliminate a woman he documenting the history of the university and the feature our extensive holdings of local TV newsreel loves. The lm was selected by guest curator Marc region. We share the content to stimulate, enrich, footage from KYW and WPVI which add to our rich Walkow (Sushi Typhoon, New York Asian Film and support research, teaching, and learning and to record of the social, economic, political, cultural, One of three monochrome hitman movies Nikkatsu Festival), Marc will be in attendance to introduce engage with the larger community of scholars and civic, and physical development of Philadelphia. B-idol Joe Shishido made in 1967 for Nikkatsu — the screening. the general public. Established in 1967, our Urban (JP) the others being Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill and Archives documents the development of an urban the iconic proto-Western A Colt is my Passport. Unknown Japan is a biannual, six-week series of region through a wide variety of organization Alternatively known as The Slaughter Gun or rare Japanese lms presented by Cinedelphia.com records including local businesses such as the Ruthless Gangster, Massacre Gun was director and the Japan America Society of Greater Philadel- Pennsylvania Railroad Company and nonpro ts and Hasebe’s third lm at Nikkatsu, and he would later phia. Additional info: unknown-japan.com. community organizations including the Friends do other notable gangster lms, three- fths of the Neighborhood Guild and the Housing Association of Delaware Valley. The millions of clippings and

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recently, to explore the eld of locative, place- Currently celebrating their 16th year of Philly-area EXHUMED FILMS PRESENT TERMITE TV: based media with their "Walk Philly" project. In an genre lm programming, Exhumed Films will be environment lled with corporate ads and comme- making their PhilaMOCA debut with a special THE MUTATIONS RETROSPECTIVE AND rcial interests, Termite TV introduces works of art 16mm presentation of The Mutations aka The DIR. JACK CARDIFF, 1974, 92 MIN., 16MM that have the potential to create social change, to Freakmaker (1974). PLUS A SPECIAL Q&A WITH THE SURVEILLANCE SHOW connect people and communities Legendary Oscar-winning cinematographer Jack EXHUMED GANG. As part of the CFF, Termite TV will present a short Cardi (Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes) directs this PREMIERE retrospective of its work over the last 20 years, story of a rogue biologist (Donald Pleasence, including video clips (excerpts from Desert Storm Halloween, Wake in Fright) who specializes in Termite TV (www.termite.org) is a video collective 1992, Violent 1999 and Terror 2005), installation creating genetic plant/animal hybrids with the that has been producing experimental and activist ("Life Stories", 1999 -2012) and Q&A with Termite assistance of Doctor Who’s Tom Baker. Featuring a media for over 20 years in Philadelphia and beyond! Members. cast of real-life oddities and obvious nods to Freaks Termite TV produces, distributes and facilitates the (1932) and Eyes Without a Face (1960), The Mutations creation of media that challenges the status quo Termite TV will also premiere a new 30-minute is must-see viewing for connoisseurs of the bizarre. and provides an alternative to corporate media. compilation video program on the theme of Termite work has been broadcast nationally on “Surveillance”. Overheard conversations, animal Prior to the screening, Exhumed Films members will television and screened at festivals and museums cams, spam mail and security systems are some of take the stage and subject themselves to a Q&A worldwide. the themes that will provoke you to consider the with audience members regarding the highs and ways we are increasingly observed and monitored lows of their 16 years worth of lm programming, Their work has been described as "video jazz" and by both technology and one another. the eort that goes into independently screening "cubist television." Termite TV’s continued experi- lms, and the reasoning behind their booking of mentations with media have led them to facilitate prog rockers Asia back in 2003. The Q&A will be community/youth media projects and, most moderated by Exhumed superfan/Colonial Theatre programmer Nick Lombardo. (EB)

