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DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE

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Day 2

DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE
dir. Yony Leyser, 2016.
Germany. 92 min.

2/24 7:30 PM
2/25 5 PM
2/26 7:30 PM

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New York Premiere Weekend
Q&A with Special Guests

The second film from director Yony Leyser, DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE is a dizzying, vibrant guided tour contemporary Berlin seen from the point of view of two immigrants — an America writer and a Russian escort. DESIRE unravels the history of Berlin’s hedonistic queer underground, prodding into the unique subcultures of the landscape as the two travel through the perennial nightlife.

Featuring an über-large cast including Nina Hagen, Rosa von Praunheim, Peaches, and Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes (who also contributed music), this richly-detailed sensory overload made its US debut at Outfest last year.

Special thanks to Wavelength Pictures and Altered Innocence.

RIOT HOUR: INAUGURATION DAY 2017

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Riot_hour_bannerRIOT HOUR: INAUGURATION DAY 2017
USA. Total runtime: 55 min.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 – 10:00 PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 – 10:00 PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 – MIDNIGHT

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A homespun assembly of clips from this past month’s historic Women’s March events and other protests in response to Donald Trump’s January 20th inauguration.

State Cities attendance (APPROX) Notes
 California Los Angeles 750,000 The Los Angeles Police Department stated that “well past” 100,000 people attended the march, but did not attempt to make a more specific estimate. Officials stated that the march was the largest in Los Angeles since a 2006 immigration march attended by 500,000 people.[75] The Los Angeles Daily News reported that 750,000 people were in the crowd.[76]Organizers also said that 750,000 people had participated in the march.[77]
500,000[2][3] Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that he would attend the march instead of the inaugural parade. McAuliffe said he would be marching in Washington with his wife Dorothy, Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.[4] There were no arrests.[3]
 New York New York City 400,000 In Manhattan, hundreds of thousands marched. The rally began at Trump World Tower and One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (near the Headquarters of the United Nations) and the march proceeded to Trump Tower, Trump’s home.[372][373] The Office of the Mayor of New York City announced that the number of attendees was over 400,000.[374][375]
 Illinois Chicago 250,000[212] Organizers for the sister march in Chicago, Illinois, initially prepared for a crowd of 22,000.[213] An estimated 250,000 protesters[214] gathered in Grant Park for an initial rally to be followed by a march, with attendance far more than expected.[215] As a result, the official march was cancelled, although marchers then flooded the streets of the Chicago Loop.[216] Liz Radford, an organizer, informed the crowd, “We called, and you came. We have flooded the march route. We have flooded Chicago.”[215]
 Washington Seattle 175,000[555] The Women’s March on Seattle march took place from Judkins Park to the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. Participants filled the entire length of the 3.6-mile (5.8 km) route.[556][557] Sound Transit and King County Metro rerouted many bus routes and added additional Link light rail service in anticipation of disruption to the city’s transportation grid.[558]
 Massachusetts Boston 150,000–175,000[274][275][276] A women’s march took place at the Boston Common in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey spoke to the crowd.[277] An estimated 150,000[276] to 175,000[278] people attended.
 California Oakland 100,000[84]
 California San Francisco 100,000–150,000[102][103] The rally was held at Civic Center Plaza, where San Francisco City Hall was lit pink in observance of the protest.[104] Performer and activist Joan Baez serenaded the crowd with “We Shall Overcome” in Spanish.[105]
 Colorado Denver 100,000–200,000[137] A protest occurred at the Civic Center.[137]
 Oregon Portland 100,000 People attended the Women’s March on Portland.[441]
 Minnesota St. Paul 90,000–100,000[314] People marched to the Minnesota State Capitol from various parts of the city. A spokesman for the St. Paul Police stated it was the largest protest in the city since the 2008 Republican National Convention.[315]
 Wisconsin Madison 75,000–100,000[576] The protest occurred around the Wisconsin State Capitol and along State Street in Madison.[576]

