SEP 11th 2012

Rollerball (1975)

In a corporate-controlled future an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball captivates the world. One of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/

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Regrettably this is the shitty original Rollerball, not the spectacular and totally awesome remake. Come getcher James Caan on!

SEP 4th 2012

Blood of Heroes (AKA: Salute of the Jugger)

A post apocalyptic world provides the backdrop for a brutal, futuristic game resembling football.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094764/

Trailer

SEP 2012

Future Sports!

With the Summer Olympics still fresh in the mind this month's Movienights will prove just how hard humanity has failed in realizing our true sporting potential. Dog skulls on spikes in a desert wasteland, motorcycles exploding on the roller derby track, pedestrian motor deaths earning points and people being hunted down by electricity spewing opera singers... this is the future people!

September 4th: Blood of Heroes (AKA: Salute of the Jugger)
September 11th: Rollerball (1975)
September 18th: Death Race 2000
September 25th: The Running Man

Aug 28th 2012

The Grissom Gang

A gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish. Slim proceeds to fall in love with her.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067162/

AUG 21st 2012

Lady in Red

Fictionalized account of the life and times of John Dillinger's moll.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079429/

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AUG 14th 2012

Boxcar Bertha

A union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068309/

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AUG 7th 2012

Bloody Mamma

Machine gun totin' Ma Barker leads her family-gang on a crime spree in the Depression era.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065481/

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AUG 2012

The 30s in the 70s

The 70s saw a wave of 30s nostalgia, largely spawned by the success of Bonnie & Clyde (1967), that manifested itself in film, fashion and music. The 30s throwback can largely be explained as a cyclical nostalgia generated by a certain proximity to a given era, the aughts seemed tied to the 70s in the same way the 80s were nostalgic for the 50s/60s and so-on. Further, the 60s/70s counter-culture had an outlaw obsession that led to a succesful boom of Revisionist Westerns, similarly, the 30s gangster was reinvented as hippy-come-outlaw. In any case, the 70s saw many A-list Depression era period pieces like The Sting, Paper Moon, Thieves Like Us, Hard Times, Emperor of the North, Sounder, etc. Since this is Movienight I'll avoid those and stick to cheapies, exploitation and Corman titles.

August 7th: Bloody Mama
August 14th: Boxcar Bertha
August 21st: Lady in Red
August 28th: The Grissom Gang

July 31st 2012

Vigilante

When a his family is attacked by gang members, a New York factory worker joins a secret vigilante group made up of ex-cops.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084867/

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July 24th 2012

Savage Streets

A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088044/

Trailer

JUL 17th 2012

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092857/

Trailer

JUL 3rd 2012

The Exterminator

A Vietnam veteran's friend is killed by ruthless thugs. He then transforms himself into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080707/

Trailer

JUL 2012

Vigilante Justice

July 3rd: The Exterminator
July 10th: NO MOVIENIGHT
July 17th: Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
July 24th: Savage Streets
July 31st: Vigilante

The streets are filled to the brim with human trash waiting in the shadows to cut your throat, rob every penny you have and sodomize your still twitching corpse... Or so the 80s would have us think. This month enjoy the paranoid, xenophobic action fantasy of urban justice. These films often uncomfortably juxtapose laughable absurdity and maximum cheese with the genuinely shocking and horrific. Low on budget, high on crack - come revel in the vile filth of the city, or as Wings Hauser beautifully crooned on his opening credit track composed for the film Vice Squad, the "neon slime."

JUN 26th 2012

Gambit

An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060445/

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JUN 19th 2012

Arabesque

International intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman and a beautiful spy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060121/

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JUN 12th 2012

Charade

Romance and suspense in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056923/

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JUN 5th 2012

How to Steal a Million

A woman and a man must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060522/

Trailer

JUN 2012

Mod Capers & Hitchcockian Thrillers

June 5th: How to Steal a Million
June 12th: Charade
June 19th: Arabesque
June 26th: Gambit

...I'm gonna try to squeeze in a couple other goodies so stay tuned. Not enough Tuesdays in June!

MAY 29th 2012

Fireworks

A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression he makes questionable decisions.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119250/

Trailer

The protagonist is a cop, not yakuza - but they're integral to the plot so we'll let it slide.