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Truaut’s Shoot the Piano Player (1960). When I started Danger After Dark in the Philadel- SPECIAL EVENT! DAVID GOODIS AND phia Film Festival (then still named the Philadelphia French director Henri Verneuil made the second Festival of World Cinema) back in 2001, I had no DANGER AFTER DARK THE BURGLARS ON 35MM adaptation of Goodis’ novel The Burglars (1971) aka idea if the concept would really connect with DAD PROGRAMMER TRAVIS CRAWFORD RECOUNTS DIR. HENRI VERNEUIL, 1971, 120 MIN. Le Casse, which was also partly a remake of a ’57 audiences – I remember walking to a Ritz theater 12 YEARS OF THE MUCH-LOVED GENRE FILM version of the lm scripted by Goodis, shot in for our rst screening, the Japanese classic Female PROGRAM FOLLOWED BY A SPECIAL SURPRISE WITH A SPECIAL PRE-SCREENING SCREENING OF A PAST DAD FILM! Philadelphia, directed by Philadelphian Paul Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, and expecting to nd DISCUSSION FEATURING AN Wendkos and starring Jayne Mans eld. Verneuil’s a dozen or so friends…only to see a packed, and festivals experienced their division, and when I returned to program in ’10 and ’11, the series was IMPRESSIVE PANEL OF LOCAL GOODIS version stars Omar Sharif and Jean-Paul Belmondo. sold-out house lled with the type of adventurous, A dirty police inspector purses a gang of burglars enthused cinephiles that have continued to make shifted to July to function alongside that season’s who are seeking out a cache of emeralds. This EXPERTS AND ADMIRERS. up the core DAD audience over time. Throughout QFest instead. Last year, Danger After Dark had to Euro-crime lm is relatively obscure within the U.S., those dozen years, the program has seen highs: take a complete hiatus while I worked to help Though he spent a stint living and working in New but became known for a famous car chase Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance gave Park Chan-wook establish the new, Philly-based distributor Artsploi- York and L.A., noir novelist David Goodis (1917 - sequence through the streets of Athens, some one of his rst U.S. festival awards during its tation Films, but this summer, the program will be 1967) was born and raised in Philadelphia. The city impressive cinematography from the proli c Claude premiere here, we’ve bestowed tributes on Alex de returning…in a new, expanded form that will also left an indelible stamp on his work, and his xation Renoir, and a great score from composer Ennio la Iglesia and Tobe Hooper, held retrospective serve as a taste of even greater things to come next with Philadelphia’s poor urban areas and criminal Morricone. This stunt heavy, noir tinged heist lm is screenings on everything from Shaw Bros. martial year. So, if you’ve appreciated this series in years life, as well as his tendency to sympathize with the an entertaining look at Goodis’ Philadelphia by way arts classics to lost Catherine Breillat lms and past, please join us for a look back at a dozen years city’s outsiders and outlaws, often show up in his of Europe. collections of silent French porn reels to…well, of Danger After Dark, its ups and downs, and enjoy ction. His novels such as The Burglar, Of Tender Sin, a secret lm that represents the program at its There will be a pre-screening panel discussion on Gone with the Pope. And there have been lows too: The Wounded and the Slain and Down There focus on wildest. While we won’t reveal the surprise lm in criminals, fugitives, hard luck cases and lives gone Goodis' work and life moderated by local lm writer for example, if you’ve ever put on 3D glasses before advance, I’ll tell you that it was one of my favorite wrong. These compelling stories attracted lm- Samm Deighan and featuring Inquirer lm critic a screening, then please grade those lms’ artistic lms I ever programmed, and that it also never makers, many of them French, where Goodis’ work Steven Rea, writer and Poe expert Edward Pettit, merits on a curve. The last few years have been received any sort of U.S. release (theatrical or video) is more popular than the U.S., and a number of his NoirCon founder Lou Boxer, and crime novelist rocky ones – I was not involved with Danger After after we screened it that year. So begin guessing! novels were adapted into well-known lms, such as Duane Swierczynski. (SD) Dark in 2008 and ’09 while the two lm societies (TC)

