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Friday, September 21 - SPIDER BABY
To celebrate the upcoming release of the 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD of Jack Hill's classic Spider Baby, The American Cinematheque will host a screening of the film on Friday, September 21st at 7:30pm. Join director Jack Hill, along with stars Sid Haig, Beverly Washburn, Mary Mitchel, Quinn Redeker, Karl Schanzer and cinematographer Alfred Taylor for a Q&A following the film.
Lucky members of the audience will have the chance to win copies of the new DVD, which hits stores the following Tuesday, 9/25/07! But the fun doesn't stop there… Following the Q&A session will be a screening of Pit Stop - Hill's stock car racing cult-opus, starring Sid Haig, Dick Davalos, Ellen Burstyn and Beverly Washburn.
Think you got your fill of Hill? HELL NO!!! So join The American Cinematheque for even more thrills the following night, 9/22/07, when Jack Hill will be on hand for a special double feature of his exploitation classics Coffy (starring Sid Haig and Pam Grier) and Switchblade Sisters at 7:30!
Sunday, September 23 - DAY OF THE LOCUST
5:30 PM
DAY OF THE LOCUST, 1975, Paramount, 144 min. John Schlesinger (MIDNIGHT COWBOY) directed this epic adaptation of writer Nathaniel West’s apocalyptic take on 1930’s Hollywood as a soul-destroying Gomorrah, a false paradise of intangible dreams that hides degradation, greed and vitriolic hypocrisy behind its glitzy façade. Aspiring movie art director Tod (William Atherton) becomes obsesseed with neighbor Faye (Karen Black), a starlet who has a strange platonic relationship with lonely and awkward accountant Homer (Donald Sutherland). With a stunning ensemble cast, including Burgess Meredith as Faye’s has-been vaudevillian father, Geraldine Page as evangelist Big Sister, plus Bo Hopkins, Richard Dysart, Lelia Goldoni and Billy Barty. Richard MacDonald outdid himself with the stunningly authentic art direction. The Oscar-nominated camerawork is by Conrad Hall. Discussion following the film with Richard MacDonald’s widow, Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth Myers.