6 November
- There's a Know-Nothing in my Whig Porridge, or The Poll Tax Follies
Redux
Election day has rolled around again, and in the hallowed tradition of
all fringe candidates, we're gathering to blow raspberries at whoever
wins. Drop into the RBMC and ignore the election returns. We've got an
evening of all-political films, with a special emphasis on unfairly maligned,
unjustly forgotten and just plain bull-headed political almost-leaders
in the great American tradition of willful iconoclasm. Watch a parade
of inaugurations, Bill Bradley as a New York Knick, FDR's fantastic WWII-era
animation Hell Bent For Election, Betty Boop for President, LBJ's State
of the Union Address as he commits to Vietnam,the short-lived McKinley
and much more. Surprises guaranteed!
13 November
- Subversive Animation
One of the RBMC's favorite film collectors, Dennis Nyback, presents a
program of the most unlikely cartoons you've ever seen. The program will
include: Bring Out the Gypsy In Me 1933 WB (pro-commie), The Clean Pastures
1936 WB (old time religion don't work); Betty Boop for President 1933
Fleischer (Screw the two party system - trust us, you'll want to see it
again!); Mickey's Whoopee Party 1932 Disney (what prohibition?); Hobo
Gadget Band 1940 WB (why work?); The Sunshine Makers 1935 Van Buren (drugs
can make you happy); Dizzy Red Riding Hood 1931 Fleischer (bestiality?);
The Screw Driver 1942 Lantz (off the police); Snow White 1933 Fleischer
(revolt against royalty); Bimbo's Initiation 1931 Fleischer (existenalism
anyone?).
20 November
- Total Mobile Home vs. Bobby Beck
Tonight, for the first time ever, San Francisco's Total Mobile Home MicroCinema
visits NYC 
,
landing in the home of its prodigal son. The smallest movie theater ever,
and the only literally "underground" venue we know of, TMHMC was the number-one
inspiration of the RBMC. Tonight, its founders Rebecca Barten and David
Sherman are here to teach a master-class in film screening. It's not to
be missed. They'll be showing their own brand-new films and digital videos,
including Sherman's The Silver Returns & To Re-edit the World and Barten's
Bob and Bunuel & Scents of Direction, as well as rare films and videos
by Sidney Peterson, George Kuchar, Luther Price and Stuart Sherman from
the TMHMC archive.
27 November
- Potlatch!
This is what Thanksgiving is all about. RBMC regular Keith Sanborn presents
the NYC premiere of his translation of Situationist Rene Vienet's film
Girls of Kamare. The "sequel" to his Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, Girls...
continues in the What's Up Tiger Lily? tradition, transforming a trashy
Japanese porno (A Pair of Panties for Summer) into a crypto-Marxist sendup
of imperial France. Proof-positive that humor is the best prophylactic!
All programs
on Tuesdays at 9pm at Collective Unconscious, 145 Ludlow St. NYC $5 Admission