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PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE! initially hope for just a vague rearmation of Director Gary P. Cohen will be on hand to introduce WORLD PREMIERE! consciousness, but the experiment takes an this new mash-up of the two Video Violence lms. VANISHING WAVES unexpected twist when Lukas and Aurora actually Trust me, the result is fantastic... VIDEO VIOLENCE: DIR. KRISTINA BUOZYTE, 2012, 124 MIN. develop a strong psychic link in their mutually altered forms of consciousness…and their link One of the great cinematic time capsules of the PRESENTED BY REDUX DELUXE quickly evolves into a romantic, sexually charged golden age of the brick and mortar video rental DIR. GARY P. COHEN, 2013, 92 MIN. ARTSPLOITATION FILMS relationship. As Lukas hides this data from his store, 1987's Video Violence (full title: Video researchers, he and Aurora meet secretly and Violence...When Renting is Not Enough) remains one WITH SPECIAL GUEST: Vanishing Waves is a bold, visionary work of science passionately in a series of surreal dream-scapes of the most fun and charming no-budget horror DIRECTOR GARY P. COHEN ction cinema that recalls the genre in its cerebral created by their collective minds, but their union is lms of the 1980s. Filmed in Frenchtown, NJ with a 1960s and ’70s golden age, just as it simultaneously tragically doomed to collapse around them. cast of non-actors and a never-ending supply of redundant footage, resulting in an entirely new forges new territory with its unique fusion of imaginative homemade gore eects, VV tells the experience that, in my humble opinion, outshines emotional melodrama and hallucinatory wides- Vanishing Waves swept all the major awards – Best story of a video store proprietor who unknowingly both of the originals. (EB) creen spectacle. The second solo feature from Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best sets up shop in the most dangerous of small towns. Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte, following her Actress (Jurga Jutaite) – at 2012’s Fantastic Fest in Video Violence 2 (also 1987) continues the storyline About Viva Video!: acclaimed 2008 debut The Collectress, Vanishing Austin, Texas. It also won Best Film at the Rio Grind within the format of a public access television show From the ashes of the Bryn Mawr location of TLA Waves is a science ction romance that is equally Film Festival in Vancouver and has played at the complete with fake commercials and an even Video came Ardmore's VIVA VIDEO! THE LAST occupied by the erotic as well as the fantastic. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Palic darker sense of humor than its predecessor. PICTURE STORE, the Philadelphia area's last remain- Lukas (Marius Jampolskis) is assisting a scienti c European Film Festival, Neuchatel International ing arthouse/foreign/genre-oriented video rental research team by functioning as a patient in a series Fantastic Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival. (TC) Both lms are lled with disturbing deaths, nasty shop. of monitored (and medicated) sensory deprivation nudity, and a scathing self-awareness that brings to experiments wherein he is attempting to make Travis Crawford, Acquisitions Consultant for mind the current widespread outcry against violent some form of contact with the subject, Aurora Artsploitation Films, will introduce the screening. entertainment. Cohen’s new feature-length combo (Jurga Jutaite), a young woman who has been of the lms eliminates some of the superuous and locked in a comatose state for some time. Doctors

