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INVISIBLE

(dir. Konstantin Bojanov, 90 mins, 2005)

Weds Jun 1 9pm - buy tickets
Thurs Jun 2 9pm - buy tickets
Fri Jun 3 9pm - buy tickets
Sat Jun 4 9pm - buy tickets
Sun Jun 5 9pm - buy tickets
Mon Jun 6 9pm - buy tickets
Tues Jun 7 9pm - buy tickets

This is your life on heroin.

". . .as raw, intense, up-close and real as it gets."
- Jury Statement, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Heroin’s brutal highs and lows are revealed in full force in this achingly ferocious and up-close documentary directed by New York-based filmmaker Konstantin Bojanov. Bojanov tracks a group of six young people in Sofia Bulgaria on a three year journey through the highs and lows, dreams and tribulations of life with heroin addiction. From casual drug use, to star-crossed lovers, to an overdose and near death on camera, this is filmmaking at its most raw and vicious.

 

Nicholas Ray x 3

Much beloved - and worthy of that love - Nicholas Ray remains a treasured director whose works should be seen and reseen. Check these ones out on 35mm.

IN A LONELY PLACE

(dir. Nicholas Ray, 94 mins, 1950)

Wed Jun 1 7pm - buy tickets
Wed Jun 15 7pm - buy tickets
Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needed, and their friendship ripens into love. Will suspicion, doubt, and Steele's inner demons come between them? (synopsis from imdb.com)

Lonely Wednesdays

HOT BLOOD

(dir. Nicholas Ray, 85 mins, 1956)

Thurs Jun 2 7pm - buy tickets
Sat Jun 18 4:45pm - buy tickets
Jane Russell and Cornel Wilde star in this under-rated “gypsy musical” - a fascinating genre in itself. Set in the gypsy community of contemporary Los Angeles, dancer Stephen Torinois tricked into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash.

Lonely Wednesdays

BITTER VICTORY

(102 minute version!)

(dir. Nicholas Ray, 102 mins, 1957)

Sat Jun 4 7pm - buy tickets
Sun Jun 19 5:15pm - buy tickets

I Kill the Living, & I'm Saving the Dead !

Starring Richard Burton. A commander receives an undeserved citation for an attack on Rommel's headquarters. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers.

WITCHES IN EXILE

(dir. Allison Berg, 80 mins, 2004)

Fri Jun 3 7pm - buy tickets
Sat Jun 4 5pm - buy tickets

"Stunning!”
-Fred Camper, Chicago Reader

"Shocking and tragic. . .WITCHES IN EXILE is a remarkable example of what can happen when ignorance, poverty and superstition are allowed to fester."
-Merle Bertrand, Film Threat

“A brilliant documentary. . .Winner of SXSW’s Special Jury Award for a Documentary Feature, the film and its award are a testament to Berg’s skill as a filmmaker…”
-Laura Nathan, THE INDEPENDENT

In Ghana, women accused of witchcraft are torn from their families and banished to isolated “witch villages.” This film follows accused witches through their daily struggle to survive in the Kukuo Witches Camp in Northern Ghana. As government agencies attempt to abolish this age-old tradition, these women find themselves caught between their society’s deeply rooted beliefs and its drive toward modernization. WITCHES IN EXILE captures a country at a dramatic and emotional crossroads.

Pioneer Late Nights

PRIMER

(dir. Shane Carruth, 78 mins, 2004)

Fri Jun 3 at 10:35pm - buy tickets
Fri Jun 10 at 10:35pm - buy tickets
Fri Jun 24 at 11pm - buy tickets

"PRIMER is the headiest, most singular science-fiction movie since Kubrick made 2001."
(ESQUIRE)

"An ingenious movie about the perils of ingenuity. . .Invigorating. . .Like PI or MEMENTO, PRIMER is the kind of movie likely to inspire both imitators and cultists. . .Carruth has invented something fascinating."
(A.O. Scott, NY TIMES)

* Grand Jury Prize - Sundance Film Festival *

PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities--ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

A ThinkFilm release.

