Special Events

Dir. GI Joe & friends - 2013 - 35m approx. - A WUJOLO21 PRODUCTIONS presentation! - Only $3 - filmmakers in person!

Presented By Joe Lonesome & Mondo Davalos!

Think of the most minor unfortunate event that's happened to you.Now think of a word for it... You got Trayged! Inspired by life and its comedic moments, this independent local 505 webshow is hilarious!  This night will feature episode not yet available online!

Check out an earlier episode here! 

Dir. Peter Strickland - 2013 - 94m - UK/Ireland - No Matinees

NOTE:  ALSO PLAYS SUNDAY JUNE 23 & MONDAY JUNE 24 AT 9:15PM !

1976. A mild-mannered British sound engineer named Gilderoy (Toby Jones) arrives in Rome to work on the post-synchronized soundtrack to The Equestrian Vortex, a tale of witchcraft and murder set inside an all-girl riding academy. But as Gilderoy begins to work on this unexpectedly terrifying project, it's his own mind that holds the real horrors. As the line between film and reality blurs, is Gilderoy working on a film - or in one?

"A tough, teasing triumph.  Exquisitely crafted." - Guy Lodge, Variety

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Dir. Roze - 2013 - 75m - ALL SEATS $8 - DIRECTOR IN PERSON, Q&A TO FOLLOW AFTER SCREENING!

The story of Anna, a single mother fighting to protect her daughter from demonically possessed children and a town gone mad.

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Dir. Morgan White - 2013 - 96m - Only $4 admission!

The Rep is a documentary about the world of independent, repertory cinemas, as told through the eyes of The Toronto Underground Cinema. Featuring celebrity commentary from Kevin Smith, George A. Romero, and John Waters.

THE REP reveals that the passion for a cinematic experience is still alive. The question is, will a greater audience recognize their cultural value before it’s too late?

The film follows the lives of three uber film geeks during the first year of operations of a single-screen repertory cinema. Dubbed ‘The Underground Cinema’ by its gang of misfits, Alex, Charlie and Nigel will stop at nothing to see their theatre succeed. In the face of strong competition from big box theatres, local cinematheques and home video, it’s a constant struggle to stay afloat. Throw in 12-hour workdays, having no semblance of a personal life and all the normal stresses of working day in/day out with the same people… things couldn’t be much more of an uphill battle.

THE REP also takes a broader look at the world of repertory cinema in North America. Currently being devalued by studios, corporate theatres and patrons themselves, movies have become less of an experience and more of an activity. Watching a film is something you just do to pass the time, rather than the event and spectacle they once were. Repertory cinema is an ever-shrinking but ever-passionate world of film lovers trying to keep the experience of cinema alive.

The film features interviews with theatres such as Film Forum in NYC, The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, The New Beverly Cinema in L.A., The Hollywood Theatre in Portland, The Bijou Art Cinemas in Eugene and Blue Sunshine in Montreal. It also features celebrity commentary from Kevin Smith, John Waters, Atom Egoyan, George A. Romero and many more.

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Dir. Peter Strickland - 2013 - 94m - UK/Ireland - No Matinees

1976. A mild-mannered British sound engineer named Gilderoy (Toby Jones) arrives in Rome to work on the post-synchronized soundtrack to The Equestrian Vortex, a tale of witchcraft and murder set inside an all-girl riding academy. But as Gilderoy begins to work on this unexpectedly terrifying project, it's his own mind that holds the real horrors. As the line between film and reality blurs, is Gilderoy working on a film - or in one?

"A tough, teasing triumph.  Exquisitely crafted." - Guy Lodge, Variety

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Dir. Anne Makepeace - 2006 - 82m - An AMERICAN RED CROSS Presentation

The American Red Cross Honors World Refugee Day!

In honor of World Refugee Day, the Red Cross will be showing the documentary, "Rain in a Dry Land", which follows two Somali families as they are re-settled from a refugee camp in Kenya to the United States, where they face a whole new set of challenges. Despite the difficulty of resettlement, these families find ways to survive and make new homes in America. Following the film, attendees will also learn about the Red Cross program, Restoring Family Links, which aims to reconnect family members who have lost contact across international borders. 

NOTE: This event is free of charge, but we request that you please RSVP with Nicole at [email protected] or 505.265.8514; http://www.redcross.org.

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Dir. Randal Kleiser - 1988 - 86m - Mom's Matinee goes to the farm with Pee Wee! - All Seats $5

Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) runs away to the circus — or, rather, the circus runs away to him — in director Randal Kleiser’s follow-up to Tim Burton’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” More a companion piece than a true sequel, “Big Top Pee-wee” finds our hero as a farmer with a talking pig (voiced by Wayne White) and a slightly insufferable fiancee (Penelope Ann Miller); his simple yet somewhat boring life gets a sudden jolt of excitement when an entire traveling circus plops onto his land, courtesy of a tornado. Soon, Pee-wee has circus fever, inspiring the ringmaster (Kris Kristofferson) to produce a new act that gives homage to the American farmer … and falling for the gorgeous trapeze artist (Valeria Golino). “Big Top Pee-wee” has elements that are even more absurdist than anything in that of its predecessor.  The film debut of Benicio Del Toro, who appears as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy.

