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All programs on Tuesdays at 9pm at Collective Unconscious
145 Ludlow St., NYC
$5 Admission



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
718.599.0751


THE ROBERT BECK MEMORIAL CINEMA PRESENTS OCTOBER 2000

3 October - CINEMA ISN'T I SEE BUT I FLY (Films from Squeaky Wheel...)
The intrepid programmer of Buffalo's Squeaky Wheel, Ghen Dennis, returns to NYC with a program of her own Kodachrome-as-B/W Super-8mm films and a selection of small-to-medium gauge Arcana films by Buffalo filmmakers. "Smeared and silvery non-direct cinematic portraiture, architecture, surveillance and camouflage." Films by: Ghen Dennis, Bernie Roddy, Gail Mentlik and possibly Eve Heller, Lawrence Brose, Stephanie Gray or Barbara Lattanzi.

10 October - SPATIAL ENIGMAS AND PEOPLE'S ENIGMAS (or, The Cinema According to Vincent Grenier)
"What is intended and what is actually expressed or what appears to be intended and what one makes of it, what a viewer's perceptions and assumptions are what can be done to shift and challenge them; these are some of the questions that lurks behind the making of my pieces." Vincent Grenier visits NYC with a selection of his films, poetic investigations of the world we see and the one that envelops us. Films will include: While Revolved (1976), ID Milton (1988), Brendan's Cracker (1999), World in Focus (1976), D'Apres Meg (1982) and Shut Up Barbie (1974).

17 October - TO HELL WITH THE G.O.P. / POLL TAX FOLLIES
Dennis Nyback triumphantly returns to the RBMC with a special pre-election program of secret Republican propaganda films from 1940 to 1980. Hoist the Republicans on their own Petards in rare films that they made themselves. Hilarious, brilliant, scary. Start with a pathetic attempt to smear Franklin Roosevelt in 1940. Watch them try to give Hell to Harry Truman. Witness the I Like Ike frenzy. See Nixon take on Kennedy. Goggle at their attempt to scare America into loving Big Business in the 1974 film The Day Business Died. Finish with the 1980 diatribe meant only for rich, rightwing wackos, ATTACK ON AMERICA, which warns the filthy rich that if they don't give till it hurts Jimmy Carter will stay in power and allow Fidel Castro to arm Central America so he can achieve his ultimate goal THE INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES! The program begins with the amazingly topical 1933 cartoon BETTY BOOP FOR PRESIDENT, and will continue with a top secret short subject. There will be time for discussion afterward in which any defender of any presidential candidate will be allowed to address the crowd. A Democracy demands an informed electorate. Learn from the past - apply to today.

24 October - NEW YORK DEBUTANTES
"A long journey begins with the first step." - Mao The RBMC presents a special showcase of early films by recent New York filmmakers. Many of these films were previously shown at Ocularis's Open Zone, The Secret Life of Anthology Film Archives and Jeanne Liotta's handmade film class. Filmmakers include: Marian Saint-Laurent, Marianne Shaneen, Karyn Riegel, Gregogy Baird, Erica Peek, Andrew Lampert, Amy Granat, Moira Tierney, Masha Godovannaya, Christina Zani and more. Suprises are to be expected.

31 October - NO MOVIES TONIGHT

Just like it says.


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