SUN MON TUES Wed thurs fri SAT 1 234 5 6 7 3:00 7:30 7:30 8:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 fist church blue movie the territory EVERYTHING’S COMING UP THREE CROWNS OF THE blue movie MAN WOMAN AND BEAST PROFITs! SAILOR 5:00 10:00 10:00 Q&A with coauthor 10:00 10:00 the flower girl man, woman, and beast 3 RUIZ SHORTS: VOYAGE Steve Young 10:00 i love a man in a blow job OF THE HAND / ZIG ZAG / the flower girl uniform 7:30 DOG’S DIALOGUE Midnight pulgasari Midnight THE MASTER TOUCH she shoulda said no 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 TRIUMPH OF THE IL: CENTRE FORWARD BLOW JOB URBAN GIRL COMES TO Kinetic Cinema: THEY ALL LIE Dirty Diaries A Survey of North GET MARRIED SHE POEMS: Q/A with Director MATÍAS Korean Propaganda 10:00 10:00 A SCREENING AND DISCUSSION PIÑEIRO midnight THE TERRITORY BLUE MOVIE 10:00 WITH AÏDA COLMENERO DÏAZ GOLDEN TEMPLE AMAZONS 7:30 PULGASARI midnight 3 RUIZ SHORTS: VOYAGE 10:00 WITCHCRAFT 70 OF THE HAND / ZIG ZAG / MAN WOMAN AND BEAST DOG’S DIALOGUE

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 PULGASARI Fist Church 3 RUIZ SHORTS: VOYAGE I LOVE A MAN IN A BLOW JOB TRIUMPH OF THE IL: A THREE CROWNS OF THE OF THE HAND / ZIG ZAG / UNIFORM Survey of North Korean SAILOR 10:00 5:00 DOG’S DIALOGUE 10:00 Propaganda CENTRE FORWARD BLOW JOB 10:00 THEY ALL LIE 10:00 midnight 10:00 MAN WOMAN AND BEAST 10:00 THE TERRITORY SHE SHOULDA SAID NO 7:30 THREE CROWNS OF THE 3 RUIZ SHORTS: VOYAGE THE FLOWER GIRL SAILOR OF THE HAND / ZIG ZAG / midnight DOG’S DIALOGUE THE MASTER TOUCH 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5:00 7:30 7:30 8:00 7:30 8:00 7:30 THE TERRITORY CENTRE FORWARD PULGASARI EVERYTHING’S COMING UP I LOVE A MAN IN A Never Records: You THE FLOWER GIRL PROFITs! UNIFORM Are Not Listening 7:30 10:00 10:00 Q&A with coauthor Q&A with Director, Jason 10:00 Steve Young Wyche and Artist, THREE CROWNS OF THE URBAN GIRL COMES TO BLUE MOVIE 10:00 Ted Riederer URBAN GIRL COMES TO SAILOR GET MARRIED BLOW JOB GET MARRIED midnight GOLDEN TEMPLE midnight AMAZONS WITCHCRAFT 70 29 30 31 3:00 7:30 7:30 FIST CHURCH URBAN GIRL COMES TO BLUE MOVIE GET MARRIED 5:00 10:00 MAN WOMAN AND BEAST 10:00 CENTRE FORWARD TRIUMPH OF THE IL: 7:30 A Survey of North THEY ALL LIE Korean Propaganda MARCH SPeCTACLe • 124 S. 3RD St. On the cover: BROOKLYN, NY Man, Woman and Beat, Alberto Cavallone, 1977 5$ MOVIES • SPECTACLETHEATER.COM The Flower Girl, Ik Kyu Choe & Hak Pak, 1972 Blue Movie, Alberto Cavallone, 1978 Three Crowns of the Sailor, Raúl Ruiz , 1983 JUCHE YOUR ILLUSION I: Cinema of STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Alberto 81 / 83 WITH RAÚL RUIZ North Korea Cavallone THE TERRITORY: Dir. Raúl Ruiz, 1981. Portugal, 104 min. In English and French with English subtitles. 3/3 7:30p • 3/9 10:00p • 3/20 10:00p • 3/22 5:00p North Korea’s late Kim Jong-Il was a legendary cinephile and author of BLOW JOB: Dir. Alberto Cavallone, 1980. Italy, 78 min. In Italian with English subtitles Madness in excess but with a snowballing narrative effect, Raúl Ruiz’s THE volumes of film criticism who aimed to surpass the technical and artistic 3/7 10:00p • 3/10 7:30p • 3/15 5:00p • 3/18 7:30p • 3/26 10:00p TERRITORY takes peculiar people and surrounds them in a more peculiar standards of Moscow. The films produced under his leadership engage Reportedly inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception, BLOW JOB is a full setting and eventually plunges us into their inevitable lunacy. directly with the concept of juche, a particularly North Korean form of blown out of body experience. What begins as a romantic retreat quickly heads Marxism-Leninism emphasizing total self-reliance. “Day after day, leading south when a young couple, Diana and Stéfano, are evicted from their hotel THREE CROWNS OF THE SAILOR: Dir. Raúl Ruiz, 1983. France, 117 min. In characters in the works of art become real in each factory and each room. French with English subtitles. 