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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 Jeerson, 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 connes 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 outtted 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 nonprots, 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 cinedelphialmfestival.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 outt 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 37 Cinedelphia Film Festival Festival Film Cinedelphia EMPLOYEES. FREE EVENT! TLA VIDEO FOREVER FROM EX-TLA VIDEO STORE EX-TLA FROM REFLECTIVE REMINISCENCES So join us as we lament the fall of the video rental the fall of the video rental lament So join us as we industry customers, of problem stories and share and the typical that craziness co-workers, strange are customers Former after hours. in-store occurred the participate to tales from with their own invited other side of the counter. - - PhilaMOCA FRI April 26, 2013 at 10:00 PM PhilaMOCA 26, 2013 at FRI April Join us for a casual gathering of ex-TLA Video store store Video a casual gathering of ex-TLA Join us for and heartwarming humorous clerks who will share the Philadel working of their time spent stories for panel will be The institution. rental phia movie of a lm that a surprise by screening followed “TLA aesthetic”. embodies the were stores Video TLA the decades, nearly three For art for house, resource most valuable Philadelphia’s rst location The lms. and hard-to-nd foreign, the to 1985) opened as a response (South Street, impact on repertory screen theater VHS format’s (Bryn and the nal location ings, closed in Mawr) delivery of movie of the evolution 2012 as a result But for etc). OnDemand, methods (streaming, a were TLA stores the those intervening decades, lm students, obsessives, movie home for second TLA employees adventurous. and the cinematic to pass a lm trivia in order exam to required were quick to always and they were gain employment, help customers their knowledge to utilize in order the clerks Sure, guy in it”. with that “that movie nd rude downright even maybe be intimidating, could just part really was but that of the fun. times, at CINEDELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 2013 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 OPENING NIGHT STOOGEUM (p. 7) INTERNATIONAL SECRET CINEMA (p. 6) SCOTT AND GARY (p. 8) HOUSE (p. 5) VIDEO PIRATES (p. 9) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 GIRLS SCHOOL DIVINE HAND THE CRUMBLES (p. 13) SCREAMERS / BLADES FILMADELPHIA (p. 11) EXHUMED FILMS (p. 15) DAVID GOODIS (p. 16) VIDEO VIOLENCE (p. 17) ENSEMBLE (p. 12) (p. 10) MASSACRE GUN (p. 14) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ARMY OF WOLVES (p. 18) VANISHING WAVES (p. 24) TERMITE TV (p. 26) TLA ENTERTAINMENT THE MONKEES (p. 21) HIGH SCHOOL (p. 22) POINT BREAK (p. 23) VIVISECTIONS (p. 19) (p. 20) DANGER AFTER DARK URBAN ARCHIVES (p. 27) (p. 25) BURLESQUE (p. 28) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 PHILADELPHIA THE WAY TO KEVIN SLAUGHTER TALES (p. 34) THE LOST MAN (p. 36) CLOSING DAY EXPERIMENT (p. 29) REELBLACK (p. 31) PHILLY PUNK (p.