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On the cover: $5 MOVIES • $10 special events A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT 7 days a week Nationalite: Immigre, Sidney Sokhana, 1975 Scrubbers, Mai Zetterling, 1982 Love Massacre (Ai Sha), Patrick Tam, 1981 A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT: Dir. Chris Marker, 1977/1992, France. 180 min. pour mémoire: A TRIBUTE TO EXPLICIT MEMORY AND EVERY WITH INTERMISSION BETWEEN PARTS 1 AND 2 DELPHINE SEYRIG DESIRE: MAI ZETTERLING 2/11 3:00p • 2/18 3:00p • 2/25 1:30p • 2/28 7:30p In her regrettably short, enormously prolific career (she appeared in over 60 films Despite decades as an international actress and 20-odd filmmaking credits, Mai An epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60’s and 70’s: , and only lived until 58), Delphine Seyrig had an innate ability to transcend every Zetterling remains a short entry in references to feminist cinema. The truths she Bolivia, May ‘68, Prague, Chile, the fate of the New Left. The original French film she appeared in. Among the first French filmmakers to use video, Seyrig brings to the screen are those of familial neuroses, powerful women, gay desire, title is roughly translatable as “The Base of the Air is Red,” referring to the also co-founded a radical feminist filmmaking collective. Digging through her and quests for authentic artistry. high hopes of radicals at the time, built on a foundation of air. Released in filmography is an endlessly rewarding excavation of idiosyncratic gems. 1978, restored and “re-actualized” by Marker 15 years later (after the fall of NIGHT GAMES (NATTLEK): Dir. Mai Zetterling, 1966, Sweden. 105 min. the Soviet Union), A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT is a sweeping, global contemplation DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS: Dir. Harry Kümel, 1971, Belgium. 100 min. 2/1 7:30p • 2/8 7:30p • 2/14 10:00p • 2/23 10:00p of a defining ten years’ political history. Described by Marker as “scenes of the 2/3 7:30p • 2/24 10:00p A delightfully Swedish version of camp: a self-indulgent heiress houses a Third World War,” the film is divided into two parts, each weaving together two Kümel’s high gothic vampirization of famed murderess Elizabeth Báthory retains coterie of outsiders who party as she gives birth in a gigantic gown. Her son strands: cult legacy due to effervescent style and Seyrig’s carnal lead performance. The Jan, aged 10, tries to lure his mother’s affection through cross-dressing and camera glides through lush colors and haute hotel rooms as Seyrig’s bloodthirsty sexual desire. John Waters said that NATTLEK was “one of the first films to PART 1: FRAGILE HANDS countess preys on a pair of newlyweds. By contemporizing the vampire into a feature incredibly realistic vomiting,” and it famously caused Shirley Temple to 1. From Vietnam to Che’s death decadently erotic queer demagogue, Kümel paved the way for THE HUNGER. resign from the board of the San Francisco Film Festival. 2. May 1968 and all that PART 2: SEVERED HANDS INDIA SONG: Dir. Marguerite Duras, 1975, France. 115 min. SCRUBBERS Dir. Mai Zetterling, 1982, . 90 min. 1. From Spring in Prague to the Common Program of Government in France 2/4 10:00p • 2/17 10:00p • 2/20 7:30p 2/3 10:00p • 2/13 7:30p • 2/20 10:00p • 2/26 5:00p 2. From Chile to - to what? Duras and Seyrig’s re-teaming in 1975 was a standout in both their careers. A Anyone who’s spent time in a punitive institution will find elements captured in tale of doomed love amidst 1930s colonial India, the film is a mysterious mesh SCRUBBERS, the female answer to SCUM (Alan Clarke’s 1979 drama about a of haunting memories, and Duras’ most lauded work. boy’s borstal). Zetterling’s film is more colorful and emotional, involving lesbian LOVE MASSACRE (AI SHA) Dir. Patrick Tam, 1981, USA. 91 min. 2/4 7:30p • 2/10 10:00p • 2/14 7:30p • 2/18 10:00p relationships, child separation, and self-harm. There’s also plenty of fighting, After a San Francisco pas de quatre between young beauty Ivy (Lin), her obsessive JOHANNA D’ARC OF MONGOLIA: Dir. Ulrike Ottinger, 1989, . 165 min. glue-sniffing and bawdy singing. Featuring 80s anarcho-pop star Honey Bane. 2/12 7:30p • 2/15 7:30p • 2/19 7:30p roommate Joy, Joy’s boyfriend Louie (Chin) and Joy’s brother Chiu Ching, the Seyrig’s last screen role found her re-teaming with Ulrike Ottinger for a tri- AMOROSA: Dir. Mai Zetterling, 1986, Sweden. 117 min. film follows Chiu Ching back to Hong Kong and into slasher territory. Promising lingual adventure epic with an all-woman cast. Ottinger plays with the genre 2/1 10:00p • 2/5 5:00p • 2/25 10:00p to return and marry Ivy, Chiu Ching’s revealed to already have a wife, his former trappings of railway dramas and biblical epics in her most ambitious work, in The 2nd of Zetterling’s films concerning the life and work of Agnes von doctor in fact - Chiu Ching suffers from the same vague mental illness that which seven female voyagers are captured by a band of Mongolian women. Krusenstjerna, a Swedish noblewoman who published daring literature in the destroyed his sister. Determined to be with Ivy at any cost, Chiu Ching hacks 1920s. Showing her descent into hysteria in a strange Italian hospital, and going a bloody path back to her. The tension between lowbrow plot and high art, THE GARDEN THAT TILTS: Dir. Guy Gilles, 1974, France. 