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

 

 

 

 

 

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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