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Late-Night Summer Movies!
Welcome to the end of the world! As visions of collapse from global
warming and peak oil to avian flu dance across our news screens,
what better way to celebrate
the end of civilization than with a series of great post-apocalyptic movies.
This is the stuff of our collective nightmares made vivid, visionary, and
- yes - entertaining by an incredible range of directors: Terry Gilliam,
Luc Besson, Chris Marker, George Miller, Michael Haneke, Ingmar Bergman,
Katsuhiro Otomo, and even A Hard Day's Night's Richard Lester.
The Road Warrior July
7-13 New Print!
Time Of The Wolf July 14 - 20
La Jetée/12 Monkeys July
21 - 26
The Bed Sitting Room July 28 - Aug. 2
Akira Aug. 4 - 10
Shame Aug. 11 - 17
Le Dernier Combat Aug.
18 - 24
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THE ROAD WARRIOR July
7 - 13
NEW PRINT!
George Miller. 1981. 94 min. R. Australia. Warner Bros.
"Never has a film’s vision of the postnuclear-holocaust world seemed quite
as desolate and as brutal, or as action-packed." (New York Times)
Perhaps the best action flick ever made, and certainly one of the most influential.
This visionary tale of survival features the young new star Mel Gibson as Mad
Max, a shattered drifter who becomes a legendary hero in an Australian-style
mythic Western. Ruthless, operatic and spectacular. |
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TIME OF THE WOLF July 14 - 20
Michael Haneke. 2003. 114 min. NR. France/Austria/Germany, in French with subtitles.
Palm Pictures.
"Nightmare-inducing." (San Francisco Chronicle)
A catastrophe leaves Europe with little food
and water, and a family struggles
desperately to survive. What won’t they do when raw panic and despair
are the order of the day? This visually stunning nail-biter by the creator
of Caché is "one
of the most harrowing and plausible visions of apocalypse since Night of
the Living Dead" (Los Angeles Times).
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LA JETÉE July 21 - 26
Chris Marker. 1962. 28 min. NR. France, in French with subtitles. New Yorker
Films.
"The greatest science fiction movie I’ve ever seen." (Pauline
Kael)
The legendary filmmaker Chris Marker uses only
28 minutes to present this haunting post-World War III vision, told almost
entirely through a masterfully arranged
series of still photographs. The inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s 12
Monkeys.
Shown With
12 MONKEYS
Terry Gilliam. 1995. 129 min. R. US. Universal Pictures.
"Fierce and disturbing, with a plot that skillfully resists following any familiar
course." (New York Times)
In this dynamic sci-fi thriller, director Gilliam delivers a potent glimpse of
doom as a convict (Bruce Willis) travels back in time from a bleak future to
discover the cause of a deadly epidemic. Intense and densely plotted, this cult
classic asks questions about sanity and madness, fantasy and reality. |
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THE BED SITTING ROOM July 28 - Aug. 2
Richard Lester. 1969. 90 min. R. UK. Sony Pictures.
"Dotty and savage; acerbic and slapstick, and quintessentially
British." (Roger
Ebert)
A handful of bizarre characters struggle to survive in post-nuclear-holocaust
England, singing patriotic songs amid the ruins and wildly multiplying mutations.
Written by Spike Milligan (The Goon Show), this zany comedy in the mode
of Monty Python or Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night features
the likes of Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Ralph Richardson. |
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AKIRA Aug. 4 -10
Katsuhiro Otomo. 1988. 124 min. R. Japan, in Japanese with subtitles. Geneon
Entertainment.
"A fever-dream masterpiece, easily the most breathtaking and kinetic anime ever
made." (Village Voice)
Based on Otomo’s eloquent 2000-page
manga, and the film that launched the
popularity of anime in America, Akira is set in post-World War III
Tokyo as it takes on a constantly surprising and wildly energetic new kind
of life. "Its
post-apocalyptic mood, high-tech trappings, thrilling artwork and wide array
of bizarre characters guarantee it a place in the pantheon of comic-strip science
fiction" (New York Times).
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SHAME Aug. 11 - 17
Ingmar Bergman. 1968. 103 min. R. Sweden, in Swedish with subtitles. Sony Pictures.
"One of Bergman's greatest films." (Pauline
Kael)
Set on a secluded island in a
land ravished by civil war, this harrowing study of the transformation
of an apolitical bohemian couple (Liv Ullmann, Max von
Sydow) into ruthless survivors is at once a universal elegy for war’s
victims and a scathing critique of human nature.
Shame is also included in our Ingmar Bergman retrospective.
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LE DERNIER COMBAT Aug. 18 - 24
Luc Besson. 1983. 90 min. R. France.
"A neat, wry, pocket-size adventure with several magic moments." (Time Out,
London)
With only one line of dialogue in
this movie - and when it comes,
it’s a beauty - the jazzy electronic score, stripped down visual style,
splendid cast, moving plot, and unforgettable imagery carry the day. Luc Besson’s
(La Femme Nikita) first film, part of the post-Road Warrior boom in
the postapocalyptic, is 100 percent original. |
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