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Learn more at filmlinc.com/GoGreen. Photo by Lawrence Irvine, © Dreamland Productions. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection 1 ENTERTAINS FILM The Blues Brothers Soul Power he work of James Brown was something radically new in the landscape of ’60s pop music: a marriage of movement and voice that felt both tightly regulated and out of control. It’s Tno surprise that Brown, whose art relied so heavily on gesture and dance, had a special relationship with the camera. Much of his finest work can be found in his film appearances, of which this series represents the cream of the crop. Antidote Films USA/The Kobal Collection Kobal Antidote Films USA/The Universal/The Kobal Collection Universal/The Kobal Black Caesar Ski Party Larry Cohen, USA, 1973, 35mm, 87m Alan Rafkin, USA, 1965, 35mm, 90m In this furious Blaxploitation riff on the Hollywood gang- Brown made an unforgettably zany cameo in this prime ster film, for which Brown composed the soundtrack, a example of ’60s youth movie, skiing uninvited into a cabin poor black shoeshine boy takes out a corrupt mob boss, full of teenagers and launching into a spontaneous rendi- only to accept the white man’s power structures when he tion of “I Feel Good.” With Frankie Avalon and Dwayne himself gains control. Hickman. August 29, 8:30pm August 29, 4:30pm August 30, 6:30pm August 30, 4:30pm The Blues Brothers Soul Power JAMES John Landis, USA, 1980, 35mm, 133m Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, USA, 2008, 35mm, 92m The Blues Brothers’s big-screen debut, a trigger-happy Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, the editor of When We Were Kings, action odyssey featuring Brown as a roof-raising gospel directed this exhilarating portrait of the three-day music preacher, remains their crowning achievement and sees festival held in Kinshasa before the Ali-Foreman match, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi at the height of their featuring, among many others, B.B King, Bill Withers, The comedic and dramatic powers. Spinners, and Brown at his finest. August 30, 8:30pm August 29, 6:30pm BROWN September 1, 3:15pm August 30, 2:30pm James Brown Performance Compilation The T.A.M.I. Show Digital projection, approx. 75m Steve Binder, USA, 1964, 16mm, 123m A truly one-of-a-kind assortment of clips of the Godfather The Holy Grail of concert films—featuring Brown in an THE HARDEST WORKING of Soul, on stage and in his element. Spanning multiple earth-shaking, career-defining performance—is a show- periods of his career and featuring invaluable footage case for American pop music at the undisputed height of of Brown on The Ed Sullivan Show and Soul Street, this its passion, humor, pathos, virtuosity, and vigor. selection finds Mr. Dynamite workin’ it as only he could. August 31, 2:00pm & 6:30pm MAN IN SHOW BUSINESS August 31, 4:30pm & 9:00pm When We Were Kings Rocky IV Leon Gast, USA, 1996, 35mm, 88m AUGUst 29 – SEPTEmbER 1 Sylvester Stallone, USA, 1985, 35mm, 91m Leon Gast’s now-classic documentary on the “Rumble The Italian Stallion went up against a cartoonishly impas- in the Jungle” is a snapshot of a moment when black sive Soviet “mountain of muscle” in Stallone’s bombastic Americans were starting to embrace their African heri- Special Holiday Weekend Pricing! Reagan-era take on U.S.-Russia relations, capped by a tage—thanks in part to the example of Muhammad Ali, standout Brown performance of “Living in America.” whose irrepressible presence dominates the film. SPECIAL THANKS: Adam Sekuler; Joe Lauro & Historic Films Archive September 1, 1:15pm & 6:00pm September 1, 8:00pm FEstIVALS & SERIES 2 3 JAMES brown Multiple Maniacs Cecil B. Demented John Waters, USA, 2000, 35mm, 87m fifty years of Stephen Dorff and Melanie Griffith star as, respectively, the leader of a guerrilla band of horny misfit filmmakers (the Sprocket Holes), and the A-list movie star they kid- nap, Patty Hearst–style, in Waters’s freewheeling attack on the Hollywood star system. September 12, 7:00pm (Q&A with John Waters) © Dreamland Productions Irvine, Photo by Lawrence Special Event: Celluloid Atrocity Night! The Kobal Collection The Kobal Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime evening as John Waters JOHN WATERS presents his first two features,Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs, along with early short The Diane Linkletter Story, all on 16mm. These exceedingly rare prints are from Waters’s personal collection, and probably screening for HOW MUCH the last time ever! Waters will be joined onstage for a con- versation with critic Dennis Dermody. Featuring: Multiple Maniacs John Waters, USA, 1970, 16mm, 90m CAN YOU The Diane Linkletter Story John Waters, USA, 1970, 16mm, 10m Mondo Trasho John Waters, USA, 1969, 16mm, 95m A Dirty Shame TAKE? September 11, 7:00pm Cry-Baby John Waters, USA, 1990, 35mm, 85m Johnny Depp—already a teen icon for playing the lead on TV’s 21 Jump Street—appears as the titular bad-boy hero of Waters’s raucous, exuberant salute to the teen rock ’n’ roll films of the 1950s. With supporting turns by Joe Dallesandro, Traci Lords, and Iggy Pop. September 13, 3:00pm Fine Line Features/The Kobal Collection Fine Line Features/The Kobal September 14, 8:00pm Desperate Living John Waters, USA, 1977, 35mm, 90m Waters’s self-described “fairy tale for fucked-up children” was the last of his truly independent productions: a cata- log of horrors that veers between comedy and disgust and in which no taboo is left unbroken. September 7, 6:30pm A Dirty Shame John Waters, USA, 2004, 35mm, 89m Cry-Baby For his last completed film to date, Waters combined the SEPTEMBER 5–14 encyclopedic, freak-show flair of his earlier movies with the gentler tone of his later tributes to specific, defunct genres—in this case, the sexploitation film. With Tracey ver the course of 12 features—six maniacal midnight-movie classics and six subversive Ullman, Selma Blair, and Johnny Knoxville.