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Dir. Alex Winter - 2013 - 106m - No Matinees

An exploration of the downloading revolution; the kids that created it, the bands and the businesses that were affected by it, and its impact on the world at large!

This documentary focuses on the advent of digital media sharing, including the rise of game-changing company Napster and controversial pioneers Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. The digital revolution ultimately created a technology paradigm shift and upended the music industry. Audiences will hear insight from well known music artists and figures within the music industry including: The Beastie Boys' Mike D, Noel Gallagher, Henry Rollins, former Sony Music Chairman, Don Ienner, former record producer and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Hilary Rosen, former CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America.

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Dir. Charles Vick Duncan - 2013 - 90m - An N/A Crew Production & Presentation - All Seats $5

100 years ago a group of malevolent witches terrorizing a small town were executed for their sinful acts. With their last breaths, they vowed to return and wreak havoc once more. Now, the witches are back to fulfill their curses. Randy, a nerdy loner having a bad day, has been possessed by their evil High Priestess whose only intent is to take over the Duke City and perform their wicked deeds in this outrageous horror adventure.

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Dir. Laura Zinger - 2008 - 94m - All Seats $8

AN AIGA NM PRESENTATION!

How far would you go for your one true love? Would you give up all of your earthly possessions, and your job? What if your one true love was a printing press…

At 40 years of age, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. abandoned the traditional American Dream to follow his own. Unsatisfied with his comfortable, middle-class life, Amos traded in his computer for a printing press and his white collar for a pair of overalls. Armed with life, liberty, peanuts, and a meager yearly income of $7,000, Amos cranked out a new, mutinous declaration of independence.

Proceed and Be Bold! joins Amos for a titillating retelling of his story, while examining the pretensions and provisions of the art world. The work of this self-proclaimed “Humble Negro Printer” raises emotionally-charged questions and reveals remarkable depth beneath the bold print. By learning the rules and then choosing to break them, Amos redefines what life (and letterpress printing) can be: exhilarating and subversive.

His provocative sense of humor seeps out of every word he speaks and his radical philosophies on the American consciousness (or unconsciousness) will awaken any listless bystander. After experiencing Amos’ humble journey, you’ll never look at your middle class life the same way again.

“What a film… I really appreciate how one printer/artist is brought into a layered cultural context.” –Inge Bruggeman, INK-A! Press & Textura Letterpress www.texturaprinting.com

“Laura and her production did such a good job bringing the social relevance of an artist’s work to light. There are sections where you see my African-American art class compare and discuss the work of Kennedy to that of the Black Panther graphic artist Emory Douglas. They have amazing insights on the impact of these visual forms and how art can affect social change. For me, that’s what it’s all about.” - Amy Mooney, Art Professor at Columbia College Chicago

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Dir. Deborah Koons - 2004 - 88m - Free on a first come/first served basis! Raffle tickets for sale!

A FOOD AND WATER WATCH NEW MEXICO PRESENTATION!

An in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocer store shelves for the past decade.From the prairies of Canada to the field of Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livlihoods have been negatively impacted by this technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are the reason people are alarmed and speaking out today about these foods and our genetically altered foods in our food supply. This was shot on location in the U.S. Canada and Mexico. Its a must see if you care about the foods we eat and staying healthy without huge multinational corporations that seek control of the worlds food system In this film we see that there are real  alternatives that are sustainable and organic and provide real solutions to the farm crisis. We have a choice and now is the time to make it!

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Dir. F.W. Murnau - 1927 - 95m - $5 General / $2 for Albuquerque Film Club Members!

AN ALBUQUERQUE FILM CLUB EVENT!

A movie of extraordinary visual beauty and emotional purity. This universal tale of a farm couple's journey from country to city and back again was the first American film for F.W. Murnau, the German director of Nosferatu and The Last Laugh whose everyday scenes seemed haunted by phantoms and whose most extravagant visions never lost touch with reality. Hollywood afforded him the technical resources to unleash his imagination, and in turn he opened up the power of camera movement and composition for a generation of American filmmakers. It'll be hard to forget the walk in the swamp, the ripples on the lake, the trolley ride from forest to metropolis. This movie arguably defines the cinema.

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1940s to 1950s - 10 days of 5 double features in the dark amongst friends & strangers! Tough prison breaks, naughty haughty teens, sneaky thieves, double crosses and other such delights!

