![]() Six-String Samurai (directed by Lance Mungia) - Trailer (1:30 min) - Editor (2018) The voice-over intones, 'A warning to the rich: get off our backs.'” The infamous theatrical trailer climaxed with a filthy rich landlord having his head tied in a burlap sack, besieged by feral rats. Albeit a late-night exploitation thriller from the last moment of human history when “Trump” was an obscure name, Death Promise eerily invokes the 1973 suit brought against Trump Management in Brooklyn, wherein Trump was accused of discriminating against nonwhite tenants to drive up his property value. " Death Promise stars martial artists Charles Bonnet (also nicknamed “La Pantera”) and Speedy Leacock as two young fighters who unite to take down a cabal of corrupt and exploitative landlords after Charley’s father is murdered. The result is a bracing, terrifying vision of life out of junct 40 years ahead of coronavirus."ĭeath Promise (directed by Robert Warmflash) - Trailer (1:08 min) - Editor (2022) ![]() ![]() Working from an original idea proposed by his friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cazals uses the outbreak of a pandemic to diagnose the ills of Mexican society as he saw it: political corruption, snake-oil pundits on television, municipal apathy to the basic needs of lower-income citizens. "Ten years after we showed his anti-anti-communism horror masterpiece Canoa, Spectacle is thrilled to reprise living master Felipe Cazals’ The Year of the Plague: a little-seen adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year transposed to 1970s Mexico. The Year of the Plague (directed by Felipe Cazals) - Trailer (1:30 min) - Editor (2021) Spectacle program website, "Guitry Gang: 3 Films by Sacha Guitry" Village Voice article, "Reintroducing Sacha Guitry, Master Detonator of Everyday Romance" Criterion Collection's blog, "The Daily" Director, writer, and often star, Guitry’s well-trained ear for conversation is unparalleled, and his apparent gift for eliciting fine performances ought to be an example to working filmmakers the world over." ![]() And, like many of his fellow countrymen, his oscillation from stage to screen and back again resulted in a jam-packed body of work that freely blurred the distinctions between either medium. At home, Guitry’s wry observations on matters romantic, personal, and political have earned him a well-deserved reputation as a satirist of the highest order. "Prolific polymath Sacha Guitry, born in Russia in 1885 to a family of French showfolk, made his name on the stage as an arch playwright of uniquely Gallic light comedies. "Guitry Gang: 3 Films by Sacha Guitry" - Series Trailer (1:30 min) - Editor (2018) No longer! It is time you followed the long and winding path of Patty through the wilderness of darkness and learned the TRUTH about the Great White Throne Judgment that is to come!" Shot in Des Moines Iowa in the early 70s and screened in church basements, Campus Crusade for Christ mixers and the most late-night public access, these films have had a tremendous influence on generations of dispensationalist Evangelicals while generally ignored by godless Midnight maniacs. "Before Apocalypse, before Left Behind, there was one Evangelical film series willing to look at what became of the earth after the ascension of all good souls into heaven: A Thief in the Night. *Program website, "Best of Spectacle 2017"ĭance Goddess (1987), Dark Star (1974), Day of the Wolves (1971), The Pink Egg (2016), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972), Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (1979), Scrubbers (1982), The Hellstrom Chronicle (1972), Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977), The Beaver Trilogy (1979 - 1985), Rubin and Ed (1991), The Scarlet Scorpion (1990), The Excluded (1982), La Grande Boufee (1973), History Lessons (2000), 4D Man (1960), Bumming in Beijing (1990), The Secret of the Mummy (1982), The Rider of the Skulls (1965), Johanna D'arc of Mongolia (1989), Daughters of Darkness (1971)Ī Thief in the Night - Midnight Series Trailer (2:23 min) - Editor (2018) "Best of Spectacle 2017" - Series Trailer (1:30 min) - Editor (2018) People Like Us website, "Two Nights of Screenings at Spectacle Theater Brooklyn" Spectacle program website, Do You See What I Hear: Two Nights with "People Like Us" Premiere) and Citation City (NYC Premiere). People Like Us - The Mirror and Citation City - Premiere Trailer (1:08 min) - Programmer, Editor (2018)Ī retrospective of the audio-visual collage artist People Like Us (Vicki Bennett), featuring the theatrical versions of The Mirror (U.S.
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