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Andrew’s Video Vault announces 2010 schedule
posted by Molly Eichel
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| Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud plays March 11. |
A.R. McElhinney, the filmmaker/curator, sends out the 2010 schedule for his Andrew’s Video Vault events every second Thursday of the month at the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. (He also does the Chestnut Hill Film Group.) As always, McElhinney presents rare classics that have often never been available on DVD — like Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons in May, which is only available on Region 2 DVD. All Andrew’s Video Vault events are free and start at 8 p.m.Â
JANUARY 14, 2010
Nightwatching (2007 / 134 minutes) Martin Freeman stars as Rembrandt in Peter Greenaway’s mystery about the creation of the painting commonly known as “The Night Watch.â€
Go Go Tales (2007 / 96 minutes) Abel Ferrara’s strongest work in years is a saturated gambling fantasy set in a NYC strip club fallen on hard times. It features indelible character work from Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Matthew Modine, Bob Hoskins, and especially Sylvia Miles and Roy Dotrice.
FEBRUARY 11, 2010
Napoleon (1927 / 235 minutes) MFM (Jon Allen, David Stanley Aponte, Robert Cozzolino, Rick Henderson, K. Malcolm Richards & Kevin Riley) perform live accompaniment for Abel Gance’s silent epic.
MARCH 11, 2010
Alice in Wonderland (1933 / 76 minutes) The under-appreciated Norman Z. McLeod helms MGM’s live action adaptation of Lewis Carrol’s classic. An all-star class showcases Edward Everett Horton as The Mad Hatter, Cary Grant as The Mock Turtle, W.C. Fields as Humpty-Dumpty and Gary Cooper as The White Knight.
Brewster McCloud (1970 / 105 minutes) Bud Cort stars as a boy who lives in the fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome and wishes to fly. Robert Altman’s early movie features Margaret Hamilton, Sally Kellerman, William Windom, Shelley Duvall, Stacy Keach and Jennifer Salt.
APRIL 8, 2010
Mr. Boogedy (1986 / 46 minutes)Â The beloved made-for-TV-movie about a novelty salesman and his family who move into a haunted house.
Saturday the 14th (1981 / 75 minutes) “Just when you thought it was safe to look at the calendar again.â€
Bride of Boogedy (1987 / 100 minutes)Â More ghostly high-jinks ensue in this sequel to Mr. Boogedy.
Saturday the 14th Strikes Back (1988 / 78 minutes) Ray Walston, Patty McCormack and Michael Berryman star in the kooky monster-spoof sequel to the ‘original’ parody, Saturday the 14th (1981).
MAY 13, 2010
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942 / 88 minutes) The Mercury Theatre’s second movie is Orson Welles’ adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about a wealthy family’s decent into ruin and the rise of the automobile. With indelible performances from Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Dolores Costello, Joseph Cotton and Tim Holt.
American Babylon (1987 / 79 minutes) Roger Michael Watkins’ penultimate film as ‘Richard Mahler’ presents two sexually dysfunctional married couples as an allegory of late Twentieth Century living. With Bobby Astyr, Michael Gaunt, Tish Ambrose and Taija Rae.
JUNE 10, 2010
Blind Alley (1939 / 69 minutes) Gangster Chester Morris faces off against psychoanalyst Ralph Bellamy as lives hang in the balance. Cinematography care of Lucien Ballard.
Mikey and Nicky (1976 / 119 minutes) John Cassavetes and Peter Falk star in Elaine May’s gangster drama.
JULY 8, 2010
The Body Beneath (1970 / 82 minutes) Vampires masquerade as clergy in Andy Milligan’s off-beat UK-lensed thriller.
Door To Silence [aka, Le porte del silenzio] (1991 / 87 minutes) Insanity and the supernatural fugue for John Savage in one of Lucio Fulci’s last movies.
AUGUST 12, 2010
Mandingo (1975 / 127 minutes) James Mason lords-over Richard Fleischer’s lurid Gothic melodrama of slave breeding in the pre-Civil War Deep South.
Whity (1971 / 95 minutes) Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Western!
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
The Tarnished Angels (1958 / 91 minutes) Reporter Rock Hudson is drawn to has-been pilot, Robert Stack and his wife, Dorothy Malone in Douglas Sirk’s rich cinemascope adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, Pylon.
Maybe I’ll Come Home In The Spring (1971 / 74 minutes) Salty teen runaway Sally Field returns home after a year on her own living with Hippies and has trouble adjusting to middle-class adulthood in Joseph Sargent’s made-for-TV-movie photographed by the great Russell Metty. With David Carradine.
Damaged Lives (1933 / 61 minutes) “His life of debauchery brought disease to his wife!â€Â Edgar G. Ulmer’s superb Art Deco melodrama about a couple diagnosed with syphilis.
OCTOBER 14, 2010
Secret Beyond The Door (1948 / 99 minutes) “Some Men Destroy What They Love Most!†Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave star in Fritz Lang’s Freudian Bluebeard yarn.
From the Life of the Marionettes [aka, Aus dem Leben der Marionetten] (1980 / 104 minutes) In color as well as black & white film stock, Sven Nykvist’s photographs Ingmar Bergman’s German-language TV-movie exploring a businessman’s murder of a prostitute.
NOVEMBER 11, 2010
The Man I Killed [aka, Broken Lullaby]Â (1932 / 76 minutes)Â Ernst Lubitsch directs Lionel Barrymore and Phillips Holmes in a favorite of Gilles Deleuze about the guilt afflicting a French Soldier after World War I.
American Nightmares [aka, Combat Shock] (1986 / 92 minutes)Â Buddy Giovinazzo’s grungy chronicle of a deranged Vietnam veteran descending into madness on Staten Island.
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Before I Forget [aka, Avant que j'oublie] (2007 / 108 minutes) In one of the great movies of the last decade Jacques Nolot writes, directs and stars as a gay man adjusting to his lover’s death, advancing age, and his failing body.
Poison (1990 / 85 minutes) Todd Haynes’ masterful first feature is inspired by the writings of Jean Genet and propelled by Haynes’ own unique sense of collage.
The Meatrack (1970 / 65 minutes)Â A young boy grows up to be a hustler in this time capsule of a more carefree and groovy era.