Pioneer Late Nights

STEAMBOY

(dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, 126 mins, 2004)

Fri Jun 3 at midnight - buy tickets
Fri Jun 10 at midnight - buy tickets

English-language version

A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This young boy must use it to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. The lush Victorian interiors and the elegance of the era's mechanical design allows Otomo to create dazzling visual backgrounds and machines for this film. With more than 180,000 drawing and 400 CG cuts, STEAMBOY is sure to be one of the most elaborate animated features of the year.

View clips and trailers

THE EVIL DEAD

(dir. Sam Raimi, 85 mins, 1981)

Sat Jun 4 10:35pm- buy tickets
Sat Jun 25 at 11pm - buy tickets
Director Sam Raimi's first film has achieved legendary status since its 1982 release, and for good reason. Though perhaps not as widely seen as its two sequels, EVIL DEAD 2 and ARMY OF DARKNESS, THE EVIL DEAD is arguably the best of the three. It is the story of five college-age friends who travel to a cabin in rural Tennessee where the stumble upon the Book of the Dead, an ancient tome bound in human flesh and inked in blood. After unwittingly awakening the unspeakable terror told of in the book, each of the friends is transformed into the evil dead, one by one, except for Ash (Bruce Campbell). So, Ash is left with no other way to survive than to dismember the living corpses of his sister, girlfriend, and two of his friends. Shot on a shoestring budget, the film boasts some impressive camera work and extremely over the top gore effects as well as a sense of humor much more subtle than the tongue-in-cheek aesthetic of the two sequels.

Pioneer Late Nights

SAVE THE GREEN PLANET

(dir. Jang Jun-Hwan, 116 mins, 2003)

Sat Jun 4 at midnight - buy tickets

view the trailer

visit the website

Lee Byeong-Gu thinks his boss is an alien.

He may be right.

The VILLAGE VOICE calls it "poignant and poetic" and
"one of the best films of the year"

The ONION says it's "astonishing" and "perversely beautiful"

NEWSDAY declares that it "knows how to embrace momentum
without sacrificing challenges to the mind or the soul"

One of Korea's secret masterpieces explodes onto American screens.

Finally, an Asian movie that matters gets an American release. SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is a tilt-a whirl genre-blender from Korea that turns film history against itself to create one of the most savage, affecting and inspired anti-violence movies ever made. This is a movie that defies all marketing labels and is exactly what it wants to be: like nothing you've ever seen before.

Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun, JSA) is a sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi films whose life has been derailed by one bad break after another. Yet he knows there's no such thing as bad luck. The only thing that could have made such a mess of his life are...aliens. Nasty, disgusting aliens who have infiltrated human society. Sly aliens who are planning to destroy our planet at the next lunar eclipse. The one alien possessing the Royal Genetic Code needed to contact the Crown Prince and stop the destruction just happens to be his old boss, CEO of Yuje Chemicals, Kang Man-Shik (Baek Yun-Shik).

So with the help of his circus-performer girlfriend he sets out to kidnap Kang and torture him until he confesses to his alien identity and stops the invasion. Of course, it's hard to confess to something that's just a delusion in a sick man's mind.

First time director Jang Jun-Hwan has marshaled every trick in his cinematic arsenal to unleash a full-out moviemaking assault on the audience. Shot for $4 million, this stylish flick looks like something Terry Gilliam would come up with if he were in a really bad mood.

Funny, brilliant and moving, SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is one-of-a-kind.

LITTLE FUGITIVE

(dir. Ray Ashley & Morris Engel, 80 mins, 1953)

Sun Jun 5 5pm - buy tickets
Sun Jun 12 7pm - buy tickets

The Pioneer commemorates the recent passing of our great friend, Mr. Morris Engel, through a celebration of his filmmaking, with ongoing screenings of this classic film.

Joey, a young boy, runs away to Coney Island after he is tricked into believing he has killed his older brother. Joey collects glass bottles and turns them into money, which he uses to ride the rides.

