ANDREW'S VIDEO VAULT AT THE ROTUNDA

ANDREW'S VIDEO VAULT AT THE ROTUNDA

 

4014 WALNUT STREET, WEST PHILADELPHIA

 

Second Thursday of Every Month

 

FREE Screenings Continuous From 8 PM*

 

 

 

 

2009

 

January 8th * * * Special 7 PM start!

The Dr. Christian Radio program, co-created by star Jean Hersholt, captivated audiences from 1937 to 1953 and spurred six independently produced motion pictures filled with gripping social issue melodrama interwoven with comedy and romance, often lensed by John Alton.

Meet Dr. Christian (1939 / 68 minutes) The new mayor of River's End seeks to transform the sleepy town into a metropolitan suburb throbbing with commerce.

The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940 / 67 minutes) A housing project for poor squatters breeds controversy. Written by Ring Lardner Jr. & Ian McLellan Hunter.

Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940 / 58 minutes) A fad weight loss program promises dangerously unrealistic results in a criminally short period of time.

Remedy for Riches (1940 / 67 minutes) A get-rich-quick real estate scheme again proves that “when something seems too good to be true, it probably is.” Featuring Maude Eburne.

Melody for Three (1941 / 66 minutes) Fay Wray is a divorced mother raising her violin protégé son alone. Directed by Erle C. Kenton.

They Meet Again (1941 / 66 minutes) A lowly bank clerk is accused of purloining three thousand dollars.

 

 

February 12th

I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957 / 76 minutes) Michael Landon stars as a juvenile delinquent going through puberty whose unscrupulous psychiatrist unleashes his inner-monster.

Pets (1974 / 103 minutes) Based on a play, Raphael Nussbaum’s kinky, rough trade odyssey follows Candice Rialson as drifter Bonnie, who comes to no good at the hands of a wealthy man in a world where people act like animals.

 

 

March 12th

Herzog Blaubarts Burg aka, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (1963 / 59 minutes) Michael Powell’s German language film of Bartok’s 1913/1918 Hungarian opera, finds a mysterious Duke (Norman Foster) bringing his new love Judith (Ana Racquel Satre) to his eerie castle.


Der Rosenkavalier aka, The Knight of the Rose (1925, 1987 restoration / 73 minutes) Robert Wiene, director of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, adapts Hugo von Hofmannsthal & Richard Strauss’s 1911 opera to the medium of silent film.

 

 

April 9th

Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: A Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being at Any Age (1988 / 50 minutes) The incomparable Angela Lansbury stars in a sincere, empowering and genuinely insightful exercise video.

Jazz Warm Up To Traci Lords (1990 / 47 minutes) Fitness Video starring alluring media personality, Traci Lords.

Young at Heart: Body Conditioning with Estelle (1993 / 53 minutes) Hilarious fitness video starring the late, great Estelle Getty and cult movie persona, John Miranda.

+ Audience members are invited to wear gym gear and workout along with the videos!

 

 


May 14th


Panique (1947 / 91 minutes) Julien Duvivier’s adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novel about a lonely photographer in love with a murderer’s girlfriend.


The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942 / 67 minutes) “Surpassing his startling stories of dark emotions, comes the true drama of his own life and tempestuous loves!” In which the author of The Raven is obsessively drawn to Linda Darnell.


Monsieur Hire (1989 / 81 minutes) Michel Blanc and Sandrine Bonnaire star in Patrice Leconte’s elliptical adaptation of Panique and its source Simenon novel.

 

 

June 11th


Angyali udvozlet / The Annunciation (1984 / 97 minutes) Andras Jeles enacts Bible stories with a cast of children.

The Light Ahead (1939 / 94 minutes) Edgar G. Ulmer’s Yiddish language movie about an avuncular bookseller and a blind Jewish man who falls in love with a handicapped girl.

 

July 9th

Point Blank (1967 / 92 minutes) Lee Marvin is a syndicate hitman back from the grave, seeking money stolen from him by his girlfriend and her secret lover. With Angie Dickinson and Carroll O’Connor. Directed by John Boorman.

Hit Man (1972 / 91 minutes) George Armitage’s Los Angeles lensed revenge thriller, sporting a young Pam Grier.

Midnight Heat (1983 / 67 minutes) Jamie Gillis is a contract killer holed up in a flop hotel reminiscing about the past which is quickly catching up to him. Directed by Richard Mahler (aka, Roger Michael Watkins).

 

 

August 13th

HWY: An American Pastoral (1969 / 50 minutes) Fragments from an experimental film. To quote star Jim Morrison: "Essentially, there's no plot, no story in the traditional sense; a person, played by me, comes down out of the mountains and hitchhikes his way through the desert into a modern city, which happens to be L.A., and that's where it ends.”

Come Back To The Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982 / 109 minutes) Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black and Kathy Bates star in Robert Altman’s movie of Ed Graczyk’s play about a reunion of members of the James Dean fan club twenty years after his untimely death.

 

 

September 10th

Nightfall (1957 / 79 minutes) David Goodis’ story is brought to life by director Jacques Tourneur and a cast including Aldo Ray, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft. Cinematography by Burnett Guffey.


Twilight (1998 / 94 minutes) “Some people can buy their way out of anything. Except the past.” Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing and James Garner headline Robert Benton and Richard Russo’s laconic, pitch-perfect, latter day film noir.

 

 

October 8th

Island of Lost Souls (1932 / 70 minutes) “TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island... Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!” Charles Laughton is the fiendish, fey doctor in this feverous adaptation of the 1896 H.G. Wells’ classic about genetic experimentation. Directed by Erle C. Kenton.

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 / 99 minutes) Marlon Brando is the mad doctor in this over-the-top and totally captivating take on the Wells legend.

Monstrosity (1989 / 89 minutes) Andy Milligan’s loopy punk mash-up of The Golem, Frankenstein and Dr. Moreau.

 

 

November 12th

Larmar och gör sig till / In the Presence of a Clown (1997 / 119 minutes) Borje Ahlstedt returns as Carl Akerblom (the Uncle from Fanny and Alexander) who seeks to make a “living talking picture” in Ingmar Bergman’s made-for-TV movie.

Gigot (1962 / 104 minutes) Jackie Gleason stars as a Charlie Chaplin-like mute in Gene Kelly’s silent film.

 

 

December 10th

The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989 / 123 minutes) Peter Greenaway’s dazzling revenge drama about a kitchen consummated affair and its bloody outcome. With Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Michael Gambon and Tim Roth.

Being There (1979 / 130 minutes) Peter Sellers is television obsessed man-child, Chance, the gardener in Hal Ashby’s warm film of Jerzy Kosinski’s satiric fable. Co-starring Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas and Jack Warden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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