| Monday 6 october 2003 Time : 7:30 PM
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DOG DAYS
(2002) directed by Ulrich Seidl
The first film in Third Eye's "Cinema On The Edge" series, DOG DAYS is a David Hockney painting gone berserk - huge mounds of flaccid sweating flesh and swimming pools filled with dreadful emptiness jam the frames of this suburban Austrian nightmare. Evoking the films of PT Anderson, Todd Solondz, Casavettes, and Gaspar Noe - Dogme-like in its rawness (used to be called cinema verite) - Dog Days explores the empty lives of a bunch of lost souls living in the suburbs of Vienna during a brutal heatwave. Controversial, cynical, and darkly humorous. Feted at last year's Venice Film Festival, DOG DAYS was awarded the Grand Jury Prize.
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| Tuesday 7 october 2003 Time : 7:30 pm
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PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (1973)
Sam Peckinpah's laconic ode to the lazy hazy days of the old west when aging hippies rode the range and protest singers hurled bullets into the dark nights of their souls. Starring Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, James Coburn, and Chill Wills, PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID was written by Buddhist screenwriter and stoned freak Rudy Wurlitzer with a distinct zen cowboy flavor that didn't sit well with critics when it was first released. The director's cut, which Third Eye is screening, has since been re-evaluated and appreciated for the fine film it is. A death scene set to the song "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" is a classic.
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| Monday 13 october 2003 Time : 7:30 pm
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WILD SIDE
WILD SIDE is Donald Cammell's ‘90s take on his masterpiece PERFORMANCE, which he co-directed with Nic Roeg. Instead of PERFORMANCE's decadent rocker, Mick Jagger, we get WILD SIDE's kinky gangster, Christopher Walken. As mesmerizing as Jagger was in PERFORMANCE, Walken is absolutely terrifying and exhilarating to behold in one of the most delirious pieces of acting ever committed to celluloid. WILD SIDE is a trippy slice of psychedelic film noir. Also starring Joan Chen and Ann Heche.
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| Tuesday 14 october 2003 Time : 7:30 PM
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SAVE THE GREEN PLANET
As Hollywood continues to churn out shallow and homogenized crap, the rest of the world, particularly Asia, is producing groundbreaking movies, that are not only daring in subject matter but wonderfully inventive in terms of structure and visual innovation. SAVE THE GREEN PLANET, A Korean genre blender, directed by Jang Jun-Hwan , combines UFOs, conspiracy theories, ecology, martial arts, rock and roll, kidnaping, corporate crimes, animation, and wildly costumed extraterrestrials who look like characters out of a Kenneth Anger film , into an indescribably weird and wholly entertaining pop culture satire. It’s a movie that really earns the response "I’ve never seen anything like it". If you get to see it at all. This is not the kind of movie that wins awards at Cannes. Its simply too strange, too defiantly anti convention, and too fearless. Films like SAVE THE GREEN PLANET get relegated to the Midnight Madness programming at festivals, a cinematic ghetto for the unclean and unruly. If given the chance, SAVE THE GREEN PLANET could become a cult favorite like REPO MAN and ERASERHEAD. But, as it currently stands, there is no North American distributor for the film. At a time when junk like DADDY DAY CARE, BAD BOYS 2, and GIGLI, pop up on thousands of screens, there are wonderful outrages like SAVE THE GREEN PLANET lost in the cinematic ozone, silver nitrate psychotropics, just waiting to fuck with our heads.
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| Monday 20 october 2003 Time : 7:00 and 9:30 pm
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RUDE BOY
Directed by Jack Hazan and David Mingay, this 1980 film is a nitty gritty look at British punk rock seen though the eyes of an unemployed anarchist named Ray Gange who becomes a roadie for THE CLASH.
Featuring lots of Clash concert footage, RUDE BOY documents one of rock's great bands at the height of their powers as musicians and provocateurs. This film is full of electrifying live performances of vintage Clash songs like WHITE RIOT, LONDON CALLING, I FOUGHT THE LAW and many more. We will be showing this film in all its surround sound glory.
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| Monday 27 october 2003 Time : 7:30 pm
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THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Penelope Spheeris directed this raw and exciting documentary that gets inside L.A.s mid-'70s punk rock scene. Featuring live performances and interviews with X, The Germs, The Bags and many more, DECLINE is a rare glimpse into one of rock's most vital and exciting movements.
Punk never died and it ain't going away.
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| Tuesday 28 october 2003 Time : 7:30 pm
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BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA
The Third Eye Film Society's screening of PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID was a big hit so we decided to show another Sam Peckinpah classic, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA.
Starring the great Warren Oates, GARCIA is the grandaddy of cactus noirs.
"For something so bleak, so purposely revolting and unsentimental, there are reservoirs of profound poetry in Alfredo Garcia, the only film that Peckinpah ever considered completely his own. As the director of The Wild Bunch, The Getaway, and Straw Dogs, Peckinpah was known for his hard drinking, stubbornness, and eccentricity; indeed, his life would eventually be decimated by the strain brought about by both his constant battles with the studios who funded (and frequently butchered) his work, and by his uncontrollable thirst for alcohol. Yet for one brief moment in 1974, Peckinpah enjoyed complete creative control, and the result was this magnificently depraved piece d’resistance--a film that repulsed nearly every moviegoer who saw it and solidified his reputation among Hollywood bigwigs as a director incapable of reliably producing mainstream entertainment."
Nichola Shager
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| Friday 31 october 2003 |
HALLOWEEN HORROR FREAKOUT
Two, count em, two chilling flix to haunt your Halloween nightmares.
At 7 pm, we'll screen JU-ON (THE GRUDGE) followed by Roman Polanski's THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS.
at 9 pm.
And the shocks keep comin': we'll show vintage horror/exploitation trailers, performance footage of THE CRAMPS, and real live go-go dancers on our stage.
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