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WORLD PREMIERE! fans and the cinematic adventurous. Patrick Swayze is the charismatic Bohdi (One word, SPECIAL EVENT! Like Cher), leader of a gang of fun loving Buddhist ARMY OF WOLVES Wellsboro, PA-born twin brother lmmakers Mark surfers who dress as ex-presidents and rob banks to POINT BREAK (1991) DIR. MARK & JOHN POLONIA AND JON and John Polonia are known for their no-budget nance their adrenaline-soaked misadventures. MCBRIDE, 2013, 79 MIN. approach towards genre lmmaking. Their rst Keanu Reeves is Johnny (greatest name in cinema WITH A LIVE ORIGINAL SURF commercial release came in the form of 1986’s history) Utah, square, former college football hero SCORE FROM BETHLEHEM, PA’S Deep behind enemy lines, a new war has begun… Splatter Farm (they were 18-years-old at the time) turned FBI agent who goes undercover in the L.A. As the story goes, the Nazis turned to occult-based and they have since established themselves as the surf community to catch the gnarly bandits. GREAT WHITE CAPS. experiments during the waning years of WWII in an leaders of homegrown horror with cult favorites eort to thwart the Allied forces through unortho- including The House That Screamed, Splatter Beach, When Kathryn (Zero Dark Thirty) Bigelow, working apparent in their live performance. Montag the dox means. The successful Lycanthropy Experiment and the Feeders lms. John passed away in 2008 at at her loosest, directs, and Jim (James Cameron) Magni cent (lead guitar and instigator) has these was one such experiment, an attempt to breed an the age of 39, but Mark continues to carry the Cameron produces, action and stunts rule the day. words: “This was a labor of love. From my rst VHS army of gun-toting werewolves, but the whole family’s lmmaking torch. (EB) Highlights include sun kissed sur ng footage, jaw copy of this movie, to the many hungover Sundays thing went horribly wrong as a group of American dropping skydiving sequences and a truly catching it on TV, to having now performed in front soldiers will soon discover. Guest speaker Brian Langan will introduce the outstanding foot chase where a dog is used as a of this movie well over a hundred times, it never screening. projectile weapon. Whether the movie is like that stops being fun. Simple as that.” Filmed amongst the rugged landscape of Central on purpose (it is) or not, awesomeness abounds. PA (Germania, Ansonia, and Morris to be precise) (Chris Ludovici) back in 2005 by the Polonias alongside frequent collaborator Jon McBride (Woodchipper Massacre), In 2011, Bethlehem, PA’s Great White Caps set to additional footage has since been shot and the lm work on re-imagining the score to Point Break, the has been re-edited into its current and nal incarna- greatest surf/spy/extreme sports/cop drama of all tion. Filled with regional actors, strange visual time. And the (unreasonable?) passion that these eects, and inventive camera work (wolf-cam!), four musicians feel for the lm is immediately Army of Wolves is a real treat for low-budget horror

