POP. ART. FILM.

POP. ART. FILM.

Four eye-popping double features celebrating the wild world of 1960s pop art! BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966, 35mm) Commodore Schmidlapp, Ms. Kitka, The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin, Catwoman, and Batman battling a rubber shark -where would the world be without BATMAN: THE MOVIE? Its a comedic steamroller that leaves nothing but BIG FUNN in its wake. Every beloved element of the show is expanded, from Adam Wests dry delivery as Batman (They may be drinkers, Robin, but theyre still human beings.) to the electrifying visual design. One-part 1940s serial homage, one-part living mid-1960s Batman comic book, and one-thousand-parts boon to all of mankind. WHO WANTS TO KILL JESSIE (1966, digital) Seeking escape from his marriage to fellow scientist Rose, Professor Henry nds himself transxed by the characters in a comic book. Henrys fantasies become reality, as a machine breathes life into super-heroine Jessie and villains Superman and Pistolnik! This movie deserves to have fteen exclamation points after its title. Its a head-on collision between William Kleins WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGOO? and Harvey Kurtzmans 1950s MAD MAGAZINE, though far more discerning (and fun) than either of those experiments. Communication by word balloons! Crude-yet-amazing visual eects! Beautiful 1960s typography! It all equals an ultra-fun absurdist comedy with over-the-top action and bubbling sexuality. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------MR. FREEDOM (1969, 35mm) In 1966, famed photographer/sculptor/expatriate William Klein decided to make some movies. Ferociously anti-American and overowing with visuals that feel like they were crafted in Claes Oldenbergs garage, MR. FREEDOM is the crowning point of Kleins prolic career. Commanded by Dr. Donald Pleasance, bone-headed superhero Mr. Freedom travels to France to battle the French Anti-Freedom conglomerate. He joins forces with femme a fatale (Delphine Seyrig) and a band of anti-communist freedom ghters to battle over-the-top communist foes, including Maoist Red China Man, which is portrayed as a giant inatable dragon. Funny, violent, and insane, MR. FREEDOM is the Salvador Dali/John Wayne collaboration that never happened. SATANIK (1968, 16mm) This is a scuzz-lled Euro-trash adaptation of the long-running Italian fumetti of the same name. Its about an old woman with hideous face-scars who consumes a substance that turns her into a savage killing machine. In other words: the best! As an added bonus, SATANIK is also a rip-o of DANGER: DIABOLIK, but with improvements. Like stylized stripteases in black body suits. Gore. And water skiing! If this movie was called Jess Franco Presents: JAMES BOND FRANKENSTEIN, the amount of complaints heard throughout the world would be zero. MASCULIN FEMININ (1966, 35mm) This movie points the way towards Godards politically didactic, post-60s revolutionary movies -- only its a million times more fun than any of those. Theres a wild and reckless feeling of engagement with the exploding youth culture of 60s Paris. Brigitte Bardot and Francoise Hardy both show up and political agitating and cool haircuts are given equal footing. Y-Y girl Chantal Goya plays a pop star adjusting to her newfound fame while torn between relationships with a teenage subversive and her two irtatious roommates. Full of improvised dialogue, playful pop music and the sort of eervescent cool that belongs only to the French, this portrait of The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola is a revolutionary masterpiece from start to nish. EROTISSIMO (1969, digital) Experiencing EROTISSIMO is like watching plastic reworks from a rubber merry-go-round. This movie is a machine gun that shoots colors. Its pop art ingredients dont just pop - they explode. The wife of an emotionally distant business man is inundated with reminders of sex from all directions. An omnipresent barrage of erotic triggers leave her feeling neglected and she begins a losing campaign to recapture her husbands attentions. An anarchic satire of the advertising age, EROTISSIMO leaps from scene to scene with a whirlwind of rapid cutting, eye-popping style and all guns trained on pure mod pop fun! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (1969, 16mm) If Jean Rollin and Stanley Kubrick watched LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, then decided to make a semi-documentary on the queer underworld of 1960s Japan, it would be called FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES. Mythological underpinnings give way to an experimental melange of real footage from Shinjuku bohemia and fantastically realized comic book dreams -- all mixed together in a cocktail of radical visual ourishes, stroboscopic cross-cuts, sex, drugs and public toilets. A transgressive study in surrealist displacement that hits like a landmine, buried for decades but deadlier than ever. THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN (1969, 35mm) Its movies like this that make us want to pack up our belongings, grow little bitty mustaches, put on white linen suits and move to Europe. We can pretty much guarantee that youll never see an S&M soap opera like this rolling out of Hollywood anytime between now and the rst extreme snowboarding championship in Hell. Bodacious Dagmar Lassander stars as an ingenue learning the ropes (literally) from satanic Phillipe Leroy, whose whole crib is like Six Flags for perverts. Free-association faux-psychological screenwriting is brought to life with absurdly opulent production values and pinwheel visual exuberance. The door into and out of the sex gym is in the shape of a vulva between two giant sculpted legs! Lets all move in together.

