Starring: Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German, Clayne Crawford
Set in North Carolina, A Walk To Remember follows the rite of passage of a jaded, aimless high school senior (Shane West) who falls in love with a guileless young woman (Mandy Moore) he and his friends once scorned. The two develop a powerful and inspirational relationship in which they discover truths that take most people a lifetime to learn.
Sissy Fist Productions presents Nostalgia’s “Let’s Watch a Movie”, the love child of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, and Mystery Science Theater 3000. Join your host Nostalgia, the sole employee of the MorningDove Cinema, for this premier episode’s screening of A Walk to Remember. The show features drag performances, live movie commentary from the cast, as well as drinking games and audience participation.
CAST:
Nostalgia — (@nostalgiarama)
Nancy NoGood — (@shesuptonogood)
Emi Grate — (@emigrate_drag)
Bunny Buxom — (@bunnybuxom)
Jay Kay star of Boulet Brother’s Dragula — (@jaykay.bk)
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson, Michael Wincott, Martin Short
The legendary “loot of a thousand worlds” inspires an intergalactic treasure hunt when 15-year-old Jim Hawkins stumbles upon a map to the greatest pirate trove in the universe in Walt Disney Pictures’ thrilling animated space adventure, Treasure Planet.
Based on one of the greatest adventure stories ever told – Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” – this film follows Jim’s fantastic journey across a parallel universe as a cabin boy aboard a glittering space galleon.
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Harriet Walter
When Elinor Dashwood’s (Emma Thompson) father dies, her family’s finances are crippled. After the Dashwoods move to a cottage in Devonshire, Elinor’s sister Marianne (Kate Winslet) is torn between the handsome John Willoughby (Greg Wise) and the older Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman). Meanwhile, Elinor’s romantic hopes with Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) are hindered due to his prior engagement. Both Elinor and Marianne strive for love while the circumstances in their lives constantly change.
Starring: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Paul Guilfoyle
In this film based on the comic book character, Howard the Duck is suddenly beamed from Duckworld, a planet of intelligent ducks with arms and legs, to Earth, where he lands in Cleveland. There he saves rocker Beverly (Lea Thompson) from thugs and forms a friendship with her. She introduces him to Phil (Tim Robbins), who works at a lab with scientist Dr. Jenning (Jeffrey Jones). When the doctor attempts to return Howard to his world, Jenning instead transfers an evil spirit into his own body.
Starring: Trina Parks, Edna Richardson, Bettye Sweet, Shirley Washington, Roger E. Mosely, Norman Bartold, Otis Day, and Dick Miller
With musical guests: The Dramatics and Curtis Price
The Deuce is Stax-in’ it high this year and ridin’ inta Spring with the April-foolish phantasmagoric fantasia: DARKTOWN STRUTTERS!! Aka: GET UP AND BOOGIE! And boogie you will when Syreena (Diamonds Are Forever’s Trina Parks at her most winningly, comically winsome) and her Strutters girl-gang of deliriously decked-out 3-wheeled motorcycle mamas maraud their way through a whacked-out Watts in search of Syreena’s kidnapped abortion-clinic commandeering mom: Cinderella!??! “Watts that?” you say?? Yes!! The Deuce is taking you back to 3 years after the warm humanistic hoe-down-y realism of WATTSTAX for a furiously freaked-out funked-up flipside!! A Looney Tunes come to life, rife with mind-bending, jaw-dropping unbelievability! Garish! Gonzo!! Gloriously gauche!! Jam-packed with weirdos and “WTF?!?”!! Kung-fu and cycle-ridin’ KKK-ers… and an evil Colonel Sanders-y rib-restaurant magnate who’s up to some shady cloning experiments whilst throwin’ a bone to his mansion basement/dungeon/laboratory dwelling musical “guests”!!
Directed by since-the-30s B-pic journeyman William Witney – with much of his Roy Rogers, Dick Tracy, Crimson Ghost serial-y sensibilities still intact – and written by Miami Blues helmer George Armitage, in – as legend has it – 3 days, as one script-length, unbroken, run-on sentence!! A fever-dream stream of conscienceless unconsciousness that only the jazzed-up junk-lovin’ jokers of Times Square’s Harris Theatre could cream their jeans for… The Deuce suggests you bring an extra pair – unless you’re comfortable with that!!
Starring: Tamara Dobson, Shelley Winters, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas
I.B. Technicolor 35mm print
Federal agent Jones (Tamara Dobson) tries to rescue her framed boyfriend (Bernie Casey) from a drug-queen pervert known as Mommy (Shelley Winters).
Starring: Charleen McClure, Moses Ingram, Reginald Helms Jr., Zainab Jah, Sheila Atim, Chris Chalk
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A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman’s life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a haunting and richly layered portrait, a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us.
Starring: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel
The ambassador of the Latin American republic of Miranda (Fernando Rey), M. Thevenot (Paul Frankeur), his wife Simone (Delphine Seyrig) and her sister Florence (Bulle Ogier) arrive for a dinner party at the house of Alice Sénéchal (Stéphane Audran) and her husband Henri (Jean-Pierre Cassel), only to learn that they were mistaken about the date. In director Luis Buñuel’s surreal fantasy, the six bourgeois friends repeatedly gather for a dinner that never quite arrives.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Pernilla August, Frank Oz
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) is a young apprentice Jedi knight under the tutelage of Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) ; Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who will later father Luke Skywalker and become known as Darth Vader, is just a 9-year-old boy. When the Trade Federation cuts off all routes to the planet Naboo, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are assigned to settle the matter.
Starring: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Falk, Michael Lerner, Julian Sands, Van Dyke Parks
Feel the Love of The Deuce wafting in the air this February with the fabulously daffy Valentine-y laffy-taffy confection of confounding cockamamie: VIBES!!
Sylvia Pickle (Lauper) and Nick Deezy (Goldblum) are head-butting NYC ESP-ers embroiled in an Ecuadorian mis-adventure with mythic ramifications!! Hired by everyone’s fave con-man Colombo – née Peter Falk – for a false lost-son search, they find themselves up against gangsters, evil doctors, and maybe even E.T.s (!!) in a race to uncover the storied “Lost City of Gold”… and love dost bloom amongst the gold!! Does Deezy get in a Pickle?? You better believe it!!
Surprisingly, Cyndi Lauper’s single starring role – “surprisingly” in light of how genuinely genius the Queens kewpie proves herself to be in this funkily freaky pasta-fazool of a film… It’s a jaw-dropping disaster that it didn’t lead to more parts for the pixie!! At least the girls at Cine 42 got to have some fun while their nerd-o boyfriends waited with bated breath for the co-feature Midnight Run to begin…
