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Kelly
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(owner) 602-595-9187 kaubey@gmail.com
Steve
Weiss
(programming) 602-265-9524 or filmbarprogrammer@gmail.com
FilmBar
815
North 2nd Street
Phoenix
AZ
85004
www.thefilmbarphx.com
602-595-9187
We
can supply screeners, photos etc for some of the films, just
ask!
FilmBar
admittance
is 21 and over. Please note that on weekends, our 5pm screening
is
discounted to $5.00, and we now charge $7.00 for all other
screenings.
FEATURED
FILMS WEEK OF THURS APRIL 14-WED APRIL 20 2011
1st
Feature-IDIOTS AND ANGELS-An Animation by Bill Plympton-$7.00
SHOWTIMES
Th(4/14)
7:00
PM, 9:00 PM
Fr(4/15) 7:00 PM, 9:00PM
Sa(4/16) 5:00 PM*, 9:00 PM
Su(4/17) 5:00 PM*, 9:00 PM
Tu(4/19) 7:00 PM, 9:00 PM
We(4/20) 7:00 PM, 9:00 PM
(*denotes
matinee
price of $5.00)
A
dark comedy about a man’s battle for his soul. Angel is a
selfish, abusive,
morally bankrupt man who hangs out at his local bar, berating
the other
patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of
wings on his back.
The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He
desperately tries
to rid himself of the good wings, but he eventually finds
himself fighting
those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune.
Bill Plympton
director, producer, writer, animator
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Bill Plympton moved to New
York City, upon
graduation from Portland State Unversity in Graphic Design. He
began his career
creating cartoons for publications such as New York Times,
National Lampoon, Playboy
and Screw.
In
1987 he was nominated for an Oscar for his short “Your Face”.
After producing
many shorts that appeared on MTV and Spike and Mike’s, he turned
his talent to
features. Since 1991 he’s made 7 feature films, 5 of them, “The
Tune”, “Mondo
Plympton”, “I Married A Strange Person”, “Mutant Aliens” and
“Hair High”
animated features. In 2005, Bill’s received another Oscar
nomination, this time
for a short film “Guard Dog”.
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2ND
Feature- VINCENT: A LIFE IN COLOR-a film by Jennifer
Burns-$7.00
Note-Filmmaker
Jennifer
Burns will be attending
the screenings through the weekend. Jennifer can be
contacted for
interviews, please ask for info.
SHOWTIMES
Thursday
4/14-11pm
Saturday
4/16-7pm
Sunday
4/17-7pm
Wednesday
4/20-11pm
“The
Man. The Myth. The Wardrobe.”
Trailer-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Na_IfDW84&feature=player_embedded
http:// www.vincentalifeincolor.com/
Synopsis
Vincent P. Falk is Fashion Man. Clad in
brightly colored
suits; Vincent twirls on Chicago’s many bridges, performing
fashion shows for
passing tour boats. As he spins his way through the city,
tourists and locals
alike are left to wonder just who this strange man could be.
Over the course of
one boat season, we follow Vincent and begin to unravel the
mystery that
surrounds him. We discover that the man behind the fashion,
having come through
the travails of life, has decided to do what makes him happy.
And so, he
spins on.
“One
of
the best documentaries of 2010” – Roger Ebert
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LATE
SHOW-THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT-written and directed by Cory
McAbee-$7.00
SHOWTIMES
Friday
4/15-11pm
Saturday
4/16-11pm
Space
travel
has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease
monkeys,
and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis.
Written, directed,
and starring Cory McAbee of the legendary cult band The Billy
Nayer Show, this
sci-fi, musical-western uses flinty black and white photography,
rugged Lo-Fi
sets and the spirit of the final frontier.
We
follow Curtis on his Homeric journey to provide the all-female
planet of Venus
with a suitable male, while pursued by an enigmatic killer,
Professor Hess. The
film features music by The Billy Nayer Show and some of the most
original rock
n’ roll scenes ever committed to film.
“An
astonishing joy ride through the outer reaches of the id” The
Washington Post
“Arguably
one
of the most original American films of the past twenty years”
Box
Office
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“SUCH
A
DEAL MONDAY SCREENING-“Video Musics II Sun Wu-Kong”-produced
and performed by Alexis Gideon”-$3.00
Showtime
Monday
4/18-8pm
One show only-PERFORMED LIVE WITH FILM
A
one-hour multimedia
live-performance video opera based on the 16th-century Chinese
novel The
Journey to the West, “Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong” joins the brightest lights of
contemporary animation
(Becca Taylor (Punk Planet, Arthur); Cynthia Star (Coraline,
Moral Orel, Robot
Chicken); Ezra Claytan Daniels (Darkhorse Comics, Top Shelf
Comics)) with the
most promising talents of contemporary music (Rachel Blumberg (M
Ward, Arch Cape);
Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western, Carcrashlander); Shelley Short
(Hush)) to
create an aural and visual universe that gleefully transcends
both media.
Is
it film or music, high
art or pop? Gideon's work would fit snugly at either the Whitney
Biennial or
SXSW, which is to say it cannot be contained, really, by either
venue. Marked
throughout by the ambition, commitment to detail, and refusal to
settle that
have earned Gideon a cult following on both sides of the pond.
Alexis Gideon has toured nationally with Dan Deacon and Shelley
Short as well as played with Barr, Marnie Stern, Panther, Tune Yards Parts and Labor, Zs,People, Matt and
Kim, and many, many others.
--
Steve Weiss
Film Programmer, FilmBar
http://thefilmbarphx.com/
Phoenix Arizona U.S.A.
