T.J. Miller's Hangover Matinee
What’s the best way to recover from a hangover? Sofa snugglin’, old-time movies, live entertainment, and a bit of the hair of the dog that bit ya! Belief in this undeniable truth (movies + mimosas + madness = happy) was a key point of agreement between us and our newest family member, comedian T.J. Miller. Together, we introduce to you to the Hangover Matinee: a monthly brunch complete with food, coffee, booze, and live comedy — all for anyone who loves both the classic vaudevillian spirit, and old movies in the early afternoon.
T.J. MILLER'S HANGOVER MATINEE: feat. live comedy hosted by T.J. Miller, & "Forbidden Zone"
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
11:30am -12:30pm – back patio brunch
12:30pm -1:30pm-ish – live comedy hosted by T.J. Miller, plus a selection of vintage short film subjects
1:30pm-ish – 3:00pm – Forbidden Zone
What’s the best way to recover from a hangover? Sofa snugglin’, old-time movies, live entertainment, and a bit of the hair of the dog that bit ya! Belief in this undeniable truth (movies + mimosas + madness = happy) was a key point of agreement between us and our newest family member, comedian T.J. Miller. Together, we introduce to you to the Hangover Matinee: a monthly brunch complete with food, coffee, booze, and live comedy — all for anyone who loves both the classic vaudevillian spirit, and old movies in the early afternoon. After the live comedy hosted by T.J. this Sunday, we celebrate the legacy of the late Susan Tyrrell with the key early-’80s classic Forbidden Zone, seen in one of the best ways possible: in the daylight of the early afternoon with a mimosa in hand!
FORBIDDEN ZONE
In June, we sadly lost the brassy, bold and beautiful Susan Tyrrell, whose scene-stealing roles in films like Fat City, Forbidden Zone and Cry Baby easily cemented her as one of the all-time queens of cult cinema. A plot synopsis really can’t quite capture the delirious experience of watching this film, which contains freaky star turns by Tyrrell and Herve Villechaize, a frogman in a tuxedo, a human chandelier over the royal table, hordes of topless concubines, a catchy, frantic clutch of Oingo Boingo songs, two bald henchmen in jockstraps, and Danny Elfman as a singing and dancing Satan with a chorus line of ghouls!
Dir. Richard Elfman, 1982, 35mm, 73 min.
Watch the trailer for “Forbidden Zone”!
T.J. MILLER'S FATHER'S DAY MATINEE: Chaplin's "The Kid"!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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11:30am-12:30pm – back patio brunch
12:30pm-1:30pmish – live entertainment, plus a selection of vintage short subjects
1:30pm-3:00pmish – Chaplin’s The Kid & A Dog’s Life
In this perfect show for Father and Co., T.J. Miller presents one of Charlie Chaplin’s milestone early features! In The Kid, the Tramp adopts an abandoned toddler (Jackie Coogan) whom he discovers in an alley, and raises him to become his sidekick in a variety of schemes and cons. Chaplin’s first feature-length directorial effort, The Kid is a moving and hilarious portrait of paternal love, or as the film’s first intertitle says, “A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear…” As well, it’s the landmark work of genius in which Charlie the jester metamorphasized into Charlie the full-blooded actor, whose iconic dignity in the face of comic adversity made him one of our greatest cinematic treasures. After the morning brunch merriment and live entertainment, but before the feature, we also have A Dog’s Life, the 1918 short that the presages The Kid, and features the Tramp’s sweet misadventures in the company of a young pup, who happily watches as Chaplin hides from the cops, taunts hard-faced gangster types, and tries to get the girl!
The Kid Dir. Charles Chaplin, 1921, 35mm, 68 min.
A Dog’s Life Dir. Charles Chaplin, 1918, 35mm, 33 min.
Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for “The Kid”!
T.J. MILLER'S HANGOVER MATINEE: W.C. Fields in "The Bank Dick"
SCHEDULE
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11:00am-noon – Brunch on the patio
noon-1:00pm or so – live entertainment, plus a selection of vintage short subjects
1:00pm-2:30pm – The Bank Dick
What’s the best way to recover from a hangover? Sofa snugglin’, old-time movies, and a bit of the hair of the dog that bit ya! What’s the best way to watch an old-time movie? Why, recovering from a hangover, sofa snugglin’ — and a bit of the hair of the dog that bit ya! Comprehension and belief in this undeniable truth (movies + mimosas + madness = happy) was a key point of agreement between us and our newest family member, comedian TJ Miller. Together, we introduce to you to the Hangover Matinee: a monthly brunch complete with food, coffee, booze, and live entertainment — all for anyone who loves old movies in the early afternoon.
Distilling W.C. Fields’ essence into a perfect cocktail of jovial, snarky inebriation and virtual Popeye cartoons come to life, The Bank Dick finds one of film comedy’s greatest personas gleefully slurring and scowling his way through the sort of role that put him on the map. Fields plays Egbert Sousé(!), a security guard and occasional film director impersonator, who must deflect the constant harping of incorrigible loved ones while stumbling in the direction of his two true loves: liquor, and euphemisms for it. His missteps culminate in the type of epic car-chase that today would probably just be called a DUI, but in Fields’ shaky hands are merely Delightful Under the Influence. Populating his world are fellow eccentrics J. Pinkerton Snoopington, Og Oggilby, Hermisillo Brunch, A. Pismo Clam, and Filthy McNasty! If you’re still not sold on this gonzo piece of actual drunk history, consider the point where Egbert teeters on a barstool and mutters to a capped bottle of whiskey, “Take off your hat in the presence of a gentleman.”
Dir. Edward F. Cline, 1940, 35mm, 72 min.
Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for T.J. Miller’s Hangover Matinee of “The Bank Dick”!
T.J. Miller's Hangover Matinee (feat. 1933's "Alice In Wonderland"!)
What’s the best way to recover from a hangover? Sofa snugglin’, old-time movies, and a bit of the hair of the dog that bit ya! What’s the best way to watch an old-time movie? Why, recovering from a hangover, sofa snugglin’ — and a bit of the hair of the dog that bit ya! Comprehension and belief in this undeniable truth (movies + mimosas + madness = happy) was a key point of agreement between us and our newest family member, comedian TJ Miller. Together, we introduce to you to…the “Hangover Matinee”: a monthly brunch complete with food, coffee, booze, and live entertainment — all for anyone who loves old movies in the early afternoon.
For our first Hangover Matinee, we’ve got the captivatingly strange 1933 version of Alice In Wonderland: proof that “weird” wasn’t a recent invention of the late twentieth century! Plumbing depths of the uncanny valley barely glimpsed before or since, this one encased some truly inspired casting (W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty! A prehensile Cary Grant as Mock Turtle! Gary Cooper as the White Knight!) in heavy, elaborate costumes, and makeup that rendered its characters playful but monstrous, as Lewis Carroll might have intended! Paramount spared no expense choreographing the dream world for this lavish production, in which a moon-eyed Alice navigates through a Wonderland so beautifully grotesque that each frame shivers with delight.
Alice In Wonderland Dir. Norman Z. McLeod, 1933, 35mm, 76 min.
Watch our original trailer for “TJ Miller’s Hangover Matinee!”
Watch an excerpt from the 1933 “Alice In Wonderland”!
