BTW/FYI, Logistics has been rerunning as part of BEST OF @spectacletheater.com 2024 (see www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...) and the end is here once again, but it's not 5 in the morning like last time (see screenshot below)β¦
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Then at 10, it's THE BEST OF ME (Heather Landsman, 2024), an archival documentary about the final days of the man who plotted to kill BjΓΆrk.
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Our ANTI-VALENTINES Francois Ozon triple feature continues with WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS (2000), a four-way relationship mess based on an unproduced Fassbinder play.
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At 10, it's BAJO EN NICOTINA ("Low in Nicotine," RaΓΊl Artigot, 1984), about an obsessive cinephile who must find a way to deal with the girlfriend and neighbors who dare to impede on his screentime.
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It's February, so it's time for our annual ANTI-VALENTINES program.
At 7:30, see NATURAL ENEMIES (Jeff Kanew, 1979), in which Hal Holbrook embarks on a murder-suicide mission against his hated family.
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My new trailer for @spectacletheater.com: βGaza Is Our Homeβ is viewable here:
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At 10, our Pedro Olea series continues with 1973's IT IS NOT GOOD FOR A MAN TO BE ALONE, a brutal critique of Spanish patriarchy told through the story of a man with a mannequin for a wife.
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At 7:30, it's our first showing of I'LL BE AROUND (Mike Cuenca, 2020), a day in the life of struggling musicians at a post-punk festival.
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Rockuary kicks off in spectacular fashion with an all-day marathon of films about history's greatest guitarist! IN THE WINK OF AN EYE: JIMI HENDRIX (1942-1970) starts at noon and runs until well after midnight.
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At 10, it's one of our biggest hits from last year, the epic Philippine WWII saga ORO PLATA MATA (Peque Gallaga, 1982).
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At 7:30, it's our final screening of NEKO-MIMI (Jun Kurosawa, 1993), a "cinema crystalβ that removes βhuman emotions, time, space, and montage" from the equation.
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At 10, it's the last screening of BLUE MOUNTAINS, OR UNBELIEVABLE STORY (Eldar Shengelaia, 1983). Another Soviet film - this one from Georgia - it's a comedy of errors about a writer vainly trying to get his manuscript read.
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The end of Best of Spectacle 2024 is closing in! It's your last chance to see these encores!
At 7:30, we play Grigori Kromanov's snowbound '70s Soviet Estonian sci-fi mystery DEAD MOUNTAINEERS HOTEL.
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Really excited for the @spectacletheater.com screening this Sunday evening of two films directed and codirected by Sasha Tycko about the struggle to Stop Cop City. I'll be in conversation with Sasha afterwardβplease come out if you can! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
At 10, it's your last chance to catch SCRAP VESSEL, Jason Byrne's 16mm chronicle of the final voyage of a coal freighter.
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At 7:30, it's the final Best of Spectacle encore of GOIN' ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS, a double feature of documentaries about Appalachian folk music
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At 10, it's your last chance to catch HAMBURGER DAD (Kevin Clarke, Wil Long, 2003), a movie about exactly what the title suggests.
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Best of Spectacle wraps up this week, with our last encores of some of our favorite programming from 2024.
At 7:30, see THE TIME THAT REMAINS, Elia Suleiman's quasi-autobiographical chronicle of decades of life in Palestine from 1948 onward.
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At 7:30, the epic Robert Ashley/The Kitchen seven-part television "comic opera about reincarnation" PERFECT LIVES plays for the final time. The screening is sold out, but walkups might make it in!
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At 5, it's our last Best of Spectacle screening of SYLVIE (Klaus Lemke, 1973), the extremely German fashion model/cab driver love story.
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At 3, it's the latest edition of Blood Brunch, our biweekly surprise horror matinee.
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And at midnight, it's our last screening of SHOWGIRLS 2: PENNY'S FROM HEAVEN, Rena Riffel's new cut of her supremely unconventional (and highly unauthorized) sequel to the Verhoeven classic.
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At 10, the final Best of Spectacle screening of SPIN (Brian Springer, 1995) plays. Your last chance to catch this treatise on politics and the media, putting the 1992 election under the microscope.
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We've partnered with the Childhood Delusions Film Festival to present encores of its first two editions. The Year 1 program plays at 5, then Year 2 is at 7:30. Q&As after each screening with various onetime-juvenile filmmakers!
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Big day at Spectacle! At 3, it's the latest edition of ANIME NO GOGO, our secret anime OVA matinee.
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And at midnight, it's another unearthed Soviet gem, MISTER DESIGNER (Oleg Teptsov, 1987). In the last days of the tsars, a mannequin-obsessed aesthete is determined to fulfill his life's work.
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At 10, catch a reprise of one of last year's biggest hits, the Soviet-Estonian snowbound sci-fi mystery DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL (Grigori Kromanov, 1979).
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At 7:30, we have another showing of BLUE MOUNTAINS, OR UNBELIEVABLE STORY (Eldar Shengelaia, 1983), a late Soviet-Georgian portrait of a writer trudging through artistic bureaucracy.
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Tonight at Spectacle, catch the first of two Best of Spec reprises of PERFECT LIVES (1983), John Sanborn and The Kitchen's epic theatrical/television βcomic opera about reincarnation." Starts at 7:30!
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