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4:48 p.m. - 2003-07-09
Ok, here is this years Midnight Madness Schedule as promised, and stolen straight from the Aquarius Theater's website. I am commiting myself to attending every film possible. I already know that I will miss two of them but I should make all the others either on Friday or Saturday night each week.
THE PREMIERES:
Wilco in I am Trying to Break Your Heart � Jul 11 & 12
Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters � Jul 18 & 19
Extended Version! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly � Jul 25 & 26
Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary � Aug 1 & 2
New Asian thriller! The Eye � Aug 8 & 9
Retro-porn! The Good Old Naughty Days � Aug 15 & 16
The Billy Nayer Show's The American Astronaut � Aug 22 & 23
DEJA-VIEW:
In Odorama! Divine in John Waters' Polyester � Sep 12 & 13
Molly Ringwald in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles � Sep 19 & 20
Jeff Bridges in the Coen Bros' The Big Lebowski � Sep 26 & 27
See it with a bud! Dazed and Confused � Oct 3 & 4
Extended Special Edition! Superman: The Movie � Oct 10 & 11
Woody Allen's classic comedy Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Sex (But were Afraid to Ask) � Oct 17 & 18
Kyle MacLachlan in David Lynch's Blue Velvet � Oct 24 & 25
Keanu Reeves in the original! The Matrix � Oct 31 & Nov 1
Peninsula Premiere!
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart chronicles the controversy surrounding the creation and release of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," the acclaimed new album from alt-country turned experimental rock band Wilco. Initially planning to follow the band's collaborative process, filmmaker Sam Jones soon had unexpected human drama and corporate intrigue to contend with when the band started breaking apart and the new album was rejected by their label. Official Website
Peninsula Premiere!
In 19th-century China, an evil monk awakens a nest of ghoulish vampires hell-bent on devouring human life. Now, a quartet of heroes trained in the Taoist Mao Shan school of magic and their master must use their unique powers to destroy the Vampire King and its lethal coven before it's too late. Each of the four students specializes in controlling the element of his namesake: Rain, Lightning, Thunder and Wind! Written and produced by Tsui Hark (Black Mask, Time and Tide, A Chinese Ghost Story); directed by Wellson Chin
Extended English Language Version!
MGM Film Archivist John Kirk writes about making The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 'bigger, better and badder' by restoring nearly 20 minutes of previously unseen footage: "You'll have the opportunity to see what the movie would have been like if some studio executive all those years ago hadn't had the bad idea to meddle with the director's vision..." Official Website
Peninsula Premiere!
For his first feature-length work in six years, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Tales from the Gimli Hospital) adapts the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. With Maddin's very particular touch, the eerie, supernatural tale becomes a highly stylized, black & white (with a dash of red) "silent" dance melodrama with music and sound effects. The photography and choreography heighten the madness that afflicts the characters, the camera moving like a voyeur, taking peeks at the action, lovingly, until danger suddenly appears. Official Website
Peninsula Premiere!
All is not as it appears in this chilling psychological thriller, a new genre classic in league with The Ring. After 18 years as a blind woman, a corneal transplant restores Mun's eyesight. Immediately, mysterious black-clad figures seem to foreshadow sudden deaths and horribly disfigured denizens haunt her daily. It soon becomes obvious that she has inherited her donor's fate, including the ability to see into the future. Directed by Danny & Oxide Pang (Bangkok Dangerous). Official Website
Peninsula Premiere!
From the very first days of silent movies the camera proved to be the perfect voyeuristic tool to show people making love. The Good Old Naughty Days contains excerpts from 12 erotic shorts made in France from 1905 to 1930�everything from an explicit take on Madame Butterfly to mini-costume dramas and bisexual surprises. Though the "actors" are often caught readjusting their wigs and fake moustaches so as not to be recognized, it's touching to see how fresh and na�ve these films look in comparison with today's X-rated releases. Official Website
Peninsula Premiere!
Written by, directed by, and starring Cory McAbee of The Billy Nayer Show, this space western musical uses flinty black-and-white photography, rugged Lo-Fi sets and the spirit of the final frontier to bring the film, set in the dirty, isolated vastness of outer space, to life. The American Astronaut follows the adventures of an interplanetary trader (McAbee) through his Homeric intergalactic journey to provide the all-female population of Venus with a suitable singular male, all the while being pursued by the cold-blooded and childish killer, Professor Hess (Rocco Sisto), an enigmatic figure from his past. Original soundtrack by the The Billy Nayer Show.
11:31 a.m. - 2003-07-09
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