9/5 @ 8:00pm Extreme Animals, in
"The Extreme Animals Sit Down:
music is a question with no answer" Co-presented by SeanCarnage.com and The Smell
21st-century composers/mindwarpers Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman present a furious mash-up of live music, video, staged theatrics, and global meltdowns! Get ready for their disjunctive, startlingly entertaining array of live shredding, extreme feedback, YouTube bombardment, ecstatic dance moves, and Saturday morning cartoons, as the group’s newest performance delves into the world of tween culture and the current obsession with the infinite hall of mirrors known as "being forever young". Our performers will sell their soul, Paganini-style, to become vampires cursed to bleed all over their instruments -- for all time!!!! Jacob Ciocci is an artist most well-known as being one-third of the art collective Paper Rad (whose prolific flagellations of music, installations, websites, and animations continue to leave the masses gingerly agog), and David Wightman is currently a lecturer of Pop Music Studies at UCSD, as well as one of the main men behind sonic terrorist bands Fortress of Amplitude, Powdered Wigs, and Chariots of Fire. Together, Jacob and David form like Voltron in the high-NRG electronic music ensemble EXTREME ANIMALS! DJ Kyle Mabson will also be spinning tunes both before and after the show!
Watch a Jacob Ciocci video piece, with music by Extreme Animals!
Tickets - $12/free for members
9/6 @ 6:00pm The 5 Minutes Game: Labor Day Edition!
We here at the Cinefamily love two things in tandem: busting out the patio grill, and an onslaught of deranged video -- so we're closing out a whole summer's worth of nonstop partying with another installment of our highly popular and always-unpredictable 5 Minutes Game! What's all this about a game, you ask? We're firm believers in "Every movie is interesting for at least its first five minutes": those fascinating moments when you're still entering the new world a film presents you, and trying to figure out what the hell's going on. What we're gonna do is choose fifteen movies you've likely never seen before (with most, if not all of the films unavailable on DVD), line 'em up, and only show you the first five minutes of each. After all that, you, the audience, gets to vote on which film out of the fifteen we all then watch in its entirety. So bring something to cook on our grill, and let's get started!
Tickets - $10/free for members
9/7 @ 8:00pm Jerry Beck's Animation Tuesdays: Buy And Cel -
Crazy Cartoon Commercials!
Put away your Coco Pebbles and kiss your Lucky Charms goodbye! Once upon a time, cartoon characters sold you beer, cigarettes, automobiles and other grown-up necessities of life. Fred Flintstone smoking Winston Cigarettes? Mr. Magoo selling Beer? This is just wrong! Animation historian Jerry Beck makes it all right with an assemblage of outrageous and hilarious 30- and 60-second spots from the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, mostly on 16mm film, featuring a parade of famous big-name cartoon stars and long lost products you'll wish still existed. This program also features rare early commercials featuring Charlie Brown, Bugs Bunny, Casper and Woody Woodpecker, in ads created by the likes of Tex Avery, Stan Freberg, Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones. How can you resist this offer? Being sold something was never so much fun!
Watch a Flintstones commercial for Winston Cigarettes!
Tickets - $13/$9 for members
9/12 @ 5:00pm Bike-A-Delic BBQ!!: Stone (brand-new 35mm print!) shown with Psychomania plus DJ Set by Andy Votel! Co-presented by B-Music/Finders Keepers and Severin Films
In celebration of the newly-struck 35mm print of Aussie biker classic Stone, we've got a whole biker-themed BBQ party happening all Sunday! Plus, we’ve got a special guest DJ set from Finders Keepers label founder Andy Votel (aka Cock Diesel), and a biker rock mondo mix (with motorized footage curated by Cinefamily’s own Tom Fitzgerald!)
Psychomania - 5:30pm
A crowd warm-up for the main attraction of Stone, this exhumed 16mm print is perhaps the greatest undead British biker gang shlock-horror movie ever! Meet the Living Dead, a co-ed biker gang terrorizing a small English village by chasing cars off the road, buzzing pedestrians, and sporting atrocious haircuts -- until its longhair leader discovers the secret of eternal life under the guidance of his frog-worshipping occultist mum! Willingly commit suicide in the belief that you'll come back from the dead -- and once zombified, nothing can kill you. With character names like Hatchet and Chopped Meat, spectacularly shlocky effects, and a groovy, ghoulish ambient psych score (complete with a biker funeral folk interlude!), Psychomania delivers the goods.
Dir. Don Sharp, 1973, 16mm, 85 min.
