2 MONTEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Pizza Party
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11AFGA PRESENTS: BRUTAL JUSTICE
18Monday Night Thread Up: WILD AT HEART
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12Tough Guy Cinema: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
19Staff Picks: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX
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WED
6Girlie Night: PRETTY IN PINK
13THE PROPHECY
20Victory Screening: THE FRENCH CONNECTION
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2 SAT Mondo X Chiller: SCANNERS
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10Action Pack: MAMMA MIA! MOTHERS DAY BRUNCH
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MONDO X CHILLER: SCANNERS (1981)SCANNERS could be one of my
favorite Cronenberg films. Its certainly the most fun, thats for
sure. Scanners are social outcasts...a byproduct of a failed
experimental drug given to their mothers during pregnancy. An
unusual side effect of the drug gave them the power to read and
control minds, forcing most to live hidden away from society unable
to cope with their mind reading abilities and voices crowding their
brains. One such Scanner, Cameron (Stephen Lack) - who is
practically homeless and unable to function in normal society - is
captured by ConSec, a medical company that wants to harness the
pow-ers of Scanners for whatever nefarious needs. Through a
power-ful drug called Ephermol, they are able to control Scanners
mind-reading abilities and help them live semi-normal lives.
Unfortunately for ConSec and Cameron, another Scanner, Revok (a
career high Michael Ironside), is planning to destroy ConSec and
take over the world. Cameron is tasked to find and destroy him, and
what follows is basically absolute chaos as the two face off in a
series of over-the-top effects work supplied by Dick Miller
(another career high moment). The two men liter-ally destroy each
other and everything around them very slowly in a wildly
entertaining manner. Lack is stoic, barely registering any emotion,
while Ironside chews the scenery in such an over-the-top manner,
you kind of want him to destroy the world and sit on a throne made
of bodies!
Exploding heads, squirting arteries and some of the most
jaw-dropping practical effects youll ever see on the big
screen.
Vinegar Syndrome Presents: SUPERSOUL BROTHER (1978)Move over,
Rudy Ray Moore! Cause things are about to get W-I-I-ILD!! Shot in
Miami for the price of a dozen doughnuts, SUPERSOUL BROTHER is the
one and only starring vehicle for Wildman Steve Gallon aka the most
amazing dirty joke comedian of the 1970s chitlin circuit. A midget
mad scientist named Dr. Dippy helps the mob develop a formula that
makes users super-strong, bulletproof, and, after two days,
super-dead.
Obviously, its hard to get sensible people to sign up for this
treatment. So the mobsters grab the nearest wino, played to
perfection by Wildman Steve. Steve is ridiculously funny as he
ad-libs like crazy and steps all over his costarss lines. He even
gives a speech in favor of legalizing pot thats a small
master-piece of reason and logic. Part skid-row crime caper, part
sci-fi weirdness, and all hilarious, Rene Martinezs SUPERSOUL
BROTHER blasts onto the screen courtesy a new restoration from
Vinegar Syndrome and the American Genre Film Archive!
Monday Night Thread-Up: WILD AT HEART (1990, 35mm)In 1990, the
world wasnt quite ready for a David Lynch version of The Wizard of
Oz starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. Audiences poured out of
test screenings in droves, it was booed at the Cannes Film Festival
despite also winning the Palme DOr and it found little success at
the box office. But, lets face it, they were all clueless.
Spearheading the gun toting lovers on the run movies that would
litter American multiplexes in the early 90s, David Lynchs film
would be as much about Sailor (Cage) and Lula (Dern) as it would be
about excessand Oz. With an inspired and insane cast of characters
played by the likes of Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin
Glover, Diane Ladd and Isabella Rossellini, its both the most
Hollywood film Lynch has directed while also being the biggest fuck
you to the movie industry he could possibly have made at the time.
Its violent, loud, obnoxious, terrifying and really, really
wild.
Alamo Victory members are invited to this FREE screening! To
sign up for Victory, visit drafthouse.com/victory. To reserve
tickets, you must be logged into your Victory account!
THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)An early high water mark in one of
the best decades of Ameri-can film, THE FRENCH CONNECTION centers
on two detectives, Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Cloudy Russo
(Roy Scheider) on the hunt for $32 million worth of heroin being
smuggled into New York City by an ingenious French crime
syndicate.
THE FRENCH CONNECTION was inspired by the real life battle on
the streets of NYC against the biggest drug smuggling operation in
history. And, as they saying goes, there are two sides to every
story Be sure to catch the European side of the action with
Drafthouse Films THE CONNECTION, a stylish new 70s-era crime
thriller starring Academy Award Winner Jean Dujardin (The
Artist).
WHAT IS VICTORY?Victory is the Alamos loyalty program, providing
members with free movie tickets, free and discounted food, and
priority access to special events. This includes at least one free
special screening monthly, and the occasional invitation to advance
screenings. Sign up for free and start getting perks right
away!
AGFA Presents: BRUTAL JUSTICE (1976, 35mm)Introduced by Temple
of Schlocks Chris Poggiali.
