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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. Marc Didden, 1983. Belgium. then her mother is murdered by her DARKER THAN AMBER in 16mm West Virginia Shorts: Without Coal DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS generations of befuddled Frenchmen. In French & Dutch with English subtitles sociopathic cousin Rodolfo. Laura Dir. Robert Clouse, 1970. USA. 96 min. OF THE FIRST KIND Hilarity ensues, as it so often does, 4/5 10 pm • 4/10 10 pm becomes obsessed, both with seeking 4/14 8 pm Documents and images of West Dir. Tsui Hark, 1980. Hong Kong. 95 min. when their seemingly unflappable bond 4/20 10 pm • 4/23 10 pm vengeance for her mother’s murder, From the depths of the Frumkes Virginia often revolve around natural 4/3 10 pm • 4/11 7:30 pm between is tested by womanhood in all Max could have shot himself. Instead and with the idea of reoccupying her Collection comes a one-night only resource extraction and the human labor 4/15 5 pm • 4/24 10 pm its wily unpredictability. he takes his anxious terror out of the still-fresh corpse. Soon Laura has 16mm screening of Robert Clouse’s entwined in it. Coal mining depletes the 4/28 7:30 pm house, to the train station, and wanders decided to be killed so her spirit can blazing, amazing, bourbon-slugging human body and creates monuments Perhaps the grimmest & most nihilistic FAISONS UN RÊVE… the Brussels streets. He’s a detestable commingle with her mother’s, but revenge picture. Starring B-legend Rod of wealth for land speculators and busi- portrait of Hong Kong society to emerge (LET’S MAKE A DREAM) guy, a real class-A jerk, though able her boyfriend Ray disapproves—and Taylor as no-nonsense private detective/ ness owners. But in the case of Nimrod from the first HK New Wave movement, Dir. Sacha Guitry, 1936. France. 86 mins. to convince others that he is wracked Rodolfo, now moved into Laura’s empty muscleman, the movie begins as a Workman, it also refines more noble this socio-economic avant-punk action 4/14 Midnight • 4/27 7:30 pm with psychological turmoil. To Didden’s family home with his deadbeat father, sweetly wallpapered Miami love story, priorities of union solidarity, humor, and masterpiece is like no film you will ever 4/30 10 pm credit, Max becomes a detailed study may have other designs. but soon sees Taylor following a blood songs for every occasion. see again. Guitry’s rondéle of casual infidelity in pathological behavior, and perhaps trail all the way to the Caribbean. among the petit bourgeois has more a cultural gesture of the inevitable NIMROD WORKMAN: DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS OF elan than you can shake a cigar at—in and demented decay of the (white) DRAMATIC ESCAPE TO FIT MY OWN CATEGORY THE FIRST KIND: DIRECTOR’S CUT fact, the old double-cross never looked European man. from Rehabilitation Through the Arts dir. Scott Faulkner and Anthony Slone, Dir. Tsui Hark, 1980. Hong Kong. 95 min. so elegant than in this lighter-than-air Dir. Nick Quested, 2015. USA. 90 min. 1975. USA. 35 min. 4/3 7:30 pm • 4/28 10 pm account of a sneaking seducer and his 4/24 7:30pm, $10 4/30 10 pm married conquest. A fine vintage, these A doc. about the lives of max. security WITHOUT COAL When originally submitted to censors, ins and outs of les affairs secrets burst prisoners at Sing Sing, as they mount a Dir. Addison Post, 2018. USA. 20 min. the film was banned, re-edited, & re- with light flavor—and leave a pleasant stage production of A Few Good Men. 4/6 7:30 pm w/Q&A by Post leased in an incomplete form. Spectacle tingling in lieu of a calling card. From auditions through curtain call, the 4/19 7:30 pm • 4/29 7:30 pm is proud to present the film as close to Please visit spectacletheater.com for a men reveal their stories, their struggles & it’s original form as possible. full listing of films and events. the importance of the arts in their journeys.