An unflinching portrait of adolescent lust, boredom, and self-destruction, PALO ALTO is a teen movie for the ages.
Shy, sensitive April (Emma Roberts) is the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr. B (James Franco) and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy (Jack Kilmer). Emily (Zoe Levin), meanwhile, offers sexual favors to every boy to cross her path — including both Teddy and his best friend Fred (Nat Wolff), a live wire without filters or boundaries. As one high school party bleeds into the next — and April and Teddy struggle to admit their mutual affection — Fred’s escalating recklessness starts to spiral into chaos.
Palo Alto is an astonishing debut feature from writer-director Gia Coppola, based on the book “Palo Alto: Stories” by James Franco and featuring new music from Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange).
THE DEUCE presents DEADLY FRIEND, a film that did its time on the Deuce at the HARRIS THEATRE where Deuce-Jockey-Jeff first saw it…on a date! He’s loved it ever since.
Plus: Prizes and surprises, Gaffel Kolsch at the after-party, and music by DJ BONES! Hosted and presented by THE DEUCE JOCKEYS: Jeff, Andy, and Joe!
Elm Street meets E.T. as horror maven Wes Craven mines more of the the teen-terror vein – this time with a decidedly dorky twist and some bodacious basketball moves! Bad things start to happen for happy-go-lucky teen-genius neuroscience scholar Matthew Labyorteaux, when his artificial-intelligent robot-buddy “B.B.” runs into a bit of bad luck. And the bad only gets badder when new neighbor Kristy Swanson’s drunk of a dad’s dastardly deeds land disastrously on his doorstep…some people are better off dead!
Craven ramps up the camp into a kooky off-kilter tale of hormones and horror and friendship and frights, that doesn’t skimp on the chills and some choice moments of gleeful gore. Deadly Friend plays a deceptively light-hearted game, but with a demented undercurrent that flows darker than the circles under Kristy Swanson’s deadly-friended eyes…Beeeeee-Beeeee!
Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Complimentary drinks at the after-party courtesy of Gaffel Kolsch!
Revenge comes home in the new tense revenge thriller by Jeremy Saulnier.
Dwight Evans is a mysterious outsider whose quiet life on the margins is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. Winner of the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
**Due to a private matter, this screening has been postponed. We will announce a new date shortly!**
ART SEEN presents a screening of Aïda Ruilova’s HEAD AND HANDS along with Pier Paolo Pasolini’s short film, LA RICOTTA. Aïda Ruilova in attendance! Screening before the films is the frieze video: At Home with Jonas Mekas.
Starring director Abel Ferrara (Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant) and writer Alissa Bennett, Aïda Ruilova’s new film, Head and Hands: My Black Angel, centers around a conversation regarding director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s life and the last days before his early death. Spiraling out from there, the story breaks into an unconventional and tangential narrative about love, hustlers, desire, drugs, conspiracy, film scripts, and the actress Zoë Lund. The conversation between Ferrara and Bennett is shot with two cameras producing a fascinating look at obsessive tendencies and the self-destruction that often accompany creative brilliance.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s short film La Ricotta from 1962, a memorable part of the compilation film Rogopa, is “an explosion of disgust at consumer society and its vulgarity, a scabrous reproach to the Catholic Church for its abandonment of the poorest members of that society, a film about a film about the Crucifixion that shows Christianity’s central symbolic event being staged within a circus of depravity. Its Christ is a starving film extra who gives his own box lunch to his hungry family, loses a meal he’s stolen to a visiting movie star’s lap dog, and, after managing to stuff himself with ricotta cheese, dies from indigestion on the cross” (Gary Indiana, Pasolini, Mama Roma, and La ricotta, 2004).
In partnership with frieze. Featuring Absolut vodka cocktails.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox
What should you do when Martians tell citizens of Earth that they “come in peace”? Don’t believe them! Tim Burton’s hilariously original Mars Attacks! features an all-star cast who either help fight against the nearly unbeatable aliens or succumb to their irresistible (and sometimes sexy) powers. All the world is at risk from these cruelly comedic Martians and the United States must stand at the forefront in this battle as well as help rebuild a nation when the attack is over! And this includes everyone from young teenagers, a scientist, the president and Tom Jones. Isn’t America grand?!
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Kristen Miller, Elle Russ
Matt Damon! Nothing says Fourth of July like watching marionette puppets battle terrorist cells, hermetic North Korean leaders, and engage in sexual activity. Team America, brought to you by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, tells the story of Broadway actor Gary Johnston who has been asked by the North American anti-terrorist force (Team America) to join their world police! It’s all about being a badass and finding redemption mixed in with a little Kim Jong Il and a whole lot of dirty business. America: f*ck yeah!
Starring: Kurt Russell, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Kim Cattrall
All aboard the Porkchop Express! American truck driver Jack Burton enters into a whole different world when he picks up his pal’s Wang Chi’s fiancee from the airport. Bubbling up from the depths of Chinatown is the evil and body-less Lo Pan who must marry a girl with emerald green eyes in order to regain his form…and guess who has green eyes? Thus commences an epic mystical underworld battle between good and evil complete with some of the best lines in film…
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”
Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, David Clennon, T.K. Carter
Snuggle up! Kurt Russell battles against the cold and a mysterious alien life-form in the John Carpenter version of The Thing.
A team of scientists working in the frozen landscape of the Antarctic encounter a shape-shifting and killer alien being after a strange dog enters the camp. This is, of course, after witnessing a Norwegian team chasing the dog to kill it but perish in a helicopter crash before they can and before they can explain. Isolated in a part of the world nearly as remote as space, Kurt Russell’s R.J. MacReady leads the charge for survival not just his team but for the entire human race. Overshadowed upon its release by the more family friendly film E.T., Carpenter’s The Thing is a terrifying look at outer space in our own world that combines brilliant special effects and humorously scary scenes to punctuate this contemporary version of The Thing from Another World.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Ernest Borgnine, Adrienne Barbeau, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes
Call him “Snake.” The future is 1997 and the island of Manhattan is now a maximum security prison. Unfortunately it’s also the location where convicts took down the President of the United States’ plane. So the government sends in the “not dead” eye-patch wearing bank-robbing Snake Plissken to go in to retrieve the president and his cargo. But this mission isn’t exactly on Snake’s terms and, given the violent nature of how things run now in New York, it certainly isn’t going to be easy. Escape from New York is the quintessential dystopic view of American society’s future mixed in with that Kurt Russell charm and John Carpenter score.
Kurt Russell plays a carpenter who seeks revenge on a rich lady with amnesia in the romantic comedy cult classic OVERBOARD.
The rich, mean and beautiful heiress Joanna Stayton (played to comedic perfection by Goldie Hawn) treats all those she deems beneath her with real cruelty; this includes the handsome carpenter Dean Proffitt (played by Kurt Russell) who has been hired to build a new closet on her yacht and whom she refuses to pay after a disagreement. But things take a turn when Joanna falls overboard and is fished out of the sea by Dean. Plotting his revenge, he takes advantage of her amnesia to make her believe that she’s his wife who takes care of the cleans and takes care of the house! While Joanna’s memory eventually returns, the life lesson she learns is ever-lasting.
Part of THE WORKS – KURT RUSSELL.
