SLEEPBOMB live score to FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
Thursday, August 27
SLEEPBOMB is a San Francisco-based cinematic post-metal/doom project focused on full, original scores for genre films. Ranging from heavy doom riffs to dreamy shoegaze, dark soundscapes punctuated with shimmering guitar and ethereal vocals, SLEEPBOMB has been exploring experimental sounds and forms informed by fellow travelers Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sunn 0))), Ulver and Swans, among others. Settling on a drone influenced style of post/doom metal as the overarching theme while exploring other genres as appropriate for the film’s particular style, they bring their new live score to the groundbreaking 1931 horror film FRANKENSTEIN. The film's innovative special effects, atmospheric direction, and Boris Karloff's sympathetic portrayal of the Monster made it a critical and commercial success, influencing the horror genre and popular culture significantly. A singular live musical experience that re-contextualizes this classic film.
Tickets for this special event are $20 - walk up at the door, day of show (no advance tickets). Doors open 7:30 show 8pm.
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WILD STYLE
Charlie Ahearn
- 82 minutes
- 1982
- English
AUGUST 28 - 29
In early 1980s New York City, independent filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and downtown artist Fred Brathwaite ventured uptown with the aim of capturing an exciting new underground scene that was happening in the South Bronx, a scene that featured graffiti artists, breakdancing b-boys and two turntables and a microphone. The result was WILD STYLE, and to many viewers it was their first glimpse of the musical and cultural phenomenon called hip-hop.
In this unique hybrid of fiction and documentary, the story of lone graffiti artist Lee "Zoro" Quiñones trying to achieve success on his own terms is brought to vivid life with support by Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Brathwaite, Sandra "Lady Pink" Fabara and Patti Astor, and with historic music performances by such luminaries as Grandmaster Flash, Busy Bee, The Fantastic Five, The Cold Crush Brothers and The Rock Steady Crew. To create the score, Chris Stein (Blondie) would collaborate with Brathwaite to produce the actual breakbeats to be used in the film, an inspired decision that would provide a source of obsession among crate diggers for decades to come. Endlessly sampled, imitated and debated, WILD STYLE is the truest portrait of the hip-hop scene during its early years, and remains one of the most important music films ever made, now in a new restoration!
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 --- 7:30pm
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 --- 8pm
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A PLACE IN THE SUN
George Stevens
- 122 minutes
- 1951
- English
AUGUST 29 - 30
Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, an aimless WWII veteran determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Shelley Winters is the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman’s professional and romantic prospects, setting in motion a series of tragic events. Widely considered one of the finest works of America cinema (hailed by Charlie Chaplin as "the greatest movie ever made about America”) George Stevens' masterwork is an adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s 'An American Tragedy'. Presented in a new restoration, A PLACE IN THE SUN is a true glittering gem from Golden Age Hollywood with Clift, Taylor and Winters are at their finest.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 --- 5:15pm
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 --- 2pm
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TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA
Jane Schoenbrun
- 106 minutes
- 2026
- English
STARTS SEPT 4
Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit, their latest genre-bending wonder affirms there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure. After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is due for resurrection. And one young director (Hannah Einbinder) is more than up to the task. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress (Gillian Anderson), the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, delirium — under threat from the spear-wielding Little Death. Winner of the Queer Palm, this transformative Cannes favorite leads its protagonists to true fulfillment, encouraging us to ask how we can reach our own.
Showtimes TBA
ERASERHEAD
David Lynch
- 89 minutes
- 1977
- English
SEPTEMBER 11 - 12
David Lynch described his stunning 1977 debut feature simply as “a dream of dark and troubling things”, but the unclassifiable ERASERHEAD is so much more: an expressionistic headtrip, a Grand Guignol nightmare, a pitch-black comedy of manners, and a deeply personal allegory about the (post-) nuclear family. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film. ERASERHEAD is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 --- 7:30pm
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 --- 8pm
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POPEYE
Robert Altman
- 114 minutes
- 1980
- English
SEPTEMBER 12 - 13
One of Robert Altman’s trademarks is the way he creates whole new worlds in his movies. That gift for populating new places is one of the richest treasures in POPEYE, Altman’s musical comedy adaptation, with a screenplay by Jules Feiffer, music by Harry Nilsson and starring the incomparable team of Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall. POPEYE remains true to its origin in the original comic page and classic cartoons of the 1930’s, but transposed into Altman’s own fantastic, beguiling ecosystem. All of his signature hallmarks—that teeming sense of community gathering habits, concern for social inequalities, and fondness for earnest, country-fried comic bits—are very much alive here. When it was first released in 1980 it was seen as too weird for kids and too naive for adults, but it has since been reconsidered and celebrated as the strange, wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie it is. If you haven’t seen POPEYE, please do yourself a favor and see it on the Pageant screen. If you have seen it, it’s time for another look.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 --- 5:15pm
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 --- 2pm
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