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Contact:
Brian Frye
Cooper Station Box 499
NYC, 10276-0499
718.706.6697
[fryebrian@hotmail.com]
Bradley Eros
123 Essex St., Box 53
NYC, 10002
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August
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AUGUST - ASSORTED WEIRDNESS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF MIKE OLSHAN
Park Slope's foremost film collector, Mike Olshan, presents the first
in a series of "never-seen-that-before" films culled from his carefully
constructed collection. This introduction to the strange and wonderful
world of Mr. Olshan includes: ROOTIE KAZOOTIE (an incredibly bad TV
show which hoped to compete with Howdy Doody, no gem itself...), THE
DELINQUENT, THE HIPSTER AND THE SQUARE ("The title says it all for
this Sunday-morning 'think show' produced by the well-meaning National
Council of Churches. Music by the Max Roach Quintet."), TEN LITTLE
INDIANS ("An incredibly bad quiz show in which every imaginable production
disaster occurs, including miscues, dead air time and dangling mikes.
Hurts to watch."), MUSICAL RACE INSULTS (some of the silver screens
most mortifying moments of condescension.) and probably more... Mr.
Olshan will be on hand to introduce the films and discuss his investigations
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AUGUST - RBMC STROLL-IN, PART I (DEMON LOVER DIARY)
For the first of our proto-drive-in summer features, the RBMC presents
Joel DeMott's DEMON LOVER DIARY (1979), with Jeff Kreines and Mark
Rance. In Joel's own words, "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 this 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." - Joel De Mott |
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AUGUST - RBMC STROLL IN, PART II (IT CAME FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE CHARLES...)
For this second proto-drive-in event, we present an "outdoor" screening
of BEACH BEAST by Bill Storz, a super-8mm feature monster movie starring
members of the Boston scene, including the inestimable Luther Price,
who sings "Walk Through This World" over the opening credits. Mr.
Storz is currently engaged in a national tour, and will be alighting
in NYC, print in hand, just in time for the show. Don't miss this
milestone in small-gauge filmmaking! |
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AUGUST - SCIENCE PROJECTS
"This program of films explores the exploratory nature of experimental
film. Although these films differ in their modes of collection,
measurement, and organization, they all play with and around the
calculatory nature of cine-mathematics. From the speed of light
to logging dates, from figuring to ornithogs, from palindromes to
rods and cones. Films to include: The 8.3 Minute Film - Kenneth
Eisenstein, 01-03-73 - Christopher Bravo, Recollection - Jeffrey
Johnson, Not A Drop - Jason Livingston, On the Various Nature of
Things - Deborah Stratman, Sisyphys' Cinema - Tom Comeford, The
One Hundred Yard Dash Film - Kenneth Eisenstein, from boys to rollercoasters
- Rebecca Meyers, If Not Here Then Where - Christopher Bravo, This
Film Ends at Frame 2290 - Gemma Ryan. Quite a few filmmakers will
be around.
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AUGUST - IN MEMORIAM, SIDNEY PETERSON (1905-2000)
Carrying on the brand-new tradition of memorial programs for recently
deceased filmmakers, tonight the RBMC honors one of its patron saints,
the great Sidney Peterson, who shuffled off this mortal coil on
April 24 of this year. The program will include Peterson's own films
(THE PETRIFIED DOG, among others), as well as others related to
them, and various ephemera. Don't miss this chance to honor the
inventor and most-esteemed practitioner of the crypto-hermeneutics
of the cinema.
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