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FilmBar
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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 3pm and 5pm screening are discounted
to $5.00, and
we now charge $7.00 for all other screenings.
FEATURED
FILMS WEEK OF THURS MAY 12-WED
MAY 18 2011
1ST
FEATURE-Nine Nation
Animation Festival, dir. various-$7.00
SHOWTIMES
Thurs (5/12)
9pm, 11pm
Fri (5/13)
9pm, 11pm
Sat (5/14)
7pm, 11pm
Sun (5/15)
5pm*
Tues (5/17)
7pm
Wed (5/18)
9pm
(* indicates
$5.00 matinee
price)
Running time
82 minutes
A cat and a
mouse carry on a
dysfunctional relationship in a futuristic landscape. A Chinese
monk sets out
on foot with a tiger during the Tang dynasty and happens upon
the giant Buddhas
of Bamiyan. Two blue-collar workers dissect the meaning of
"normal"
life, as the world crumbles around them. A box of matches
succumbs, to their
detriment, to the appeal of a cigarette. Four
people
recount their various
encounters—triumphant or terrifying, euphoric or
down-to-earth--with an
unforgettable rite of passage.
The World
According to
Shorts presents a selection of recent award-winning animated
short films from
the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin,
Annecy,
ClermontFerrand and others.
Titles
include
•
“Deconstruction Workers”
by Kajsa Naess (Norway);
• “Average 40
Matches” by
Burkay Doğan & M. Şakir Arslan (Turkey)
• “Bâmiyân”
by Patrick
Pleutin (France)
• “Please Say
Something” by
David O’Reilly (Ireland/Germany)
• “Flatlife”
by Jonas Geirnaert
(Belgium)
• “She Who
Measures” by
Veljko Popoviç (Croatia)
• “Home Road
Movies” by
Robert Bradbrook (United Kingdom)
• “The Tale
of How” by The
Blackheart Gang (South Africa)
• “Never Like
the First
Time!” by Jonas Odell (Sweden)
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“It’s a
winner!” –Mike Hale,
The New York Times
“First-rate...a
filling
multicourse meal for the discerning grownup toon fan.”
–Dennis
Harvey, Variety
“A balm for
the brain and
eyes. Its nine short films embrace enough visual ideas, graphic
media and
emotional tones to populate an aesthetic ecosystem…everything an
animation
package should be.” –Eric Scigliano, Culture Fiend
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2nd
FEATURE- SECRET MUSEUMS-A Film by Peter Woditsch-$7.00
SHOWTIMES
Thurs
(5/12) 7pm
Fri
(5/13) 7pm
Sat
(5/14) 5pm*, 9pm
Sun
(5/15) 7pm
Wed
(5/18) 7pm
(*
indicates $5.00 matinee price)
Running
time 77 minutes
Trailer-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ung6HvE4mM&feature=player_embedded
Throughout
the ages, erotic art has been created by some of the world's
best-known
artists, but it is rarely on public display. Whether it is held
in private
collections, or kept under lock and key in museums and libraries
worldwide,
erotic art and literature remains censored. But when graphic,
even extreme
sexual imagery is freely available on the Internet, why is
erotic art
considered so dangerous that it must be prohibited?
Filmed in
England, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the U.S., SECRET
MUSEUMS explores
the locked rooms, warehouses, museum cellars, bank safes and
private homes
where erotica is hidden, from the British Museum and the
National Library of
France to Munich's National Graphics Collection and the Vatican,
home of the
world's largest collection of pornography. Gaining access to
carefully guarded
collections with names such as "Secretum," "Gabinetto
Segreto" and "L'Enfer," the film reveals books and images never
before filmed or photographed.
SECRET
MUSEUMS features interviews with wealthy collectors, museum
curators and
guides, librarians, authors, gallery directors, art restorers
and experts in
erotic art, who discuss the reasons for the cultural suppression
and control of
erotic art; how institutional gatekeepers, as the protectors of
public
morality, decide what is acceptable; the difficulty of some in
accepting
sexuality as an appropriate subject for art; the compulsion to
assemble private
collections; and how many erotic masterpieces remain hidden
today.
"This smartly made
documentary on erotica
lays out the naked truth about man's classic love affair with
affairs of the
flesh... Voyeurs and peeping toms of all factions will be on
the edge of their
seats." —Robert Waldman, orato.com
"A brilliant documentary [that] is
at times like a graduate seminar broaching issues about
ethics, public space
and cultural memory, preservation and archival energy... A
'must-see' for
anyone interested in the discussion of the nature of power and
knowledge." —Review Vancouver
"A surprisingly sophisticated
film." —Vancouver
International Film Festival
★★★ "A
fine introduction to an area of art history not covered in
standard sources,
this is a serious, thoughtful, and interesting documentary." —Video Librarian
2008
Vancouver International Film Festival
2009
Tel-Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
2009 Amsterdam
International Documentary Film Festival
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“SUCH A DEAL
MONDAY”-May 16,
8pm-Mad City Chickens-a documentary film by Tashai Lovington
& Robert
Lughai-$3.00
http:// www.madcitychickens.com/
Presented by
Desert Urban
Gardens- http://www.facebook.com/DesertUrbanGardens
Mad
City Chickens is
a sometimes serious, sometimes whimsical look at the people who
keep urban chickens in their backyards. From chicken experts and
authors to a
rescued landfill hen or an inexperienced family that decides to
take the
poultry plunge—and even a mad professor and giant hen taking to
the
streets—it’s a humorous and heartfelt trip through the world of
backyard
chickendom.
--
Steve Weiss
Film Programmer, FilmBar
http://thefilmbarphx.com/
Phoenix Arizona U.S.A.
