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THE INVITATION (2016)
In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (GIRLFIGHT, JENNIFERS BODY), the tension is palpable when
Will (Logan Marshall-Green, Prometheus) shows up to a dinner
party hosted by his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard, INTO
THE WOODS) and new husband David (Michiel Huisman).
The estranged divorcees tragic past haunts an equally eerie present; amid Edens suspicious behavior and her mysterious house
guests, Will becomes convinced that his invitation was extended
with a hidden agenda. Unfolding over one dark evening in
the Hollywood Hills, The Invitation blurs layers of mounting
paranoia, mystery, and horror until both Willand the audienceare unsure what threats are real or imagined.

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Victory Screening:
HARVEY

BIG TROUBLE IN
LITTLE CHINA

Alex Winters
ROXY THE MOVIE

ROMEO + JULIETTE

DARLING with Q&A!

Mondo X Chiller:
YOURE NEXT

Action Pack:
PRINCESS BRIDE
QUOTE-ALONG

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Temple of Schlock:
DOLEMITE

Monday Night Thread-Up:

CARLITOS WAY

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THE TAKING OF PELHAM

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VIGILANTE with
Bill Lustig Q&A!

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AKIRA

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Staff Picks: DIE HARD

WITH A VENGEANCE

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ALIEN/ALIENS
Double Feature

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Video Vortex:
ZOMBIE ARMY

Girlie Night:
LEGALLY BLONDE

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THEORY OF OBSCURITY

Fantastic Fest Presents:

A SPACE PROGRAM

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Video Vortex:
THE GRANNY

Prints of Darkness:
PIECES

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Fantastic Fest Presents:

A SPACE PROGRAM (2015)
This film is a radically DIY fictional space-documentary about
a trip to Mars think Michel Gondry directing Carl Sagans
Cosmos with John Carpenter writing the script. The work of
brand-conscious contemporary artist Tom Sachs has always used
hand-made replicas to comment on luxury and consumerism.
For his latest movie, the culmination of years spent building
mission controls, landing crafts and spacesuits from household
objects for high-end art galleries, he is visiting the Red Planet.

Victory Screening: HARVEY (1950)

James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy tippler whose
sunny philosophy and inebriated antics are tolerated by most of
the citizenry. That is, until Elwood begins claiming that he sees
a pooka, (a mischievous Irish spirit) which has taken the form
of a man-sized bunny named Harvey. Although everyone is
certain that Elwood has finally lost his mind, Harveys presence
begins to have magically positive eects on the townsfolk, with
the exception of Elwoods own sister Veta (Josephine Hull),
who, ironically, can also occasionally see Harvey.

Monday Night Thread-Up:

CARLITOS WAY (1993, 35mm)
CARLITOS WAY wasnt just Brian De Palma return to gangster cinema. The film would re-team him with SCARFACE star
Al Pacino and would be set in 1970s NYC accompanied by a
booming disco soundtrack. It saw the filmmaker returning to
his old themes of obsession, surveillance and betrayal ala career
staples like BODY DOUBLE and BLOW OUT. And it also
brought us his most technically impressive set piece since the
Odessa Steps sequence in THE UNTOUCHABLES via a
steadicam shot scene set in Grand Central Terminal that is pure
De Palma. Get ready to escape to paradise.

Girlie Night: LEGALLY BLONDE (2001)

If it was up to Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), instead of a
paragraph would be a super cool video essay highlighting all of
the reasons why you should come to Girlie Nights presentation
of LEGALLY BLONDE. There would be a montage of Elle
(and Bruiser) modeling sensational outfits, a lesson on how to
Bend and Snap, a shot of Luke Wilson being adorable and a
generous serving of sassy dialogue. But even though we dont
have a video, we hope youll make like Harvard Law and admit
our favorite Gemini vegetarian into your schedule.

Staff Picks:
DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995)
Sta pick of Yves!
The third in the DIE HARD franchise finds John McClane in
bad shape. A sloppy drunk on suspension from the NYPD, he
is reluctantly roused back into hero form when bad guys start
planting bombs all over the city. It turns out head bad guy has
a grudge because...he is Hans Grubers brother! Add Samuel L.
Jackson to the mix and you have one solid action movie as the
two traverse NYC as a sort of anti-buddy duo.
Temple of Schlock: DOLEMITE (1975, 35mm)
Rare 35mm screening presented by the American Genre Film
Archive! Introduced by Temple of Schlocks Chris Poggiali.

