September 2013

SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3:00 7:30 7:30 8:00 7:30 12pm - 12am fist church PRIVATE kuryer Vengeance is Mine ASSA Portugal P.U.F.F. ($100,000 For a Underground Film 8:00 EVENT 10:00 Killing) Festival (P.U.F.F.)** Mandatory MIDNIGHT Wrekmeister IMPACT THE CANDY Harmonies MIDNIGHT SNATCHERS 10:00 El Ultimo Kamikaze Ephemera: Populuxe

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 12pm - 12am 7:30 8:00 john but not 7:30 7:30 7:30 P.U.F.F. KURYER timeless bottomless forgotten king of the celts the east is red bandidos bad movie 7:3o 10:00 John ritter in: 10:00 10:00 10:00 CEMETERY WITHOUT the colony king of the celts igla impact CROSSES 10:00 midnight midnight johnny cash in: shakma the pyx five minutes to live

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3:00 8:00 8:00 & other works: 8:00 8:00 7:30 fist church icarus presents 20 years of cuff melanie gilligan strange culture ASSA igla father, son and with lynn hershman 8:00 holy war 8:00 leeson Midnight 10:00 timeless bottomless CRISIS IN THE CREDIT shatter dead $10,000 blood money bad movie SYSTEM midnight 10:00 Invasion of the Bee POPULAR UNREST Girls 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 7:30 7:30 7:30 8:00 8:00 8:00 7:30 kuryer impact Ephemera: Populuxe icarus presents women make movies 20 years of cuff cemetery without father, son and MAdame x: An crosses 10:00 10:00 10:00 holy war Absolute Ruler Vengeance is Mine the east is red Assa midnight 10:00 ($100,000 For a sixteen tongues Ephemera: Populuxe Killing) midnight SFX Retaliator 29 30 3:00 7:00 fist church private event