Media related to Madison Women’s March at Wikimedia Commons
 Georgia Atlanta 60,000[182] John Lewis attended the Atlanta rally, which saw more than 60,000 march to the Georgia State Capitol.[182]
 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 50,000[451][452] The event included an actual march from Logan Square to Eakins Oval, and a rally at Eakins Oval.[453]
 California San Diego 40,000–50,000 Two marches were held. One march in downtown San Diego had an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 attend, and another in neighboring San Marcos, California had an estimated 10,000 attend.[99][100] A march with 50 senior citizens took place at the Seacrest Village retirement center.[101]
 Texas Austin 40,000–50,000[484] The crowd gathered at the Texas State Capitol and marched through the streets of downtown Austin for the Women’s March on Austin. The Austin Police Department estimated that the crowd was about 40,000 to 50,000, becoming the largest march in Texas history.[485][486][487][488]
 Iowa Des Moines 26,000[242] The march near the Iowa State Capitol included women, men and children supporting women’s rights and healthcare, environmental issues, and immigration[242]
 California San Jose 25,000[106][107][104]
 North Carolina Charlotte 25,000[392] Lasting from 10 a.m. to noon, attendance was ten times what had been expected, according to event organizers.[393] Some participants came from surrounding communities, including Concord, Rock Hill and Indian Trail. Attendees included Mayor Jennifer Roberts, U.S. Rep. Alma Adams (D-Charlotte) and state Senator Jeff Jackson (D-Mecklenburg). According to the CMPD, the march was peaceful, with no arrests or disturbances reported.[394]
 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 25,000[454] Marched through the city to Market Square.
 Texas Houston 22,000[502] Starting at the Sabine Street Bridge, protesters marched through downtown to Houston City Hall.[502][503] Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner spoke out during the event.[504]
 Arizona Phoenix 20,000[37] The march progressed from the Capitol south to Jefferson, east to 15th Avenue, north to Monroe Street, west to 17th Avenue and back to the Capitol. Speakers at rallies before and after the march included State Rep. Athena Salman (Tempe), U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, disability-rights activist Jennifer Longdon, who noted that moments after Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, the White House website was overhauled to remove pages dedicated to disabilities, civil rights, and LGBT issues, Jodi Liggett, Planned Parenthood‘s vice president of public affairs, and Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes.[37]
 California Sacramento 20,000[96] 20,000 Marched from Southside Park to the California State Capitol.
 California Santa Ana 20,000–25,000[111][69]
 Florida St. Petersburg 20,000+ Over 20,000 people marched in downtown St. Petersburg, making it the largest demonstration in the city’s history.[176][177]
 Vermont Montpelier 20,000[376] Bernie Sanders attended the event.[524]
 North Carolina Raleigh 17,000 People demonstrated peacefully at the Raleigh Women’s March. U.S. Representative David Price also attended.[400]
 Arizona Tucson 15,000[37][41][42] The demonstration was peaceful,[37] whith no incidents or arrests reported.[43]
 California Santa Cruz 15,000+[114] Several people commented that it was the largest march in Santa Cruz history.[115]
 Ohio Cleveland 15,000 Protesters gathered at Public Square and then marched through Downtown.[410]
 Tennessee Nashville 15,000+[479] Participants marched about one mile (1.6 km) through downtown Nashville. The march started at Cumberland Park near Nissan Stadium, crossed the Cumberland River on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, and ended at Public Square.[479]
 Florida Tallahassee 14,000+[178] Over 14,000 people of the capital’s communities showed up to protest. Despite forecasts for heavy rain, the crowd poured into the Railroad Square Arts location before marching up the road to the Florida A&M University Recreation center. Most of the protesters turned out for the march, and due to the small indoor venue, less than a tenth of those attending were able to view the speakers rally. This may be the largest protest in Florida’s capitol history.
 Missouri St. Louis 13,000 People marched peacefully in downtown St. Louis from Union Station to a rally at Luther Ely Smith Square.[322]
 Nebraska Omaha 12,000–14,000[329]
 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 12,000+ Demonstrations were held in front of the Oklahoma State Capitol.[418]
 Michigan Ann Arbor 11,000 Protesters rallied in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and attended a speech afterwards by U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell (pictured) on the University of Michigan campus.[290]
 California Walnut Creek 10,000[125] Streets were closed as thousands marched in downtown Walnut Creek. Speakers included Nancy Skinner, Eric Swalwell, Steve Glazer and Mark DeSaulnier.[125]
 Connecticut Hartford 10,000 The march had the support of Governor Dannel Malloy.[145][146]
 Florida Miami 10,000+ The demonstration at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida reached capacity of more than 10,000 and demonstrators began flooding the streets.[166][167]
 Florida Sarasota 10,000 Author Stephen King participated in the march.[173]
 Louisiana New Orleans 10,000–15,000[254]
 Maine Augusta 10,000+[256] There were 5,000 people registered to attend the rally in Augusta. In fact, 10,000 people attended, making this the largest Women’s March in the state. The crowd assembled for speeches at the State House.[257]
 Maine Portland 10,000+ People marched in one of the largest protest marches ever held in Portland and drew far more people than expected. Portland police said the size of the orderly protest crowd was “of historic proportions”.[263]