Prints of Darkness: PIECES (1982, 35mm)

Screening in 35mm and introduced by Fangoria editor-in-chief
Michael Gingold.
PIECES carved its way onto the horror scene in 1983, and
stood out for two reasons. One was the copious amounts of
gore spilled by its mysterious maniac stalking a Boston (actually
Madrid) campus, left uncut and unrated at a time when many
slashers were being pared down for R-rated release. The other
was its outrageous disregard for logic, good taste, or any kind
of restraint in its acting and dialogue, which quickly made
PIECES a camp/cult favorite.
Mondo X Chiller: YOURE NEXT (2011)
Were giving away Mondos YOURE NEXT Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack LP to one lucky winner at this screening!

VERSUS: ROUNT TWO

ULTIMATE BATTLES OF CINEMA

AKIRA (1988)
Widely considered the greatest anime ever made, and almost
definitely responsible for the popularity of anime in North
America, AKIRA has managed to remain just as popular today
as it was when it was released in 1988. Perhaps this is due to
what an incredible story it tells. Possibly, its due to the almost
impossible level the animation reaches. Or maybe, its simply
because it has the coolest motorcycles ever imagined. This is the
type of movie that comes along once in a generation and shakes
everything up. Its dicult to overstate how important AKIRA
is, and how beautiful it will be on the big screen.
ALIEN/ALIENS DOUBLE FEATURE
Ticket includes an exclusive Mondo-designed Ripley T-shirt!
Were celebrating thirty pulse-pounding years of the explosive
action sci-fi masterpiece with a Xeno-marvelous ALIEN +
ALIENS double feature. Relive the in space, no one can hear
you scream terror of Ridley Scotts 1979 original, where Ripley
and the crew of the USCSS Nostromo first descend on the desolate planet LV-426 and encounter a life form perfectly evolved
to annihilate humankind. Then, buckle in for Camerons
acid-dripping, chest-bursting, guns-a-blazing thrill ride, where
Ripley and a crew of marines return to LV-426 and discover the
now colonized planet has a very lethal pest infestation.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)
An all-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle with a 2,000 year-old sorcerer over an abducted Asian
girl with green eyes under the streets of Chinatown. Highflying,
ass-kicking good times await in this face-melting blast of pure
awesomeness where you are treated to not only the lasermouthed mega bad guy Lo-Pan but also his three unstoppable
violent storm hencemen who posess the power of lightning,
rain, and thunder. Big Trouble in Little China is witty, its
clever, its action-packed, but, most of all, it is probably the
most fun any human can ever hope to achieve through cinema.

Stand-up comedian and rap pioneer Rudy Ray Moore brings

his greatest rhyming routine to the big screen as Dolemite, a
pimp and nightclub owner so bad that at the age of one he was
drinkin whiskey and gin, and by the age of two he was eatin
the bottles it came in! After two years in prison on trumpedup charges involving dope and stolen furs, Dolemite is back on
the street and ready to settle the score. By the end of Dolemite,
you wont know whats funnier: Rudy Rays rhymes, his wardrobe, or his martial arts skills.

YOURE NEXT is brutal, terrifying and so full of tension you

can cut it with a knife... straight through to its bloody, bruised
heart. The wonder duo of director Adam Wingard and producer
Simon Barrett (THE GUEST, VHS) deliver one of the best
home invasion films of the last decade, turning traditional
tropes on their head and playfully defying genre conventions
like no other indie directors working today. A family dinner
turns into a nightmare when three animal-masked assailants
lay siege to the house and its inhabitants. What follows is an
incredibly fun yet nasty game of cat-and-mouse.

ROMEO + JULIET (1996)

Dost thou get it? asked the TV commercials for director
Baz Luhrmanns ROMEO + JULIET in the fall of 1996. For
millions of young moviegoers, the answer was definitely yes:
They were spellbound by the allure of Leonardo DiCaprio and
Claire Danes as Shakespeares star-crossed couple. This was a
far cry from the stuy, stilted Shakespeare most of us snoozed
through in school; even if you couldnt understand every phrase,
Luhrmann made sure you got the meaning. Twenty years later,
ROMEO + JULIET remains one of the liveliest, most imaginative movie interpretations of the Bard ever to hit the screen.

