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Spectacle Theater April 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Spectacle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 CLOSED 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm Theater INDISCRÉTIONS DANGEROUS PICTURE THINKING: PLANTS WEST VIRGINIA PLANTS ENCOUNTERS OF AN EVENING WITH SHORTS: WITHOUT 10 pm THE FIRST KIND: RICKY D’AMBROSE * 10 pm COAL with Q&A 10 pm WE’RE GOING DIRECTOR’S CUT BRUSSELS ISTANBUL TO EAT YOU 10 pm BY NIGHT 9 pm April 10 pm MON PÈRE AVAIT TWO LAWS Midnight DANGEROUS RAISON EXTRAÑA 2018 ENCOUNTERS OF Midnight REGRESIÓN THE FIRST KIND THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Lost & Forgotten Cinema 124 S. 3rd St., Brooklyn 3 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 8 pm 8 pm Contemporary Underground $5 tickets unless otherwise noted FIST CHURCH IMAGE SPEAK ISTANBUL DANGEROUS THE GOLDEN ERIC PITRA & DARKER THAN Special Events spectacletheater.com ENCOUNTERS OF TRIANGLE HAOYAN OF AMBER 5 pm 10 pm 10 pm THE FIRST KIND AMERICA LIVE MON PÈRE AVAIT IMAGE SPEAK BRUSSELS 10 pm SCORE * 10 pm RAISON BY NIGHT 10 pm EXTRAÑA THE BUTTERFLY THE BUTTERFLY REGRESIÓN 10 pm MURDERS 7:30 pm MURDERS INDISCRÉTIONS INDISCRÉTIONS Midnight Midnight FAISONS UN WE’RE GOING RÊVE… TO EAT YOU 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 6:30 pm 7:30 pm 10 pm 7:30 pm BLOOD BRUNCH ISTANBUL MON PÈRE AVAIT TWO LAWS WEST VIRGINIA BRUSSELS ISTANBUL RAISON with Q&A * SHORTS: BY NIGHT 5 pm 10 pm WITHOUT COAL 10 pm DANGEROUS THE NIGHT 10 pm 10 pm Midnight MON PÈRE AVAIT ENCOUNTERS OF I SWAM INDISCRÉTIONS THE BUTTERFLY 10 pm EXTRAÑA RAISON THE FIRST KIND MURDERS WE’RE GOING REGRESIÓN TO EAT YOU Midnight 7:30 pm THE GOLDEN TWO LAWS TRIANGLE 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 8 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm FIST CHURCH THE NIGHT DRAMATIC ESCAPE MATCH CUTS GET REEL FAISONS UN DANGEROUS I SWAM from Rehabilitation PRESENTS: RÊVE… ENCOUNTERS OF 5 pm Through the Arts * OLIVIER ASSAYAS' THE FIRST KIND THE GOLDEN 10 pm ELDORADO 10 pm TRIANGLE BRUSSELS 10 pm THE GOLDEN 10 pm BY NIGHT DANGEROUS 10 pm TRIANGLE DANGEROUS 7:30 pm ENCOUNTERS OF WE’RE GOING ENCOUNTERS OF EXTRAÑA THE FIRST KIND TO EAT YOU Midnight THE FIRST KIND: REGRESIÓN EXTRAÑA DIRECTOR’S CUT REGRESIÓN Midnight THE BUTTERFLY 29 30 MURDERS 3 pm 7:30 pm BLOOD BRUNCH FAISONS UN RÊVE… 5 pm TWO LAWS 10 pm DANGEROUS 7:30 pm ENCOUNTERS OF WEST VIRGINIA THE FIRST KIND: SHORTS: DIRECTOR’S CUT * $10 Tickets WITHOUT COAL On the front: Mon Père avait Raison, Sacha Guitry, 1936 Special Events PICTURE THINKING: AN EVENING Match Cuts Presents: WITH RICKY D’AMBROSE ELDORADO 4/4 7:30 pm, $10 Dir. Olivier Assayas, 2008. USA. 88 min. In advance of his feature debut, 4/25 7:30 pm Spectacle is thrilled to host filmmaker & Assayas attempts to reveal the secrets critic Ricky D’Ambrose for a screening of Angelin Preljocaj by shooting the of his early works followed by a Q&A. moments of joy and anguish of an ambitious new piece. IMAGE SPEAK: IMPROVISED TRUTH 4/9 7:30 pm & 10 pm GET REEL A night of screenings of essay films 4/26 8 pm celebrating the form with a publication Hosts Joe Castle Baker and Max Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, Tsui Hark, 1980 Istanbul, Marc Didden, 1985 launch and a screening of works by Wittert present a comedy show Ismaïl Bahri, Andrew Norman Wilson, for movie lovers (and haters, alike). & a selection of shorts by 10 emerging Featuring clips from well-known films, Tsui Hark’s First Three Films Guitry Gang: Three Films Dark 80’s: Marc Didden Double Pinilla filmmakers. appropriated into comedic routines by Sacha Guitry by New York’s HOTTEST (physically In the history of Hong Kong New Wave A distinct film mood inhabited Belgium The so-called “Ed Wood of Colombia”, TWO LAWS and career-wise) comedians. This Cinema, Hark remains a sovereign Guitry made his name on the stage as an in the 1980s, established by a small Jairo Pinilla pioneered a form of acerbic Dirs. Carolyn Strachan, Alessandro month's theme: spring awakening. figure, the forerunner of the first wave arch playwright of uniquely Gallic light group of auteur filmmakers who drew camp cinema in constant struggle Cavadini, and Borroloola Aboriginal of political filmmakers who’d trained comedies, though his cinematic & theat- from the same pool of actors and a with the government agency providing Community, 1981. Australia. 