 Michigan Lansing 10,000 Thousands gathered at the Michigan State Capitol in solidarity of all groups who have been marginalized by the actions of the man now leading this country.
 Missouri Kansas City 10,000[320] The demonstration was held at Washington Square Park in downtown Kansas City.[320]
 Montana Helena 10,000[323] People marched through the city and around the Montana State Capitol.[324][325]
 Nevada Reno 10,000[330] Protesters marched in Reno, Nevada.[332]
 New Mexico Albuquerque 10,000 Protesters rallied at the Civic Plaza.[354][355]
 New Mexico Santa Fe 10,000–15,000[359] Thousands of Santa Feans and other northern New Mexicans marched and held signs in a rally that surrounded the Roundhouse.[360]
 New York Ithaca 10,000 The demonstration began and ended on the Ithaca Commons.[370]
 New York Seneca Falls 10,000 The event started at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park, the Seneca Falls Convention, an early convention on women’s rights in 1848.[382]
 Washington Olympia 10,000[550][551]
 Tennessee Memphis 9,000+[478] Marchers gathered at the Judge D’Army Bailey Courthouse and marched 1.2 miles to the National Civil Rights Museum.
 Oregon Ashland 8,000[420] Ashland police estimated 8,000 participants in the Ashland Women’s March.[420][421]
 Utah Park City 8,000[517] Celebrities protested at the Sundance Film Festival against Trump and for women’s rights. One of the messages was “Love Trumps Hate”. Celebrities in attendance included Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart, John Legend, Kevin Bacon, Chelsea Handler, and Benjamin Bratt. It was supported by Justice Party, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, Equality Now, Sentry Financial, and other organizations.[518]
 Washington Spokane 8,000[560]
 Arkansas Little Rock 7,000[47][48] Protesters marched to the Arkansas State Capitol Building.
 California San Luis Obispo 7,000–10,000[108] Protesters marched through downtown.[109]
 Colorado Colorado Springs 7,000[133] People marched through downtown Colorado Springs.[133]
 New York Albany 7,000+ A crowd of 7,000 exceeded the initial prediction of 2,000.[361]
 North Carolina Asheville 7,000–10,000[389] A women’s march took place in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. The march began at Park Square and then moved throughout downtown Asheville. Estimated attendance is between 7,000 and 10,000 people making it the largest assembly in Asheville since 2013.[390]
 Ohio Cincinnati 7,000+[408] The Women’s March started at noon at Washington Park, and after representatives from several civic groups spoke, the march started towards City Hall, and back to Washington Park.[409]
 Oregon Eugene 7,000+ 7,000 participate in women’s March in Eugene.[429]
 California Santa Barbara 6,000 More than 6,000 protestors rallied in De La Guerra Plaza. Both women and men participated.[112][113]
 New Jersey Asbury Park 6,000 Protesters marched in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[341] Singer/songwiter Patti Scialfa attended the march as did U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone.[342]
 New Jersey Trenton 6,000–7,500 Protesters marched from an overflowing rally in and around the Trenton War Memorial auditorium to another rally outside the State House.[350][351][352]
 Utah Salt Lake City[521] 5,700[522]
 Alabama Birmingham 5,000–10,000[5] The march started at Kelly Ingram Park.[6]
 California Eureka 5,000–8,000[59][60] Thousands Flood Eureka’s Streets in Solidarity With Women’s March on Washington[59] Thousands Gather for Women’s March on Eureka[60]
 California Redwood City 5,000 The rally was “inspired by and held in solidarity with” Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington, organizers said. Joan Baez performed and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Menlo Park, and state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo spoke.[92]
 California Santa Rosa 5,000 People marched through downtown Santa Rosa. Former representative Lynn Woolsey and Representative Jared Huffman spoke.[116]
 Connecticut Stamford 5,000 People marched peacefully in Stamford, Connecticut, after a rally in the Mill River Park.[152] The protesters marched around the city blocks surrounding the Trump Parc Stamford building, a building owned by the Trump Organization,[153] in a display of resistance to President Donald Trump’s policies. The number of demonstrators was reportedly four times larger than organizers expected.[152]
 Florida West Palm Beach 5,000–7,000[179][180] The event was at the Meyer Amphitheatre.[156]
 Idaho Boise 5,000[199] The march took place in initially heavy snow that turned to rain.
 Illinois Champaign-Urbana 5,000[211] 5,000 people gathered at West Side Park in downtown Champaign.
 Kentucky Lexington 5,000[248]
 Kentucky Louisville 5,000[249] People showed up at Louisville’s Metro Hall for The Rally To Move Forward in Louisville, Kentucky.[249] Congressman John Yarmuth from Louisville was scheduled to speak.[250]
 Maryland Baltimore 5,000[269] A sister women’s march took place outside of Johns Hopkins University in North Baltimore. Notable figures included former Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes and State’s Attorney for Baltimore Marilyn Mosby.[270]Additional marchers en route to Washington, D.C., were lined up around the block at Pennsylvania Station waiting for MARC express trains to Union Station.
 Nevada Las Vegas 5,000+[330] People marched from East Fremont Street, south on Las Vegas Boulevard to outside the Lloyd D. George Federal District Courthouse.[331]
 New York Poughkeepsie 5,000 The march took place on the Walkway over the Hudson.[379]
 Oregon Bend 5,000[424] A rally was held at Drake Park followed by a rally through Downtown.[425]
 Rhode Island Providence 5,000 The R.I. Women’s Solidarity Rally was held on the Rhode Island State House lawn. Governor Gina Raimondo participated.[464][465] Young people from Classical High School spoke to the crowd.