Stone - 8:00pm
It triggered Australia’s exploitation explosion, and remains one of the most infamous biker movies in genre history! Never before screened in Los Angeles, Stone is the full-throttle saga of an undercover cop (Ken Shorter) who infiltrates the outlaw Grave Diggers (led by producer/director/co-writer Sandy Harbutt), a vicious clan with vengeance in their hearts, violence on their minds, and 150 horsepower of screaming steel between their legs as they thrash down the highway on a one-way trip to hell. This fantastically whacked-out biker parade, featuring a host of recognizable faces from Mad Max, Picnic At Hanging Rock and The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert co-starring with members of the Sydney chapter of the Hell’s Angels, is highlighted by a host of top-notch psychedelic touches: slo-mo bike accidents, hallucinogenic trips, death-defying freefall cliff stunts -- and a soundtrack full of lysergic swamp-funk rhythm section work, electronic percussion, didgeridoo and treated keyboards all intermingling to create an insane orgy for the ears, one equal to the killer brawls and falls in this ultimate Down Under classic! Our screening of Stone comes from a brand-new 35mm print, courtesy of director Sandy Harbutt!
Dir. Sandy Harbutt, 1974, 35mm, 103 min.
Watch the trailer for "Psychomania"!
Watch the trailer for "Stone"!
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
9/19 @ 8:00pm Valhalla Rising: (w/ director Nicolas Winding Refn in person!) Nicolas Winding Refn (director of Bronson and the Pusher trilogy) will appear in person at the Cinefamily to present his latest film, Valhalla Rising, one of the year's most psychedelically charged and fiercely original features! This intense metaphysical Middle Ages science fiction work, bewitchingly shot in the remote highlands of Scotland, is far from your standard action epic; drawing from such diverse and dense influences as Leone, Tarkovsky, Jodorowsky and Kenneth Anger, Refn has fashioned a completely unique take on the “historical film”, as we follow One-Eye (Mads Mikkelsen, Casino Royale), a physically towering mute Pagan warrior trapped on a hellride to the New World alongside a ragtag band of Crusading zealots. Nearly dialogue-free, Valhalla Rising’s fantastical lysergic departures lead you on an epic journey into the heart of the eternal mythological conflict between Nature vs. Man, and will burn in your brain for weeks afterwards.
Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009, 35mm, 90 min.
Watch the trailer for "Valhalla Rising"!
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
9/20 @ 7:00pm IDA's Doc U: Harry Shearer Takes It "Uneasy" - Conversation & Clips From The New Feature Doc "The Big Uneasy" (Harry Shearer in person!) Presented by the International Documentary Association
One of the nation's sharpest voices, comic or otherwise, turns his gimlet eye and
informed mind on exposing the true facts around the flooding of New Orleans, on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Employing an oft-ignored trope in conventional media -- science! -- Shearer and his impressive assemblage of engineers and whistle-blowers carefully and persuasively show audiences how this tragedy could have been avoided (disaster, yes -- natural, no) while also warning of the rebuild, in which the very same mistakes are being made. In this special Doc U session, the multi-talented Shearer will screen extended clips from the film, and reveal the passion and persistence that went into making it, in conversation with Eddie Schmidt, IDA's Board President and himself an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker. This will be an honest, irreverent, eye-opening Q&A with a man who believed in a cause so much he independently set forth to spread the word to the public -- keeping the true spirit of investigative journalism alive. For Shearer, a longtime New Orleans resident, this time it's personal.
Watch the trailer for "The Big Uneasy"!
Tickets - $20/$15 IDA members (NOTE: we are unable to offer a $4 discount for Cinefamily members for this event.)
9/21 @ 8:00pm Red White & Blue (L.A. premiere!) Co-presented by Alamo Drafthouse
“Engrossing, moving and terrifying by turns, Simon Rumley's fifth feature is a fantastically atmospheric slice of Americana, a beautifully scripted character drama, a horrifying revenge thriller and ultimately even a profoundly affecting love story.” - Eight Rooks, Twitch.com
The lives of three young, damaged people fatefully and tragically intertwine as they head down a rocky, violent road to heart-rending oblivion in Red White & Blue, the latest incendiary feature from acclaimed British director Simon Rumley (The Living And The Dead). Filmed in Austin, Texas, this tale of an emotionally withdrawn nympho (Amanda Fuller), a mysterious shady Iraq War vet (Noah Taylor) and a vengeful young rock musician (Marc Senter) deftly balances densely-shaded storytelling and explosive, firey carnage, as the film’s unpredictable swirl of fearlessly frank romance and its merciless exploration of the futility of violence collide. Using well-known local landmarks such as Emo’s, Cucarachas, The Broken Spoke and The Austin Diner, Rumley has fashioned the “slacker revenge flick” from hell, a highly realistic descent into the heart of bizarro Linklater-land.
