MON. SUN fri. 7:30. PINK ULYSSES. 10:00. CHINA 9, LIBERTY 37 thurs. 7:30. SOLPO DE VIDA. 10:00. WE CAN'T GO HOME. AGAIN.
SUN
MON
Wed
TUES
thurs
fri
SAT
1
7:30 PINK ULYSSES
3:00 FIST CHURCH
3
5:00 CONTRABAND
4
10:00 WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN
7:30 CASTA DIVA
3:00 BLOOD BRUNCH
7:30 SOLPO DE VIDA
10
5:00 FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR
7:30 PURA SANGRE
11
10:00 CALI SHORTS
5
7:30 A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR
7:30 KID THING
10:00 STATELINE MOTEL
10:00 NAUGHTY BOYS
7:30 NAUGHTY BOYS
12
10:00 WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN
7:30 I DECLARE WAR
6
10:00 CHINA 9, LIBERTY 37
13
17
5:00 STATELINE MOTEL
7:30 CASTA DIVA
18
10:00 PURA SANGRE
7:30 CONTRABAND
19
5:00 LITTLE MARINES 7:30 HAWK JONES
24
20
10:00 UN TIGRE PAPEL
7:30 KID THING
25
10:00 A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR
8:00 AND10:00
26
KURUTTA IPPÊJI WITH AARON MOORE LIVE SCORE
7:30 UN TIGRE PAPEL 10:00 PINK ULYSSES
21
7:30 CHINA 9, LIBERTY 37 10:00 ONE HITTER TO PARADISE
CLOSED
10:00 FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR
10:00 CHINA 9 LIBERTY 37
MIDNIGHT LITTLE MARINES
Midnight HAWK JONES
8
7:30 CALI SHORTS
7:30 GO GORILLA GO 10:00 FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR
28
9
10:00 SOLPO DE VIDA
Midnight I DECLARE WAR
midnight THE LORDS OF MAGICK
15 7:30
8:00
7:30 WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN 10:00 NAUGHTY BOYS
22
7:30 CASTA DIVA
16
UN TIGRE PAPEL 10:00 SOLPO DE VIDA midnight HAWK JONES
7:30 PURA SANGRE
23
10:00 GO GORILLA GO midnight EDGE OF THE AXE
midnight ONE HITTER TO PARADISE
27
7:30 CONTRABAND
10:00 GO GORILLA GO
ELEKtRO MOSKVA WITH DJ Set BY DOMINIK SPRITZENDORFER
CLOSED
7:30 A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR
3:00 BLOOD BRUNCH
14
10:00 STATELINE MOTEL
7:30 The Beauty I Saw
3:00 FIST CHURCH
7
7:30 PINK ULYSSES
2
7:30 KID THING
29 7:30
30
ANDREA CALLARD16mm SHORTS
10:00 I DECLARE WAR MIDNIGHT THE LORDS OF MAGICK
10:00 CONTRABAND MIDNIGHT LITTLE MARINES
April 2016 On the cover: THE FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR
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CONTRABAND, Lucio Fulci, 1980
FISTFUL OF TESTIS: A SELECTION OF FILMS STARRING FABIO TESTI CONTRABAND: Dir. Lucio Fulci, 1980, Italy, 97 min. In Italian with English subtitles. 4/3 5:00p • 4/9 7:30p • 4/19 7:30p • 4/30 10:00p
Fabio Testi stars as Luca Di Angelo, an idealistic family man and cigarette smuggler in the treacherous Naples underworld. But when a rival gang massacres his brother and abducts his wife, Luca triggers a psychotic mob war that goes far beyond mere revenge.Get ready for a crime saga unlike anything you’ve ever seen before as director Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE) unleashes the most gut-splattering, brain-blasting, flesh-frying scenes of cruelty and carnage imaginable. This is CONTRABAND!
CHINA 9, LIBERTY 37: Dir. Monte Hellman, 1978, Italy/Spain; in English, 102 min. 4/2 10:00p • 4/7 10:00p • 4/21 7:30p
Fabio Testi plays Clayton Drumm, on his way to the gallows when he’s offered a chance to live in exchange for killing Matthew Sebanek (Warren Oates), a miner who refuses to sell his land to the railroad. The arrangement turns complicated when Clayton and Matthew become friends, and more complicated still when Clayton and Matthew’s wife Cather (Jenny Auguttter), fall for each other.