 Texas Fort Worth 5,000–9,000[498] The march began at the Tarrant County Courthouse and moved down Main and back up Houston Street. This was a Unity march that organizers say gives voice to people from “every cross-section of culture”.[499][500][501]
 Washington Bellingham 5,000 to 10,000[539]
 Indiana Indianapolis 4,500–5,000[227] The protest at the Indiana State Capitol[228] is the largest rally in recent memory.[229]
 Kansas Topeka 4,200[245][246]
 California Riverside 4,000 Thousands marched along the Downtown Main Street Mall.[94][95]
 Michigan Detroit 4,000 People protested at the campus of Wayne State University in Midtown Detroit.[293][294]
 Virginia Roanoke 4,000[532] Estimates from crowd higher.[533]
 Alaska Anchorage 3,500[12][13] Thousands protested at the Delaney Park Strip.[12]
 South Dakota Sioux Falls 3,300[473]
 Florida Key West 3,200 Crowds marched down Duval Street to Mallory Square. Marion County Commissioner Heather Carruthers spoke at the event and organizer Jamie Mattingly led the crowds in a rendition of John Lennon’s Imagine.[163][164]
 California Napa 3,000+[82] Protesters lined up roads in downtown Napa.
 California San Marcos 3,000–10,000[110][100]
 California Sonoma 3,000 Marchers proceeded around the historic Sonoma Plaza, blocking traffic for over an hour.[117]
 Hawaii Honolulu (Oahu) 3,000–8,000[189][190] Thousands of people marched.[191]
 Hawaii Kona 3,000–3,500[196]
 Kansas Wichita 3,000 Protesters marched to City Hall.[247]
 Michigan Traverse City 3,000[303]
 New Hampshire Portsmouth 3,000–5,000[339]
 New York Binghamton 3,000 The march was held downtown and exceeded initial estimates for the event.[362]
 North Carolina Greensboro 3,000–6,000 Downtown Greensboro[395]
 North Carolina Wilmington 3,000[401] A Women’s March on Washington sister event was held in Wilmington, NC. Taking place at the intersection of Third and Princess streets, the rally began at 10 am and was attended by between 1,000 and 1,500 participants.[402]
  North Dakota Fargo < 3,000[405]
 Ohio Columbus 3,000 Protesters gathered at the Ohio State House.[411]
 Ohio Dayton 3,000 Protesters rallied at the Courthouse Square.[412]
 Tennessee Chattanooga 3,000[475]
 Texas Dallas 3,000–7,000,[493]10,000[494] Marchers gathered at City Hall and marched through downtown, Deep Ellum and East Dallas.[493]
 West Virginia Charleston 3,000[566]
 California Fort Bragg 2,500–2,800[61]
 California Ventura 2,500[122][123]
 Florida Naples 2,500 Protesters gathered at Cambier Park and then marched through the streets.[168]
 Idaho Moscow 2,500+ Titled “Women’s March on the Palouse“, the event was centered in Moscow, ID near Washington State University and University of Idaho. The march started at Moscow City Hall and ended at East City Park.[204]
 New York Buffalo 2,500–3,000 A march in Niagara Square drew demonstrators and local politicians.[363]
 Pennsylvania Erie 2,500[447] A demonstration was held in Penn Square.
 Texas Denton 2,500[495] A United Denton organized the Women’s March to be held in Denton, Texas. The downtown square was packed by 12:30 pm.[494]
 Alaska Fairbanks 2,000[18] People rallied in subzero temperatures.[12]
 California Fresno 2,000[62] Protesters gathered at an intersection in North Fresno.[62]
 California Ukiah 2,000 Attendees gathered at Alex R. Thomas Jr. Plaza. Joelle Schultz, director of Ukiah’s Planned Parenthood, address the crowd along with local activists.[120]
 Florida Jacksonville 2,000–3,000[161] Thousands marched through the streets to the Jacksonville Landing.[162]
 Florida Pensacola 2,000[172] A demonstration was held at the Plaza de Luna.
 Florida St. Augustine 2,000+[174] Marchers walked across Bridge of Lions and a rally was held in the Plaza de la Constitucion.[175]
 Massachusetts Greenfield 2,000+[280]
 Missouri Columbia 2,000 Participants marched from Courthouse Plaza through downtown.
 Missouri Springfield 2,000+ People marched to Park Central Square in downtown Springfield. The parade made its way from the parking lot at Springfield’s municipal court building, across the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge and over to Park Central Square where several speakers addressed the crowd. The rally touched on political issues in addition to women’s rights. One speaker, Bethany Johnson, a transgender woman, spoke and drew some of the loudest cheers. She also mentioned the 2015 vote that repealed the city’s ordinance banning LGBT discrimination in the workplace. Johnson banged the podium and called on the marchers to contact their politicians.[321]
 Nebraska Lincoln 2,000–3,000[327] Approximately 2,000 to 3,000 people gathered outside the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Union. 40 members of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta held a counter protest by waving Trump flags off their balcony.
 New York Hudson 2,000–3,000[369]
 New York Port Jefferson 2,000[377]
 New York Syracuse 2,000 Over 2,000 people gathered at the James Hanley Federal Building.[383]
 Oregon Salem 2,000 Governor Kate Brown participated in the march.[442]
 Pennsylvania Doylestown 2,000[446] Organizers began planning 6 days before originally anticipating 300 or less attendees.
 South Carolina Charleston 2,000+ The Charleston Women’s March began as a convey from nine parking garages downtown and converged at Brittlebank Park at noon. More than 2,000 attended this peaceful rally.[467]
 South Carolina Columbia 2,000–3,000 “Stand Up” rally for women’s rights and social issues attended by 2,000–3,000 was held in Columbia, South Carolina. The participants gathered at the South Carolina State House grounds and marched to the Music Farm.[469]
 South Carolina Greenville 2,000 A peaceful rally was held at the Falls Park amphitheater in Greenville from noon until 2 pm. Attendance was estimated at 2,000.[468]
 Tennessee Knoxville 2,000 An assembly was held in Market Square.[477]
 Virginia Norfolk 2,000 Two groups marched separately with similar messages.[528] Both groups eventually joined up to complete the march together.[citation needed]
 Virginia Richmond 2,000[531]
 Washington Walla Walla 2,000[554]
 Washington Wenatchee < 2,000[564]