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45th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING Years was set, though High School eschews heart- Voyeurism, snu, cinema and sex collide in Red, a warming life lessons in favor of hard-nosed reality. provocative slow-burn shocker from Montreal VIVISECTIONS: HIGH SCHOOL From the classroom to the gymnasium, the horror maven, Maude Michaud (Hollywood Skin). In DIR. FREDERICK WISEMAN, 1968, 75 MIN. principal’s oce to the schoolyard, Wiseman Rafael De Leon Jr’s Birthday Boys, teenaged Riley INTERNATIONAL HORROR provides a valuable glimpse into the era when turns to dark forces in order to bring back her lost One of the pioneers of direct cinema (not that he’d students began standing up to both teachers and love. Cinematic madman Sam Walker (Tea Break) SHORTS BLOCK admit to it), acclaimed lmmaker Frederick conformity. presents his short lm/music video hybrid Bite LOCAL FILMMAKER MATT GARRETT PRESENTS A PROGRAM Wiseman has been documenting a wide variety of OF NINE SHORT HORROR FILMS, ALL PHILADELPHIA Horse, the rst chapter of a multi-media collabora- PREMIERES, WITH SELECT FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE. social institutions since 1967. From the “criminally High School wasn’t shown in Philadelphia until tion with the Southern Gothic band Mississippi insane” hospital inmates of Titicut Follies (1967) to 2001, the result of vague threats from the school- Witch. Next is Doll Parts and Stained director Karen Matt O’Mahoney, director of the Fantastic Fest the struggling, high-end Parisian dancers in Crazy board that Wiseman heeded in an eort to avoid Lam’s The Stolen, a dark fairy tale about a young girl award-winning Electric Fence, returns with Adjust Horse (2001), Wiseman has always approached his legal action (he was already involved in a lawsuit with a big heart who is forced to strike a bargain Tracking, a lovingly meaty homage to the Golden subjects from the perspective of a y on the wall, from the state of Massachusetts concerning his with beings from another world. The more serious Age of VHS Horror. And nally, from the delightfully unobtrusive yet deeply penetrating. previous lm, Titicut Follies). Stories surrounding portion of our program concludes with the stop- twisted minds of Greg Hanson & Casey Regan (Thy this “banned lm” circulated throughout Philadel- motion animated nightmare, Crépuscule, from Kill Be Done) comes the de nitive argument against High School (1968), Wiseman’s second feature as phia for decades as it gained a The Day the Clown visionary director Éric Falardeau USDA-approved cannibalism, Meat Me in Plainville. director/producer, focuses upon the students and Cried-like mystique. No longer relegated to boot- (Thanatomorphose). A young woman, bound at the Think Soylent Green meets I Drink Your Blood with a faculty of Philadelphia’s Northeast High School. It legs or the occasional PBS screening, Philly has wrists, attempts to escape her demented redneck healthy dose of Father Knows Best thrown in for was lmed during a turbulent time when Ameri- embraced this masterpiece of documentary captors in screenwriter Josh MacDonald's (The good measure. Human Meat Is Murder cans were questioning the validity of the Vietnam lmmaking and the CFF is proud to celebrate its Corridor) beautifully photographed and wickedly War, which was escalating towards a ground war 45th anniversary. (EB) funny directorial debut, Game. Aussie director Dave Every lm in this program is a Philadelphia thanks to Lyndon Johnson’s Operation Rolling Wade’s slick, sick and hilariously crude A Tale of Premiere, having previously played such festivals as Thunder, and riots were breaking out following the Obsession follows an overweight teen goth as she Cannes, Fantasia, PiFan, Sydney Underground, and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 was attempts to curb her hunger to win the heart (and Fantastic Fest. (MG) the year in which the rst season of The Wonder body) of the perpetually shirtless school hunk.

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SPECIAL EVENT! Horror Picture Show, Pink Flamingos), to interna- As part of PhilaMOCA's Tuesday Tune-Out series, PHILAMOCA’S TUESDAY tional discoveries (The Discreet Charm of the Philly's own Farquar Muckenfuss perform a full set of Bourgeoisie, 8 1/2, Alphaville) and even to the surreal Monkees covers followed by a screening of The TUNE-OUT FOR THE LOVE OF FILM: (Eraserhead, El Topo). When the videocassette Monkees' feature lm Head (1968). revolution changed the way people watched lm, FARQUAR MUCKENFUSS THE HISTORY OF TLA PERFORM A FULL SET OF MONKEES COVERS FROM REPERTORY CINEMA TO TLA also changed, by opening video stores that Farquar Muckenfuss is what results from mixing FOLLOWED BY A SCREENING OF VIDEO STORES AND BEYOND. continued the tradition of highlighting interna- classic instrumental surf rock with skate punk, tional cinema and which happily catered to Phila- rockabilly, exotica, and circus music. To keep the Join Ray Murray, President of TLA Entertainment delphians’ famously eclectic tastes. attention of a confused audience awaiting vocals, HEAD Group, as he recounts his work with TLA (Theater of the trio found it important to be engaging in other DIR. BOB RAFELSON, 1968, 86 MIN. the Living Arts), from its birth as a South Street Murray, as well as several long-time TLAers, will be ways so they developed confrontational, garishly- hippie cinema in the early 1970s through its on hand with posters and a video to walk the costumed stage antics. They also crowded the free-format head trip of a feature has garnered a morphing into video stores and now streaming audience through the last 40 years of Philadelphia’s stage with antiquated laboratory equipment, loyal cult following and a montage of songs from lms on the internet. alternative cinematic history. biological oddities, and surplus military gear. In the soundtrack were met with cheers throughout 1998, with the help of The Dead Milkmen’s Joe Jack 2012's Monkees reunion tour. Reportedly (and Older lm fans fondly remember the days of After the discussion, there will be a screening of Talcum, they recorded the album They Grow Their understandably) conceived and written with the aid repertory and art cinema: from Germantown’s John Waters’ classic Female Trouble (which had its Own Meat: Grade 'E' (but Edible) (Burnt Toast Vinyl, of psychedelic drugs, co-writers Jack Nicholson and Bandbox, the Lane on Broad Street, Sansom Street’s premiere at TLA on November 6, 1974). 1999). The band disappeared in October of 2000 and Bob Rafelson (who also directed) pillage the depths Academy Screening Room, Market Street’s New waited twelve years before announcing their next of cinema to represent all genres and tropes as they World Cinema and many more, but arguably the show. send Peter, Davy, Micky, and Mike on an existential most well-known and popular was TLA Cinema on adventure of self-awareness. Wild stu! South Street where, pre-instant access of lm, Head was The Monkees' attempt at both summariz- people from all walks of life ventured to the ing and distancing themselves from their television ramshackle cinema to see all kinds of career. The lm's success is debatable, but this non-Hollywood lm: from cult classics (The Rocky