Chicago City Limits First Sundays Comedy Films

FIRST SUNDAYS
 Comedy Film Festival

Sun Jun 5 7pm - buy tickets

First Sundays is a monthly festival featuring the best in short comedy films from around the world. Each screening features new films, audience and judges awards, and an after party sponsored by Stella Artois.

Visit the First Sundays website

Monster Mondays!

Fangoria presents

DEAD MEAT

(dir. Conor McMahon, 80 mins, 2004)

Mon Jun 6 7pm - buy tickets

This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday at 7pm the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, and z-movies.

The First Irish Zombie Movie!

Mad Cow disease - makes Zombie Humans!

It's not what you eat, it's who you eat!

An infection spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, which causes the dead to rise and feed on the living.

Slamdance presents

STRANGER

Bernie Worrell on Earth

Tues Jun 7 7pm - buy tickets

Followed by beer and pizza reception.

The Slamdance Film Festival presents a highlight from their 2005 festival.

Music as we know it would not exist without Bernie Worrell. While he lives in virtual anonymity he has been compared to Beethoven, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. If they lived today would they be in danger of fading from the book of musical history? Worrell is.

www.strangermovie.com

THE WORLD’S BEST PROM

A Documentary by OVO

Weds Jun 8 7pm - sold out!
Thurs Jun 9 7pm - sold out!

added show!
Sun June 12, 3:30pm - buy tickets


“The Epicenter of Prom Genius."
-Ira Glass, “This American Life”

Each year, prom mania grips the city of Racine, Wisconsin. The wild celebration begins with a rowdy parade where students ride fire engines, 18-wheelers, even on elephant-back through city streets. Prom-goers converge on one city-wide prom to make red carpet entrances to the flash of cameras, live television coverage and approving screams from bleachers filled to capacity. If the Academy Awards were moved to the heartland, this is what it would resemble. As featured on “This American Life” and “The Jenny Jones Show,” “The World¹s Best Prom” brings to life an American rite of passage taken to the extreme. With five decades of archival footage, and interviews with Prom-goers of all ages, the film glories in the excess of an otherwise simple Midwestern city's quirky, Dionysian side. For anyone who has ever wished they could relive prom night, this celebratory film does just that.

PATERNAL INSTINCT

(dir. Murray Nossel, 75 mins, 2004)

Weds Jun 8 9pm - buy tickets
fathers Mark and Erik in person!

Thurs Jun 9 9pm - buy tickets
special guest will attend!

Fri Jun 10 9pm - buy tickets
mother Wen in person!

Sat Jun 11 7pm - buy tickets
mother Wen in person!

Sun Jun 12 9pm - buy tickets
special guest will attend!

Mon Jun 13 9pm - buy tickets
special guest will attend!

Tues Jun 14 9pm - buy tickets
special guest will attend!

PATERNAL INSTINCT is the true story of a gay couple, a good witch, and their baby. Mark and Erik are a New York couple who have achieved most of their goals – now they want to share their lives with a child. For various reasons, they opt to use a surrogate, and find Wen, a married computer programmer who wants to help others have their own family. The handsome couple immediately bonds with the wonderful Wen, who, it turns out, is a practicing witch. Thus begins Murray Nossel’s chronicle of this unlikely threesome’s three-year odyssey of love, loss, doubts, and hope.

PYGMALION

(dir. Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard, 89 mins, 1938)

Fri Jun 10 7pm - buy tickets
Weds Jun 29 7pm - buy tickets

The definitive film version of
the play by George Bernard Shaw

The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.

FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE TRIPLE BILL
Presented by Exhumed Films

Saturday June 11 9pm
$15 in advance for all three buy tickets

or $9 each at the door

9pm
 GATES OF HELL
The suicide of a clergyman makes an old curse come true. The gate to hell opens and the dead goes up from her tombs as zombies.
(dir. Lucio Fulci, 90 mins, 1980)

10:45pm
 VAULT OF HORROR
Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of thier demise. Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, east indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
(dir. Roy Ward Baker, 86 mins, 1973)

12:25pm
BLOOD AND ROSES
Young Carmilla is jealous of her friend's engagement, and her obsession leads her to the tomb of a female vampire
(dir. Roger Vadim, 87 mins, 1960)

Bizarro Mondays program

FearsMag presents

One Dark and Stormy Night

Mon Jun 13 7pm - buy tickets

This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday at 7pm the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, and z-movies.