80 min. back through the events in her life that led to this point, the story surges on cool palette and fiery emotion, sudden gore and quiet interludes, make LOVE 2/8 10:00p • 2/18 7:30p • 2/27 10:00p the strength of Stina Ekblad as an actor. The portrayal of a writer resisting the MASSACRE Tam’s most fascinating ‘failure’. An underrated oddball from French director Guy Gilles, THE GARDEN THAT expectations of noble life is beautifully expressed, and her descent into madness TILTS is reminiscent of Rohmer at his most contemplative and painterly, except is both tragic and revulsive. THE EVOLUTION OF SNUFF: Dir. Andrzej Kostenko & Karl Martine, 1978, W. the action revolves around an ice-cold assassin (Patrick Jouané) who falls in Germany. 79 min. love with his mark (Seyrig). Jeanne Moreau also co-stars (and sings!). 2/3 MIDNIGHT • 2/18 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL PROGRAMS: A kinda low-rent F FOR FAKE which might not be morally permissible (it uses REVOLUTIONARY EXILE: MATCH CUTS PRESENTS: BRADFORD KESSLER’S -1% Last House On The Left outtakes for its snuff footage and the whole thing is w/ PAUL MORRISSEY’S WOMEN IN REVOLT absurd), this is the sort of film that might be best viewed not knowing what’s SIDNEY SOKHONA 2/21 7:30p • ONE NIGHT ONLY! to come. I promise it’s not porn, it’s not snuff, and it is a singular viewing Sokhona’s “docu-fictions” NATIONALITE: IMMIGRE and SAFRANA should experience. constitute 11th-hour addendums to the post-colonial Francophone cinema canon. -1%: Dir. Bradford Kessler, 2014. USA, 6 min. Made when Sokhona was in his early 20s, recoiling from a rash of exploitations -1% is a sex satire set in an Occupy-esque moment. A cynical world-weary and abuses in France’s African migrant community, they form a blistering duo: female aristocrat who goes cruising for some ‘Washington Square Park’ NATIONALITE: IMMIGRE dramatizes the real-life rent strike undertaken by idealistic boy. Mayhem ensues. Sokhona and his neighbors in the Rue Riquet settlement housing. SAFRANA (OR, WOMEN IN REVOLT: Dir. Paul Morrissey, 1971, USA. 97 min. THE RIGHT TO SPEAK) is both a satire of transition after French colonialism and CANADIAN CRIME MIDNIGHTS Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn have had it with men and their foul ways, so a look at the alienation felt by African migrant communities in nations of their NIGHTSTICK: Dir. Joseph L. Scanlan, 1987, USA/. 95 min. they join a militant feminist organization called PIG (Politically Involved Girls). former colonizers; these migrant farmers would relocate to Senegal to form the 2/4 MIDNIGHT • 2/9 10:00p • 2/17 MIDNIGHT Candy Darling is a wealthy socialite from Park Avenue (or Long Island – they Somankidi Collective, profiled past and present in multidisciplinary artist Raphaël This made-for-TV US/Canadian co-production, which is about a cop who tries to Grisey’s split-screen documentary COOPERATIVE. can’t keep it straight) who they draw in to give the group legitimacy. prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up NYC with nitroglycerin, features NATIONALITE: IMMIGRE: Dir. Sidney Sokhona, 1975, France. 70 min. Robert Vaughan, Leslie Neilsen and John Veron, and is about a cop who tries to DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE: Dir. Yony Leyser, 2016, Germany. 92 min. 2/4 5:00p • 2/12 5:00p • 2/17 7:30p • 2/22 10:00p prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up NYC with nitroglycerin. 2/24 7:30p • 2/25 5:00p • 2/26 7:30p NEW YORK PREMIERE WEEKEND! • Q&A WITH SPECIAL GUESTS SAFRANA (OR, THE RIGHT TO SPEAK): Dir. Sidney Sokhona, 1976, France. 110 min. SELF DEFENSE: Dir. , 1983, Canada. 84 min. 2/2 7:30p • 2/7 10:00p • 2/9 7:30p • 2/27 7:30p A dizzying, vibrant tour of contemporary from the POV of two immigrants 2/11 MIDNIGHT • 2/24 MIDNIGHT - an America writer and Russian escort. DESIRE unravels the history of Berlin’s Gang members take advantage of a Halifax police strike to go on a gay bashing COOPERATIVE: Dir. Raphaël Grisey, 2008, France. 59 min. SCREENING WITH hedonistic queer underground, prodding into unique subcultures as the two rampage, but when they besiege an apartment complex, the residents fight back BOUBA TOURE, 58 RUE TROUSSEAU, 75011 PARIS, FRANCE: travel through the perennial nightlife. Featuring an über-large cast including with booby traps and, yes, self-defense. It’s a near-future Nova Scotian bloodbath Dir. Bouba Touré, 2008, France. 28 min. Nina Hagen, Rosa von Praunheim, Peaches, and Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes. in the tradition of DEATH WISH 3 and HOME ALONE. From the director of video 2/5 7:30p • 2/21 10:00p • 2/28 5:00p Please visit spectacletheater.com for a full listing of films and events. store staple DEF-CON 4 and the unpopular sci-fi series .