Cult Movie Monday presented with Theatre 650
BACK TO SCHOOL [1986] directed by Alan Metter
Monday, August 30
Doors open at 7:30pm; Film starts at 8pm
Actor's Theatre (650 E. Stonewall Street)
Admission Free & so is the popcorn. Cash bar.
Thornton Melon’s (Rodney Dangerfield) son is a college misfit, so Thornton’s lending some fatherly support... by enrolling as a fellow freshman! Thornton’s pockets are deep enough to buy a ticket to class... and hire NASA to do his homework! But when he ticks off his professor and then steals his girlfriend Thornton takes things just a little too far. Now, he’ll have to hit the books instead of his bank account or go back to being the world’s wealthiest dropout! 96 min. Rated PG-13
Get the scoop on The Light Factory's screening of King Kong vs. Godzilla.
Click the image to the left to hear "Film Talk" with Film Director Linnea Beyer.
Special thanks to Steve Partridge.
ATTACK OF THE SUMMER FILM SERIES!
KING KONG VS. GODZILLA [1962] directed by Ishiro Honda
Thursday, August 12
7:30 pm
Knight Gallery
Admission: Free and open to the public
A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla. With visual effects by legendary Eiji Tsuburaya, the third installment in the Japanese series of monster films featuring the monster Godzilla is the first of two featuring the King Kong character and also the first time both King Kong and Godzilla appeared in color and in the same film. Not rated; 91 minutes
Special thanks to WFAE, sponsor of the 2010 Summer Film Series!
DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY [2002] directed by Guy Maddin
presented with the North Carolina Dance Theatre
Friday, August 13
7:30 pm
NC Dance Theatre (701 N. Tryon St.)
Admission: Free and open to the public
Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Guy Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. The black-and-white, blood-red-punctured DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN’S DIARY is a Gothic grand guignol of the notorious Count and his bodice-ripped victims, fringed with the expressionistic strains of Gustav Mahler.
Not rated; 75 minutes
"Maddin has discovered a new kind of cinema, the welding of silent-film technique, avant-garde imagery, and 21st century technology.... Victorian sexuality and melodrama are brought together in a shadowy world of expressionistic images and an athletic, almost rabid, choreography.”
- Bruce Diones, The New Yorker