 

An evening of frightful short films, presented by the people at FearsMAG.com

IFP
BUZZCUTS

Tues Jun 14 7pm - buy tickets

Followed by beer and pizza reception.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 IFP Buzz Cuts sponsored by SKYY Vodka

This month, our "Tales of the City" program presents glimpses into the lives of people in the Big Apple:

SNAP*POP
(2005, 4 minutes) Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson
A kid wanders across the Brooklyn Bridge, snapping a bottle top, and the world falls into step with the rhythm.

City Minutes
(2005, 4 minutes) Directed by Joan Stein
A forlorn beauty is stood up, but love finds her again when a lost traveler steals her heart.

Kalipolis
(2004, 16 minutes) Directed by Minos Papas
A young woman arrives in New York City for the first time. In her new apartment she discovers an audio tape left behind by the previous tenant. She listens to the tape and is transported on a journey through the city, seeing it through the eyes of a poet preparing to leave forever.

nine one one
(2004, 8 minutes) Directed by George Su
A volunteer comes home to another dose of reality.

Ed’s Trip
(2005, 6 minutes) Directed by Timothy Greenberg
Two men - an elderly white and a younger African American - make a brief connection at a bus stop.

Dance Mania Fantastic
(2004, 12 minutes) Directed by Sasie Sealy
Takeshi – a young Japanese New Yorker – finds himself out of work and unable to tell his family or fiancé he’s been sacked. Now he spends his days at the local arcade on the Dance Mania Fantastic machine, living in fantasy until reality catches up with him…

Coney Island, 1945
(2005, 4 minutes) Directed by Jeremiah Zagar
Documentary becomes dream as artist Isaiah Zagar sits in a diner, reminiscing on his childhood as he draws a picture of a bird. His looping pen strokes come to life, carrying us back into his childhood memory being with his mother at the beach in Coney Island.

Belle
(2004, 16 minutes) Directed by Ruth Sergel
A subversive fable of old age & beauty that explores the intersection of age, race, and our expectations of others.

JOINT SECURITY AREA

(dir. Park Chan-Wook, 110 mins, 2000)

Wed Jun 15 9pm - buy tickets
Thur Jun 16 9pm - buy tickets
Fri Jun 17 9pm - buy tickets
Sat Jun 18 9pm - buy tickets
Sun Jun 19 9pm - buy tickets
Mon Jun 20 9pm - buy tickets
Tues Jun 21 9pm - buy tickets

 “A highly atmospheric mystery-drama.”
– Variety

“Park Chan-wook… there isn’t a more ideal candidate to be Jean-Pierre Melville’s heir, or a better genre director working today.”
– Time Out New York

JOINT SECURITY AREA (J.S.A.), which broke all box-office records in Korea upon its release, reveals the depth of talent from Park Chan-Wook, director of the current U.S. smash OLD BOY (which won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival). These films firmly establish Park Chan-Wook as one of the most exciting and boldest filmmakers working today.

Set at the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, the mystery thriller follows a fatal shootout that leaves two North Korean soldiers dead and threatens to shatter the uneasy truce between the two sides. Park deftly explores the fragile friendship between guards on opposing side of the divide, while sustaining a taut level of suspense and tension that drives the film toward its tragic denouement.

FEVA Candidates Forum

Thurs Jun 16 6pm - free

 A political forum presented by the Federation of East Village Artists.