GO GORILLA GO (VAI GORILLA): Dir. Tonino Valerii, 1975, Italy, 100 min. In English and Italian with English subtitles. 4/8 10:00p • 4/23 10:00p •4/28 7:30p
Fabio Testi stars as a down-on-his-luck cop who moonlights as a bodyguard for a mob boss. When Testi’s scummy brother proposes a kidnap scheme, Testi is reluctantly game, and things go downhill fast in this odd and action packed Eurocrime from the director of MY DEAR KILLER and MY NAME IS NOBODY.
STATELINE MOTEL: Dir. Maurizio Lucidi, 1975. Italy, 86 min. English. 4/5 10:00p • 4/13 10:00p •4/17 5:00p
Fabio Testi is Floyd: a day out of Canadian prison and already on the run after a botched jewelry store robbery. On his way to split up the loot with partner Joe (Eli Wallach), Joe crashed his car and winds up stranded at the Stateline Motel, where he catches the eye of the motel’s owner, Michelle (Ursula Andress). Before you can say “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” passions are inflamed, suspicions raised, double crosses abound and things generally go poorly for everyone is this seedy 70’s Euro-noir.
WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN: Dir. Nicolas Ray, 1973. USA, 93 min. 4/4 10:00p • 4/12 10:00p • 4/22 7:30p
Nicolas Ray’s experimental masterpiece, made with his students at the State University of New York at Binghamton. This film embodies Ray’s approach to filmmaking as a communal way of life. It uses multiple images as a way of telling more than one story simultaneously, and colorization to heighten emotional expression. He called it a “journalistic” film, one that shares the anthropologists’ aim of recording the “history, progress, manners, morals, and mores of everyday life,” at a critical moment in American history. Ray plays himself in the film, serving as mentor, friend, and central reference point.
KID THING, David & Nathan Zellner, 2012.
CHILDREN ON FIRE: KID CINEMA
CHILDREN ON FIRE collects some of the strangest and most unconventional films to deal with ideas of childhood, play and growth, imagination and personal responsibility. These movies have a vision of childhood that is very different from most movies and TV: here the threats against youth and innocence do not come from outside influences, but rather from within the kids themselves. Be it overactive imaginations and overactive hormones or a lack of internal moral compass, these movies will both shock and delight you with their portrayals of how youth if projected in cinema, and how it projects itself back when it’s given the voice and intent.
KID THING: Dir. David & Nathan Zellner, 2012, USA, 83 min. 4/2 7:30p • 4/6 7:30p • 4/25 7:30p
Raised by an alcoholic father on a remote Texan goat farm, ten year old Annie has the freedom (and boredom) to live out her love of destruction. While alone in the forest she hears the voice of a woman stuck in a well, who begs Annie to get adult help. A standoff ensues between the helpless adult and the skepical child that reverses the usual relations of power in favor of a disenchanted kid.
HE, HIM HIS: FOUR FILMS BY ERIC DE KUYPER A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR: 1985, Netherlands/Belgium, 95 min. English with German subtitles. 4/5 7:30p • 4/17 7:30p • 4/25 10p
Far and away the most narratively straight-forward of de Kuyper’s films, A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR is a bracing yet tender dissection of middle age and loves lost. Shot by the legendary Henri Alekan (WINGS OF DESIRE, BELLE ET LA BETE), the film revisits JOHNNY GUITAR’S query as to whether or not relationships once interrupted can be revived under the right circumstances.
CASTA DIVA: 1982. Belgium, 105 min. In English with some French. 4/3 7:30p • 4/18 7:30p • 4/29 7:30p
With his directorial debut, de Kuyper pushed the concept of the (gay) male gaze to its zenith. Drawing from the likes of Genet, Visconti and Warhol, CASTA DIVA is composed of uninterrupted takes of men going about quotidian tasks – getting dressed, fixing their cars, going for a dip – all the while preparing for an unseen theater piece.
THE FANTASY OF DEER WARRIOR: Dir. Ying Chang, 1961. Taiwan, 87 min.
NAUGHTY BOYS: 1984 Netherlands, 105 min. In English with some French/German.
An Erotic Fox in librarian’s glasses manipulates a rivalry between two deer families as a Wolf Clan starts a general forest massacre. As the deer scramble to deal with this situation, the stories of various children’s fables are retold by costumed rabbits, birds, turtles, and oxen.