Dir. Simon Rumley, 2010, DigiBeta, 102 min.
Watch the trailer for "Red White & Blue"!
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
9/27 @ 8:00pm Doug Benson's Movie Interruptions: September show!
When you think “Doug Benson,” what do you think of? Movies (Doug Benson Loves Movies being his preternaturally popular podcast); interruptions (The Benson Interruption being his beloved live show of stand-up-us interruptus at UCB); and, of course, weed (this is the man who brought us Super High Me, after all). Some or all of these elements are bound to combine at this, the next installment of Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption, where Doug and his friends (who, in the past, have included everyone from nerdist Chris Hardwick to hesher Brian Posehn) chill on the front row couches, mics in hand, and say whatever hilarious thing pops into their heads while a movie of their choosing unfolds on the screen. And, to make sure everyone knows this is in right spirit -- we always invite a cast member from the film to join in the fun! So come check out their epic monthly hangout sesh, where the love of movies and interrupting, and maybe that third thing I can’t remember this second, will have you chillin’, thrillin’ and rollin’ in the aisles.
Tickets - $14/$10 for members (general admission), $50 2-person couch, $75 3-person couch
9/28 @ 8:00pm "Take 100: The Future Of Film" Book Launch Party (feat. panel discussion w/ Jody Hill and the Duplass Brothers!) Co-presented by Book Soup
Book Soup and Cinefamily present the L.A. launch of the brand-new book “Take 100: The Future Of Film”, the first global film festival ever attempted between two covers, along with a live panel discussion featuring film directors Jody Hill (Observe and Report, "Eastbound And Down"), The Duplass Brothers (Cyrus, Baghead, The Puffy Chair) and Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark)! Published by Phaidon, “Take 100” is a 450-page, richly-illustrated tome that features the work of 100 of the world’s most promising new film directors, as selected by ten esteemed film-festival director “curators”. Whether you’re a film professional or a casual moviegoer, “Take 100” will guide you through today's must-see films and directors. The evening’s panel is moderated by esteemed curator Trevor Groth (Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival) -- and join us after the show for a book signing on our backyard Spanish patio!
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
10/6 @ 8:00pm Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo (starring Clara Bow) Co-presented by The Silent Treatment
Romantic Monte Carlo. Apparently, a forbidden place. A place where deadly-yet-fun sins, such as greed and lust, are the dealers in the house of Passionate Melodrama -- and the house always wins. The perfect setting for a radiantly young, still-developing Clara Bow, in one of her earliest leading roles, to teethe on the scenery -- and for the audience to watch, enraptured, as she learns before our eyes to demolish it completely with trademark wit and sparkle. See! Clara as an independent gamblin’ lady! Look! As she loses it all and goes to live “like brother and sister” with a handsome young artist! Hey! That’s not what brothers and sisters ought to do! Lustrously photographed by Karl Struss, later the cinematographer of Sunrise and the 1925 version of Ben-Hur, it’s one of Clara’s three collaborations with director Louis J. Gasnier, a man who knew serious European sophistication (probably owing to his native French-ness.)
Dir. Louis J. Gasiner, 1924, 35mm, 70 min.
Tickets - $12/$8 for members
10/9 @ 8:00pm Cinefamily Pajama Party #2: The Craft shown with Teen Witch
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore - 8:00pm
Frank Henenlotter, one of our favorite HFS directors and the man behind classics like Basket Case and Brain Damage, is back with the definitive portrait of Herschell Gordon Lewis, one of the godfathers of exploitation movies, in a doc featuring John Waters, drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs, Lewis’s legendary early producer David F. Friedman, Herschell himself, and testimony from the people who were actually there! You'll witness Lewis’s beginnings in the bare-naked innocent era of “nudie cuties”, just before he shocked the world with Blood Feast, the first-ever gore film -- and then you’ll be treated to a madcap whirl of his notorious, controversial career, featuring Two Thousand Maniacs!, She-Devils On Wheels, Blast-Off Girls, Just For The Hell Of It and the incredible The Wizard Of Gore! Experience a decade of motion picture madness, with tons of film clips, rare outtakes, and unintentional hilarity, as The Godfather of Gore will leave you laughing and screaming at some of the most amazing movies to ever play American theaters! Director Frank Henenlotter and producer Mike Vraney will be here in person for a Q&A in-between the films!