7:30 10:00 igla $10,000 blood money 10:00 bandidos Spectacle Theater 124 s. 3rd st. Brooklyn, NY spectacletheater.com // 5$ movies BANDIDO’S GOLD: MOLODOST: ALSO showing: Unearthed Treasures Films of soviet youth Fist church This quartet of lesser known, yet truly great spaghetti westerns Molodost—meaning the time of youth— explores three different The 70s, 80s & early 90s were a wonderful is chocked full of gripping action, relentless violence, and coming of age stories from the perestroika era, on the cusp of the time when a boy or girl could sit down brooding intensity with gritty style to spare. Soviet Union’s dissolution. The films explore the counterculture & in front of their TV set after Saturday underground music movements that emerged in the late ‘80s, and morning cartoons and tune into their bandidos $10,000 BLOOD MONEY represent the first recognition of these movements in the Soviet local UHF station to catch a helping of hundreds of Kung Fu matinees. Every Dir: Massimo Dallamano, 1967 Dir: Romolo Guerrieri, 1967 mainstream. other Sunday we’ll be mining the depths , 91 mins. Italy, 94 mins. ASSA of VHS, VCD, DVD, and the darkest corners of the internet to bring you the Outlaw Billy Kane holds up a Rogue bounty hunter Dir:Sergei Solovyov, 1987 wildest post-brunch experience you’re train only to find his former mockingly taunts low-life Soviet Union, 153 mins. likely to have. So, get faded on Bloody Mary’s and come kick your mentor-of-arms, renowned bandit Manuel, who only has Russian with English subtitles feet up while we play fast and loose with the rules and witness gunman Richard Martin, is a measly $3,000 price on his people fight vampires, ninjas, swordsmen, and more. The movies one of the passengers. Kane head. Inspired by spite, hatred Assa came to cult status as one of the first won’t be announced, but trust us, we wouldn’t steer you wrong. shoots Martin’s hands before and villainous pride, Manuel films to bring underground rock music into 9/1: 3pm • 9/15: 3pm • 9/29: 3pm letting him escape. Years ups the stakes, first with the Soviet mainstream. Assa follows the later Martin meets Ricky Shot murder, and then by kidnapping story of a young nurse who is romantically involved with her much (!), an escaped convict who a land baron’s daughter, finally older patient and leader of an organized crime group. The nurse was falsely accused for the netting Django’s $10,000 starts falling for a young rock musician who introduces her to his IMPACT robbery. He takes Shot under bounty minimum. But when eccentric world of music and art. Dir. Arthur Lubin, 1949 his wing and together they Manuel targets Django’s saloon 9/5: 8pm • 9/20: 8pm • 9/24: 10pm USA, 111 mins. head on the trail of vengeance. girl lover (Loredana Nusciak 9/14: 7:30pm • 9/29: 10pm from Django), vengeance igla (the needle) Noir-staple Brian Donlevy stars in becomes the main incentive, Dir: Rashid Nugmanov, 1988 Arthur Lubin’s subtle, melodramatic transforming the hunt into an Soviet Union, 81 mins. 1949 sleeper Impact. Typically relegated VENGEANCE IS MINE ornery blood feud. Russian with English subtitles to tough-guy supporting roles, Donlevy Dir: Gianni Fago, 1967 9/21: 10pm • 9/30: 10pm plays very successfully against type as Italy, 91 mins. Igla is often established as a precursor to love-struck automotive mogul Walter Williams, a sensitive man the Kazakh new wave. Viktor Tsoi, (from who unfortunately puts far too much faith in the wrong sort of gal. Gianni Garko and Claudio CEMETERY WITHOUT the legendary band Kino) plays Moro, a Despite its B-grade production and modest return, Impact also Camaso breathe more life into stoic and nonchalant young man who finds himself helping his features an unusual number of on-screen product placements for their anti-hero and villain roles CROSSES an era in which the practice remained very uncommon, presenting Dir: Robert Hossein, 1969 morphine-addicted ex-girlfriend kick her habit. from $10,000 Blood Money, 9/13: 10pm • 9/21: 7:30pm • 9/29: 7:30pm an illuminating and authentic aspect of late-1940s America not here with an added Cain-and- Italy, 85 mins. usually seen on the silver screen. Abel-like classicism. This time 9/3: 10pm • 9/14: 10pm • 9/23: 7:30pm it’s John the bounty hunter After her husband is mercilessly Kuryer (courier) (Garko) versus army deserter- hanged by a ruthless land Dir: Karen Shakhazarov, 1987 turned-outlaw Clint (Camaso), baron, Maria implores Manuel, Soviet Union, 88 mins. midnights with scooter mccrae half-brothers, embittered an old flame, to infiltrate Russian with English subtitles By the early ‘90s, many genre fans took with extreme mutual hatred. the killer’s ranch and wreak the availability of consumer-grade video John just served time, falsely vengeance. Manuel reluctantly Largely ignored on release, Kuryer equipment as a call to arms, producing accused of his father’s murder leaves the ghost town where he eventually came to critical acclaim over massively personal, astoundingly original by none other than Cint. Can lives to embark on the mission, the years. It tells the story of a high school works; some of which would contain imagery John keep his promise to his but is ever haunted by his graduate trying to make sense of his life. With no prospect for a and themes no studio picture would dare mother to bring Clint in alive? unrequited affection for Maria. college education, a grim mandatory military service awaits in his touch. Scooter McCrae was on the front- 9/9: 10pm • 9/28: 7:30pm 9/4: 7:30pm • 9/22: 10pm future. 9/3: 7:30pm • 9/9: 7:30pm • 9/22: 7:30pm lines of this strange new world, and his debut feature Shatter Dead (1994) is at once a staple and a stand-alone slap in the face to the tried pitfalls of the Horror John but not forgotten: genre, communicating in its own brand womEn make movies of subversive poetry. Several years later The Day We Lost Ritter and Cash McCrae would push the envelope to degrees few others would even dare speak of with his A Screening Tribute Spectacle and Women Make Movies, the celebrated non- depraved Sci Fi epic Sixteen Tongues (1999), a cryptic future-world One bitter fall evening, during a span of three hours caught profit organization and distributor of independent film and nightmare with meditation on modern human mentality more in the space between September 11 and 12, 2003, we lost two video by and about women, are proud to host a new series brazen than Paul Schader’s entire filmography. Join us Sept. 20th great entertainers: Johnny Cash and John Ritter. One decade of collaboratively programmed screenings that will delve and Sept. 27th at Spectacle for two midnights of the extreme, after this tragedy, Spectacle celebrates the only way it knows widely and deeply into WMM’s diverse catalog, showcasing passionate, and undeservedly obscure works of Scooter McCrae. how: by showing an obscure movie in which Johnny Cash plays noted classics and underscreened gems. 9/20 & 9/27 midnight -- director in attendance both nights! a psychotic guitar-slinging killer (F i v e Minutes to Live), and a hilarious made-for- TV cheesefest about John Ritter getting Madame X: Eine Absolute Herrscherin carjacked in front of a Starbucks and (Madame X: An Absolute Ruler) 20 years of cuff moving his family to a techno-totalitarian Dir: Ulrike Ottinger, 1977 Chicago Underground Film Festival is the longest running underground film festival in the world. Founded the same year gated housing community (The Colony). , 141 mins. as the now defunct NYUFF, it remains a vibrant & evolving home In German, with English subtitles for radically dissenting filmmaking, and the defining example for THE COLONY underground film events all over the world. This program brings Dir: Rob Hedden, 1995 Madame X, the cruelest and most together legendary shorts from the festival’s first twenty years. USA, 84 mins. successful pirate of the Far Eastern Running time: 137 mins. 9/11: 7:30pm seas, puts out a call to all women 9/17: 8pm • 9/27: 8pm Sept 11 th seeking a world full of gold, love, and ONE NIGHT ONLY! adventure to join her crew and become marauders on the ** For more information on the Portugal Underground Film Festival FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE high seas. But even after their first pitiless attack on a yacht visit spectacletheater.com Dir: Bill Karn, 1961 carrying hilarious caricatures of bourgeois male hegemony Spectacle is a community screening space in Williamsburg, USA, 75 mins. leaves them awash in plunder, the increasing assertion of Brooklyn, established and staffed entirely by volunteers. Our 9/11: 10pm programming encompasses overlooked works, offbeat gems, the new pirates’ identities and desires leads an already contemporary art, radical polemics, live performance, and more. chaotic journey into absolute bedlam. 9/26: 8pm 124 s.3rd st, Brooklyn, NY | 5$ movies | Spectacletheater.com