BAM: Beer And Movie Fest


	Movies Click on titles, or scroll down, for descriptions and showtimes Adventures in Babysitting, 35mm Alien, restored 35mm A Night In Heaven, Digital Beer Wars, Digital Big Trouble in Little China, 35mm Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, Digital Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, 35mm, Presented by Movie Madness Burnt Offerings, 35mm Cracked Actor, Digital The Deadly Spawn, rare 35mm The Final Terror, 35mm House (Hausu), restored 35mm The Human Centipede, Digital In a Lonely Place, restored 35mm Invasion USA, 35mm Labyrinth, 35mm Manhunter, 35mm Raging Bull, 35mm Red Dust, 35mm Sonicsgate, Digital Split Second, 35mm Trick or Treat, Digital White Lightnin', Digital White Woman, 35mm The Wild Bunch, Digital, Presented by Movie Madness ____________________________________________________ Adventures in Babysitting, 35mm The Bagdad Theater, $3 admission Feb 20, 10pm Feb 21, 5pm Chris Columbus USA 1987 102 min. A cute, chick-flick take on Risky Business, starring big-hair blond Elisabeth Shue (she beat Valerie Bertinelli for the part). She rocks as a nice, bad-ass babysitter negotiating a hellnight in Chicago full of: expressway blow-outs, a hook-handed jealous husband, goodfella thieves, serious blues clubs, a pisser boyfriend, and death-drop plank-walks. more.... Alien, restored 35mm The Academy Theater, $4 admission Feb 15, 7pm Feb 16, 7pm Feb 17, 7pm Feb 18, 7pm Ridley Scott USA 1979 116 min. Before it became a joke, or a metaphor, or a cultural touchstone, Ridley Scott's quiet little '79 spaceship drama got inside you. more.... A Night In Heaven, Digital The Mission Theater, $5 admission Feb 25, 10pm John G. Avildsen USA 1983 83 min. From the director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, this movie is an inspirational and molten descent into the world of male stripperdom and the reality of many hungry things. more.... Beer Wars, Digital The Bagdad Theater, $3 admission Feb 21, 7:30pm Anat Baron USA 2009 89 min. To the seasoned beer geek, a documentary about macro versus micro brewed beer might be old hat. However, Anat Baron, writer, producer, and director of Beer Wars, takes viewers on an entertaining and education trip through the underbelly of the American beer industry. more.... *Big Trouble In Little China, 35mm The Academy Theater, $4 admission Feb 15, 5pm & 10pm Feb 16, 5pm & 10pm Feb 17, 5pm & 10pm Feb 18, 5pm & 10pm John Carpenter USA 1986 99 min. What the world needs now -- what it's always needed -- is trucker Kurt Russell fighting ancient kung-fu evil. What you need now is to see this movie again. more.... Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, Digital Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 22, 9pm Stefan Forbes USA 2008 86 min. A political cautionary tale and horror story about a man who specialized in political cautionary tales and horror stories: Lee Atwater, the Republican campaign director who mentored Karl Rove, jumpstarted the Bush regime with the Willie Horton ad, and turned the Presidential stump into a game of gutterball. This movie recognizes his scoundrel’s charm, and feeds off it. more.... Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, 35mm Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 21, 5:30pm Sponsored by Mike Clark's Movie Madness* Sam Peckinpah USA 1974 112 min. You can drench it in booze, pack it in ice, drive it as far across the border as you can, but there’s no escaping the stench, no stifling the reek of a life you know might have been something beautiful. more.... Burnt Offerings, 35mm The Bagdad Theater, $3 admission Feb 21, 9:45pm Dan Curtis USA 1976 116 min. The evil American twin to Japan's House (also showing at BAM), this '76 spooky house movie lets Bette Davis get way too close to the spooky house. Then she eats everybody. more.... Cracked Actor, Digital Cinema 21, $5 admission Feb 22, 7:45pm Alan Yentob UK 1975 53 min. David Bowie on coke. Lots of coke. He's also on the Diamond Dogs tour, and this contemporaneous documentary is the only film to get footage of that spectacle. more.... The Deadly Spawn, rare 35mm Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 19, 10:45pm Douglas McKeown USA 1983 81 min. More of that wiggy knockoff energy: The 1983 aliens-in-the-basement chiller learned a few things from Alien (also showing at BAM). Most important lesson: Never kill the people they think you're going to kill. more.... *The Final Terror, 35mm The Bagdad Theater, $3 admission Feb 19, 10:30pm Andrew Davis USA 1983 82 min. If you're ready for a sturdy trek of girls-gone-slash trying to be Deliverance, slay some beers with The Final Terror* starring Rachel Ward and Daryl Hannah. more.... House (Hausu), restored 35mm Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 19, 9pm Feb 20, 9pm Feb 21, 7:45pm Nobuhiko