Dirs. Frank Henenlotter & Jimmy Maslon, 2010, 106 min.
Two Thousand Maniacs! - 10:00pm
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Watch the trailer for "Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore"!
Watch the trailer for "Two Thousand Maniacs"!
Tickets - $12/free for members
10/16 @ 10:00pm Chester Turner Tribute Night: Black Devil Doll From Hell shown with Tales From The Quadead Zone Co-presented by Rotten Cotton
Who the hell is Chester Turner? He’s easily the most mysterious auteur to emerge from the ‘80s camcorder horror underground. Turner shocked unsuspecting video renters with these two notorious and demented visions. Clearly impoverished -- one can almost picture Turner deciding between a bus pass and making his film -- no other films in this series better exemplify the feeling that this person just had to make a movie, no matter the limitations. Black Devil Doll From Hell stars Shirley L. Jones as a Bible-thumping virgin who buys a creepy dreadlocked dummy at a thirft store, to find that it walks, talks and is ready to bust a nut. After an astonishingly extended and awkwardly artificial rape sequence, our poor heroine is unable to find another “man” to satisfy her. Trust us, you won’t be prepared enough for this grimy, foul and incredibly quotable taboo-buster. If that doesn’t sound bizarre enough for you, then Chester’s follow-up omnibus film, Tales From The Quadead Zone, is right up your slimy alley. Ms. Jones returns as a bereaved mom who entertains her invisible ghost son with two spooky stories, involving rednecks fighting over sandwiches and a dead body dressed up as a clown. Perhaps the single weirdest thing (coming from a long, long list) about Quadead is its poignant, suprisingly personal ending. As Shock Cinema says: “Difficult to endure, impossible to forget, and loads of fun to discuss afterwards.” This night is a celebration of a dream come true for all of us cinemasochists: Rotten Cotten’s pending DVD release of these two Turner classics!
Watch an excerpt from "Black Devil Doll From Hell"!
Watch the opening moments of "Tales From The Quadead Zone"!
October’s exceptional Doc U session features a live appearance by Lucy Walker, a rising star of documemtary filmmaking whose recent films Waste Land and Countdown To Zero have been dominating 2010’s major festivals! Eddie Schmidt, the International Documentary Association's Board President and himself an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, will lead you through a behind-the-scenes look at Walker’s body of work: Waste Land, which follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys to the world's largest garbage dump to photograph catadores (self-designated pickers of recyclable materials); Blindsight, about the emotional journey of six blind Tibetan teenagers who climb up the north side of Mt. Everest; Devil’s Playground, an examination of the struggles of Amish teenagers during their period of experimentation (rumspringa); and Countdown To Zero, the heart-pounding wakeup call to an intensifying nuclear arms race. The evening’s on-stage conversation and film clips will be followed by an audience Q&A, and a reception on the Cinefamily’s backyard Spanish patio!
Watch the trailer for "Waste Land"!
Watch the trailer for "Countdown To Zero"!
Tickets - TBA
10/19 @ 8:00pm Demon Lover Diary
"Don and Jerry, factory workers who grew up on comic books and B-movies, are fulfilling a lifetime dream: they’re producing their own low-budget horror movie. Jeff and Joel, lovers and cinema-verité filmmakers, and a friend of theirs named Mark have come out to Michigan to help the dream come true: they’re shooting The Demon Lover for Don and Jerry. Two weeks after production starts, Jeff and Joel and Mark are fleeing Michigan — bullets ricocheting off the car -- lives and a complete record of the events in jeopardy. The subject of my film isn’t just the ups-and-downs of making a horror movie. It’s about cultural snobbery, the disintegration of friendship, puppy love, violence, boredom, money -- a diary about encountering the Midwest when you’re from someplace else.
A note: I wouldn’t want anyone to think the horror movie wasn’t Serious Business. After all, Don and Jerry’s method of financing it is a model for all filmmakers. Don mortgaged his furniture and car — which netted $3000 -- and Jerry cut off his finger in an industrial “accident.” The finger netted $8000. Jerry’s only regret was that if he’d waited a year, he would have gotten $15,000 for it." -- Joel DeMott
Dir. Joel DeMott, 1980, 16mm, 90 min.
