|
|
Historical/Horror Film Series
Double-feature film series pairs one film that explores elements of horror with one film in the documentary or historical fiction genre
All films are screened in the CAC Performance Space
Members: free. Nonmembers: $7.50. Seniors $6.50. Students $5.50.
|
Monday, October 13, 2008
|
| 6:30 pm |
Let There Be Light, John Huston, 1946, 58 minutes
This film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and undergo treatment at a stateside psychiatric hospital. This controversial film was banned in the United States until 1981. |
| 7:40 pm |
 Vampyr, Carl Dreyer, 1932, 73 minutes
One of cinema's great nightmares, Vampyr is the story of a student assailed by the supernatural in a village outside Paris. Stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds create a mood of dreamlike terror.
Right: Stills from Vampyr |
|
Monday, November 10, 2008
|
| 6:30 pm |
Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages, Benjamin Christensen, 1922, 104 minutes
This legendary documentary uses dark humor and dramatic vignettes to explore the idea that witches of the middle ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. |
| 8:25 pm |
 Cat People, Jacques Tourneur, 1942, 73 minutes
Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a Serbian-born fashion illustrator in New York City, believes an ancient curse will transform her into a panther when her feelings of passion or jealousy are aroused.
Right: Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages |
|
|
| Monday, December 8, 2008 |
| 6:30 pm |
 Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, 1960, 101 minutes
A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, this film is the story of a psychopathic cameraman's childhood traumas, sexual crises and murderous revenge as an adult.Right: still from Peeping Tom |
| 8:25 pm |
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, Stan Brakhage, 1971, 32 minutes
Challenging taboos in his exploration of birth, sex, death, and the search for God," Brakhage turned his camera on an actual autopsy, the Greek word for which literally means "the act of seeing with one's own eyes."
NOTE: Viewer discretion is advised |
|
|
|
Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| 6:30 pm |
Come and See, Elem Klimov, 1985, 142 minutes
Teenager Florya joins a group of partisans fighting the Nazis in
Byelorussia. Separated from his comrades, he wanders a battle-scorched
purgatory of prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter in this savage
and lyrical fever dream of death, rage and terror. |
| 9 pm |
Masque of the Red Death, Roger Corman, 1964, 89 minutes
Based on two stories by Edgar Allan Poe this film takes place in
plague-ravaged 12th century Europe. Unmoved by the surrounding
catastrophe, Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) has cloistered himself
with a select group of aristocrats in his castle fortress where they
play cruel, decadent parlor games. |
|
|
| Monday, February 9, 2009 |
| 6:30 pm |
Extreme Private Eros Love Song 1974, Kazuo Hara, 1974, 97 minutes
This intimate documentary follows Miyuki, a feminist bisexual woman in
1970s Japan. As filmmaker and participant, Hara documents Miyuki's
uncommon life as his own feelings unravel in front of the camera. |
| 8:20 pm |
Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg, 1988, 115 minutes
Identical twin
gynecologists (played by Jeremy Irons) share the same practice, live in
the same apartment, and date the same women. When a beautiful new
patient challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a spiral of
sexual confusion, drugs and madness. This screening is free.
|
|
|
| Monday, March 9, 2009 |
| 6:30 pm |
Black Sunday, Mario Bava, 1960, 87 minutes
Princess Asa
(Barbara Steele) is condemned to death, allegedly for witchcraft and
vampirism, but more likely to punish her and her brother for their
incestuous love. Two hundred years later, two doctors discover her
crypt and accidentally resurrect her, unleashing her vengeance against
her own bloodline. |
|
8:15 pm |
Surprise screening of a 2-hour, rarely shown film based on complementary events. |
The World Below
All-Night Horror Movie Marathon, from dusk to dawn
CAC Performance Space
Members: $10. Nonmembers: $20.
Friday, February 27, 2009
6:27 pm to 7:12 am
Bring your courage and your blanket and spend the night in the CACs
Lower Level Performance Space. Inspired by the exhibition Carlos
Amorales: Discarded Spider, this marathon presents both classic and
obscure horror films.
|
|
|