Bullying everyone around him, even his own superiors in the
police department, Detective Leonardo Tanzi (Merli) doggedly
pursues a shadowy underworld figure named Ferrender and a gang of
bank robbers led by a hump-backed slaughterhouse worker (Milian),
all while punching, stomping, slapping and shooting any random
rapist, pusher or purse-snatcher unlucky enough to cross his path.
One of the most popular examples of the poliziotteschi genre from
Italy, where its known as ROME A MANO ARMATA, this fast and furious
action pic was re-leased twice in the U.S. by veteran Times Square
schlockmeister Terry Levene, under two different titles. Most
American fans know the film as ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON,
Levenes 1982 attempt to pass it off as a horror movie (!), but four
years earlier it toured drive-ins and urban action theaters as
BRUTAL JUSTICE, misleadingly advertised as a domestic DIRTY HARRY
clone filmed in New York! Legend has it that Levene even shot new
footage in Manhattan to help pull off the Made in the U.S.A. ruse.
In order to confirm (or debunk) this rumor, were digging deep into
the archive and unearthing a rare print of the BRUTAL JUSTICE
release version. Even if youve already seen the movie a few times,
you wont want to miss this opportunity!
Tough Guy Cinema: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)The year: 1997. The
worlds greatest leader is taken hostage in the most dangerous place
on Earth. Now, only the deadliest man alive can save him.
Kurt Russell is many things: charismatic, handsome,
humor-ous...but THE one thing he possesses that all else covet is
TRUE CINEMATIC POWER! There are men with more muscles, and there
are men who can take bigger beatdowns, but no man will transfix you
quite like the perfectly squared grizzled jaw of THE MAN amongst
men, Kurt Russell. Hes a man so tough he came out of his mothers
womb and snapped his doc-tors neck for looking at him funny.
Russells first team-up with John Carpenter is arguably his best.
The government enlists hardened criminal skull-basher, Snake
Plissken, to travel to the blood-thirsty maximum security prison
island known as Manhattan, where he has has less than 24 hours to
save the President of the United States and get back...or hes a
dead man. With a supporting cast of all-around bad asses including
Harry Dean Stanton, Lee Van Cleef, Adrienne Barbeau, Ernest
Borgnine, and Isaac Hayes, this movie is guaranteed to set your
eyeballs on fire. So, grab your eye patch and some candy cigarettes
(all included with your ticket) and prepare to ESCAPE FROM NEW
YORK, where breaking out is impossible and breaking in is
insane!
Girlie Night: PRETTY IN PINK (1986)This screening is part of our
Shiner Soundtrack Series.
As far as Im concerned, PRETTY IN PINK is the definitive guide
to the classification of high school boys. Sure, fashion and
hairstyles have changed (was Andrew McCarthys hair ever cool?), but
the universal truth of the film remains: if youre a teenage dude,
youre either a Duckie or a Blane.
The Duckies of the world are typically adorable and goofy, but
theyre just never gonna make it out of the friend zone. The Blanes,
on the other hand, were born to be hot and popular, so of course
they take everything for granted and dont appreci-ate the awesome,
amazing girls right in front of them. In other words, dating in
high school sucks.
Fortunately, PRETTY IN PINK channels that suckage through Molly
Ringwald, light of our lives, and wraps it all up in a fabu-lous
80s package. The music! Ionas wardrobe! Ionas hair! James Spader!
The prom dress! Ok, well, not so much the prom dress.
Slip on your finest pink ensemble (bonus points if you sew it
yourself ) and start practicing your Otis Redding lip synch routine
now!
Fangoria Presents: THE PROPHECY (1995, 35mm)Its always a dark
pleasure to discover a horror/fantasy film built on a truly
original and fully imagined mythology, and such was the case when
THE PROPHECY hit screens in 1995. Origi-nally titled GODS ARMY (and
not to be confused with the 1979 Manbearpig opus), the directorial
debut of HIGHLAND-ER scripter Gregory Widen casts Christopher
Walken in one of his all-time best roles as the angel Gabriel, who
is embroiled in a war in heaven and has come to Earth to claim a
little girl bearing a soul that can tip the battle in his favor.
Playing out Widens perfectly pitched blend of chills, theological
intrigue and dark humor is a great, eclectic cast including Elias
Koteas as a detective who once aspired to the priesthood, Eric
Stoltz as a good angel, Virginia Madsen as the girls teacher and
protec-tor, Adam Goldberg as Gabriels human sidekick, and Viggo
Mortensen in an early, memorable turn as Lucifer, who informs us
that While heaven may be closed, I am always open, even on
Christmas. Enjoy the rare gift of seeing one of the best
supernatural films of the 90s up on the big screen!
Staff Picks: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995, 35mm)Staff Pick of Matt
V.!
In RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, Jackie Chan plays Keung, a young man who
makes a special trip to New York City to attend his uncles wedding.
While his uncle is on his honey-moon, Keung graciously offers to
manage his uncles market in the Bronx. Before too long, a local
street gang starts to make trouble. Keung, the one-man moral
machine, seeks to put an end to the disruption before the situation
spirals out of control.
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