[ + hundreds more. Full list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2017_Women%27s_March_locations]

pour mémoire: A TRIBUTE TO DELPHINE SEYRIG

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When Delphine Seyrig’s fairy godmother character nonchalantly descends in a helicopter upon the Medieval fairy tale realm of Jacques Demy’s DONKEY SKIN, the surreal image is pretty indicative of Seyrig’s regrettably short, enormously prolific (she appeared in over sixty films and only lived until age fifty-eight), and trenchantly unforgettable career. Seyrig had an innate ability to transcend every film in which she appeared, regardless of what auteur was directing.

She most famously worked with Chantal Akerman, Alain Resnais, and Luis Buñuel, but also Robert Frank, Francois Truffaut, and Harold Pinter. Among the first filmmakers to make use of video in France, Seyrig co-founded a radical, anarchistic collective of feminist filmmakers, directing two feature documentaries (SOIS BELLE ET TAIS-TOI and MASO ET MISO VONT EN BATEAU) and several shorts, including a wonderfully droll reading of the SCUM Manifesto with filmmaker Carole Rossoupoulos. Digging through Seyrig’s filmography is an endlessly rewarding excavation of idiosyncratic gems.

Special thanks to Jean Mascolo, Harry Kümel, Ulrike Ottinger, Women Make Movies and the Belgian Royal Cinematek.


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DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS
Dir. Harry Kümel, 1971.
Belgium. 100 min.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 – 10 PM

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Belgian director Harry Kümel’s high gothic vampirization of the story of famed murderess Elizabeth Báthory has retained its cult legacy due to its effervescent style and Seyrig’s carnal lead performance. The camera glides through lush colors and haute hotel rooms like in a Fassbinder or Sirk melodrama as Seyrig’s bloodthirsty queer countess preys on a pair of newlyweds. By contemporizing the vampire into a decadently erotic queer demagogue, Kümel paved the way for Tony Scott’s THE HUNGER more than a decade later.


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BAXTER, VERA BAXTER
dir. Marguerite Duras, 1977.
France. 91 min.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 – 10 PM
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 – 7:30 PM

The masterful Marguerite Duras takes a concept ripe for portentous melodrama — slimy Gerard Depardieu sells his wife (Claudine Gabay) to erase a debt —and minimizes it, radicalizes it, and chills it into droll  satire with an enrapturing cadence. Seyrig plays an unknown woman who is inexplicably drawn to Gabay’s Vera when she hears her name. She gradually interrogates Vera, and their conversation becomes entangled with Carlos d’Alessio’s omnipresent, repetitive score. Duras’ film is an exhausting, rewarding experience, and truly one of a kind.


INDIASONGBANNERINDIA SONG
Dir. Marguerite Duras, 1975.
France. 115 min.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 – 10 PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 7:30 PM

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Marguerite Duras had previously directed Seyrig in the 1967 adaptation of her own play LA MUSICA; their re-teaming in 1975 marked a masterful standout in both of their careers. A tale of doomed love amidst 1930s colonial India, the film is a mysterious mesh of haunting memories, and Duras’ most lauded work.

“The most feminine film I have ever seen, … a rarefied work of lyricism, despair, and passion, … imbued with a kind of primitive emotional hunger.” – Molly Haskell

Johanna
JOHANNA D’ARC OF MONGOLIA
Dir. Ulrike Ottinger, 1989.
Germany. 165 min.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 – 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 – 7:30 PM

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Seyrig’s last screen role found her fittingly re-teaming with Ulrike Ottinger for a tri-lingual adventure epic with an all woman cast. Ottinger plays with the genre trappings of train triptychs and biblical epics in her most ambitious work, in which seven female voyagers are captured by a band of Mongolian woman. Ottinger’s goal isn’t to pit cultures against each other or exploit them, but to tell an extensively details ethnographic tale of multicultural harmony.

“A fabulous three-course blend of myth, spectacular visions of an ancient land and frisky song-and-dance. A quixotic and ebullient leap of the imagination. Breathtaking.” – Judy Stone, San Francisco Chronicle


GardenThatTilts

THE GARDEN THAT TILTS
Dir. Guy Gilles, 1974.
France, 80 min.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 – 10 PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – 10 PM

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An underrated oddball from French director Guy Gilles, THE GARDEN THAT TILTS is reminiscent of Rohmer at his most contemplative and painterly, except the action revolves around an ice-cold assassin (Patrick Jouané) who falls in love with his mark (Seyrig). Jeanne Moreau also co-stars (and sings!).