MARRY ME:

Stories from the San Francisco Weddings

(dir. Eli Brown, 59 mins, 2004)

Fri Jun 17 7pm - buy tickets
In February of 2004, San Francisco began issuing marriage certificates to same sex couples. Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples lined up for the chance to finally commit in a public venue, in front of friends, family, and the state. Marry Me: Stories from the San Francisco Weddings reveals the emotional tale behind four of the couples who were married, as told in their own words. Joel & Fred met on a whim square dancing and forged a life together. Julia & Jennifer share their lives as ambitious co-chefs at a civic center eatery. Mark & Mark’s relationship was highly influenced by their traditional backgrounds, and they hope to pass along these values to their two children. Annie & Rochelle, self-described soulmates, didn’t even intend to have a ceremony when they arrived in San Francisco to get their marriage license. Yet they were so moved by their surroundings they felt compelled to do more than just “be counted.” Marry Me focuses on these relationships -- the emotions of the marriage day and the love stories of these couples, intermingled with interviews with a florist, several officiants, and many other couples who helped to create this snapshot of a historic moment.

FOLLOWING

(dir. Christopher Nolan, 69 mins, 1998)

Fri Jun 17 11pm - buy tickets
Sat Jun 18 11pm - buy tickets

the first film from the director of

BATMAN BEGINS and MEMENTO

An older man listens to Bill's story about being a callow writer who likes to follow strangers around around London, observing them. One day, a glib and self-confident man whom Bill has been following confronts him. He's Cobb, a burglar who takes Bill under his wing and shows him how to break and enter. They burgle a woman's flat; Bill gets intrigued with her (photographs are everywhere in her flat). He follows her and chats her up at a bar owned by her ex-boyfriend, a nasty piece of work who killed someone in her living room with a hammer. Soon Bill is volunteering to do her a favor, which involves a break-in. What does the older man know that Bill doesn't?

New York City Women in Media Coalition Presents

Coming Up Short:
Short Films by Women Filmmakers

Sun Jun 19 7pm - buy tickets

Voices of Women (22 mins)
Directed by Cristina Massafra
"Voices of Women" explores testimonies of activists and of women who have been subjected to Female Genital Mutilation from different parts of the world. With love and passion for their communities they guide us to new movements, which are fighting to abandon this practice. Their voices and strong emotions give us a glimpse of their universe with all its complications.

 Woman is of the House and Man is of the Street (15 mins)
Directed by Martha Garzon
Inequality in Latin America is still legitimized and enforced by law, religion and tradition. An excess of male power and privilege and the corresponding low status and inferiority placement of women characterize the machista Latin American society. The experimental documentary “Woman is of the House and Man is of the Street” explores public and private
spheres in Latin America through interviews to men and women from Colombia, Cuba, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. Filmed in Colombia and the US, the video blends Latino popular culture and functioned as a mirror of Latin America's sexually segregated society. The fact that every day more women study and work outside the household, doesn’t mean that equality exists between the sexes. It doesn’t mean that machismo has disappeared. Machismo is still very ingrained in Latin American culture. Sometimes it is accepted in an open and natural way, but most of the time it is imperceptible and habitual.

 Baking Bread (26 mins)
Directed by Rose Spinelli
When families emigrate, culinary traditions get lost. Chicago writer Rose Spinelli's documentary, prompted by her inability to make the traditional bread of her family, sends her on a trip to Sicily, the land of her ancestors, and allows her to make peace with the past.

Human Shield (22 mins)
Directed by Debra Hussong
In February 2003, about 300 Human Shields from 30 countries including the US, mobilized in Iraq for what would become a futile mission to prevent an invasion. 63-year old Faith Fippinger was a human shield in Iraq from February 20 - April 26, 2003. She speaks candidly about her experience as a human shield in Iraq during those two months. Sara Joffe, shares 23-year old Benjamin Joffe-Walt's experience from a mother's point-of-view.

RICHARD KERN

Mon Jun 20 7pm - buy tickets

This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday at 7pm the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, and z-movies.

You know him from New York Girls, his book of photos.

Oh, come now, don’t pretend you’ve never looked through that book. In this special program we present, on video, an ambitious program of Kern’s films, videos, and music videos, including Manhattan Love Suicides and Death Valley 69 (made with Sonic Youth).