Obayashi Japan 1977 87 min. On the heels of international fests, with a load in tow of lost masterpiece-cred, this Japanese slapstick-supernatural "what-the-eff" rolls John Hughes (Ferris Bueller) with Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead). more.... The Human Centipede, Digital Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 20, 10:45pm Tom Six Netherlands/UK 2009 90 min. The ne plus ultra of torture terror: A mad German doctor kidnaps three tourists, keeps them alive, and surgically attaches them in a line, head-to-anus. We frankly cannot believe this movie exists. more.... In a Lonely Place, restored 35mm Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 20, 7pm Nicolas Ray USA 1950 94 min. You’ve seen The Maltese Falcon, and you’ve seen Casablanca—many, many times. But have you seen Humphrey Bogart’s best performance? Maybe not. In a Lonely Place boils down the Bogart persona—the wounded sadness, the wisenheimer dignity—to find what’s curdled under it: Something feral, something angry, with teeth. more.... Invasion USA, 35mm The Bagdad Theater, $3 admission Feb 19, 8:15pm Joseph Zito USA 1985 107 min. Chuck Norris vs. the Cuban Communist invasion of Miami. Castro never had a chance. An integral part of that strange '80s survivalist fever that gave us Red Dawn. more.... Labyrinth, 35mm The Academy Theater, $4 admission Feb 15, 4:45pm & 9:30pm Feb 16, 4:45pm & 9:30pm Feb 17, 4:45pm & 9:30pm Feb 18, 4:45pm & 9:30pm Jim Henson USA 1986 101 min. David Bowie (aka Jareth the Goblin King) menaces underage Jennifer Connelly with his massive codpiece. And that's the least perverse thing in Jim Henson's swan song. more.... Manhunter, 35mm Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 23, 8:45pm Michael Mann USA 1986 119 min. So yeah, this is a Hannibal Lecter movie—and The Godfather was a gangster flick. Before Anthony Hopkins turned the cannibalistic head-shrinker into a fava-chewing parody, Brian Cox played him as a beast—an old lion stalking its prey from a white-painted cage. more.... Raging Bull, 35mm The Academy Theater, $4 admission Feb 15, 7:15pm Feb 16, 7:15pm Feb 17, 7:15pm Feb 18, 7:15pm Martin Scorsese USA 1980 129 min. Inside every sociopathic, inarticulate boxer is a fat man trying to get out. And inside one of the most critically lauded films of all time is something low-rent and pulpy. Robert DeNiro knows exactly what that is. more.... Red Dust, 35mm Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 20, 3:15pm Feb 24, 7pm Victor Fleming USA 1932 83 min. In Pre-Code Hollywood, Clark Gable could drop prostitute girlfriend Jean Harlow for another man's wife, and nobody would blink an eye. Victor Fleming's 1932 bodice-ripper makes room for a marauding tiger and a sexual frankness all but missing when Gable played the same part again, in Mogambo, 21 years later. more.... *Sonicsgate, Digital The Bagdad Theater, $3 admission Feb 20, 7:15pm Jason Reid USA 2009 120 min. A lacerating documentary on what happens when a city that cares about NBA basketball discovers NBA basketball doesn't love it back. Jason Reid has made a Zampruder film of the assassination of the Seattle Supersonics, the Blazers' hated rival. more.... Split Second, 35mm The Bagdad Theater, $3 admission Feb 20, 5pm Tony Maylam, Ian Sharp USA 1992 90 min. In a futuristic London, Rutger Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature; the creature is back, and now it's after him. more.... Trick Or Treat, Digital The Mission Theater, $5 admission Feb 22, 10pm Charles Martin Smith USA 1986 98 min. Ozzy Osbourne. Gene Simmons. A heavy-metal star talking to his fans from beyond the grave. It's the devil's music wrecking havoc in this '86 schlock-rocker. Metal never dies. more.... White Lightnin', Digital Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 19, 7pm Feb 21, 1pm Feb 22, 6pm Feb 23, 7pm Feb 24, 8:45pm Dominic Murphy USA 2010 92 min. Sure, it’s based on the true story of Appalachian step-dancer Jesco White (played with demented fervor by Edward Hogg and a series of frightening child actors), but this is a Holy Land where you must ceaselessly dance to keep the devil off your back. more.... White Woman, 35mm Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 20, 5pm Feb 24, 5:45pm Stuart Walker USA 1933 68 min. A torch singer (Carole Lombard) banished from Malay nightclubs for “arousing” the natives, absconds with a sadistic plantation owner (Charles Laughton) who takes turns tyrannizing his new wife and his pet monkey. more.... The Wild Bunch, Digital Cinema 21, $8 admission Feb 21, 2:45pm Sponsored by Mike Clark's Movie Madness* Sam Peckinpah USA 1969 145 min. Sam Peckinpah was the bravest, craziest man in Hollywood, and proved it definitively with the Western that honored the death of gunslingers in the manner they lived: Bloody, rough and honorable. more....