MAY 22nd 2012

Sonatine

Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the gangsters decide to lay low at the beach.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108188/

Trailer

MAY 15th 2012

Graveyard of Honor (1975)

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Yakuza but quickly loses his self control.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073207/

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MAY 8th 2012

Battles Without Honor or Humanity

In the black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono finds himself in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070246/

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MAY 1st 2012

Tattooed Life/Tokyo Drifter DOUBLE FEATURE

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059320/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061101/

Trailer

MAY 2012

Bite-Sized Yakuza Chunks: Suzujki, Fukasaku & Kitano

Yakuza films started out as morality plays where the protagonist's ninkyo, their honor, was a greater stake than their life. This genre paradigm would see some radical shifts brought about by these three auteurs. Seijen Suzuki's irreverence, Kinji Fukasaku's politically loaded disdain for hypocrisy and Takeshi Kitano's post-modern, arthouse approaches advanced new mutations in the Japanese gangster film - so lets watch 'em.

May 1st: Tattooed Life/Tokyo Drifter DOUBLE FEATURE
May 8th: Battles Without Honor or Humanity
May 15th: Graveyard of Honor (1975)
May 22nd: Sonatine
May 29th: Fireworks

APR 24th 2012

The Split

Thieves fall out when their loot goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the L.A. Coliseum during a football game.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063636/

Trailer

Lots to look forward to with this one cast-wise: Jim Brown, Warren Oates, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, etc.

APR 17th 2012

The Slams

After a heist Curtis Hook is caught by the police. Once in jail he has to devise a way to get the loot before the stash is demolished.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070704/

Trailer

APR 10th 2012

Rio Conchos

Two Army officers travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent an insane ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.

Jim Brown doesn't get top billing, he doesn't even get the most screen-time, but it's a solid, brutal western well worth checking out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058525/

Trailer

APR 3rd 2012

Slaughter & Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069279/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070706/

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APR 2012

Brown and Beautiful: Jim Brown Being Awesome Movies



This April we're going to Brown-town. Jim Brown-town, that is. I'll start things off with a double feature to give ya more Brown for you're buck.

Apr 3rd: Slaughter/Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Apr 10th: Rio Conchos
Apr 17th: The Slams
Apr 24th: The Split



We aren't actually watching '100 Rifles', which is what this publicity still is from, but it's such a rad picture of Raquel Welch and Jim Brown that I threw it up here for ya.

MAR 27th 2012

Hickey & Boggs

Al Hickey and Frank Boggs are tired, broke, alcoholic detectives approached by a lawyer to find his girlfriend who has gone missing.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068698/

Trailer

Culp, Cosby and a script by Walter Hill.

MAR 20th 2012

The Last Run (1971)

A former getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portugese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job driving a dangerous crook and his girlfriend to France.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067329/

MAR 13th 2012

The Outfit

When Macklin is released from prison he learns that his brother was killed for their robbing of a syndicate operated bank. His friend Cody helps him gratify his thirst for revenge.

This one's pretty Duvall. Joe Don Baker, Karen Black and Timothy Carey under one movie-roof?! And it's directed by John Flynn of Rolling Thunder and Out For Justice fame.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071960/

MAR 6th 2012

The Nickel Ride

Cooper, a small-time criminal, manages several warehouses in Los Angeles that the mob use to stash their stolen goods. Cooper's superior Carl decides to have cocky cowboy button man Turner keep an eye on him.

It's got Rolling Thunders' Linda Haynes, it's got Bo Hopkins, it's a no-brainer - duh!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073451/


Trailer

MAR 2012

Early 70s Crime Mish-Mash

Mar 6th : The Nickel Ride
Mar 13th: The Outfit
Mar 20th: The Last Run
Mar 27th: Hickey and Boggs



No clever title, not much of a unifying thread. All these movies were made from 1971 to 1973. They all involve crime, criminals or private eyes. Some of them have that existential malaise and fatalism so prevalent in the genre in this era, others are straight ahead action films... the only thing they really have in common is that I wanna watch them this month.

Bonus Field Trip: Thomas Crown Affair/The Getaway - Sunday, April 1st @ the Egyptian Theater

http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/the-thomas-crown-affair-the-getaway

FEB 28th 2012

Missing (1982)

When an idealistic, American writer disappears during the right wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and father try to find him.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084335/

Trailer

FEB 21st 2012

Coal Miner's Daughter

Biography of Loretta Lynn, the country western singer who went from poverty to fame.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080549/

Trailer

FEB 14th 2012

3 Women

Pinky is an awkward young teen who starts work at a spa in a California desert town. She becomes overly attached to fellow spa attendant when they become roommates.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/

Trailer



Getcher Duvall on.

FEB 7th 2012

Carrie

A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074285/

Trailer



This is a pretty good production still...

FEB 2012

Spacek Training: Sissy Spacek Month

Feb 7th: Carrie
Feb 14th: 3 Women
Feb 21st: Coal Miner's Daughter
Feb 28th: Missing (1982)

Remember yer training n' don't be a sissy! Better see yer ass there.