TOUGH GUY CINEMA: CAGED: THE NICOLAS CAGE FIVE MOVIE MYSTERY MARATHON
Maybe youre not familiar with the term mega acting but if youve ever been lucky enough to see Nic Cage let loose, you probably have an appreciation for it...and if you dont, its probably because you dont understand it. As Nic Cage puts it, I often refer to it as outside the box, as opposed to over the top. [It] celebrates the idea of breaking free and going into other forms of expression, whether theyre abstract or extreme. The other sort of implies youre not being truthful to the part, but see, I dont know how you measure something like that because life can be extreme and life can be mega. And MEGA it shall be. We are diving into the pool of 30 plus years of incredible Nicolas Cage performances to bring you the absolute greatest selection of Cage lms that will blow your mind, challenge your heart and forever change your soul.

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BRITNEY SPEARS Sing-Along Give me a sign. Hit me baby one more time! MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Quote-Along I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Quote-Along I hate snakes, Jock! I hate em! ULTIMATE 90S SING-ALONG From boy bands to Lilith Fair, indie rock to jiggy crunk, all your ultimate 90s dreams come true!

Lars Farewell Screening!: SNAKES (1974, 35mm) This is an exceedingly odd rural snake-revenge movie thats oh so much more. Its also Lars Nilsens nal Weird Wednesday as host! UNMISSABLE!!!! FAREWELL UNCLE TOM (1971, 35mm) Italian provocateurs Jacopetti and Prosperi unwittingly gave birth to a whole new subgenre of non-ction exploitation with their 1962 hit MONDO CANE. After repeated accusations of forgery, unethical shenanigans, and of course, war crimes, they decided to make a movie about the atrocities of American slavery as an apology of sorts. Roger Ebert called it the most disgusting, contemptuous insult to decency ever to masquerade as a documentary. H.O.T.S. (1979, 35mm) After the other sororities at F.U. reject them a group of determined, sex-positive young women form their own sorority and plan the ultimate revenge: steal all of the boyfriends! Jock-strap raids, Playboy models, nude sports, kissing booths, a robot, bumbling crooks, an escaped bear, and Danny Bonaduce ensue. But what does H.O.T.S. stand for? SHE-MAN: A STORY OF FIXATION (1967, 35mm) Before he charmed us with A CHRISTMAS STORY and PORKYS or frightened us with BLACK CHRISTMAS and BABY GENIUSES, director Bob Clark made this tale of blackmail, sadomasochism, and forced sex-change set in a house of ill-repute in the most frightening place on Earth: South Florida. Framed as an education lm.

BRAZIL (1985, 35mm) A bureaucrat in an Orwellian, retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and in doing so becomes an enemy of the state. Orwell, Huxley Kafka and Eisenstein are all touchstones of this darkly humorous, wildly imaginative, satirical master-stroke of Terry Gilliams career. Bangarang: FIGHT CLUB (1999, 35mm) David Finchers adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel is gritty, dark and mean. Its humorously satirical, and cruelly criticizing. Wonderfully shot and incredibly acted. It may not be cool to like Fight Club anymore, but that doesnt make it any less a masterpiece. FOUND VS. FOUND VS. A/V GEEKS The three titans of the found universe, Found Footage Festival, Found Magazine, and the A/V Geeks, will go toe-to-toe-to-toe. All camps will be sharing their favorite nds to determine once and for all whether found notes, found videos or found 16mm lms will reign supreme. Video Vortex: FURIOUS (1984) Furious is an unexplored dimension populated by cackling sorcerers, whispering statues, fat adolescent warriors and lots and lots of live chickens. Furious is power. Its magic. Its a kaleidoscopic siege on the concept of storytelling. And Furious is RED HOT KARATE ACTION! Filmed entirely on location in Southern California! GIDEONS ARMY (2013) Follows the personal stories of three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. They struggle against long hours, low pay, and staggering caseloads so common that even the most committed often give up in their rst year. Nearly 50 years since the landmark Supreme Court ruling Gideon vs. Wainwright that established the right to counsel, can these courageous lawyers revolutionize the way America thinks about indigent defense and make justice for all a reality? Beneting the TEXAS FAIR DEFENSE PROJECT. THE GOONIES (1985, 35mm) GOONIES remains a smart, thrilling volcano of adventure that makes the world a better place. It also has ghost pirates. JAMES BROWN: LIVE AT THE BOSTON GARDEN (1968) Less than 24 hours after Martin Luther Kings assassination the city of Boston was in a state of turmoil. When James Brown arrived at the airport to play his already scheduled show he was warned that the mayor, fearing further unrest among the African American community, planned to cancel the show. Not only did the show go on at Browns insistence, but public television station WGBH broadcast the whole thing. Its an incredible historical document and a fantastic performance by James Brown, who dedicated the show to Dr. Kings memory and brought the raw emotions within himself and his community to a searing head.

