January 19-22

Wednesday, January 19

A Town Called Panic!

2009. Belgium / France. Dir: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar. With Animated. 75 min.
If TOY STORY shows what your toys did while you were out, PANIC recalls the hilariously surreal things you had them do during playtime. A plastic cowboy, Indian, and horse – cheaply animated and overenthusiastically voiced – struggle against subterranean interlopers, a giant metal penguin, and their own ineptitude. Presented as part of The Tournées Festival.
Thursday, January 20

Videodrome

1983. Canada. Dir: David Cronenberg. With James Woods. 87 min.
A cable-TV executive stumbles across a mysterious and disturbing channel that loosens his grip on reality and provokes his obsession with Debbie Harry. Still prophetic and shocking, this paranoid pipe dream of technology and psycho-physiological deformations crowned Cronenberg the king of body horror. Long live the new flesh!
Friday, January 21

Beauty and the Beast

1991. USA. Dir: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. With Animated. 84 min.
Ma chére Mademoiselle, it is with deepest pride / and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight / And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair / as the Film Series proudly presents / your Friday night…
Saturday, January 22

The African Queen

1951. USA. Dir: John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn. 105 min.
Aboard the trusty titular steamboat, grizzled captain Bogey and buttoned-up missionary Hep – strange boat-fellows at first – hatch an explosive downriver escape plan from the Germans in WWI Africa. Essential old-Hollywood romance and adventure, set against a wildly enthralling Technicolor backdrop!