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LOCATION HUNTING
Dir. Michel Soutter, 1977.
Switzerland, 87 min.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 – 5 PM

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Michel Soutter was a founding member of the New Swiss Cinema movement, and his early films are among the country’s best-kept secrets. He branched out slightly into more international fare in the ‘70s, directing French legend Jean-Pierre Trintignant in several films. Rarely seen, the metatextual chamber drama LOCATION HUNTING stars Trintignant as a filmmaker desperate to win back the affections of his ex-wife of ten years (Seyrig). He casts her in an adaptation of Checkov’s Three Sisters, and they sound find themselves isolated together with two other actresses on a location scout to an aging Swiss resort.

EVERY DESIRE: MAI ZETTERLING

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Despite decades as an international actress and twenty-odd filmmaking credits, Mai Zetterling remains a short entry in academic encyclopedias and references to feminist cinema. Zetterling identified her filmmaking as characteristically Swedish, describing it as a relentless search for truth through “self-analysis… perhaps too much”. The truths she brings to the screen are those of familial neuroses, powerful women, gay desire, and quests for authentic artistry. Critics of her films have cheered her craft, but complain of a lack of connection to her main characters. That critique does not take a wide view: most of her protagonists are in the grips of powerful memories, experiencing flashbacks and psychic disorientation. This approach to subjectivity erodes the stable identity of the individual, who is vexed and tortured by past experiences, sometimes unable to move on. We are no more distant from these characters as they are from themselves, seeing the truth of their un-sublimated desires.


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NIGHT GAMES (NATTLEK)
dir. Mai Zetterling, 1966
Sweden, 105 min.
In Swedish with English Subtitles

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 – 10 PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 – 10 PM

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This movie is a delightfully Swedish version of camp: a self-indulgent heiress houses a coterie of outsiders who party as she gives birth in a gigantic gown. Her son Jan, aged around ten, lounges around the estate and escapes reality through games with a dear old aunt. He tries to lure his mother’s affection through cross-dressing and sexual desire. We see these scenes as rich flashbacks: as an adult Jan is trapped in his neuroses and unable to grow up. John Waters said in Film Comment that NATTLEK was “one of the first films to feature incredibly realistic vomiting” and it famously caused Shirley Temple to resign from the board of the San Francisco Film Festival.


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SCRUBBERS
dir. Mai Zetterling
UK, 1982

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 – 10 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 – 7:30 PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 – 10 PM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 – 5 PM

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Anyone who has spent any time in an all-girls education, mental or punitive institution will find that Zetterling has captured many essential elements in SCRUBBERS from 1982. SCRUBBERS was the female answer to SCUM, Alan Clarke’s 1979 graphic drama about a boy’s borstal. Zetterling’s film is more colorful and emotional, involving lesbian relationships, separation from children, and self-harm. There is also plenty of fighting, swaggering, glue-sniffing and bawdy singing. The most iconic scene evokes TITICUT FOLLIES, when the borstal performs a variety show under the banner “Hellhole Bitches: Therapeutic Entertainment from the Psycho Freaks”. Featuring 80’s anarcho-pop star Honey Bane.


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AMOROSA
dir. Mai Zetterling, 1986.
Sweden, 117 min.
In Swedish and Italian with English Subtitles.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 – 10 PM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 – 5 PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 – 10 PM 

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This is the second of Zetterling’s films concerning the life and work of Agnes von Krusenstjerna, the first being 1964’s LOVING COUPLES. Krusenstjerna is a Swedish noblewoman who published daring books of literature in the 1920’s. It is a biopic portrait, showing first her descent into hysteria in a strange Italian hospital and going back through the events in her life that led to this point. Some stylistic elements of this film are tacky, however the story surges on the strength of Stina Ekblad’s acting. The portrayal of a writer resisting the expectations of noble life is beautifully expressed, and her descent into madness is both tragic and revulsive.

Thank you to Sandrew Metronome for a beautiful copy of this film.

WALTZ VOL. 1 – BODY BASICS

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WALTZ VOL. 1 – Body Basics
dir. Matthew J. Hutchinson, 2017
USA, 65min

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 10 PM
*ONE NIGHT ONLY!*

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Matthew J. Hutchinson, world-class fitness star is ready to share his lifetime of fitness secrets with you. Formulated by Matthew J. Hutchinson, WALTZ VOL. 1 – Body Basics is an easy-to-follow, intensive body-shaping program for both men and women. Hutchinson leads you through the regimen that’s perfect for your individual body type with his special brand of motivation.