It's 10 years now since our first foray into this enticing darkened corner of film fests! We continue the tradition with a big five 2-for-1 double features of both much older and old NOIR!  Get ready for Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, George Raft, James Mason, James Cagney and more!  As with previous years, this festival would not be possible without the indispensable help of Peter Conheim and his wise consultation, the projection wizardry of Josephine Scherer giving the necessary tlc to several of the prints and the Guild manager Chris Woodworth for providing a great deal of this year's picks for the fest.  A huge thanks to them!  We hope you enjoy the series!  Specific show times and plot descriptions to follow shortly!

EACH DAWN I DIE double featured with BRUTE FORCE (Sat. July 13 & Sun. July 14)

CAFE HOSTESS double featured with GIRLS UNDER 21 (Mon. July 15 & Tues. July 16)

PICKUP double featured with WICKED WOMAN  (Wed. July 17 & Thurs. July 18)

THE THIEF double featured with RIFIFI (Fri. July 19 & Sat. July 20)

THE UPTURNED GLASS double featured with THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (Sun. July 21 & Mon. July 22)

Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 1977 - 315m - Italy - No Matinees

 AN ITALIAN FESTIVALS OF NEW MEXICO CO-PRESENTATION - in celebration of The Year of Italian Culture in the US!

NOTE:  THERE WILL BE AN INTERMISSION AT APPROX. THE 2 1/2 HOUR MARK.

1900 is an epic film of massive scope, power and controversy. It is both a vast history of the 20th Century Italy and an intimate portrait of two friends, both born on January 1, 1900. the son the socialist peasant farmer (Gerard Depardieu) and the son of the fascist landowner (Robert De Niro). The two young men pass through the upheavals of the modern world, as their personal conflicts become an allegory of the political turmoil of twentieth century Italy. 1900 features and award-winning international cast that includes Burt Lancaster, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Dominique Sanda, Alida Valli and Stefania Sandrelli. Photographed by legendary cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) with a beautiful and haunting score by Ennio Morricone (The Mission). Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor).

Dir. John Sayles - 1994 - 103m - Mom's Matinee Continues with a first rate all-ages fairy tale! All Seats Just $5

The magic of folklore forms the basis of this beautifully lyrical Irish tale by writer-director John Sayles. Adapted from the book Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, the 1940s story is told from the point-of-view of Fiona (Jeni Courtney), a young girl sent to live with her grandparents in an Irish fishing town. Her grandfather weaves grand stories about the family's evacuation from their home on the tiny island of Roan Inish and about his great-great grandfather, who once cheated death at the hands of the unforgiving sea. As she meets other villagers, Fiona hears even more personal stories about an uncle who married a beautiful, part-human/ part-seal and about how the sea stole her baby brother during the departure from Roan Inish. Later, Fiona believes that she has found Jamie romping in the grass on Roan Inish, and she must convince the family of her vision.

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Dir. Kevin Breslin - 2011 - 40m - $5 admission, proceeds go to benefit FAMILIES4PEACE

A FAMILIES4PEACE PRESENTATION & BENEFIT.

On a snowy, windy April day in Blacksburg, Virginia in 2007, young Americans pursued a college education and their teachers engaged in providing it to them. Some of those students were attending Introductory German, Intermediate French, Advanced Hydrology Engineering, and Solid Mechanics classes in a building called Norris Hall.

Thirty-two of them died, 17 more were wounded, and six more were injured jumping out of windows. Their lives had collided with that of a tortured loner, whom a judge had written was “fundamentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an eminent danger to self or others as a result of mental illness,” or is so seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self.

One of those wounded was a 21-year-old senior International Studies major from Richmond, Virginia, named Colin Goddard. Goddard played a unique role in the horrific drama that played out at Virginia Tech University on that blustery April day: he was the only person within the building to call the police. Urged by his French professor to dial 911 as the crackle of gunfire came closer to the door of their classroom, Goddard made the call. Shot for the first time, he passed the phone to a classmate who gave the police enough information to get them to the scene three minutes later. Police got into the building, which had been barricaded, six minutes after that. For all the terrible damage that the killer did, the toll of lost lives might have been much higher if it were not for the 911 call started by Colin Goddard and continued by Emily Haas.

By the end of the ordeal, the killer had fired at him at three separate moments during the eleven-minute assault. Goddard had been shot four times. He heard the rescue workers walking through his classroom, shouting ‚”red tag, black tag, black tag‚” a dire roster of the critical and the dead. He was later told he might not walk again, but fought his way through arduous physical therapy. And he grew a fire in his heart to do something about keeping dangerous people from having easy access to deadly weapons. The killer had two semiautomatic handguns, dozens of 10- and 15-round magazines, and 400 rounds of hollow-point ammunition.

