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Basement presents: IT on VHS (with Director Q&A)
Rfor violence/horror, bloody images, and for language.
Basement VHS Presents... In 1960, seven preteen outcasts fight an evil demon that poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown. The two-part TV miniseries comes to the big screen courtesy of Basement VHS. In-person Q&A with Director Tommy Lee Wallace to follow the screening. Costumes highly encouraged! Basement is an art collective and VHS archive in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. They host a weekly film screening and radio show on Radio Valencia.
Basement presents: Popcorn on VHS
Rstrong violence, and for some language.
Basement VHS Presents... A master of disguise deranged killer begins killing off the college students who are organizing a horror-movie marathon in an abandoned theater. Basement is an art collective and VHS archive in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. They host a weekly film screening and radio show on Radio Valencia.
Dazed and Confused
Rfor pervasive, continuous teen drug and alcohol use and very strong language
Dazed and Confused, 1993 Directed by Richard Linklater SEE IT WITH A BUD. The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a “no drugs” pledge.
Deadbeat at Dawn with LIVE MUSIC
Goose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn’t long before he’s pulled back into the world of violence. Opening Live Set from Meat Hook & the Vital Organs Presented by Trash & Treasures with Special Guest Horror Host Lance Von MeatHook DOORS at 7:00 PM MUSIC at 7:30 PM FILM at 8:15 PM
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
G
The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.
Labyrinth
PG
Labyrinth, 1986 Directed by Jim Henson WHERE EVERYTHING SEEMS POSSIBLE AND NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS. When teen Sarah is forced to babysit Toby, her baby stepbrother, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him.
MC5: A True Testimonial
This documentary, made over a period of eight years, tells the remarkable story of an extremely influential rock’n’roll band. Starting from their mid-60’s garage band roots (sounding amazingly like the Sonics), the Motor City 5 deveoped into an icon for a brand of loud, crushing music reflecting their industrial roots. Even if you don’t care for their music (and you’re bound to like even a few of their songs), their story is fascinating. It combines 60’s protest, youthful braggadocio, and a style of music that would help carry one to the likes of Iggy and the Stooges (not to mention certain aspects of punk rock). This film is clearly a labor of love, combining extraordinarily rare live shows, still shots, a nearly-continuous backdrop of MC5 tunes, penetrating interviews with the remaining members and their spouses, and even FBI surveillance shots. It’s the ultimate testimonial to a band that only gains in stature as time goes on.
Runa Simi
"Fernando, a Peruvian single father, sits in an audio-recording room with his young son Dylan, recording voices together from Spanish into Quechua — their indigenous language. Fernando provides careful but spirited direction to Dylan, who nails the specific intonation. What seems as a playful game between a father and son is actually a treasured creative hobby for Fernando, who has dubbed online clips of many animated movies into Quechua. As a voice actor who’s always had an interest in crafting voices and dialects, Fernando uses his platform as a radio host in his native Cusco to create content in Quechua, enabling this language to thrive and not be forgotten. “Our language Quechua,” affirms Fernando, “is like life itself.” All too quickly, Fernando’s online hobby of dubbing film clips goes viral — and it spurs him to pursue his most ambitious goal yet: fully dub Disney’s animated “The Lion King” into Quechua. The creative hobby now becomes a real cultural endeavor. Augusto Zegarra’s buoyant first feature Runa Simi delivers a big-hearted and emotionally-resonant story, anchored by a captivating exploration of fatherhood and cultural appreciation." —Jose Rodriguez
The Shining
R
The Shining, 1980 Directed by Stanley Kubrick HE CAME AS THE CARETAKER, BUT THIS HOTEL HAD ITS OWN GUARDIANS - WHO’D BEEN THERE A LONG TIME Though it deviates from Stephen King's novel, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a chilling, often baroque journey into madness -- exemplified by an unforgettable turn from Jack Nicholson. Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.