Hey you ! Have a hankering for the terminal time ? Will you be in New York City this weekend ? Did you likeLifeforce ? need to watch me interviewLarry Cohen , the director of furore classic likeThe StuffandQ : The Winged Serpent ? Fuck yeah , you do !
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This weekend , the third annualDoomsday Film Festival And Symposium — which explores “ our corporate fascination with the Revelation in film , artistry and cultivation ” — hits Manhattan .
2011 ’s selection boasts such unexplored jewel as the underrated “ supercomputer snuff it bonkers ” film Colossus : The Forbin Project andGod Told Me To , Larry Cohen ’s trippy 1970s Biblical homicide film . I ’ll be interviewing Cohen next Sunday on Skype ! add up and see ! unblushing self - furtherance !
The DDFF was bear when cobalt - curators Andrew Miller and Kristana Textor take in she had never seen The Road Warrior , and they needed to rectify that state of affairs with an full plastic film festival . Miller prognosticate io9 academic talks with eschatological experts , as well as a totally weird - ass party ! There will be a bomb calorimeter tax shelter sofa , zombie make - up for the showing of Lifeforce , and a DJ mixing PSAs and airwave - foray sirens !
The 2011 Doomsday Film Festival will be held October 21 - 23 at92Y Tribeca(200 Hudson Street ) in Manhattan . Here ’s the full film schedule :
Fri , Oct 21 , 8 pm , $ 12
MIRACLE MILE
Taylor
Co - presented by Not come to a Theater Near You
“ I think it ’s the insect ’ turn . ”
Doomed romantic Anthony Edwards last stumbles into a sports meeting - cute with a dreaming young lady , but on the evening of their 2d date , he nibble up a isolated ringing earnings phone at 4 am and gets some inauspicious tidings - WWIII has been launched , giving him 70 minutes before nukes come down upon L.A.
Originally intended to be the plot of Twilight Zone : The Movie , the moving-picture show was a labor of love for writer / theatre director Steve De Jarnatt , take nearly a decennium to produce independently . Miracle Mile stands as the classic prison term - space capsule of Reagan - geological era revelatory apprehensiveness , richly populated by the nocturnal riffraff of L.A. , with its gallery of lonely waitresses , homeless lunatics and neonspandexed muscle-builder scrambling desperately to escape the impending black rain .
Director : Steve De Jarnatt . 87 min . 1988 . 35 mm
Fri , Oct 21 , 10:30pm , $ 12
LAST NIGHT
peculiar guest curator Edgar Wright ( in person , schedule permitting )
Oh , Y2K. Quaint as it may seem now , pre - millennial panic loomed like a spectre for years - with the doomsday clock ticking down to both the Rapture and technological breakdown , not to mention the greatest Prince party ever . Don McKellar ’s Last Night may have bounce from Y2 K insanity , but remains timeless , a sweet nonchalant apocalypse in miniature .
Leave it to the Canadians to best capture the aw - shucks benign resignation of late ‘ 90s angst - with six minute left until some unidentified cataclysm , the radio counts down the honorable songs of all clip , a gas - utility White House ( David Cronenberg ) makes thank - you calls , and a home courteously goes through the move of their last meal . Instead of huddle or rise up up against their Day of Judgment , McKellar ’s affecting myriad of wretched citizen just sort of carry on . And as Amy Taubin says , Last Night ’s doozy of a last competition “ Giulietta Massina smiling into the camera in Nights of Cabiria , or the seaboard sunset in Eric Rohmer ’s The Green Ray . ”
Director : Don McKellar . 98 min . 1999 . 35 mm
Sat , Oct 22 , 6 atomic number 61 , $ 12
COLOSSUS : THE FORBIN PROJECT
carbon monoxide gas - presented by Motherboard
In the granddaddy of “ engineering campaign murderously ” moving picture ( released in 1970 ) , the eponymous NORAD - sized supercomputer is design as atomic failsafe , but before you may say HAL ( or Skynet , or the Matrix ) , the figurer becomes ego - cognizant and turn against its human masters .
Bizarrely forgotten , Colossus was actually produced before 2001 but delayed because its studio was so upset by the film ’s grim flippant tone . Nowhere as tomb and bloodless as your standard Luddite paranoid fantasy , Colossus is actually penny-pinching in spirit to Strangelove , with its wry literate script , crisp tempo , mordant take on human folly and increasingly odd twists - notably when Colossus puts its scientist - creator ’s every move ( including sexy time ) under surveillance .
music director : Joseph Sargent . 100 min . 1970 . 35 mm
Sat , Oct 22 , 9:30pm , $ 12
LIFEFORCE
acquaint by Mike Sampson of JoBlo
Co - present by JoBlo
Pre - Screening Complimentary Sexy Alien Zombie Makeup
In this bugnuts sci - fi exploitation masterwork of “ Holy F**ing Sh*t ” proportions , a cadre of astronauts discovers a ship tucked inside Halley ’s Comet containing three smoking raging naked vampire humanoids - but when the creatures are brought back to London for research , they proceed to turn the Brits into a raft of soul - fellate zombies .
