Special Events

Dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson - 2010 - 83m - ALL SEATS $7

Panelists will include Marya Errin Jones, Erin Adair-Hodges and V. Gina Diaz !  This discussion will be moderated by Sarah Skenazy.

An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

For more than forty years, filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust, Strange Culture) has collected a plethora of interviews with her contemporaries—and shaped them into an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large. With a rousing score by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, !W.A.R. features Miranda July, The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro, Marcia Tucker and countless other groundbreaking figures.

“These interviews form the backbone of !W.A.R., and like the film, they’re passionate, contentious, funny, sincere, politically attuned.... Ms. Hershman Leeson’s fighting spirit is contagious.” - Rachel Saltz, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Stunning!” - Shirley J Velasquez, ELLE.COM

“Could not be timelier!” - Marcia G Yerman, ALTERNET

“Leeson's women are our own; their voices are essential.” - Hilton Als, THE NEW YORKER

“Fiercely self-aware!” - Guelda Voien, MS. MAGAZINE

“Whether you’re an art aficionado or not, you simply must see and experience this revolutionary and visionary film for yourself. !Women Art Revolution reclaims women’s narratives and manifests a vocal group of dissenters rattling the cages of constriction and conformity, refusing to be silenced.” - Megan Kearns, BITCH FLICKS

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Dir. Ben Knight and Travis Rummel - 2008 - 55m - A Save Bristol Bay Presentation

Alaska's last great salmon fishery is in peril. Come see the award-winning film, Red Gold, that started the national campaign to protect it. 

The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the most prolific sockeye salmon run in the world. However, with international mining companies proposing a massive open-pit gold mine at the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed, this salmon run is in peril. Red Gold shows what's at stake; the livelihood of over 4,000 commercial fishermen, a world-renowned sport fishery, and the subsistence culture of Bristol Bay communities. Despite promises of a clean project by mining officials, the accident-plagued history of hard rock mining has wrought one of the biggest land use issues Alaska has ever faced. Red Gold examines this issue through the stories of the people of Bristol Bay who depend on this extraordinary fishery. The film gives stunning insight into a truly wild and beautiful place, and a fishing culture that won't go down without a fight. 

Director's Choice Award-Telluride Mountain Film

Audience Choice Award- Telluride Mountain Film

Best Cinematography- Newburyport Film Festival

Best of Festival- Ellensburg Film Festival

Best Environmental Film- Taos Mountain Film Festival

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Dir. Roko Belic - 2011 - 75m - All Seats just $5

YES!  THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT HAPPINESS!

Does money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution?

Roko Belic, director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Genghis Blues now brings us HAPPY, a film that sets out to answer these questions and more. Taking us from the bayous of Louisiana to the deserts of Namibia, from the beaches of Brazil to the villages of Okinawa, HAPPY explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion.

HAPPY combines cutting-edge science from the new field of “positive psychology” with real-life stories of people from around the world whose lives illustrate these findings. We see the story of a beautiful woman named Melissa Moody, a mother of three who had a “perfect life” until the day she was run over by a truck. Disabled for nine years and disfigured for life, amazingly she is happier now than before her accident. Manoj Singh, a rickshaw puller from the slums of Kolkata, India who lives in a hut made of plastic bags with his family, is found to be as happy as the average American. Through these and other stories HAPPY leads us toward a deeper understanding of how we can all live more fulfilling, healthy and happy lives.

"An uplifting study of that surprisingly elusive state of being.” – TRANSFORMATIONAL MEDIA

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Dir. God's parking attendant - Now & Forever - endless/timeles - Must be 18 and over - All Seats $10

It's coming our way again, get ready for chuckles, belly laughs and guffaws! The title is truth in advertising - local comedians Matt Peterson, Rusty Rutherford, James Morrow, Joe Quesada and Roger Peterson will be tag teaming the mic for our humor sensory good times! 

Dir. Terje Carlsson - 2011 - 58m - A UNM STUDENTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PALESTINE Presentation - $7 General Admission / $3 Students - Director Terje Carlsson in Person!

A feature documentary about Israeli peace activists.

One grandmother, one rabbi, one anarchist and one ex-soldier – four Israelis trying to put an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.  The documentary Israel vs Israel is a film about Jewish peace activists who in both words and actions take a stand again 40 years of occupation and illegal settlements.  This is a film about the desperate struggle to somehow change the current situation and improve life for the Palestinians. In return, these activists face scepticism and hatred from fellow Israeli countrymen.  Israel vs. Israel reveals both sensitive family discussion as well as secret testimonies from former combat soldiers.

These Israelis are often portrayed as naive, unreliable and dangerous for the Jewish state. They are often ridiculed and demonised for their honest commitment.  The fight for peace divides Israel in Terje Carlsson's new documentary.

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Dir. Su Hudson - 2012 - 60m - Meet the filmmakers & actors! - A fundraiser for PAPA Film and Media's Chicago CineYouth trip in May 2012

Mention PAPArazzi at Il Vicino and they will donate 20% of their sales to PAPA Film and Media for our Chicago CineYouth trip in May 2012!

In this film about a performing arts school, Scout (Graham Hudson) is creating his film masterpiece for his senior project.  He has been a filmmaker in PAPArazzi, the Public Academy for Performing Arts Film and Media program, since he was in sixth grade.  He has big plans to win one of the five scholarships his school offers to the top performing artists.  Due to budget cuts the school can only offer one scholarship this year.  This creates a frenzy of tension between the different performing arts departments, but particularly between the dance and film programs.  The dance instructor, Ms. Castone (Naomi Elizabeth Montoya) is certain that her star dancer Brandon (Kalin Wood) will take the prize.  The film instructor, Ms. Sparks (Su Hudson) is equally assured that Scout will win this year...no matter the cost.  PAPArazzi is a coming of age film from the PAPA Film and Media Department.

