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Sunday, Feb 7 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA I Think We're Alone Now
Yes, this is the documentary we showed previously, and one of the stalkers featured in the film was in attendance for a Q&A. As far as we know, that will not be happening this time, so if that kept you away, here's a good chance to catch this! Every celebrity deals with his or her share of obsessed fans. 'I Think We're Alone Now' is a documentary that focuses on two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, who claim to be in love with the 80's pop singer Tiffany. Jeff Turner, a 50-year-old man from Santa Cruz, California has attended Tiffany concerts since 1988. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, he never had a girlfriend. Jeff spends his days hanging out on the streets of Santa Cruz, striking up conversations with anyone who has a moment to spare. Kelly McCormick is a 35-year-old intersex person from Denver, Colorado, who claims to have been friends with Tiffany as a teenager. She credits Tiffany as the shining star who has motivated her to do everything in her life. Both Jeff and Kelly have been labeled stalkers by the media and other Tiffany fans. This film takes you inside the lonely lives these two characters, revealing the source of their clinging obsessions. This age-old story of unrequited love takes a comedic and emotional trip through themes of desperation, isolation, and hope, in the end showing that having something, or someone, to believe in can be more powerful than anything reality has to offer. "...more disturbing than "Blindness," "The Happening," and "Doomsday" put together. Never before have you gotten this close to stalkers -- and you'll never want to get this close again." - AMC, who also ranked it #5 in their list of Top 10 Horror Movies of 2008! Yeah, and it's not a horror movie - but it's that disturbing! "I Think We're Alone Now" provides a fascinating window into a nebulous zone where fan fever uncomfortably hovers between harmless obsession and dangerous lunacy... anyone with even the slightest interest in challenging documentaries or the cult of celebrity should seek it out. - TwitchFilm Sunday, Feb 14 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Our second Valentine's Day show - this one on Valentine's Day! Show up for this 1920's silent classic, and maybe make your date a little bit nervous about your concept of "romance". The Phantom of the Opera
We're not too sure a synopsis of this is really necessary, but here's one anyway: Erik (Lon Chaney) is a much-feared fiend who haunts the Paris Opera House. Lurking around the damp, dank passages deep in the cellars of the theater, he secretly coaches understudy Christine Daae (Mary Philbin) to be an opera star. Through a startling sequence of terrors, including sending a giant chandelier crashing down on the opera patrons, the Phantom forces the lead soprano to withdraw from the opera, permitting Christine to step in. Luring Christine into his subterranean lair below the opera house, the Phantom confesses his love. But Christine is in love with Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry). The Phantom demands that Christine break off her relationship with Raoul before he'll allow her to return to the opera house stage. She agrees, but immediately upon her release from the Phantom's lair, she runs into the arms of Raoul and they plan to flee to England after her performance that night. The Phantom overhears their conversation and, during her performance, the Phantom kidnaps Christine, taking her to the depths of his dungeon. It is left to Raoul and Simon Buquet (Gibson Gowland), a secret service agent, to track down the Phantom and rescue Christine.
Sunday, Feb 21 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Independents: A Guide for the Creative Spirit
Filmmaker Chris Brandt is currently scheduled to be in appearance. Additionally, we've got some local independent comic book artists coming out with some of their work. See the end of this listing for the full line-up of who's currently scheduled!
Why does one choose to become an "artist?" What makes an artist "independent?" Where do they get their ideas? Twenty-four respected creators unveil the secrets of the artistic mind, by talking about their favorite medium, the lowest of the low-brow arts: comic books. From cave paintings dating back 35,000 years to the graphic novels of today, sequential images have been used to tell magically influential stories. In examining an art form that has, until recently, not been accepted as "art", and discovering what it is these passionate creators find appealing about comic books, a bright light is shed on ALL independent creators, whether they work in graphic novels, film, music, or basket weaving. And look at this list of who's featured in the film: Jessica Abel (ArtBabe; Life Sucks); Trevor Alixopulos (Quagga); Scott Allie (Sr Managing Editor, Dark Horse Comics); Kevin Eastman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Heavy Metal); Gary Groth (co-founder, Fantagraphics; Editor-in-Chief, Comics Journal); Eric Jones (Super Scary Monster Stories); Keith Knight (K Chronicles; (Th)ink); Erik Larsen (co-founder, Image Comics; Savage Dragon); Batton Lash (Supernatural Law); Scott McCloud (Zot!; Understanding Comics); Carla Speed McNeil (Finder); Linda Medley (Castle Waiting); Tony Millionaire (Maakies); Scott Mills (Space Devil); Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise; Echo); Wendy Pini (ElfQuest); Eric Powell (The Goon); Johnny Ryan (Angry Youth Comics); James Sime (Isotope Comics in San Francisco); Craig Thompson (Blankets); Dan