Billed as a “sad musical comedy,” NAUGHTY BOYS is more along the lines of a never-ending dinner party: less EXTERMINATING ANGEL than a revisionist, structuralist send up of old Hollywood. Using the lofty architecture of a drafty mansion, de Kuyper allows us to peer inside the distant interactions of a coterie of tuxedo clad men and their occasional “fag hags” as they pass the evening chatting, wrestling, singing, crying and cozying up in bed.
LITTLE MARINES: Dir. A.J. Hixon, 1991. USA, 87 min.
PINK ULYSSES: 1990 Netherlands, 98 min. In English with some Italian.
In Min Nan with English subtitles. 4/1 10:00p • 4/10 5:00p • 4/28 10:00p
4/1 MIDNIGHT • 4/24 5:00p • 4/30 MIDNIGHT
Awkwardly shot like a pervert peeking on these kids in the woods, A.J. Hixon’s LITTLE MARINES is the story of three turds that go camping. It’s not really an adventure film since it is mostly just a series of mishaps and fuck-ups and offers no resolutions to these kids problems. Best of Best of Spectacle.
HAWK JONES: Dir. Richard Lowry, 1986. USA, 88 min. 4/2 MIDNIGHT • 4/16 MIDNIGHT • 4/24 7:30p
Minitropolis is under siege by gangster Antonio Coppola, a corrupt city where even the Chief of Police works with the underworld. The only 8 year old who can rid the city of this scourge once and for all is – HAWK JONES! Against all odds, Hawk uses an arsenal of weapons to take down Coppola’s army of thugs and anyone who stands in the way of justice. Best of Best of Spectacle.
4/6 10:00p • 4/12 7:30p • 4/22 10:00p
4/1 7:30p • 4/7 7:30p • 4/27 10:00p
De Kuyper’s utterly singular exploration of the myth of Odysseus zig zags between theatrical reenactments soused in production values, and simplistic black and white scenes of present day homoeroticism. Zeroing in on the properties of longing, and whether the object of one’s desires can be supplanted by an imitation, PINK ULYSSES is a historical retelling unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
SPECIAL EVENTS
THE BEAUTY THAT I SAW: Dir. Benjamin Abrams, 2014. 53 min. EXCAVATING HARLEM: Dir. William Melvin Kelley, 1989. USA, 27 min. 4/10 7:30p • ONE NIGHT ONLY!
In 1989, writer William Melvin Kelley began a video diary to capture the beauty of living in Harlem. THE BEAUTY THAT I SAW is a document made with these tapes, the fleeting moment between the crack wars and today’s rent hikes. Paired with Kelley’s satirical short EXCAVATING HARLEM.
KARUTTA IPPÊJI: Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926. Japan. Silent. 4/26 8:00p & 10:00p • LIVE SCORE BY AARON MOORE!
The story of a man who takes a job at an insane asylum to be near his wife - a patient - and how their daughter’s engagement affects the family. Images drive the action as well as underline the cacophony of confusion that threatens to tear the woman apart. KURUTTA IPPÊJI features a live score by Aaron Moore, whose solo work features 4-tack tape machines, percussion, trumpet, and voice.
ONE HITTER TO PARADISE:
Dir. Various. 60 min. In English. 4/21 10:00p • 4/22 MIDNIGHT
Your pals at Spectacle have cherry-picked the greatest moments from anti-drug filmstrips, afterschool specials and drive-in exploitation madness. With clips narrated by Robert Mitchum (arrested for possession in 1948) and Paul Newman and appearances by Scott Baio and John Holmes, we’ll see clips of everything from wigged-out cinema verité to thoughtful examinations of the hypocrisy of America’s long-troubled drug laws to things that simply cannot be explained.
PINK ULYSSES, Eric de Kuyper, 1990.
ELEKTRO MOSKVA: Dir. Elena Tikhonova & Dominik Spritzendorfer, 2013. Austria, 89m. 4/15 8:00p • ONE NIGHT ONLY! • DJ SET BY DOMINIK SPRITZENDORFER! Welcome to a weird and fully wired world of avant garde rock musicians, DIY circuit benders, vodka-swilling dealers and urban archaeologists/collectors; all fascinated with Soviet-era electronic synthesizers. Spectacle brings back ELEKTRO MOSKVA for this one-time screening with a DJ set by the director. HAWK JONES, Dir. Richard Lowry, 1986.
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