FEB 2013

2012 Roundup

As the Oscars near everyone waits with baited breath to see which masturbatory turd or generic pap will be deemed the greatest cinematic achievement of the year - meanwhile, we movienighters can celebrate the under-represented genre fare of 2012. These movies aren't without flaws, some are seriously maligned by them, but these are still my picks for genre films of the year (barring the few exceptions that actually did get Oscar attention)...

Feb 5th: End of Watch
Feb 12th: Lawless
Feb 19th: Killer Joe
Feb 26th: Dredd

JAN 29th 2013

The Great Silence

A mute gunslinger faces off against a gang of bounty hunters in the great blizzard of 1899, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063032/

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JAN 22nd 2013

Navajo Joe

The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061587/

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JAN 15th 2013

Compañeros

Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to Mexican revolutionaries, but the money is locked in a bank safe. Ultimately he must join forces with the reluctant guerrilla Vasco to retrieve the loot.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066612/

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JAN 8th 2013

Django

A coffin-dragging gunslinger enters a town caught between two feuding factions, the KKK and a gang of Mexican Bandits.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/

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JAN 2013

Corbucci's West

In an effort to get Movienight back on track after the devastation the "Wheel of Dogshit" rent upon us in December, I'm taking it back to it's roots. To celebrate Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' (which is a lot of fun and gets a high recommendation) we'll be playing some of Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Westerns this month. We've actually screened most of these before but that was a long time ago and they're pretty much the reason Movienight exists - so what better way to get the new year rolling?

January 8th: Django
January 15th: Compañeros
January 22nd: Navajo Joe
January 29th: The Great Silence

DEC 2012

Reel of Fortune

We are loading up a wheel with random crap and letting the hand of god decide where it lands. A totally random month of cheese. A true wheel of dogshit.

NOV 27th 2012

Villain (1971)

Murderous, sadistic London gang leader is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067952/

NOV 20th 2012

Sitting Target (1972)

Escaped convicts Harry Lomart and Birdy Williams are lying low before they skip the country. However, Lomart can't control his rage at being cheated by his wife so he decides to kill her and her secret lover before he flees.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069273/

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NOV 13th 2012

The Squeeze

Alcoholic ex-cop Jim Naboth tries to crack a kidnapping case.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076755/

NOV 6th 2012

Get Carter (1971)

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

Michael Caine's greatest role! Mike Hodges' greatest film! Wonderful score, haunting melody! Artfully crafted, brutal masterpiece... cold as ice.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067128/

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NOV 2012

Gangland U.K.

Long before Guy Ritchie sullied the genre... Michael Caine, David Hemmings, Oliver Reed and Richard Burton as the scum of the earth! Unrepentant, unsympathetic, cruel criminals! Revenge fueled Cockneys! These are truly nihilistic, bleak pictures folks. We've screened 'Get Carter' before, but it sets things in motion nicely and it's the greatest British gangster film of all time.

November 6th: Get Carter (1971)
November 13th: The Squeeze (1977)
November 20th: Sitting Target
November 27th: Villain (1971)

OCT 30th 2012

Shakma

A wild baboon attacks people trapped in a large tower.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100589/

Trailer 

The trailer is amazing.

OCT 23rd 2012

The Manitou

A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077904/

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OCT 16th 2012

Body Parts

After losing his arm in a car accident a criminal psychologist has it replaced with a limb that belonged to a serial killer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101492/

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OCT 9th 2012

The Devil's Rain

A group of Satanists have terrible powers which enable them to melt their victims. A child of an earlier victim vows to destroy them.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072869/

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OCT 2nd 2012

Deadly Friend

After his friend Samantha is killed Paul implants her brain into his robot BB, with deadly results.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090917/

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OCT 2012

Horror Hodge Podge: Satanic Borgnine, evil apes, possessed tumors and basketball decapitation!

Five Tuesdays in October means five not particularly horrifying nights. This month is chock full of ridiculous horror films. Some are cribbed from local repertory programs around town that I wasn't or won't be able to get to, some are just crap I've been curious about.

October 2nd: Deadly Friend
October 9th: The Devil's Rain
October 16th: Body Parts
October 23rd: The Manitou
October 30th: Shakma

SEP 25th 2012

The Running Man

A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/

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...and a supporting cast of Eddie Bunker, Sven Ole-Thorsen, Jim Brown, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Maria Conchita Alonso, Dweezil Zappa and Mick Fleetwood! Come witness the "Butcher of Bakersfield" attempt to survive 'The Running Man!'

SEP 18th 2012

Deathrace 2000

In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kills brutality.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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!