Vado (Slave Labor Graphics); Landry Walker (Super Scary Monster Stories; Batman: Brave and the Bold); Brett Warnock (Top Shelf Productions); Mike Wellman (Z-Blade; Gone South; Mac Afro); Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man); Robert Williams (Zap!; Juxtapoz); and Jim Woodring (Jim; Frank). Whew! We also are planning on showing the short music video, "Hell Dream," featuring the art of local artist Skinner, whose work has been shown around the US! Check out Skinner's art at http://www.theartofskinner.com Here's who's currently scheduled to be there, in addition to filmmaker Chris Brandt: Skinner: Take fantasies of pop culture, cartoon & comic book land, twist them into a subconscious horror-surrealism of lurking wizards, evil unicorns, horror films, Dungeons & Dragons and other wild and hallucinatory visions and you get the art of Skinner. Ben Schwartz - Founder of ECV press, a Sacramento based comic book company who produces the comic books "The Continuum," "The Hunters," "Relic & Ego," "Triad," and "Little Kori in Komaland." http://www.ecvpress.com Paul Allen - Artist & Co-Writer of the horror/comedy comic book "BrAiNs". He's also available for commissions of disturbing images. http://www.myspace.com/brainscomic Anthony Leano - Co-writer of "BrAiNs" and founder of the From The Land Beyond, Horror & Sci Fi Show and Indy Euphoria- Indy Comix, DIY & Vinyl Toy Convention. http://www.sacramentocomics.com/indy Stephen R. Buell - Buell is currently working on the sci-fi thriller comic titled "Alien Echo," a punk rock homage to "They Live" comic titled "American Juice" and a comic about a virus that effects super-humans titled "Elephant Cage." He previously illustrated the graphic novel, "Fragile Prophet," which was named Best Independent Comic of 2006 by Ain't It Cool News. http://www.stephenrbuell.com Mike Hampton - Artist/writer of Hot Zombie Chicks, Captain A-Hole, and Zodiac Killers. Mike is known to draw caricatures of attendees as zombies for commission. http://www.916halo.com Sunday, Feb 28 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Population: 1
We've been working on showing this for over three years now, and it all finally came together! Rarely seen or screened!
A film by Rene Daalder, who previously made "Massacre at Central High" and was an original collaborator on a Sex Pistols film which later became "The Great Rock-n-Roll Swindle," when Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert were involved early on. Daalder's house in L.A. ended up becoming the Sex Pistols' US "headquarters" for a period of time. It's also been said he was key to the creation of the "My Way" scene in that film. About Population: 1 When there's only one person left, America becomes a one-man band. From the depths of a bunker comes one man’s musical send off to the world’s last empire. A twisted history lesson from punk favorite Tomata du Plenty (The Screamers) featuring members of Los Lobos, Vampira, Penelope Houston (The Avengers), the notorious El Duce, Fluxus artist Al Hansen and his Grammy-winning grandson Beck, among many others. 
Tomata becomes the sole survivor of a disaster that has wiped out America. Hidden in a bomb shelter below the devastation, Tomata’s character decides to piece together a revisionist history of the United States. Using whatever memorabilia he can get his hands on, he recounts his own warped memoirs as the last citizen of what once was the greatest country on Earth.
Filmed over a period of years, this was initially finished in 1985. We will be featuring a newly created director's cut of the film! 
Deliriously cramming 200 years of American mayhem into one punk rock musical, Daalder’s anarchic vision unfolds "as if Frank Zappa and Hieronymus Bosch took angel dust together and created a nightmare.” —Michael Dare, LA Weekly Sunday, Jan 3 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Light and the Sufferer
Realism and fantasy collide in best-selling author Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New York City for a new life in California only to find their plans--and lives--being forever changed by the appearance of a mysterious alien.
We follow Paul--fresh from dropping out of college and living unhappily at home with his parents--as he arrives in New York City's Washington Square Park in search of his wayward brother Don (aka "Light" - Paul Dano, "Little Miss Sunshine"), who was kicked out of their parents' home a year earlier with neither Paul or their parents hearing from him since. Realizing their lives are at a dead end and looking to forge a new future together, Paul suggests that the two hop a plane for California and "leave all the bullshit behind." After a robbery intended to raise money for their trip goes awry, the brothers find themselves being pursued not only by the drug dealers they ripped off, but by a sufferer: one of the sphinx-like alien creatures that roam the city, trailing after people in trouble. The brothers' interaction with this fantastical creature turns the story on its head with both hilarious and heart-wrenching results. What does the sufferer want and why is it following them? Has it come to help or hurt them? Is it a guardian angel or death angel? Sunday, Jan 10 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Hell on Wheels - with members of the Sacred City Derby Girls in attendance. Details tba.
"Hell on Wheels" tells the story of a group of Texas women who banded together in 2001 to resurrect roller derby for the 21st century. Emerging from the Austin music and arts scene, these women created a rock and roll fueled version of all-girl roller derby that spawned the derby craze that's sweeping the nation.