This uplifting tape gives you a great low-impact 65-minute cardio workout as you lift those weights to such favorites as “ICE SKATING”, “CAROLINE”, and “HORSES + HORSES”! With enthusiasm and energy, Hutchinson will have you raising your hands and voice while you dance your way to better health, fitness, and weight-loss. So stretch and shake it out as “MUSCLES II” gets your body moving and blood flowing. Remember it’s not just about being the strongest; it’s about being the sexiest! “Jumpstart your sex life with your body!” – Matthew J. Hutchinson

Pre-order your copy of WALTZ VOL. 1 – Body Basics today** by calling our discreet private hotline 1–442–XXX–HUNK. CALL NOW!

*Disclaimer: Always consult your physician before beginning any exercise regimen. WALTZ VOL. 1 – Body Basics has not been evaluated by the FTC, FDA, or any other government agency. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. WALTZ VOL. 1 – Body Basics is presented as is, without warranty or guarantee of any kind.

MATCH CUTS PRESENTS: MARLON RIGGS’ TONGUES UNTIED

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TONGUES UNTIED
dir. Marlon Riggs, 1989.
USA, 55 min.
English.
MONDAY, JANUARY 23 – 7:30 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
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Spectacle Theater is excited to collaborate with critical platform Match Cuts on a new series of screenings. Scroll down for more information on Match Cuts.

“Marlon Riggs’ essay film Tongues United gives voice to communities of black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront racism, homophobia, and marginalization. It broke new artistic ground by mixing poetry (by Essex Hemphill and other artists), music, performance and Riggs’ autobiographical revelations. The film was embraced by black gay audiences for its authentic representation of style, and culture, as well its fierce response to oppression. It opened up opportunities for dialogue among and across communities.

Tongues Untied has been lauded by critics for its vision and its bold aesthetic advances, and vilified by anti-gay forces who used it to condemn government funding of the arts.It was even denounced from the floor of Congress.

‘Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act’ is the rallying cry at the film’s end and after more than 20 years, Tongues United remains a celebrated vehicle for eloquent self-expression and liberation.”

Match Cuts is a weekly podcast centered on video, film and the moving image. Match Cuts Presents is dedicated to presenting de-colonialized cinema, LGBTQI films, Marxist diatribes, video art, dance films, sex films, and activist documentaries with a rotating cast of presenters from all spectrums of the performing and plastic arts and surrounding humanities. Match Cuts is hosted by Nick Faust and Kachine Moore, and produced by Meg Murnane.

INDIE BEAT: TEARS OF GOD

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TEARS OF GOD
Dir. Robbie Hillyer Barnett, 2016
68 mins. USA.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 – 7:30 PM – FILMMAKER IN PERSON!

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In collaboration with The Playlist’s Indie Beat podcast, Spectacle is pleased to present a one-night-only special screening of Robbie Hillyer Barnett’s TEARS OF GOD. Longing for reunion with the dead and seduced by the chaotic allure of possession, a young woman struggles to find meaning in a barren, apocalyptic landscape, while those around her succumb to despair and madness.

“Just about every scene in Barnett’s debut is breathtaking; cryptic and haunting, TEARS OF GOD is downright astounding, especially the wandering cinematography, apparition-like in its recordings.” – Kevin Rakestraw, Film Pulse

Robbie Hillyer Barnett is a Los Angeles based filmmaker, originally from North Carolina where he completed TEARS OF GOD, a feature-length arthouse horror film starring Kate Lyn Sheil (The Girlfriend Experience, House of Cards), Samuel T. Herring (of the band Future Islands) and Lindsay Burdge (The Invitation, A Teacher), as well as a stereoscopic 3-D short film TALK ABOUT YOUR DREAMS also starring Kate Lyn Sheil and Sophie Traub. Robbie has also recently released a Japan-set virtual reality film, DAYS OF BEING MILD.

AUDRE’S REVENGE SHORTS

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Audre’s Revenge is a collective of creatives, determined to promote visibility of QTIPOC in the Sci-Fi and Horror Universe. We hope to create a space to network film makers, writers, actors and artists, to inspire timeless and important work.
our website is www.audresrevengefilm.com

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 – 10PM
**ONE NIGHT ONLY!**

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dir. Monika Estrella Negra,15 min.
2016.

An avant-garde horror mash-up that follows a Black woman’s journey in destroying harmful habits. Internalized racism, misogyny and eurocentrism are topics discussed in this fast-paced ‘horror short’.

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dir. Michelle Garza, 20 min.
2016. In Spanish w/ English subtitles.

After getting bitten by a rabid dog, Clara must stay locked in the small cabin where she lives with her mother and husband for days. While the town is assaulted by a pack of savage dogs, Clara’s seclusion causes her a growing desire for freedom. To escape, she will have to overcome her family’s fear and determination to protect her.

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‘feralchild’
dir. Maya Lori, 9 min
2015.

A study of two young girls who embrace isolation and undomestication in an abandoned home.

25 YEARS OF CULT EPICS (reposted from “Pages”, unpub)

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Over the past 25 years, Los Angeles based Cult Epics has released nearly 150 videos of the most sought after, obscure, provocative and previously unknown films to the home video market. As the video distribution model continues to evolve, additional funds are required for transfers, restoration, production, replication and rights acquisitions. Now, Cult Epics is reaching out to our fans & film lovers to help support us in our efforts to continue bringing you new releases in definitive editions.

