Future Films

Here are the exciting projects we are working on.  Please check back with us - more details and images will be added as each film takes shape.   

CULT MOVIE MONDAY presented with Theatre 650
DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) directed by Paul Bartel

Monday, March 29
Doors open at 7:30pm; Film starts at 8pm
Actor's Theatre (650 E. Stonewall Street)
Admission: free and so is the popcorn; cash bar

Starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone. The movie takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road Race has become a form of national entertainment. 84 minutes

 

 

 CELLULOID TRANSFORMED: the Future of the Film Industry
Wednesday, March 31

Renowned film financier and producer and video-on-demand pioneer, Jonathan Taplin (MEAN STREETS, THE LAST WALTZ, TO DIE FOR) and MarketWatch columnist Jon Friedman discuss how the digital revolution affects filmmakers and movie-goers alike. 

In the afternoon, Taplin and Friedman will give a lecture on the future of the film industry.  Later that evening, our special guests will kick off The Light Factory’s new series DINNER AND A MOVIE, which will include dinner, followed by a screening of MEAN STREETS and a Q&A with both Taplin and Friedman.
More details on time, place and admission to come!
 

LOVE ON THE RUN: The Romance of the Road Exhibition Film Series

The cinematic highway of the early 70s is paved with subversion. Driven by confusion, these characters aren’t so much running away from or to anything. Rather, their spiritual and emotional confusion is cinematically conveyed with brilliant, if not existential wanderlust.

Badlands (1974) directed by Terence Malick
Saturday, April 3 @ 2pm in the Knight Gallery
Based on the lurid Starkweather-Fugate murders in the 1950s, this moody thriller recounts a James Dean wannabe misfit’s (Martin Sheen) killing spree across the midwestern plains. Rated PG; 94 minutes
Free and open to the public

Learn more about The Romance of the Road.

  

New German Cinema: August 2010

In August 2010, The Light Factory will hold a retrospective dedicated to the uniquely heterogeneous group of auteurs of the New German Cinema.  These directors were not bound by style or content, but rather by the desire to create a new cinematic discourse.  The intent of the retrospective is to educate the regional community of the role of this movement on the medium of film and about the work of the filmmakers who challenged traditional film dogma and on a socio-political level reflected the social reality and historical past of Germany. 

The Light Factory retrospective will include the screening of the most prominent films from the New German Cinema over the course of a week.  The week of activities will feature discussions with professors, historians, and film critiques on what these films meant then and what we can glean from them now.