This doc chronicles the birth of the rollergirl revolution, filmed as it was happening, and follows the creation of the first modern-era rollergirl league Bad Girl, Good Woman Productions (BGGW, later renamed as Texas Roller Derby / Lonestar Rollergirls) and the breakaway league the Texas Rollergirls. Filmed from the trenches, it delivers the struggles and eventual success of the rollergirls as they construct a new sport and set forth to conquer the globe. 
"...the kind of twists, drama, cat fights and compound fractures that only happen in real life. ...the story is extremely compelling, sometimes laugh-out-loud outrageous and above all inspiring." - Ain't It Cool News
"...a story of triumph over adversity and seemingly insurmountable odds. It's one of those documentaries that doesn't really feel like its imposing an agenda or actively spewing various facts at you, but simply telling you a true-life story in an organic fashion... a good story well told.." - Real Movie News "Hell on Wheels is full of adrenaline-fueled highs, heartbreaking lows, and lots of chicks in short skirts kicking the shit out of each other." - The Onion A.V. Club "Bone-crunching collisions, behind-the-scenes drama and roller skates are all part of the outrageous documentary... a smashingly entertaining feature!" - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Sunday, Jan 17 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Slide Guitar Ride
"Slide Guitar Ride" is a rock and roll journey with Bob Log III, the surreal and infamous one-man band from Tucson, Arizona -- "The only band in the world you can sit on." Costumed in a human cannonball suit and a bubble-mask motorcycle helmet with a phone receiver glued to the visor as a microphone, Log plays manic, delta blues slide guitar -- while singing and stomping on a bass drum pedal. The film, directed by Bernd Schoch of Germany, is a loving portrait of this incredible one man band which follows this manic Delta Blues slide guitar player on tour - as he wows crowds in backyards, laundry-mats and big concert halls around the globe. Oh - and if you've ever wondered what a boob scotch is, your questions will be answered!
Sunday, Jan 24 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Trust Us, This is All Made Up Some foolishly believe that "improvising" is simply "making things up." To a degree, that's true. To be able to do that and have the New York Times describe you as, "…masters of long form improv" means you're going a little further than simply making a few off the cuff jokes. Second City alumni TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi ("Strangers With Candy," "Employee of the Month," "Groundhog Day") have become living legends in their field. Their performances of entirely improvised, character-driven, often hilarious and wholly original one-hour plays have mesmerized audiences worldwide. Exploring the folds of faith that underline their relationship and the transcendental forces that govern their improvisation, "Trust Us This is All Made Up" features an unforgettable live performance recorded at New York's Barrow Street Theater. Students and appreciators of improvisational performance will be astounded. Those less experienced with improvised theater will find this to be the perfect primer. Regardless, you'll be left in awe of what these two can do.
Sunday, Jan 31 7:30 PM Admission: $5.00 Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild 2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA Jandek on Corwood
Even by the standards of underground and avant-garde music, Jandek is a man who has pushed the notion of deliberate obscurity to the outer limits. Yet Jandek has recorded 62 albums since 1978, self-released on his label, Corwood Industries. Prior to 2004, he did not reveal himself, then suddenly started to do a series of live performances, billed simply as "a representative of Corwood." He sold records via ads in music magazines, yet even the ads were mysterious: a white box with black text stating simply "Jandek on Corwood" with the PO Box. His music borders on being indescribable, but terms like "spooky" and "haunting" and "out-of-tune" frequently show up in reviews. The film's press kit refers to it as "cacophonous rock and suicide-note blues." This film, from 2003, provides an enthralling look at this extremely outsider artist who only ever granted a couple of interviews via phone (one of which is presented in the film), unraveling some of the mystery around him, yet not once featuring Jandek on camera. Features a plethora of music journalists and critics including Douglas Wolk, along with Dr. Demento, and plenty of strange Jandek music and album covers.
About Jandek's music: "How to describe the music of Jandek? Like most amateur rock critics, start by comparing him to the Beatles. Then strip away melody, catchy hooks, rhythm, and harmony. Next toss out vocal and instrumental ability, along with any trace of human feeling other than dull, lingering pain. Aside from these deficiencies, he's exactly like the Fab Four." - Irwin Chusid, "Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music" About the film: "A huge success, proof that even this far into the game there are certain semi-desolate corners of the underground that remain impregnable to colonisation by the ever-encroaching monoculture and its accompanying pressures and payoffs." - Wire "[has] a surrealistic aesthetic that would make David Lynch proud." - Magnet "Shrewd, moody direction. A canny look at both sides of a musical experiment. Jandek plucks out his atonal efforts, and the record-store obsessives speculate about every subtlety. Theories abound about his love life, his mental stability, his reasons for reclusiveness. Is he friendless? Is he on the lam? Is he bipolar?" - New York Times "A smart cohesive film" - LA Weekly |
