Surrealism in American Animation @ The Secret Cinema
Friday, March 12 - 8:00 pm
Moore College of Art & Design
20th & Race Streets, Philadelphia
(215) 965-4099
Admission: $7.00

On Friday, March 12, The Secret Cinema will present the latest in its periodic explorations of cartoons from Hollywood's golden age, with the special program Surrealism in American Animation.

Surrealism in American Animation will offer a sampling of the craziest, most imaginative, and funniest creations from the pens of classic Hollywood animators, with an emphasis on rarely shown films, from studios famous and obscure. These cartoons -- shown using scarce, beautiful prints culled from private archives, many in glorious I.B. Technicolor or shimmering black and white -- display the full range of classic animators' art and craft. Most of these cartoons have never been shown before by the Secret Cinema.

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filmadelphiaEXPERIENCE focus on ANIMATION

filmadelphiaDOCUMENTARY presents: WALTZ WITH BASHIR
In this animated film, an Israeli director interviews fellow verterans to piece together his time in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, co-presented with One Film.
Wednesday, March 3 - 7:30 at the Prince
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filmadelphiaCLASSICS presents: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?
It's Disney with a noir twist as toon actor Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer) is framed for murder, and only Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a human detective with a reputation for hating toons, can clear his name and save Toon Town!
Wednesday, March 10 - 7:30 at the Prince
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filmadelphiaCLASSICS presents: PERSEPOLIS
The animated feature based on the autobiographical comics of Marjane Satrapi and her youth in a quickly changing Iran. Co-presented with International House and One Book.
Monday, March 15 - 7:00 at International House
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filmadelphiaDOCUMENTARY presents: WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY
This documentary takes a look behind the scenes at the re-birth of Disney animation, followed by a Q&A with director Don Hahn.
Wednesday, March 31 - 7:30 at the Prince

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Screening and discussions of PERCEPOLIS (the movie) will take place at the following venues in the month of February:

Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 2:00PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Van Pelt Auditorium
2600 Ben Franklin Parkway

Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 9:30AM
Community College of Philadelphia
Bonnell Building, Large Auditorium
1700 Spring Garden St.

Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 6:00PM
WHYY Technology Center
150 N. Sixth St.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 6:30PM
Broad Street Ministry
315 S. Broad St.

Creepy Puppet Films @ The Secret Cinema
Friday, November 20 - 8:00 pm
Moore College of Art & Design
20th & Race Streets, Philadelphia
(215) 965-4099
Admission: $7.00

On Friday, November 20, The Secret Cinema will present Creepy Puppet Films. Using assorted educational and entertainment shorts from past decades, they'll show films using hand puppets, marionettes, and stop-motion animated figures and claymation. Some were made by great masters of special effects like George Pal and Ray Harryhausen. Others were made by nameless hacks for forgotten educational film mills. Yet, they are all creepy..

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Hey, I haven't been to the Secret Cinema in a while, but this program is right up my street. I love this stuff.  I'm so there! - Art

Directors in Focus: Guy Maddin
Film @ International House
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
215-387-5125
$6 students + seniors; $8 general admission

 Born in 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada, Guy Maddin's body of work is as beautiful as it is confounding and delirious. He incorporates the language of silent-era cinema and combines it with a pre-cinematic sensibility learned from books. A man of prodigious intellectual appetites, Maddinís many interests and obsessions can easily be discerned in his work. A regular contributor to Film Comment  and The Village Voice, Maddin also curated at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and taught at the University of Manitoba. Go here for more info.

Thursday, September 24 at 7pm
Careful

Friday, September 25 at 7pm
Archangel & The Heart of the World

Saturday, September 26 at 5pm
Tales from the Gimli Hospital & Cowards Bend the Knee

Saturday, September 26 at 7:30pm
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

 
Hey, I'm a huge Maddin fan and I've seen all of these multiple times. Newbies should check out CAREFUL or the ARCHANGEL/HEART show as a good intro to Maddin. ICE NYMPHS is just about his worst (IMO). - Art

THE WIZARD OF OZ & DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - Director Victor Fleming. For our season finale, we will show THE WIZARD OF OZ in its entirety, then send the kids home and show it a second time synched with Pink Floyd’s DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. Whether this affirms or debunks a crazy urban legend once and for all, what a great way to spend a night under the stars with friends and neighbors, which has always been exactly what The Lawn Chair Drive-In is all about!

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There were ten films in the series and this is the finale. It's FREEEEEEE!

For more information go here and here

THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW by Pat Aulisio!

THE KID (1921)
Liberty Lands Park - Northern Liberties
Tuesday, August 18th - 8:15 p.m.