140 min. abroad during the 1970s. rical works remain relatively unknown. shared theme of existential (masculine) funding for his movies, Fono Cine. In English and Aboriginal with English MUBI Special Discoveries ruin. The fascination with murderers subtitles. THE BUTTERFLY MURDERS INDISCRÉTIONS & predators seem here, as elsewhere, THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE 4/6 9 pm • 4/15 7:30 pm PLANTS Dir. Tsui Hark, 1979. Hong Kong. 88 min. (THE NEW TESTAMENT) a way of probing more deeply into Dir. Jairo Pinilla, 1984. Colombia. 93 min. 4/18 6:30 pm w/Q&A, $10 Dir. Roberto Doveris, 2015. Chile. 94 min. 4/11 10 pm • 4/14 10 pm Dir. Sacha Guitry, 1936. France. 96 mins. ambient urges and almost-uncontrolla- In Spanish with English subtitles. 4/29 5 pm 4/5 7:30 pm • 4/7 7:30 pm 4/18 10 pm • 4/18 Midnight 4/2 7:30 pm • 4/8 7:30 pm ble fantasies. 4/6 Midnight • 4/12 7:30 pm The Aboriginal people of Borroloola Amid the responsibility of caring for Hark’s directorial debut came in the 4/13 10 pm • 4/17 10 pm 4/21 Midnight • 4/22 5 pm have a traumatic history of massacres, her brother, financial problems and the form of this Wuxia, or martial arts epic, Guitry sets a trap—a Rube Goldberg of ISTANBUL 4/27 10 pm institutionalisation and dispossession of awakening of her sexuality, Florencia deeply inspired by Euro-American horror a dinner party with the express purpose Dir. Marc Didden, 1985. Belgium. An ostensibly straightforward mystery their lands. The people live within a tribal becomes obsessed with a comic about films and Spaghetti Westerns from the of catching his wife with another man! In English, English subtitles for some thriller riffing on a bygone generation’s structure and all decisions concerning the invasion of plant souls into human 70s, a traditional swordplay adventure Madame and Monsieur battle with rapier Dutch/French worth of toxic whispers about the this film were made within this structure; bodies. A hallucinatory portrait of loneli- restructured as a murder mystery and wit for the soul of their decades-long, 4/7 10 pm • 4/10 7:30 pm Bermuda Triangle. Well before a and in doing so it also challenges no- ness and a fearless depiction of female inflected with bio-horror. childless marriage. 4/16 7:30 pm • 4/21 7:30 pm man-eating plant has taken center tions of filmmaking practice, of history, sexual desire. Opening with a warm and familiar stage, you’ll agree that this is one of of ethnography, of objectivity. WE’RE GOING TO EAT YOU MON PÈRE AVAIT RAISON instrumental, this film presents itself the wildest and most imaginative horror THE NIGHT I SWAM Dir. Tsui Hark, 1980. Hong Kong. 90 min. (MY FATHER WAS RIGHT) as a road movie with the innocuous movies ever made. ERIC PITRA & HAOYAN OF AMERICA Dir. Damien Manivel, Kohei Igarashi, 4/2 10 pm • 4/19 20 pm Dir. Sacha Guitry, 1936. France. 81 mins. goal of getting to Istanbul. It doesn’t 4/13 8 pm, $10 2017. France/Japan. 79 min. 4/13 Midnight • 4/25 10 pm 4/4 10 pm • 4/8 5 pm take long for this drifter vessel to steer EXTRAÑA REGRESIÓN A live score event like no other. Eric Pitra 4/16 10 pm • 4/23 7:30 pm A grim fantasy about Mainland China, 4/17 7:30 pm • 4/21 10 pm off course. The friendship that forms Dir. Jairo Pinilla, 1985. Colombia. 98 min. creates electronic music for both film & Awoken by his father’s departure and simpler than his debut, it dips into multi- Guitry stars as a cuckold whose between a maniacal Martin (Brad Dourif) In dubbed English with Spanish subtitles. album release under his own name and unable to fall back asleep a young boy ple genres; part horror, part Kung Fu, & wounded pride predestines his son for and his chosen pal—Willy (Dominique 4/7 Midnight • 4/12 10 pm as Nature Program. Haoyan of America draws a picture. On his way to school, part slapstick comedy. His most overtly a lifelong suspicion of the fairer sex. The Deruddere) is rife with equal parts 4/20 Midnight • 4/22 7:30 pm seeks to honor the mind of self through still drowsy, he strays off the path and anti-communist film (though religion, film’s rapid-fire dialogue & huffy moral- Stockholm syndrome and fascination. 4/27 Midnight invisible landscapes of meaning… wanders into the snow… intellectuals, & bourgeois romanticism izing are only a disguise: its true heart A beautiful medical student named are treated with equal satirical acridity). is in this sweet depiction of paternal BRUSSELS BY NIGHT Laura is orphaned: first her father dies, Spectacle & Radical Hardware Present: devotion, spread evenly across three Dir.
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