KEEPER OF THE KOHN

Tues Jun 21 7pm - sold out!
Thur Jun 23 7pm - buy tickets
Fri Jun 24 7pm - buy tickets

visit the movie's website

“Like the best documentaries, if it were fiction, you would scoff at it. But KEEPER OF THE KOHN is an affecting film, understated yet inspiring, about a guy worth spending time getting to know.”
 - Hap Erstein, PALM BEACH POST

“Most movies make it easy for you. . .but every now and again, a film comes along that challenges convention and defies such obvious classification. Enter KEEPER OF THE KOHN. See KEEPER and you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll consider the meaning of life and you’ll examine your relationships. Lacrosse may be its vehicle, but Keeper’s subject matter is far more grandiose in scope. Keeper is about life and relationships.”
- Nathaniel Badder, INSIDE LaCROSSE

Many challenges are ahead for Peter Kohn, a beloved collegiate lacrosse field manager who is believed to be autistic. As the team seeks a national championship, Peter must choose between his allegiance to the student athletes and his devotion to a cancer-stricken friend, all while reacting emotionally to his upcoming retirement. Can anyone, let alone Peter, negotiate such dramatic changes?

WAGING A LIVING

(dir. Roger Weisberg, Frances Reid, Pamela Harris, and Eddie Rosenstein; 84 mins, 2004)

Wed Jun 22 9pm - buy tickets
Thur Jun 23 9pm - buy tickets
Fri Jun 24 9pm - buy tickets
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Sun Jun 26 9pm - buy tickets
Mon Jun 27 9pm - buy tickets
Tues Jun 28 9pm - buy tickets

Sat July 2 5pm - buy tix
Sun July 3 5pm - buy tix

Working overtime in pursuit of the elusive American Dream

"It's become a cliche: the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. But that cliche is also one of the most galling truths of our times, a fact driven home as four workers in the Northeast and California battle to survive from paycheck to paycheck."
- OC Weekly

The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million Americans - one in four workers - are stuck in low wage jobs that do not provide the basics for a decent life. WAGING A LIVING chronicles the battle of four low-wage workers to lift their families out of poverty. Shot over a three-year period in the northeast and California, this observational documentary captures the dreams, frustrations, and accomplishments of a diverse group of workers who struggle to live from paycheck to paycheck. By presenting an unvarnished look at the barriers that these workers must overcome to escape poverty, WAGING A LIVING offers a sobering view of the elusive American Dream.

Followed by "Rosevelt's America," a short film.

ON THE WATERFRONT

(dir. Elia Kazan, 108 mins, 1954)

Sat Jun 25 7pm - buy tickets
Sun Jun 26 7pm - buy tickets

"Marlon Brando's career performance. . .a heart-clutcher from beginning to end. The greatest and most influential actor of post-war Hollywood, Brando would here redefine movie stardom."
- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

"Indisputably one of the great American films, its power undiminished."
- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. (synopsis from imdb).

THREE
STOOGEAPALOOZA

Mon Jun 27 7pm - buy tickets

This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday at 7pm the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, and z-movies.

Join Larry, Curly, and Moe on a gut-busting night of laughs and boinks, with this quintuple bill of stoogearific classics.

A-PLUMBING WE WILL GO (18 mins, 1940)
To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place.

HOI POLLOI (19 mins, 1935)
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates.

THREE LITTLE BEERS (17 mins, 1935)
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly annoy the other golfers and destroy the course.

I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN (18 mins, 1941)
In this follow up to "You Nazty Spy," the stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe.

AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (18 mins, 1941)
The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home.

Special thanks to Stoogeologist Michael Schlesinger from Sony / Columbia Rep for helping select these titles. (synopses adapted from imdb.com)

CINEWOMEN NY presents

“IN SEARCH: Of…”

Tues Jun 28 7pm - buy tickets

Cinewomen NY website

Followed by beer and pizza reception.

EVERYDAY, Peilin Kuo
A young Chinese female office worker uses her imagination to build herself a new but not real relationship through some photographs that she secretly takes of one man in the subway stations.

