Date Posted: Feb. 27th, 2006
MFG Member: Dylan Young
Email Address: mfg@shameless.ca
Subject: Screening Info for DOUBLE BILL
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Event Date: Monday, February 27th, 8pm
Where will you be Monday night, February 27th?
The Shrapnel Academy would like to invite you to the
"second" very first installment (technical difficulties solved) of DOUBLE
BILL!, the new weekly movie series at Club Social (4388 St-Laurent). The stirring and original
combination of espresso, cinema, friendship, hot toddies and really really cold
grappa promises to be the next thing in repertory cinemania.
Do not miss these fabulous movies, screened as never
before with the latest in cinematic hyper-technology. Yes, you heard it here
first, our films boast actual SOUND and actual MOVING IMAGES!
Two big screens, one couch and a gamillion chairs. Bring
your own Jube Jubes, Milk Duds and Mike & Ikes.
This weekÕs double bill:
~ To Have And To Have Not ~ 8 pm-ish (Classic)
Lots of folks salute Casablanca as "the"
Humphrey Bogart film. BORING. This is the real shit: Directed by Howard Hawks,
based on a novel by Hemingway, screenplay hacked out by William Faulkner, and
with musical cameos by Hoagy Carmichael, the film is already top-drawer before
we get to the main attractions. Bogey and Lauren Bacall appear on screen here
for the first time. The chemistry between them, on and off screen, was so
fierce they ultimately eloped and were inseparable until Bogart's death twelve
years later).
Bogey is the captain of a charter fishing boat who, along
with his alcoholic sidekick (played by Hollywood's favorite comedic foil of the
30s and 40s, Walter Brennan), becomes unwillingly embroiled in the machinations
of a group of resistance fighters. The true beauty of the film is in the
sharpness of dialog and brilliance of humour in watching Bogart's complete
befuddlement at the whims of the flick's strong-willed women. "Of all the
... loopy dames!"
~ Phantom of The Paradise ~ 10 pm-ish.(Cult)
Obviously, based on Phantom of the Opera -- no surprise
there -- Phantom of The Paradise is so much more than a thin rehashing of the
classic tragedy. Pint-sized 70s pop icon Paul Williams penned and composed the
songs, as well as owning the role of the film's sinister producer/record exec,
Swan. The plot is a clever synthesis of the Phantom, The Picture of Dorian
Gray, and Faust slanted with merciless pop scene satire, glam rock flamboyance,
stunning production design and that weird balance of seventies sensibilities
that is both utterly camp and yet deadly serious. Few films can claim to be
both clownishly funny and horrific at the same time. Phantom of the Paradise is
exceptional in this way and many others. A true modern classic.
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