Watch an excerpt from "Demon Lover Diary"!
Tickets - $10/free for members
10/22 @ 8:00pm The Diabolical Dr. Cinefamily's Horrifying Anthology Of Horror Anthologies (feat. Night Train To Terror & Creepshow)
Most movie all-nighters have five movies, six movies, tops -- that means, at most, maybe half a dozen bloody finales, three or four twist endings, and a cool premise or two. That’s nothing. How about sixteen different horror stories, one after another? You don’t like one? Wait half an hour, it’s gone! They said it couldn’t be done, but we’ve found a way: our dark secret is the “omnibus” movie, in which several short films (often with different casts and directors) are bundled under one umbrella. The Diabolical Dr. Cinefamily is gonna stitch together several of these anthology films, exhibiting classic five-for-one winners (like Creepshow) in their entirety or just grabbing a favorite single short from another, to create one gruesome, mammoth ass-to-mouth cinematic centipede of horror films! And to kick off the night, we've got a rare 35mm screening of --
Night Train To Terror
What would happen if God and the Devil decided the fate of mankind while on a train ride? This is a question that has plagued us for eons, a question that the producers of 1985's horror anthology Night Train To Terror felt compelled to answer. Well, OK, maybe what they felt compelled to do was take three trashy, unreleasable horror films they collectively owned, stitch ‘em together haphazardly and re-release them as an anthology. The result is a barely comprehensible jumble of scenes and story threads that ends up feeling like an experimental piece filtered through an ‘80s horror cheese sensibility. MTV-reject rock bands, occult Nazis, stop-motion giant insects, Cameron Mitchell, and (most horrifying of all) heinous white-bread breakdancing numbers -- you just never know what this crazy movie is going to throw at you next. It’s the most holyfuckingshit of all horror anthologies: that rare blend of the inexplicable and the highly entertaining. This will likely NEVER screen again in 35mm in the U.S., so make sure you catch it while you have the chance!
Watch an excerpt from "Night Train To Terror"!
Tickets - $10/free for members
10/23 @ 10:00pm Bleeding Skull presents: A Night To Dismember shown with Don't Panic! Co-presented by Bleeding Skull and Severin Films
When The Cinefamily wants top-shelf dissemination of the most curious, obscure, and insane trash-horror films imaginable, we head straight for Bleeding Skull! Launched in 2004, BleedingSkull.com is the brainchild of Joseph Ziemba & Dan Budnik, who’ve spent years scouring video stores across the U.S., and have amassed a treasure trove of insightful and laugh-out-loud funny criticism that begs multiple readings. With a book in the works and a constantly growing fanbase, the time is nigh to bring Bleeding Skull where it belongs: the Cinefamily screen! Join Joseph and Dan as they present two of their absolute film faves, plus a handpicked trailer reel and My Fat Sherriff, their tribute to overweight law enforcement in the Slasher Film!
A Night To Dismember - 10:00pm-ish
This Doris Wishman gorefest isn’t so much an exercise in necessity as it is a boon to all mankind! After a peeved lab worker destroyed forty percent of her original negative, Doris was forced to compensate, and A Night To Dismember was born. ‘80s porn star Samantha Fox returns home after a stint in a mental institution, and from there, erratic violence and dreamy visuals bounce around 4-track cassette aesthetics, while the docu-styled lens of a spastic Super-8 camera whirs on. Hairstyles change constantly. Soundtrack cues comprised of Jazzercise schlock, public domain spooks, and wailing rock overlap in triplicate. Dialogue and sound effects are supplied by Doris's mouth, crackling vinyl, and gloriously hideous post-dubbing -- and there's even some psychedelic sex and random nudity! A Night To Dismember is the bizarro out-to-lunch experience that trumps most any other in its genre -- and it just might change your life. Projected from Doris Wishman's personal Beta-SP master!
Dir. Doris Wishman, 1983, digital presentation, 69 min.
Don't Panic! - midnight-ish
Ouija boards! Boozed-up moms! A grown man in cartoon pajamas! In Don't Panic, goofball cinema at its most exquisite, strange things happen to a young man. Most of it involves an Ouija board, some gore, and a Satanic (sort of) force. The young man fights evil, falls in love and wears some ultra-cool bedclothes. He also sings the theme song. This film needs to be seen with a crowd, so you have someone you trust at your side to turn to and mutter "WTF?!" to when necessary -- probably every three minutes. If you don’t have fun during Don’t Panic, maybe you need to talk to a Religious Leader of your choice about why there’s no more fun in your life. Just, whatever you do, don’t -- don’t -- oh, forget about it.
