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Features and Special Events<br />
Starts May 27<br />
June 3-5<br />
feature<br />
presentation<br />
Special<br />
Event<br />
GRINDHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL<br />
Presented by Dan Halsted<br />
All films<br />
presented in<br />
35 mm!<br />
WEINER<br />
DIRECTED BY: Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg<br />
96 minutes<br />
read steve prokopy’s<br />
commentary on page16<br />
Anthony Weiner was a young congressman on the cusp of higher office<br />
when a sexting scandal forced a humiliating resignation. Just two<br />
2016<br />
SUNDANCE FILM<br />
FESTIVAL – WINNER<br />
U.S. Grand Jury Prize:<br />
Documentary<br />
WEINER has drama, laughs and<br />
“ surprises. It’s the full package.”<br />
–New York Post<br />
A rollicking and never-dull insider’s<br />
“ view of a political campaign.”<br />
–Variety<br />
years later, he ran for mayor of New York City, betting that his ideas would trump his indiscretions.<br />
He was wrong. With unprecedented access to Weiner, his family and his campaign team, WEINER is<br />
a thrilling look inside a political comeback-turned-meltdown. What begins as an unexpected surge<br />
to the top of the polls takes a sharp turn once Weiner is forced to admit to new sexting allegations.<br />
As the media descends and dissects his every move, Weiner desperately tries to forge ahead, but the<br />
increasing pressure and crippling 24-hour news coverage halt his political aspirations.<br />
Climb aboard the exploitation starship as we travel to the outer reaches of cinematic insanity! In<br />
the 1970s and ‘80s, distributors trying to creatively sell strange movies in over-saturated markets<br />
unwittingly created some of the most mind-blowing pieces of cinema to ever rip through a film<br />
projector. Buckle up for the insanity!<br />
Friday, June 3<br />
GRINDHOUSE TRAILERS<br />
This is a compilation of some of the best grindhouse trailers of<br />
all time. We’ll see Italian horror, blaxploitation, sexploitation,<br />
hicksploitation, revenge films, kung fu obscurities. All the wildest<br />
scenes, strangest taglines, and oddball promotional gimmicks<br />
packed into two-minute cinematic roller coaster rides.<br />
Saturday, June 4<br />
OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU DOUBLE FEATURE<br />
THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING (1979) The original<br />
Ghostface Killer is on the loose! A vicious villain with an unstoppable<br />
five element technique, Ghostface is killing off all his old rivals.<br />
SHAOLIN VS. WU TANG (1981) An evil lord murders a Wu<br />
Tang master in an attempt to turn the Shaolin and Wu Tang<br />
against each other. The two schools each begin training to<br />
prepare for a showdown while the villainous lord attempts to<br />
combine the two styles to become the supreme kung fu master.<br />
Sunday, June 5<br />
EXPLOITATION DOUBLE FEATURE<br />
GATES OF HELL (1980) A surreal Italian gutmuncher from<br />
gore-maestro Lucio Fulci! A priest commits suicide and unwittingly<br />
opens the gateway to hell. The rotting dead rise from their<br />
graves to feed on the living in gruesome fashion, while a psychic<br />
and a journalist attempt to stop the rancid carnage.<br />
SECRET SCREENING An extremely rare 35mm print of one<br />
of the greatest exploitation films ever made! Not to be missed in<br />
this incredibly scarce big screen appearance.<br />
Dan Halsted is the head film programmer<br />
at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland<br />
OR. He’s an avid film collector, with<br />
a passion for Hong Kong cinema, and in<br />
2009, he unearthed a massive collection<br />
of extremely rare 35mm kung fu films.<br />
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