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PhilaMOCA SUN April 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM PhilaMOCA THU April 18, 2013 at 8:00 PM

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24 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 17 International House FRI April 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM PhilaMOCA FRI April 19, 2013 at 10:00 PM DAD

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28 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 13 PhilaMOCA TUE April 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM Seaport Museum SUN April 21, 2013 at 1:00 PM

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PhilaMOCA TUE April 23, 2013 at 8:00 PM PhilaMOCA SAT April 6, 2013 at 10:00 PM

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08 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 33 PhilaMOCA THU April 25, 2013 at 7:00 PM The Stoogeum SAT April 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM

34 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 07 Freeman’s FRI April 5, 2013 at 8:00 PM PhilaMOCA THU April 25, 2013 at 10:00 PM

06 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 35 PhilaMOCA FRI April 26, 2013 at 7:30 PM International House THU April 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM Hand Held Day (1975) by Gary Beydler. © Gary Beydler. Courtesy of Mike Beydler. and David © Gary Gary (1975) by Beydler. Hand Held Day Beydler.

36 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 05 ARMY OF WOLVES (p. 18) 7 14 28 21 SCREAMERS / BLADES VIVISECTIONS (p.VIVISECTIONS 19) CINEDELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIMENT (p. 29) PHILADELPHIA GIRLS SCHOOL PhilaMOCA FRI April 26, 2013 at 10:00 PM LUBIN (p. 30) SUN (p. 10) 1 8 15 29 22 FILMADELPHIA (p. 11) TLA ENTERTAINMENTTLA REELBLACK (p. 31) MON (p. 20) 2 9 16 30 23 THE MONKEES (p. 21) PHILLY PUNK (p. 32) ENSEMBLE (p. 12) DIVINE HAND TUE 3 10 17 24 MASSACRE GUN (p. 14) THE CRUMBLES (p. 13) HIGH SCHOOL (p. 22) THE WAYKEVIN TO WED (p. 33) Join us for a casual gathering of ex-TLA Video store FREE EVENT! clerks who will share humorous and heartwarming stories of their time spent working for the Philadel- phia movie rental institution. The panel will be TLA VIDEO FOREVER

STOOGEUM (p. 7) were required to pass a lm trivia exam in order to CLOSING DAY CRAZINESS!