Essentially an revelatory film festival unto itself , Lifeforce conjures no less than every conceivable Last Day scenario , with an emphasis on perverse intimate imaging so often ignored by the apocalyptical canon . Unfairly deride at the time as tongue-tied junk , this is far from call up - in hackwork , with conductor Tobe Hooper ( Texas Chainsaw Massacre ) and writer Dan O’Bannon ( Alien ) at their most demented , dial up their pet obsessions to 11 . Your new favorite cult classic , this is a film made for drinking game , and not to be miss on the big covert .
music director : Tobe Hooper . 116 Amoy . 1985 . 35 millimetre
Sun , Oct 23 , 2 premier , $ 12
DR . STRANGELOVE
Co - presented by BOMB Magazine
Formidable founding , AFI - list keystone , and the Kubrick least likely to cause protest , this Cold War “ nightmare funniness ” is so canonical it ’s easy to forget that it ’s also radical , devastatingly suspicious and eerily prescient .
Fearful the Russkies are fluoridating America ’s drinking water supply to pollute “ our precious bodily fluids , ” General Jack D. Ripper fires up the “ Doomsday Machine , ” sending the world ’s power players throw together . Released when the End was rottenly near to nigh , Strangelove was intended to be seriously serious , but as Kubrick start to contemplate “ mutually assured destruction ” ( aka MAD ) , he could n’t facilitate but zero in on the lunacy . “ One of the great teenage pranks perpetrated in motion picture . ” – J. Hoberman
manager : Stanley Kubrick . 91 min . 1964 . 35 mm
Sun , Oct 23 , 4:30pm , $ 12
DOOMSDAY SHORTS
An international array of blade - unexampled Book of Revelation films let in : crazed vaticinator street art , psychedelic brio star a individual lemon , docs cross the daily lives of Harold Camping ’s devoted followers , Slamdance award winners , experimental collage art featuring haunted meteorologist , and steampunk ninjas courtesy of the FX wizard behind Star Wars and Starship Troopers .
Featuring :
• GET WITH THE programme – Jennifer Deutrom . Austin , TX . 2010 . 4 minute
• HEARTPOCALYPSE – Matthew Silver . Brooklyn , NY . 2010 . 7 Fukkianese .
• HOW TO PREPARE FOR SURVIVAL – Lisa Kletjian . Brooklyn , NY . 2011.18min
• JUPITER ELICUS – Kelly Sears . Houston , TX . 2010 . 4 min
• MATTHEW 24:14 – Eyespeak . NY , NY . 2011 . 5min
• MUTANTLAND – Phil Tippett . Los Angeles , CA . 2011 . 5min
• SEED – Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird . Brooklyn , NY . 2011.10 min
“ In 1970 , sociologist and fantast Alvin Toffler , the Ray Kurzweil of his day , wrote a book entitled Future Shock , which purpose a sure distressing psychological state induced by alteration so rapid the human mind ca n’t digest it , and introduce the notion of “ information overburden ” for the first time . In 1972 , the book , already a bestseller , was adapted into a little - sleep with documentary of the same name , narrated by Orson Welles . Exploring the shift from industrial society to what Toffler calls “ ace - industrial society , ” the motion picture tackles whim of consumerism and info overload — think BBC ’s The Century of the Self meets Nicholas Carr ’s The Shallows . ” – Cory Doctorow , Boing Boing
Director : Alex Grasshoff . 43 min . 1972 . 16 millimeter
Sun , Oct 23 , 7 premier , $ 12
GOD say ME TO
conscientious objector - presented by Alt Screen
As ecstatically nutjob as a Harold Camping prognostication , Larry Cohen ’s sinful B flick casts Tony Lo Bianco as a devout Catholic cop investigating an outbreak of murderous religious mania , where God is being blame for coercing the good masses of NYC to send their bed ones to heaven the hard way of life .
Perhaps the most radical of Cohen ’s populist musical style kit and caboodle , God evidence Me To is the paranoid skuzzy business district flipside to Rosemary ’s Baby ’s uptown neurosis . Tautly paced , with an uneasy portmanteau of fever dream death , sly social comment , sacrilegious black drollery , edgy vérité lensing , and Catholic guilt played straight , God tell Me To features setting after scene of rich pulpy duologue delivered by a cast of old pro character doer . unloosen during a time when both the fad craze and the Christian Right had just made their rising , the moving-picture show ’s heretical derangement of the Gospel leaves absolutely no spiritual anxiety unprodded .
Director : Larry Cohen . 87 min . 1976 . 16 mm
Nathan Kensinger — who ’s shoot such bleak goal as theSouth Edgemere Wastelandandthe Richmond Parkway Interchange — will also have his photos on display .
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you could receive more info atthe Doomsday Film Festival ’s websiteand ticket entropy at92Y Tribeca .
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