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CONTACT
Kelly
Aubey
(owner) 480-459-1999 or kaubey@gmail.com
Steve
Weiss
(programming) 602-265-9524 or filmbarprogrammer@gmail.com
FilmBar
815
North 2nd Street
Phoenix
AZ
85004
www.thefilmbarphx.com
We
can supply screeners, photos etc for some of the films, just
ask!
FEATURED
FILMS WEEK OF THURS FEB 24-WED MARCH 2 2011
MATSURI
WEEK
SCREENINGS-ALL THINGS JAPAN!
1st
Feature-BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO-$8.00
Working
backwards
through history, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
explores
the
mystery of the development of Japan’s love affair with bugs.
Using insects
like an anthropologist’s toolkit, the film uncovers Japanese
philosophies
that
will shift Westerners’ perspectives on nature, beauty, life, and
even the
seemingly mundane realities of their day-to-day routines.
PRESS
LINK
http://beetlequeen.com/press.html
Director
JESSICA
ORECK [Produce/Writer/Director] works as an
animal keeper and docent at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York
City. When not at the museum, Jessica spends her time inventing
new ways to
create a sense of wonder in the world. Beetle Queen Conquers
Tokyo is Jessica's
first feature film. She is currently in production on several
animated science
shows, building her own museum exhibition, and shooting her next
two feature
films.
Thurs
2/24-6pm, 8pm
Fri 2/25-6pm,
8pm
Sat 2/26-3pm,
7pm
Sun 2/27-3pm,
7pm
Tues 3/1-6pm,
8pm
Wed-3/2-6pm,
8pm
2nd
Feature-A
COLT IS MY PASSPORT(1967)-$8.00
One of
Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi
Nomura’s A
Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously
photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a
hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs. Featuring an
incredible,
spaghetti-western-style soundtrack and brimming with formal
experimentation,
this is Nikkatsu at its finest.
Thursday
2/24-10pm
Sat 2/26-1pm,
5pm, 9pm
Sun 2/27-1pm,
5pm, 9pm
Tues 3/1-10pm
Wed 3/2-10pm
LATE SHOW-BIG
MAN JAPAN-$8.00
A middle-aged
slacker living in a rundown, graffiti-ridden
slum, Daisato’s job involves being shocked by bolts of
electricity that
transform him into a stocky, stick-wielding giant several
stories high who is
entrusted with defending Japan from a host of bizarre monsters.
But while his
predecessors were national heroes, he is a
pariah among the citizens he protects,who bitterly complain
about the noise and
destruction of property he causes.
A wickedly deadpan
spin on the giant Japanese superhero, BIG
MAN JAPAN is an outrageous portrait of a pathetic but truly
unique hero.
PRESS INFO
http://www.sixshooterfilmseries.com/bigmanjapan/
FRI 2/25, SAT
2/26- 11PM
MIXED BAG
MONDAY-TOKYO IS DREAMING-$3.00
A
rich and
evocative tableau of life in the Japanese capital, set to a
beguiling score by
Calexico's John Convertino. This portrait of the bustling
metropolis offers a
modern-day take on the City Symphonies that flourished in early
20th Century
cinema with films such as Man with a Movie Camera. Like those
earlier opuses,
Tokyo is Dreaming uses the camera to observe the beating
heart(s) of urban life
- work, travel, leisure but also alienation and homelessness -
subtly drawing a
map of the city in which quiet contemplation and frenetic
activity overlap.
Directed
by
Peter Chang
ONE
SHOW ONLY
Mon 2/28, 8pm
--
Steve Weiss
Film Programmer, FilmBar
http://thefilmbarphx.com/
Phoenix Arizona U.S.A.