Video Vortex: THE GRANNY (1995)

In a cartoonish, over-the-top role, Stella Stevens plays Granny!
When her ghoulish, yuppie family plot to kill her, Granny takes
a magical elixir promising eternal life. Instead, the elixir immediately kills her and then turns her into a vengeful demon from
wise-crack hell. This seems like the perfect made for late night
HBO movie: nudity, blood, death and a weird sense of humor,
a mid-90s gem that is sure to please. Director Luca Bercovici
wrote this outrageous story, and Christopher Nolan cinematographer Wally Pfister adds some artistry to the visual palette.

Video Vortex: ZOMBIE ARMY (1991)

ZOMBIE ARMY is an all-time champion of sleazy anti-logic. It
features exploding heads, guts-thrown-on-walls, samurai sword
attacks, tiny tanks being driven through tiny hallways, two
randos having awkward sex in a bunker, and songs with titles
like Stinky Loving and You Zlay Me. Plus, when the initial
batch of soldiers is obliterated by the legion of gut-chompers,
the government calls in an all-women battle squad to do the
job right. This makes ZOMBIE ARMY the first -- and only -feminist shot-on-video zombie movie!

THE TAKING OF PELHAM

ONE TWO THREE (1974, 35mm)
Set almost entirely within the NYC subway system and featuring a cast of actors not usually associated with the action genre
including Walter Mathau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector
Elizondo and Jerry Stiller, Sargents film would do for the
subway what JAWS would do for beaches the following summer
with the NYC MTA going so far as banning trains heading to
Pelham at 1:23. Its lean, tough genre cinema that could only be
a product of the 1970s.

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ULTIMATE BATTLES OF CINEMA

VIGILANTE with Bill Lustig in person (1983)

American genre cinema post-DEATH WISH had an obsession with all things vigilante by the 1983 release of Lustigs
film DEATH WISH 2 was already out with titles like TAXI
DRIVER, THE EXTERMINATOR and MS. 45 all portraying
every day citizens taking problems into their own hands. All
of them taking place on the then very grimy streets of NYC,
much like Lustigs VIGILANTE (and even MANIAC before it).
VIGILANTE is Lustigs us vs. them film, featuring a group of
people armed with anything that they can find out to take back
their city. Its aggressive, excessive and rousing, just the way a
good vigilante picture should be.

OTHER SCREENINGS
MOVIES WORTH WATCHING

DARLING with Q&A (2015)

Lead actors Lauren Ashley Carter and Brian Morvant
in person for Q&A!
A house sitting job starts a terrifying chain of events as a woman
begins to have maddening visions. From the producers of THE
INNKEEPERS and HOUSE OF THE DEVIL comes what
critics are calling explosive and absolutely brilliant.
PRINCESS BRIDE Quote-along (1987)
Is there a more quotable line from ANY movie than that one?
Well, that quote or maybe the whole Mawwage thing...or I
guess the As you wish is pretty iconic, too. Oh gosh darn it!
Every line in THE PRINCESS BRIDE has transformed from
mere lines in a script to gospel that melts even the coldest of
hearts.
Inconceivable you say? Well the Action Pack challenges you to a
duel of words with our THE PRINCESS BRIDE Quote-Along!
Join Westley as he duels Vizzini and his crew, braves the dangers
of the fire swamp, and overcomes death for true love. Well have
inflatable swords for everyone to fight and dramatically switch
hands with, as well as a Rescue Princess Buttercup game before
the show. So lace up your boots, draw your swords, and prepare
for a miracle because this is true love. You think this happens
every day?
THEORY OF OBSCURITY (2015)
THEORY OF OBSCURITY tells the story of the renegade
sound and video collective known as The Residents: a story
that spans 40 years and is clouded in mystery. Many details
surrounding the group are secret, including the identities of its
members. The film takes viewers inside this incredibly private
group with unprecedented access to their archives and their
recent 40th anniversary tour. The Residents have released more
than 60 albums, performed all over the world and inspired
many people to be weird, take chances and find their own
voice. The film will introduce The Residents to a whole new
generation.