04 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 37 PhilaMOCA SAT April 27, 2013 Message from CFF organizer Eric Bresler: The rst time I attended a lm festival in Philadelphia was as a volunteer for the short-lived Reject Film Festival back in 1997. I remember thinking that the two guys who ran it (one of which is now a big-time lmmaker) must CLOSING DAY / ERIC’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION have had great power and inuence in order to operate their own lm festival, albeit one that showcased work that other festivals had denied (still a noble concept). It was during this experience that I learned that lm I think we’ve mined the most valuable corners of the Philadelphia lm community through the preceding 23 screenings didn’t need to be restricted to the con nes of traditional movie theaters. Old City art galleries served days worth of programs, so let’s celebrate my birthday with a full day’s worth of crazy lm happenings that as the screening venues, each out tted with equipment and seating, and the whole thing was conducted with illustrate the kind of programming we showcase here at PhilaMOCA year-round. the utmost professionalism. These were eye-opening concepts for an 18-year-old movie-loving me who had just recently relocated from upstate New York. I volunteered again the following year and I remember thinking, while serving drinks to John Waters and a room full of weirdos, that someday I wanted to have my own lm festival. I 1:30 PM ROLLERCOASTER (1977) just had to come up with a good gimmick… Welcome to the Cinedelphia Film Festival! Take a look at this schedule! Local nonpro ts, distributors, lmmakers, organizations, all coming together under one masthead to celebrate Philly lm’s rich past and present. A great IN SENSURROUND! diversity of both aesthetics and practice exists in the Philadelphia lm community, as is true for the city itself, and Sure, replicating the 1970s theatrical gimmick is near impossible I think that this program guide sums it all up beautifully. without massive resources, but that’s not stopping us! Local audio experts recently descended upon PhilaMOCA with subwoofers, amps, Philly lm is an exciting, stimulating, and often strange world, and I invite you into the center of it. Again, welcome to the Cinedelphia Film Festival. and audio meters to replicate the Sensurround eect as accurately as possible, and it kinda worked! So prepare to feel the rumbles, crashes, and explosions of one of the four lms that utilized the bass-heavy format. WARNING: the decibal levels may cause nausea and discomfort. TICKETING Advance tickets are available online for all CFF programs, visit cinedelphia lmfestival.com. No A psychopathic bomber (Timothy Bottoms) rages war on the roller- exchanges/refunds on advance tickets. Door admission for PhilaMOCA, Freeman’s, Stoogeum, coaster tracks of California’s amusement parks and it’s up to ride and Viva Video! programs is cash-only. inspector Harry Calder (George Segal) to stop him. Rollercoaster features the only lm appearance of Sparks, Eric’s favorite band, so that Admission for all CFF programs is $10 except: explains that. 4/4 ($9), 4/5 ($9), 4/8 ($8), 4/12 ($9), 4/15 ($8), 4/20 ($12), 4/22 ($8)

38 Cinedelphia Film Festival Cinedelphia Film Festival 03 cinedelphia lm festival PhilaMOCA SAT April 27, 2013 CLOSING DAY / ERIC’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION by Eric Bresler 7:30 PM WE HATE MOVIES present LADY IN THE WATER (2006) and friends The We Hate Movies gang rolls back into Philadelphia for this special presentation of M. Night Shymalan’s notorious Lady in the Water, the local lmmaker’s infamously wrong-headed fantasy about the relation- LOCATIONS: ship between a handyman (Paul Giamatti) and the sensitive creature he Freeman’s PhilaMOCA nds in an apartment complex’s pool. Competently composed by 1808 Chestnut Street 531 N. 12th Street Director of Photography Chris Doyle, Lady in the Water has nevertheless Philadelphia, PA 19103 Philadelphia, PA 19123 garnered a reputation as one of the most deliriously stupid lms released in the ‘00s, and We Hate Movies will be on hand to provide live Independence Seaport Museum Stoogeum commentary on one of Shymalan’s greatest disasters. 211 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd. 904 Sheble Lane Philadelphia, PA 19106 Ambler, PA 19002 Come on out for a night of big, wildly profane laughs as the gang goes toe-to-toe with one of the worst lms ever shot in the Philadelphia International House Viva Video! area. 3701 Chestnut Street 16 W. Lancaster Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19104 Ardmore, PA 19003 I couldn’t be more excited to present the Philadelphia Premiere 10:00 PM SPONSORS: of the sequel to one of the greatest American independent lms since 2003’s The Room, and with the director, producer, and star in attendance!