Click here to check out the Cult Epics Indiegogo campaign running through the end of December!


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MONDO WEIRDO
aka Jungfrau am Abgrund
Dir. Carl Andersen, 1990.
Austria/West Germany, 55 min.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 – 10:00PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Carl Andersen’s second film is in a similar style to his first film, yet manages to surpass it in terms of art, surrealism and obscenity, Dedicated to Jess Franco and Jean Luc-Godard and featuring Franco’s own daughter, MONDO WEIRDO wallows in sleaze, gore, splatter, and dark comedy and is set in an underground world where both vampires and punk rockers engage in straight, lesbian & gay hardcore sex to the highly addictive and hypnotic electro music of Model D’oo. Bonus features include newly produced Making of. “The Hard-core version of Eraserhead.” –Jan Doense (Weekend of Terror)


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NEKROMANTIK
Dir. Jörg Buttgereit, 1987.
West Germany, 75 min.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20 – 07:30PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

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“Ground-breakingly gruesome, the first erotic film for necrophiles.” – John Waters

The controversial horror film that shocked the world in 1987, when it was banned in Germany, censored in Japan and simultaneously became a huge underground hit in the US (now long out of print.)

Nekromantik tells the story of Rob (Daktari Lorenz) who works at a street-cleaning Agency, and visits roadside accidents to clean up the scene. Incidentally Rob collects the body parts and shares them with his girlfriend Betty (Beatrice M.) When Rob presents a complete corpse taken out of a swamp, their undying love reaches its peak, but soon after Betty gets a more liking towards the corpse and leaves Rob, which takes him to the sick end of his destruction.

Cult Epics is proud to release Jorg Buttgereit’s underground horror classic in High Definition and with new extras, including Nekromantik’s predecessor short film Hot Love.


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ANGST
Dir. Gerald Kargl, 1987.
Austria, 75 min.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20 – 10:00PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

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“The rarest masterpiece of cinema” – Gaspar Noé (director of Enter the Void & Irreversible)

ANGST (Gerald Kargl, 1983) from Spectacle Theater on Vimeo.

ANGST, photographed by legendary Oscar-winning Polish animator/experimentalist Zbig Rybczynski and scored by Krautrock synth god Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), is one hell of a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle. Erwin Leder (Das Boot, Schindler’s List) plays a maniacal killer based on the real-life serial murderer Werner Kniesek. As he stalks through the bland Viennese countryside, Schulze’s music pulses darkly, and Zbig’s innovative “first-person” camerawork grabs you by the throat, never letting go. Angst is one film that, without any empty hyperbole, we can guarantee you’ll never, ever forget.

Cult Epics presents for the first time since its original release, the Uncut, Uncensored (optically restored tunnel murder-scene) in HD, with painstaking bonus features; including a new Interview with Erwin Leder, and Audio Commentary and an Interview with director Gerald Kargl conducted by Jorg Buttgereit (Nekromantik) and an 2015 Introduction by Gasper Noé (director of Irreversible, Enter The Void, Love), who cited Angst as an influence, “one that I have watched more than 40 times.”

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THE EYE’S DREAM

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eyesdreambannerTHE EYE’S DREAM
(aka GANKYU NO YUME)
dir. Satō Hisayasu, 2016
Japan, 102 mins.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 – 7PM **North American Premiere!**

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Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, Sato Hisayasu’s mind-bending horror-cum-Pink Film seems made to render audiences disturbed (or at least immensely uncomfortable). In THE EYE’S DREAM, a one-eyed photographer with an eyeball fetish photographs the eyes of passersby on the streets of Tokyo; a neurologist-filmmaker enlists her to act in his film. Reality begins to merge with fantasy, and neither is able to tell the real world from the world of their nightmares. Meanwhile, a mysterious eyeball-thief rampages the streets of Tokyo, looking for wide-eyed victims. The result is nothing if not schizotypal– and rather sadistic, as if Bataille’s Story of the Eye were narrated by Alex from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

Yet Satō’s latest is not all blood and gore: the film emphasizes visuality and voyeurism, and many scenes are rather quiet. It also features scenes set in the infamous “Sea of Trees”: a forest near Mt. Fuji famous for its many suicides.  Disturbing and psychedelic, both understated and insanely over-the-top, THE EYE’S DREAM is typical of Sato Hisayasu’s filmmaking. Famous for making not only Pink but V-Cinema splatter films, Sato’s films emphasize obsession, voyeurism, and perversion, and leave little to the imagination. He is also one of the “Four Heavenly Kings of Pink,” and came to prominence in the mid-1980s.

THE EYE’S DREAM has an odd production history for a Pink Film: it was produced by Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor of Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, the outfit behind masterpieces like LEVIATHIAN (2012) and SWEETGRASS (2009). Paravel and Castaing-Taylor documented the creation of Satō’s film, and are currently working on a documentary about its production; only time will tell how the often transcendent films of the S.E.L. will align with Sato’s blood-spattered thriller.