THE RING, Jeanne Omlor
George (Georgina) an uptight, young businesswoman is sent to Paris to find her grandfather, Pierre's wedding ring. What she went in search of transforms into something else.

NO VERBAL RESPONSE, Helena Smith
Is Martin brain dead? The surgeons want to take him to theatre for organ donation. How can Dr. Megan Pillay be sure and what will she do?

LOWER EAST SIDE STORIES, Liselle Mei
A series of four sequential portraits of women living in the Lower East Side of New York City. The characters’ individual struggles for validation and self fulfillment are presented against the unique social and cultural back drop of this immigrant neighborhood.

THIS REVOLUTION

(dir. Stephen Marshall, 90 mins, 2004)

Wed Jun 29 9pm - buy tickets
Thur Jun 30 9pm - buy tickets
Fri July 1 9pm - buy tickets
Sat July 2 9pm - buy tickets
Sun July 3 9pm - buy tickets
Mon July 4 9pm - buy tickets
Tues July 5 9pm - buy tickets

starring Rosario Dawson and Nathan Crooker

Sundance 2005

NYC premiere!

the movie that got Rosario Dawson arrested

"It’s the kind of engaged, political filmmaking that is rarely seen today. . .welcome and powerful."
 - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“THIS REVOLUTION just might be the sleeper hit with the most robust in-your-face message at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.”
- AGENCE FRANCE PRESS

Shot during the 2004 Republican convention, THIS REVOLUTION is a low-budget high-impact thriller for the political set. The story follows Jake (Nathan Crooker), a network war shooter just back from Iraq who is assigned to cover the run-up to the RNC. When he meets and falls in love with Tina Santiago (Rosario Dawson), a young mother widowed after her husband was killed in Iraq, Jake is forced to question his world view. But it is not until he discovers his network has given his videotape of an anarchist Black Bloc group to Homeland Security that Jake decides to take action.

Girls on Film:
A Night of Shorts by Jewish Women

presented in association with
the 14th Street Y

Thur Jun 30 7pm - buy tickets

followed by beer & pizza reception

a night of short films presented in association with the 14th Street Y

BACKSEAT BINGO
BACKSEAT BINGO (6 min) is a funny and poignant animated documentary about senior citizens and romance. These seniors talk frankly about dating, companionship and sexual desire. Some of the qualities they are looking for: "sexy senior seeks same," "good looking," "no Republicans please," and "someone who can dance."

THE GREAT YIDDISH LOVE (15 min)
With segments from the diva's films, dubbed over with Yiddish dialogue and music from Molly Picon's films, Director Diane Nerwen brilliantly crafts a fictitious love affair between Marlene Dietrich, the tempestuous 1920s idol of German cinema, and Zarah Leander, the sensational actress who filled her shoes after Dietrich defiantly abandoned Germany.

GRRLY SHOW (18 min)
This inventive documentary looks at the proliferation of alternative magazines published by women and explores the movement's relationship to contemporary feminist (including Jewish Feminist) culture. In keeping with the "girl zine" technique of reclaiming traditionally male print culture and giving it a feminist twist, local filmmaker Kara Herold hilariously appropriates the campy style of 1950s educational films to deliver a message: go out and do it yourself!

CHICKS IN WHITE SATIN (20 min)
When Heidi Stern and Deborah Ellis got married there was a rabbi, a broken glass and a kiss under the wedding canopy. Packing a feature-length's worth of drama and comedy into a sparkling 20-minutes, this warm and infectious Oscar-nominated film documents the formal Jewish wedding of two Californian women, and the reverberations among each of their families.

A GOOD UPLIFT (13 min)
A GOOD UPLIFT is a light-hearted documentary about a Lower East Side lingerie shop, where owner and Jewish grandmother Magda, will size you up, hook you in, and set you free in the perfect bra. With the wink of an eye and quick tug of a strap, Magda supports her customers' self-esteem and bustlines, embracing and enhancing women of all shapes and sizes.
   

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