3/5 7:30p • 3/16 10:00p • 3/20 7:30p • 3/22 7:30p workshop,” The Eternal President wrote. Both proudly insular and aspiring One of the 1980s’ art house masterpieces, Raúl Ruiz’s THREE CROWNS OF to the artistic achievements of Russian masters and Hollywood magic, North BLUE MOVIE: Dir. Alberto Cavallone, 1978. Italy, 84 min.. In Italian with English subtitles THE SAILOR is an absolutely absurd if not profound ghost ship tall tale that Korean film is singularly baffling, enrapturing, inspiring and unsettling. 3/2Comment 7:30p • 3/6 7:30p • 3/10 10:00p • 3/24 10:00p • 3/31 7:30p sails on a existential nonsense map to nowhere. Spoken in strange code, “Cavallone made his masterpiece with this 1978 film, a sort of BLOW-UP as most of the cryptic language answers questions that were never asked and CENTRE FORWARD Dir. Pak Chong Song, 1978. North Korea, 77 min. In Korean written by George Bataille and directed by Guy Debord…Much more than just a revels in its fractured fake histories. with English subtitles. 3/9 7:30p • 3/21 10:00p • 3/23 7:30p • 3/31 10:00p curiosity for compulsive Italian B-movie fans, BLUE MOVIE is a singular mixture “Oh, we are sportspersons of the Leader!” In CENTRE FORWARD, the of Situationist polemic, genre deconstruction, and zero budget auteurism” (Film 3 RUIZ SHORTS: VOYAGE OF THE HAND / ZIG ZAG / DOG’S DPRK’s first soccer movie, overzealous benchwarmer In Son botches his ). Not to be confused with the claustrophobic Warhol film of the same DIALOGUE: Dir. Raúl Ruiz, 1985, 1980, and 1977. France, 25 min. / 31 min. / 22 min. In first match for the previously-undefeated Taesongan team. Their shameful name, BLUE MOVIE is an almost unplaceable genre exercise in trauma and French and English with English subtitles. 3/3 10:00p • 3/8 7:30p • 3/16 7:30p • 3/19 10:00p loss is followed by a harrowing post-game self-recrimination session in perverse affection. As a special supplemental collection to the two full-lengths featured this which various team members take turns chastising themselves for In Son’s month, these three shorts from Ruiz are perhaps his most notable and clever incompetence. MAN, WOMAN AND BEAST: Dir. Alberto Cavallone, 1977. Italy, 100 min. In Italian with of this era. English subtitles. 3/2 10:00p • 3/7 7:30p • 3/12 10:00p • 3/17 10:00p • 3/29 5:00p THE FLOWER GIRL: Ik Kyu Choe & Hak Pak, 1972. North Korea, 121 min. In Korean A man too concerned with collages to confront his mute wife’s psychosexual with English subtitles. 3/1 5:00p • 3/5 10:00p • 3/15 7:30p • 3/28 7:30p mania; a daughter impregnated by her father at her grandfather’s funeral; SPECIAL EVENTS The opening titles proudly proclaim that The Flower Girl is the film version a butcher a little too devoted to his products — that’s just the tip of the very of a revolutionary play first staged in 1930 — or the “13th anniversary of the bizarre iceberg in Alberto Cavallone’s anti-pastoral pastiche, MAN, WOMAN October Revolution,” as Kim Il-sung describes it in his eight-volume memoir, NEVER RECORDS: YOU ARE NOT LISTENING AND BEAST. Dir: Jason Wyche; An Artwork by Ted Riederer, 2013 USA/UK, 76 minutes having personally authoring the libretto after forming an art troupe in a ONE NIGHT ONLY! 3/27 8:00pm, Q&A with Director, Jason Wyche, and Artist, Ted Riederer utopian village in Jilin. NEVER RECORDS: YOU ARE NOT LISTENING explores the power of art and EVERYTHING’S COMING music to unite, educate, and uplift a community. In an era overwhelmed by PULGASARI: Dir. Sang-ok Shin, 1985. North Korea, 95 min. In Korean with English virtual communities,artist/musician Ted Riederer is attempting to create subtitles. 