Dir. Rubén Galindo Jr., 1988, 35mm, 90 min.
Watch the trailer for "A Night To Dismember"!
Watch a ridiculous love montage from "Don't Panic"!
Tickets - $10/free for members
10/26 @ 8:00pm Ken Russell '80s Horror: Lair of the White Worm shown with Gothic
After being expelled from Hollywood for making movies too damn weird for mainstream audiences, Russell returned to the U.K. and made these two truly uncategorizable exploitation movies that, in true Russell style, managed to flip everyone’s expectations of what a “horror film” could be.
Lair of the White Worm - 8:00pm
First up, Russell tackles an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s bizarre, seemingly unfilmable story of a worm cult terrorizing the British countryside, coming up with an outrageous, campy cult classic that delivers so much entertainment value per minute it’ll make your head spin. Slinky Amanda Donohoe stars as the high priestess of a pagan god who’s risen again to claim fresh victims, with a foppish, very young Hugh Grant leading the attack against her as the descendant of her ancient rival. You also get impaled nuns, Jesus being attacked by a giant serpent, a very unlucky boy scout, a lesbian catfight on a plane, random Citizen Kane jokes, more phallic imagery than you can shake your stick at, and nighttime soap queen Catherine Oxenberg dangling over a giant pit in her underwear! What’s not to love?
Dir. Ken Russell, 1988, 35mm, 93 min.
Gothic - 10:00pm
No one knew what to expect when cinematic bad boy Ken Russell tackled his first bona fide horror film in 1986, and the result, Gothic, shocked more than a few unprepared viewers. The late Natasha Richardson became an instant star in the making with her harrowing turn her as Mary Shelley, who spends a fateful weekend in 1816 with Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and her poet lover Percy (Julian Sands) -- a short span of time that would inspire her to write Frankenstein. Along with her unstable cousin and repressed gay Dr. Polidori, they each agree to come up with a scary story and descend into a night filled with monsters, hallucinations, drug use, masturbatory stigmata, eyeballs appearing in female breasts, and a pounding score by ‘80s synth-pop god Thomas Dolby! The terrible DVD presentation of Gothic currently in circulation doesn’t even begin to convey the visual richness of this unique, fascinating film, shown here in 35mm for maximum freak-out effect.
Dir. Ken Russell, 1986, 35mm, 87 min.
Watch the trailer for "Lair of the White Worm"!
Watch the trailer for "Gothic"!
Tickets - $12/free for members
10/27 @ 8:00pm Doug Benson's Movie Interruptions: October show!
Devilish disruptor Doug Benson and his slate of guest friends disturbs the Cinefamily peace once again with his Movie Interruption! Cruelly, he won’t tell us what the film is or who his hilarious guests will be (because he’s a stoner and he can’t figure it out til the last minute) and the anticipation is totally tantalizing. If you’ve never been to the show before, you should know that what’s particularly awesome about what Doug does, is that it’s completely unforced. If the movie is entertaining, Doug will let it be for a while -- this isn’t a snide snarkfest with a movie as target. This isn’t man vs. movie -- this is man, and movie, joined together to be better than either could be alone, in some kind of hellish cyborg that will surely destroy us all. And that means that there are no jokes for the sake of making them -- if it’s not a devastator, you won’t be hearing it. The whole vibe is real, totally laidback, never trying too hard. Exactly like watching a movie with friends who don’t just think they’re funny. Finally!
Tickets - $14/$10 for members (general admission), $50 2-person couch, $75 3-person couch
11/2 @ 8:00pm Stranded In Canton (a film by William Eggleston)
Extreme Animals, in
The 5 Minutes Game:
Buy And Cel -
Crazy Cartoon Commercials!
Bike-A-Delic BBQ!!:
Valhalla Rising:
IDA's Doc U: Harry Shearer Takes It "Uneasy" - 
Red White & Blue
Doug Benson's Movie Interruptions:
"Take 100: The Future Of Film" Book Launch Party
Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo
Cinefamily Pajama Party #2:
Herschell Gordon Lewis:
Two Thousand Maniacs! - 10:00pm
Chester Turner Tribute Night:
IDA's Doc U: Conversations with Lucy Walker
Demon Lover Diary
The Diabolical Dr. Cinefamily's Horrifying Anthology Of Horror Anthologies
Bleeding Skull presents:
Ken Russell '80s Horror:
Gothic - 10:00pm