After recovering and finishing his degree, Colin Goddard decided he was going to volunteer for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the nation’s largest gun control organization. And he was going to convince them to sponsor him in wearing a hidden camera and going undercover into gun shows all across America, to prove how easy it is for anyone to buy a gun, with no identification, no Brady background check, and just a wad of cash.

Living for 32 is his story.

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Dir. Tony Richardson - 1965 - 122m - $5 General / $2 AFC MEMBERS

AN ALBUQUERQUE FILM CLUB EVENT!

The beloved 1965 dark comedy classic starring Robert Morse, Liberace, Rod Steiger, Anjanette Comer, Jonathan Winters, Paul Williams, Milton Berle and many others!  

Its billing as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone" still rings true too! Tony Richardson, fresh off the liberating Tom Jones, brings Evelyn Waugh's self-described "little nightmare" to the screen with all its sacrilegious shocks (and then some!) intact, courtesy of screenwriters Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove) and Christopher Isherwood. Robert Morse stars as Dennis Barlow, an Englishman abroad and a fish out of water in Southern California. Stumbling across the Hollywood landscape like a cross between Candide and Jerry Lewis. Barlow gets a unique perspective of the American experience when he finds employment at the Happier Hunting Ground, a ramshackle pet cemetery, and the flipside of the fabulously vulgar Whispering Glades. In a virtuoso dual role, Jonathan Winters costars as glad-handing Happier Hunting Grounds proprietor Harry, whose brother, Whispering Glades' Blessed Reverend, has some out-of-this-world plans for the "Loved Ones." The mad, mad, mad mad cast also includes John Gielgud as Dennis's ill-fated expatriate uncle, an artist unceremoniously booted from the movie studio where he has worked for 31 years; Anjanette Comer as Aimee, a Whispering Glades cosmetician torn between Dennis and embalmer Mr. Joyboy (an unforgettable Rod Steiger), who registers his broken heart on the faces of his corpses; a teenage Paul Williams as a science prodigy; Liberace as a funeral salesman peddling eternal flames both "perpetual or standard"; Milton Berle and Margaret Leighton as "a typical well-adjusted American couple" whose deceased dog puts a crimp in their dinner plans; and even Jamie Farr, seen fleetingly as a waiter. The Loved One anticipates the "New Hollywood" with its naturalistic cinematography by Haskell Wexler (Medium Cool) and "anything goes" sensibility (the dinner scene with Joyboy and his obese mother would not be out of place in a John Waters movie). By turns creepy and grotesquely funny, The Loved One will bury you.

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Dir. Erik P. Sharkey - 2012 - 96m

CO-PRESENTED BY LOUIE'S ROCK AND REELS!

A feature-length documentary film highlighting the career of poster artist Drew Struzan, whose most popular works include the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and Star Wars movie posters. Telling the tale through exclusive interviews with George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Michael J. Fox, Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Spielberg and many other filmmakers, artists and critics, the journey spans Drew’s early career in commercial and album cover art through his recent retirement as one of the most recognizable and influential movie poster artists of all time.

Three filmmakers have united to bring this film to life; Greg Boas (Hefty Inc.), Charles Ricciardi (Torino Pictures), and Erik P. Sharkey (Sharkey Productions), assembling one of the most intriguing film lineups and crafting a comprehensive presentation about the artist, the art, the stories behind Drew’s most recognizable creations, as well as a never-before-seen insider’s examination of the industry and the profession of motion picture advertising.

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Dir. Christopher Chase - 2013 - 80m total - An Incidence Media Productions Presentation - All Seats $8

In 2011 Jack Chase ventured to West Hollywood, CA in search of the American dream. Two years later his footage was found but his whereabouts still remains uncertain...

Sound by Mike Gerdes 

Art Direction Bobby Janss 

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Dir. Matthew Stanasolovich - 2013 - 80m - ONLY $ 3 ADMISSION! CAST & CREW IN PERSON!

After a long summer alone, Reece Shelton (Bryan Morreale) returns to school with a cynical attitude and low expectations. Forgotten by his parents and detached from his friends, Reece resorts to science projects to keep himself occupied. With every new failed experiment, Reece just sinks lower and lower into the infinite abyss that is his life. One day, he comes upon the story of the Cabezon legend which claims that an unknown river monster lays in the Rio Grande. Fascinated, Reece dedicates himself to either proving or disproving the near thirty-year legend. As he begins to search, Reece finds himself facing demons of the past and horrors of the future. Slowly but surely, his world begins to unravel where there is no distinct line between dream and reality, between hallucination and memory. A “staying of age” film, When I Get Out of Here explores the themes of love, loss, obsession and loneliness begging the question: Does anyone every really get better?

Written and Directed by Matthew Stanasolovich

Original Music by Sun Stains, Samuel Albert and Elena Saavedra-Buckley   

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