Thank you everyone who braved the cold and came out last night for all the weirdness! It was a great turnout and a fun crowd.
Just a reminder next months event will be pushed back one week to March 26th and then we will be back to the regular 3rd Thursday of the month screenings for the rest of the year.
Also the few left over screen print posters will be up on Tim's etsy page here: Timmonsters.etsy.com
Check back here for hints about next month's screening!
This is it! The first Tape Freaks presents event is this very night. We'll be hanging out in the the theater's Starbar at 6:30 having some beers and popcorn discussing nerdy movie stuff. The first 25 people to the Starbar will get a secret button pack that pertains to the first movie of the night. (As you can see, we've literally shrouded them in mystery for the event! If you choose to open your pack before the first movie, we ask that you're discreet so you aren't the spoiler for anyone excited to be surprised.)
A limited edition screenprint (run of 25 for each movie) available for sale at the end of each screening. But you might be lucky enough to score one by answering some trivia questions before each screening!
$5 for 2 movies, VHS trailers pack, buttons, and possibly posters!
When
the average person thinks of Neil Young they probably don't think
writer/director. But in 1982 after releasing the album Trans (which
features synthesizers and vocoders, also not what comes to mind when
you think Neil Young) he co wrote, directed, and starred in the movie
Human Highway.
Human
Highway is a weird musical/comedy/psychedelic movie starring the
likes of Devo, Dennis Hopper, Russ Tamblyn, and Dean Stockwell (who
also co-wrote it). The plot follows waste disposal workers (Devo) who
are transporting barrels of toxic waste when a barrel falls off the
back of the truck. Meanwhile at a truck stop diner an awkward nerdy
mechanic (Young) manages to knock himself unconscious and the rest of
the movie is a strange dream trip featuring a tour bus with wooden
Indian statues, Devo playing in a country-western bar, and a total
nuclear meltdown. There is also a bizarre performance featuring Young
and Devo jamming with Boogie Boy playing a synthesizer in a crib.
The
movie is the definition of bizarre but absolutely a unique piece of
art filmmaking, and also hard to watch on many levels for the average
viewer. But for any diehard fans of Neil Young or Devo, I'd say its
worth tracking down and seeing it at least once. It's a thing you'll
never forget...
Two of the biggest mouths in music stared in a 90s sci-fi movie. That's right Mick Jagger and David Johanson stared along side Sir Anthony Hopkins in the epically 90s Freejack.
The plot unfolds something like this: Race car superstar Alex Furlong (Estevez) is involved in a fiery wreck during a televised race leaving no trace of his body. But lo, Vacendak, bounty hunter from the future (Jagger), has snatched Ferlong from the past moments before his crash. Billionaire tycoon, and recently deceased, McCandless (Hopkins) has hired Vacendak to secure Furlong and render him ready to download McCandless' mind. Lucky for Furlong his surgery prep convoy runs into an ambush and he escapes. Now Furlong must get his bearings in this wild future, figuring out who he can trust and who wants his body along the way, in the hopes of reclaiming his life...
Things to watch for: Jonathan Banks (Mike from Breaking Bad), bad 90s future technology, Emilio Estevez his peak, and a scene that will leave you wondering if you somehow flipped channels to Lawnmower Man, and did I mention badly estimated 90s future technology?
“That guy!” moments with: Amanda Plummer (Fisher King, Pulp Fiction) John Shea (Mutant X, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman), Grand L. Bush (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon 2), Frankie Faison (Silence of the Lambs, The Wire)
What we learned: Even if you are a dead millionaire from the future with the technology to obtain a new body, you still can't buy love. Bonus trivia: Dan Gilroy writer and director of the fantastic Nightcrawler (2014) got his first screenplay credit for working on Freejack.
Most people will recognize Paul
Williams instantly from his roles in the Muppet Movie, Smokey and the
Bandit, or even Phantom of the Paradise*. But he's so much more than
an eccentric man who popped up in movies during the 70s. This “that
guy” is also a song writing legend.
His songwriting career spanned from the
late 50's to the present. He's written songs for The Carpenters,
Three Dog Night, David Bowie, Barbra Streisand and on and on. He wrote songs for
artists that were deep cuts, like “Fill your Heart” off of David
Bowie's album Hunky Dory (my personal favorite), and other more
instantly recognizable songs like, Three Dog Night “An Old Fashioned Love Song”, The Carpenters ”We've Only Just Begun”
and “Rainy Days and Mondays”. And that doesn't even cover the songs he wrote for
movies and television, most notably “Rainbow Connection” for the
Muppet Movie and the theme to “Love Boat". Of late,
he's been popping up in places like the most recent Daft Punk album. His impact on popular
music is unmistakable, but sadly mostly unknown to the people who
appreciate it.
But thanks to filmmaker Stephen Kessler
you can learn so much more about Mr. Williams through the documentary
Paul Williams Still Alive. Amazon has it available here, and it's
well worth the scratch to learn more about this wild and talented
man.
*You may even recognize his voice as the Penguin in Batman the Animated series.
After our sudden cancelation of the
inaugural Tape Freaks screening in January, we had to make a choice
to make about February; do we play the epic pick we had ready for
January, or stick to the weirdness we had lined up for February? But
then we asked ourselves an even more important question: why not
both?
So on Thursday, Feb 19th you'll get two
doses of epic weirdness for the price of one! Come be amazed, be
confused, be thoroughly entertained, and then immediately do it all over
again! We'll have fun giveaways and you'll likely hear about why we
had to cancel January.
The movies remain a secret until the
title hits the screen, but we want you to have some idea of what to
expect, so we're going to throw out our first set of clues
right...NOW:
Movie one features not one, not two,
but three musicians turned actors.
Movie two features not one, not two,
but three killers largely influenced by lunar eclipses.
Thank you everyone who braved the cold and came out last night for all the weirdness! It was a great turnout and a fun crowd.
This is it! The first Tape Freaks presents event is this very night. We'll be hanging out in the the theater's Starbar at 6:30 having some beers and popcorn discussing nerdy movie stuff. The first 25 people to the Starbar will get a secret button pack that pertains to the first movie of the night. (As you can see, we've literally shrouded them in mystery for the event! If you choose to open your pack before the first movie, we ask that you're discreet so you aren't the spoiler for anyone excited to be surprised.)
When
the average person thinks of Neil Young they probably don't think
writer/director. But in 1982 after releasing the album Trans (which
features synthesizers and vocoders, also not what comes to mind when
you think Neil Young) he co wrote, directed, and starred in the movie
Human Highway.
Most people will recognize Paul
Williams instantly from his roles in the Muppet Movie, Smokey and the
Bandit, or even Phantom of the Paradise*. But he's so much more than
an eccentric man who popped up in movies during the 70s. This “that
guy” is also a song writing legend.