3/1 7:30p • 3/11 10:00p • 3/21 7:30p • 3/24 7:30p actual communities. Shot on location in Derry, N. Ireland and London, the While seemingly an obvious Godzilla rip-off, the film is about an evil king in UP PROFITS! AN EVENING film features performances from the UK’s brightest artists and musicians. feudal Korea who learns of a coming peasant rebellion. The king gathers OF INDUSTRIAL MUSICALS all the metal he can find – farming tools, cooking pots, etc – to make into Dir. Various. USA, approx. 90 min. weapons to squash the small army. 3/4 8:00p • 3/25 8:00p DIRTY DIARIES Dir: Various Directors, 2009. Sweden, 98 min. Silent/In Swedish with English subtitles ONE NIGHT ONLY! 3/14 8:00p Did you know there exists an alternate TRIUMPH OF THE IL: A SURVEY OF NORTH KOREAN Tired of airbrushed, male gaze porn with no personality, no panache, no musical world, one never meant for PROPAGANDA: Dir. Various, compiled 2015. North Korea, 70 min. In English and pizzazz? For one night only, Spectacle presents DIRTY DIARIES, a collection the public ear? Once, when American Korean with English subtitles. 3/8 5:00p • 3/19 7:30p • 3/30 10:00p of Swedish feminist porn shorts sure to put the vim and vigor back into Industry reigned supreme, businesses Spectacle rounds out its Juche Your Illusion I: Cinema of North Korea series your love life! Put together by director Mia Engberg, DIRTY DIARIES is a indoctrinated their salesmen with shows – with TRIUMPH OF THE IL, selections from various North Korean propaganda collection of 12 short films, each directed by a woman, and each dealing with lavish convention shows about the glory of films, including several which extol the virtues and philosophy of Kim Il-Sung a different aspect of sexuality. These shorts are raw, with everyday people as INDUSTRY and PROFITS. And so was born and show the former North Korean leader in less isolated times. performers, and nearly every proclivity and orientation represented. the Industrial Musical, a bizarre and wonderful merging of Broadway theatrics, post-war optimism, and sales motivation. URBAN GIRL COMES TO GET MARRIED: Dir. by Kim Il-Sung University PENTACLE’S KINETIC CINEMA PRESENTS: SHE POEMS students, 1993. North Korea, 73 min. In Korean with English subtitles. 3/11 7:30p • 3/23 Dir, Aïda Colmenero Dïaz, 2014 Spain, 90 minutes 10:00p • 3/28 10:00p • 3/30 7:30p Please join us for an evening of astonishing corporate ephemera as Steve Young, ONE NIGHT ONLY! 3/12 7:30p Screening and Discussion with Aïda Colmenero Dïaz Considered LES MISERABLES of North Korea, THE FLOWER GIRL is a co-author of Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals Guest Artist and world citizen, Aïda Colmenero Dïaz will show an evening of sweeping musical melodrama about the fortunes of its title character, who shares these delightfully catchy, truly weird and excruciatingly rare videodance poems made in collaboration with dancers and choreographers peddles pedals to care for her ailing mother and blind sister. But when she’s gems at Spectacle. from Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania. harassed by Japanese colonists and impressed into hard textile labor, will her spirit remain undaunted? Sit through some epic, tearjerking musical numbers For more information on showtimes and events visit spectacletheater.com to find out.