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Films Schedule

Friday - Saturday - Sunday

FRIDAY 4:00: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Sean Connery leads a team of unlikely historical and literary heroes in a Victorian world with advanced technology, to battle the terror of The Fantom.  People seem either to love this film or absolutely hate it, and it's worth dropping by to see how you feel about it.
(35mm, 1 hr. 50 min)

Preceded by a cartoon from the Abbott and Costello Show.
This is a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon from 1966.  Bud Abbott does his own voice, while the late Lou Costello was played by Stan Irwin.  This show was carefully scripted and lacks all of the ad-libbing and perfect interplay that made Abbott and Costello a great comedy team.  In this episode, Abbott and Costello foil aliens attempting to steal gold from Ft. Knox.
(16mm, 6 min)

FRIDAY 6:30: Star Trek:The Empath

We have a 16mm syndication print in fairly good condition, with better color than the 35mm network print we got of Spock's Brain a while ago and with a number of interesting surprises that will make you want to see it.  This showing is sponsored by the Vaian Institute for Cranial Enlargement.  Come and see the only con that dares to still run ST:TOS episodes even in this enlightened age and discover why McCoy is a doctor and not a coal miner.
(62 min, 16mm)

FRIDAY 8:00: Donnie Darko

Highschooler Donnie is plagued by visions of a giant evil rabbit who orders him to commit acts of violence and predicts the impending end of the world. How can you go wrong with a plot summary like that?
(35mm Cinemascope, color by DeLuxe, 1 hr, 53 min)

Preceded by the short subject: Dan Smoot: Communism, Confusion, and Christianity
Harlan Ellison says, "For sheer sustained bald humor, nothing is funnier than Mr. Smoot awakening us to the dangers of the International Communist Freako-Devo-Pervo-Sickie World Conspiracy."  This film contains fifteen minutes worth of one of Dan Smoot's weekly broadcast tirades circa 1965, shot live in a single take.  Although hilarious at points, the full fifteen minutes can be a bit wearing.
(15 minutes, 16mm B&W, print from WTKR-TV)

FRIDAY 11:00: Peter Pan (Silent, 1924)

This is the original Peter Pan film, adapted from the stage play.  This film has been unavailable for many years due to Disney claiming rights over anything even vaguely relating to Peter Pan, but after more than half a century it has been cleaned up and new prints struck.  We'll be showing it live with our own Ron Harry at the organ.  Do not miss this.
(104 minutes, 35mm 24 fps)

SATURDAY 9:30 AM: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Continuing the saga, Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring.  Before you see the third one in the set, come and see the second one. 
(35mm Cinemascope, 2 hr. 59 min. Color by Deluxe)

SATURDAY 12:45 PM: Robot Stories

Director Greg Pak will introduce this film of four stories in which people learn more about being human by dealing with robots.  Utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of mechanical office workers and robot babies.  This film won a Special Jury Award for Emotional Truth in the Florida Film Festival, along with 21 other awards in the past year.
(85 min + director talk, 35mm)

SATURDAY 2:30 PM: Space Angel

Space Angel: A curious product of the early 1960s, this is an animated children's television show employing Synchro-Vox, a process in which live action lips were rotoscoped onto still drawings.  The plotlines and the artwork both owed a lot to the pulp SF styles of the day and were quite advanced for a kid's show of that era.  We'll be showing one half-hour episode at random from an original archive print.  With a surprise. 
(46 min, in beautiful 16mm Sakuracolor, special print)

SATURDAY 3:30 PM: Scout Project Report 1973

Regular weekly satellite launches from Virginia? Launch platforms off the coast of Africa, run by the Italian Space Agency? Solid fuel rockets into high earth orbit? It was all true then, and almost forgotten today.  Come see the progress report film from the NASA contractor and remember.
(30 min, 16mm)

SATURDAY 4:15 PM: The Matrix

You've seen it before, now come see it the right way.  This is the canonical cyberpunk film and also Keanu Reeves is cute.  Sure, it's derivative, but so are most roller coaster rides.
(35mm Cinemascope, Color by Technicolor, 2 hr 16 min)

Preceded by the short subject Reduced Gravity Simulation for Study of Man's Self-Locomotion
In 1965, nobody had actually tried walking in a reduced gravity environment, so in preparation for the moon landings, NASA constructed a spring and counterweight system in order to simulate walking in reduced gravity.  This film describes how it works, with footage that looks remarkably close to the actual moon films. 
(16mm, 10 min)

SATURDAY 7:00 PM: Silent Running

This 1972 film describes a world in which earth's forests have been taken into space for safekeeping.  It's a film about freedom, a film in which the robots are human and most of the people mindless drones.  It's got a great performance from Bruce Dern also which makes the film.  Finally an SF film the Green party could love.  (35mm, 89 min)

Preceded by the short subject: Vibration Analysis using Holographic Interferometry
This 1970 film from the Jet Propulsion laboratory describes how the laser interferometer works and demonstrates the operation of the system for watching surfaces flexing under vibration.  The simple system they describe can be now built at home with an inexpensive laser pointer and a beamsplitter which makes this additionally interesting. 
(16mm, 10 min)

SATURDAY 10:00 PM: The Rook

This murder mystery, starring Martin Donovan and directed by Eran Palatnik is one of the finest steampunk movies we have seen.  It is not just a film about an alternate Edwardian world, but a dark and brooding story that just happens to take place there.  It's well done enough that the elaborate world seems entirely natural.  This film was made in 1994, released in Europe but really received no distribution at all in this country and we have had to borrow the director's personal print of it.  Your chance of ever seeing it elsewhere is almost nil so we brought it here. 
(85 minutes, 35mm Scope)

SATURDAY 1:00 AM: Star Pilot

This film was originally produced in Italy in 1967 with a very low production budget.  It was resurrected for US distribution with a quickly-done dubbing job in 1976, to capitalize on the SF craze that came about after Star Wars.  It is the worst SF film ever made. Worse than Plan Nine, worse than Fungus of Terror.  We guarantee you have never seen worse acting in your life.  You must see it to believe it.
(16mm)

Preceded by the short film BOMB, which advocates private ownership of nuclear weapons but also describes some of the unfortunate side effects of legal home nukes.  This film is a must-see if you intend on installing nuclear or thermonuclear devices in your home.
(16mm, 20 min)

SUNDAY 9:00 AM: Audience Choice

We will run any of the films listed for this weekend.  You must arrive at 9 AM in order to cast your vote.  Film will begin promptly at 9:15 after setup and preparation.

Sunday 12:00 Noon: The End

Film room closes for Art Auction Setup