AlamoScope: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962, 70mm) Celebrate the life and legacy the late, great Peter OToole in 70mm! Zzang!!!: LICENSE TO DRIVE (1988, 35mm) Desperate for some hot dates, the two Coreys go into the night and live life with no rules. The ultimate in wreckless teenage driving cinema! Free Kids Club: LITTLE NEMO: ADVENTURES IN SLUMBERLAND (1989, 35mm) Winsor McCays little dreamer is brought to animated life along with his ying bed, a magical scepter, and a terrifying villain known as the nightmare king. Based on a concept by Ray Bradbury and written by Chris Columbus! Totally free screening plus free toys supplied by Toy Joy! MORTIFIED NATION (2013) A documentary about adults who share their most embarrassing, private childhood writings in front of total strangers. Transporting viewers back to a time of awkward rsts -- rst love, rst rejection, rst total freak out -- the lm captures the adolescent experience in a way few of us truly remember and most of us tried to forget. RAGING BULL (1980, 35mm) Its been 30-plus years since Martin Scorseses landmark masterpiece was released, yet its lost none of the raw power and emotion that have made it a quintessential cinematic achievement. The greatest performance of Robert De Niros career. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981, 35mm) In 1981 Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan declared the return of great adventure. Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones in this Nazi-bashing romp around the globe on a race to nd the lost Ark of the Covenant. White-knuckle action and sly humor created a masterpiece of cinema for the ages, for all ages. Girlie Night: SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984) John Hughes had the magical ability to transform ordinary teenage life into something extraordinary, and no lm more exemplies that gift than SIXTEEN CANDLES. The characters are clichs stripped down to their most basic truth, then layered with earnest angst and authentic humor. It masterfully captures the reality of high school while still oering the dream of a happy ending. TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975, 35mm) Spies, submarines, aliens, a Titanosaurus, sonic disrupters, Godzilla, and the unbelievable return of the coolest robot of all time -- Mechagodzilla! Cinema Cocktails: TOP HAT (1935, 35mm) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers acrobatics will completely astound you as they do the most impossible things with the greatest of ease. This Depression Era musical isnt just glamorous as it features a REAL, enthralling plot to back up all those dazzling numbers. Astaire and Rogers charm is a force to be reckoned with.

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TERROR TRAIN (1980, 35mm) Life doesnt get much sweeter than watching a killer in a Groucho Marx mask stalk Jamie Lee Curtis while David Coppereld does magic tricks. On a train. TERROR TRAIN is the last great slasher from the movements rst wave -- an ultra-violent, big-budget, disco-infested explosion of scares that does what we want it to do. THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION (1975, 35mm) Filmed in the alternate universe known as Wisconsin, this is the only movie in history that stars a Volkswagen Bug as a giant spider. Ultra-low-budget spider attacks mix it up with goopy gore, soap opera sleaze, and a minimalist synth soundtrack to forge a triumph of surreal fun. BASKET CASE (1982, 35mm) This is the debut gutter-trash symphony from Frank Henenlotter (BRAIN DAMAGE, FRANKENHOOKER), stealthily lmed in the toilet bowls of Times Square and chock-full of demented fury. Hilarious, disgusting, and over-the-top in every way possible, this movie plays out like Herschell Gordon Lewis directing FREAKS on the set of TAXI DRIVER. A true homemade classick. ABBY (1974, 16mm) Moving into a new home is never easy. Especially when your spouse is a groin-kicking, goo-spewing, sex-addicted spawn of the devil. ABBY is the supernatural blaxploitation epic that they didnt want you to see. Literally. Warner Brothers was so enraged by the movies similarities to THE EXORCIST, that they conscated every print on earth in 1975. Except for the one were screening -- THE ONLY 16MM THEATRICAL PRINT IN EXISTENCE!!

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ATX TELEVISION FESTIVAL: TV NIGHT This new regular series will run the gamut from bizarre Brazilian cop shows to medical dramas to sitcoms to variety hours to... you get the idea. Each screening is a whole new mystery but its always totally FREE!! Mondo Presents: BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (1993, 35mm) Mondo will be premiering two new limited edition posters at the screening of this awless, underappreciated animated Dark Knight classic. Homo Arigato: BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (1972, 35mm) A masochistic, claustrophobic, and melodramatic glimpse of German fashion world lesbians in the early 70s -- told as only a cocaine-addled leather daddy could do it.