THE KID (1921) - One of the most enduring and endearing of any film comedy, silent or sound era. Charlie Chaplin was already the undisputed worldwide king of short comedies as actor, producer and director when he leapt in as auteur in this first Chaplin feature. About love, loyalty and the true wealth of friendship in the face of poverty, The Kid is unafraid to be sentimental, balanced handsomely in the framework of Chaplin’s mastery of slapstick, sight gags and situational humor. A true giant of a film.

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There are ten films in the series which goes until August 19th. It's FREEEEEEE!

For more information go here and here.

THE KID by Robert James Algeo!

LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (1946) (Beauty and the Beast) - Director Jean Cocteau. The greatest fantasy film of all time. The greatest French film of all the greatest French films. The greatest film adaptation of a fairy tale. The most elegant and handsome film monster of all time. Stunning. Beautiful. Thrilling. Powerful. Oh, my smokin’ paws!

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There are ten films in the series which goes until August 19th. It's FREEEEEEE!

For more information go here and here.

LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE by Art Baxter

OUT OF SIGHT (1966)
Liberty Lands Park - Northern Liberties
Tuesday, July 28 - 8:30 p.m.

OUT OF SIGHT (1966) - Camp classic beach movie serves as a vehicle for musical numbers by teen pop stars Gary Lewis and the Playboys, surf rockers The Astronauts, the ultimate anti rock star rock stars, Freddie and the Dreamers, LA stoners, The Turtles, The Knickerbockers and ‘In Crowd’s Dobie Gray.  In Technicolor and Cinemascope!

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There are ten films in the series which goes until August 19th. It's FREEEEEEE!

For more information go here and here.

OUT OF SIGHT by Cyn Why!

SLEEPER (1973) - Rip Van Woody is revived after 200 years, and Allen’s vision of the future through his uptight New York Jewish comedian, circa ’73 colored glasses is everything you could ask for in an early Woody Allen film.  Sophisticated humor wrestles blindly with puns and slapstick… and the audience wins!  With Diane Keaton!

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There are ten films in the series which goes until August 19th. It's FREEEEEEE!

SLEEPER by Brett Hopkins!

THE BED SITTING ROOM (1969)
Liberty Lands Park - Northern Liberties
Tuesday, July 14 - 8:45 p.m.

THE BED SITTING ROOM (1969) - Rita Tushingham, Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Harry Secombe and the jaw dropping screen debut of Marty Feldman, Richard Lester brings us one of filmdom’s most bizarre moments as British comedians and character actors romp and slog through a VERY surreal London, post A-Bomb.  It works, yet we’re not sure how!  Funny.  Indulgent.  Unforgettable.

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There are ten films in the series which goes until August 19th. It's FREEEEEEE!

For more information go here and here.

THE BED SITTING ROOM by Ian Harker!

THE BRAIN EATERS (1958)
Liberty Lands Park - Northern Liberties
Tuesday, July 7 - 9:00 p.m.

THE BRAIN EATERS (1958) - Director Bruno VeSota. Despite the title, there are no zombies in this is classic 50s space invasion, low budget drive-in howler. Better than many and worse than some, this is simply a surrender to a soft summer night at the movies with friends and lovers… and mysterious space creatures that eat your brains!

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There are ten films in the series which goes until August 19th. It's FREEEEEEE!

For more information go here and here.

THE BRAIN EATERS by M. Jacob Alvarez!

THE BAD SEED (1956)
The Lawn Chair Drive-In
Liberty Lands Park - Northern Liberties
Tuesday, June 30 - 9:00 p.m.

Aaaahhh, little Rhoda Penmark. You just can’t judge a book by its cover. She shares her Shirley Temple façade with most of the world, but an unlucky few meet the real Rhoda. Much evil. Much denial of evil. This Mervyn LeRoy cult favorite is still chilling after fifty years.

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There are ten films in the series which goes until August 19th. It's FREEEEEEE!

For more information go here and here.

ABBY (1974)
Liberty Lands Park - Northern Liberties
Tuesday, June 23 - 9:00 p.m.

Director William Girdler. Lovingly remembered as “The Blaxorcist,” ABBY is an amazingly campy car wreck of a film produced at the tail end of Exorcist mania and at the peak of the Blaxploitation school of filmmaking. Undeniably a groaner and a gem!

Movie start times are approximate (based on sunset). The movies begin at DUSK. Movies are cancelled on rainy nights. Tuesday is movie night and showings include short subjects. There are ten films in the series which goes until August 19th. It's FREEEEEEE!

For more information go here and here.

ABBY By Dane Troup!