"I didn't know he could act!"  -Liz Marshall, Tierra Adentro

"Hilarious and terrifying, is your school really like that?"  Luke Hudson-Goodman, 5th grader

"Yes and No, yes incredibly creative people but no, we don't really fight and bicker like this." - Su Hudson, mother of Luke and Director

A Benefit for the UNM Children's Hospital

Ticket prices:  $8 Admission per movie • opening day celebration $40 • closing gala $50 • limited number of festival passes $100 

At the Guild Cinema:

Saturday February 25

1pm / 6pm - La Finestra di Fronta (Facing Windows)

3:30 / 8:30 - Gianni e Le Donne (Salt of Life)

Sunday February 26

1pm - La Dolce Vita *with Intermezzo Pranzo at Scalo Northern Italian Grill

Dir. THE EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE GROUP! - 2011 - 90m plus! - All Seats $8

EIT!, as they have been lovingly dubbed by their followers, are the video collective responsible for some of the most intriguing and horrifying viral videos in the Universe. From cat massages to pedophile-hunting yellow dinosaurs, EIT! salvages the best VHS moments from thrift stores across the nation and posts their daily finds on the Internet for the world to see. Each year, the group edits thousands of these resurrected treasures into one mind-melting feature-length movie. With DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!, EIT! has elevated their craft to new heights, creating a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 Film, The Holy Mountain, using only dog-related found footage! After a grueling year of combing every Air Bud movie for something remotely worthwhile, the group is groomed and ready to tour the continent in homemade, full-body mascot costumes, delivering a psychedelic live show experience that can not be rivaled. This all-new “live in the fur” show picks up where Cirque Du Soleil and The Rock-A-Fire Explosion left off... finally. Oh yeah, and ARFFFF!

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Dir. Charles Vick Duncan - 2012

Truly an Albuquerque independent film experience.

A black comedy horror movie homage to b-movies, which goes through 3 stages of cinema; and, for good measure, throws in a little stop motion.

The story follows a parallel WWII, with the battle field being a neo-noir, sepia-tone nightmare. Set to a witch house, post-pop, and sometimes, classical soundtrack, it’s morbidly cartoonish characters,slip in and out of a color reality. This film is perplexing and graphic, yet still lighthearted in the aspect of poking fun at everything disturbing and dark, including itself.

Don’t miss out on this epic, Indy film journey!

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Dir. John Waters - 1974 - 98m - Double Featured with the original HAIRSPRAY

In anticipation of John Waters' speaking engagement at Popejoy on Sunday March 11! For more information on that special event, visit here.

A riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore's "Prince of Puke," this sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore's infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is terrific as Dawn's bratty daughter Taffy, conceived following a romp on a junkyard mattress with a fat derelict in soiled underpants (also played by Divine). Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary co-star as crazed owners of a beauty-parlor who are convinced that "crime equals beauty," and they take Dawn under their wings, forcing her to mainline liquid eyeliner to enhance her appeal. Edith Massey steals the film as Dawn's obsessive neighbor, Ida, who wants her nephew to be gay (because heterosexuals lead "sick and boring lives") and throws acid in Dawn's face when she marries him. A hilariously appalling film, Female Trouble is just as disgusting and maybe even funnier than Waters' previous Pink Flamingos.

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Dir. John Waters - 1988 - 92m - Double featured with FEMALE TROUBLE !

In anticipation of John Waters' speaking engagement at Popejoy on Sunday March 11!  For more information on that special event, visit here.

The Turnblads' (Divine, Jerry Stiller) plus-size daughter (Ricki Lake) rocks a segregated TV dance show in 1960s Baltimore.  Funny as heck and a good message to boot, (!) this is the original 1988 one that includes Sonny Bono and Debra Harry as parents of a rival young girl plus Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora as pot-smoking beatniks.  

"Not only Waters's best movie, but a crossover gesture that expands his appeal without compromising his vision one iota" - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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Dir. Bill Melendez - 1980 - 77 - MOM'S MATINEE rolls on ! - ALL SEATS $5

The "Peanuts" crew Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty and Marcie go to France as exchange students in this classic full-length feature.  While everyone is excited about the opportunity to travel to a foreign country, Charlie is disturbed by a letter he receives from a mysterious girl from France who invites him as a her guest only to find that he does not seem welcomed to her Chateau.  Also along is Snoopy and Woodstock!

Dir. Roy Ward Baker - 1958 - 123m - All Seats $7

On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord’s book of the same name, A Night to Remember, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker (Don’t Bother to Knock) depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship’s final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night to Remember is cinema’s subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.

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Dir. Mervyn Leroy - 1933 - 96m

SPECIAL THANKS TO FRANK CULLEN OF THE AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE MUSEUM !!

Maybe the very best of the Busby Berkley musicals! Great cast, great songs, great costumes! As the saying goes - "They don't make them like they used to!"

Starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Aline MacMahon, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers and Sterling Holloway. 

Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands!  Highlights: Blondell's "Forgotten Man,'' Rogers' "We're in the Money'' (with pig-Latin chorus), chorus girls' "Shadow Waltz.''

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