The 4 Star Theatre presents yet another MIDNITES FOR MANIACS series!

A 10-week, jam-packed series filled to the brim with SEVENTEEN totally Ahh-mazing movies!

This summer, we continue our goal of screening overlooked or forgotten cinema in the original 35mm format. Added to that is a whole new generation of original Coming Attractions from back-in-the-day!

Take that evening nap & stay up all nite on both Friday and Saturday nites! You might not get another chance to see these films on the big screen with people who are definitely way more obsessed about these movies than you and I put together!

--Host, Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, 5/04
Friday, May 28 @ 11:59pm • Advance tickets available!

GARBAGE PAIL KIDS
This Live Action extravaganza was pulled from theaters after only 6 days!
Nominated for worst special effects, worst song & worst ensemble cast, the film will leave a long-standing stain on your soul. RARE original 35mm print + tons of gross trailers. 1987. Directed by Rod Amateau.

Buy Advance Tix, becuz this 1980s obscurity has the extreme possibility of selling out!
Saturday, May 29 @ 11:59pm • You will remember this screening forever!
BABY GENIUSES
Finally, the World Premiere Midnite Screening of this terrifying 1999 family film. These babies are captured, imprisoned & studied by evil captors. Computer animation disturbingly manipulates these babies into creepy kung-fu kicking scheme-sters With a final battle scene against a 100 foot baby! Bob Clark (Porky's, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things) directed this 1990s equivalent to the Garbage Pail Kids movie. Original 35mm print. Miss this...and cry!
Friday & Saturday, June 4 & 5 @ 11:59pm • Ultra RARE 35mm print!
ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
The greatest rock n roll movie of all time, hands down! P.J. Soles (Carrie, Halloween) plays "Riff Randall, Rock n Roller," the rebellious teenager who stuffs school to get tix for her favorite band, the Ramones. Quite an amazing timepiece of the late 1970s with legendary dialogue led by Joey. This film has not played in San Francisco for over 10 years! Rare original 35mm print. Directed by Allan Arkush. 1979.
Friday & Saturday, June 11 & 12 @ 11:59pm • David Lynch!
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
David Lynch continues to perfect his movies that combine the Mainstream with the Experimental. Betty, the naive actress; Rita the confused seductress; & Adam, the famous director--they all head down their own self-destructive paths. Hollywood is the backdrop for this eerie exploration into what's lurking behind those Los Angeles diners. This is gonna be a f***ing scary movie at midnite! Plus, a bunch of David Lynch trailers. Free Midnite Masks of Mr. Rogue to a few lucky audience members. Beautiful Scope 35mm Print.
Friday & Saturday, June 18 & 19 @ 11:59pm • Q&A with cast & crew! Advance tickets available.

KUNG PHOOEY
Local filmmaker Darryl Fong packed the house at the SF Asian American Film Festival last year with this Kung-Fu spoof. Come support your local filmmaker with the Cast & Crew who will be on hand for a special Q&A before the screening! 35mm print. 2001. Advanced tix available.
Friday, June 25 @ 11:59pm • Influence on David Lynch!

CANDY SNATCHERS
Released in 1972, a gang snatches a little girl, holding her buried alive, hoping to get ransom money from her parents. The only problem--her parents are abusive drunks who couldn't care less that their daughter is missing. Terribly disturbing forgotten film that obviously influenced David Lynch. Not available on VHS, DVD, or Beta! Directed by Gordon Trueblood. A VERY RARE 35mm print!
Saturday, June 26 @ 11:59pm • Co-presented by WaveFest

SURF II
Totally awesome surfing, video games & tons of naked teenagers! This is good ol' fashioned 1983 fun with many of the same actors from Joysticks. Add to that Eric Stoltz & a gaggle of trash eating punk zombies! Original 35mm print. Directed by Randall Badat.
Friday & Saturday, July 2 & 3 @ 11:59pm • Brian DePalma!
BODY DOUBLE
Sleaziness is term that Brian DePalma has mastered over his 35 year career. Melanie Griffith is on display in all her new wave 80s glory. Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is the basis for this amazingly dirty film that's pretty much been dismissed as pure misogynistic trash! Come and see for yourself! Original 35mm Scope print! 1984.
Friday & Saturday, July 9 & 10 @ 11:59pm • Sean Penn's REAL Oscar performance!
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
The Teen Film genre was perfected with this 1982 klassik. It's got everything: sex, drugs, abortions, sex & dead-end jobs. Look for a young Jennifer Jason Leigh & Nicholas Cage, Sean Penn's greatest performance, & Phoebe Cates' greatest scene. Written by Cameron Crowe & directed by Amy Heckerling. With tons of 1980s trailers! Original 35mm print!
Friday & Saturday, July 16 & 17 @ 11:59pm • The first computer animated film!
TRON
The Academy didn't give this psychedelic trip into computer-land an Oscar in 1982 becuz they had never seen anything like it. It's taken the world 20 years to catch up. Jeff Bridges gets sucked into his own video game and has to fight his way out to survive! Watching this film on the big screen will be more intense than most drugs out there! Do not miss this! Original 35mm print.
Friday, July 23 @ 11:59pm • Brigitte Lin! Extremely rare original Cantonese 35mm print!
THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR
Before HK director Ronny Yu revived the modern American horror film with Freddy vs. Jason & Bride of Chucky, he made this heartfelt, unstoppable swordfighting masterpiece. Filled with enough blood-splattering tragedy to leave you dizzy all the way home! With Brigitte Lin & the late Leslie Cheung, who committed suicide in 2002. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Extremely RARE original Cantonese 35mm print.
Saturday, July 24 @ 11:59pm • Jet Li! Original Cantonese 35mm print!
FONG SAI YUK
Jet Li broke away from his Once Upon a Time in China series to make this modern klassic. Fighting on the tops of people's heads has become standard since Corey Yuen (director of Transporter & So Close) perfected it here. Plus, Jet Li expands his acting twofold while working with Josephine Siao & Michelle Reis. In Cantonese with English subtitles. 1993. Extremely RARE original 35mm print!

Friday, July 30 @ 11:59pm • Jackie Chan's first English film!
THE BIG BRAWL
Jackie Chan's first film made in the U.S. has all the trappings of his Hong Kong films: unbelievable stunts & brilliant fight scenes. Just add to that a Roller Disco and an incredibly hilarious wrestling competition & you've got the perfect 1980 Kung-Fu Kult Klassik. Directed by Robert Clouse. Rare original English 35 mm print.
Saturday, July 31 @ 11:59pm • Jackie & Michelle! Original Cantonese 35mm print!
SUPERCOP: POLICE STORY 3
This is Jackie Chan's best film thanks to Michelle Yeoh creates the pinnacle of the kick-ass female action hero. She literally jumps her motorcycle onto a speeding train! And even though Jackie is at his comedic and stunt-crazed finest, Michelle Yeoh holds her own. In Cantonese with English subtitles. RARE original 35 mm print.

Saturday, August 7: ALL NIGHT starting @11:59pm
IT'S BACK! THE ONLY ALL-NIGHT TRIPLE FEATURE SLUMBER PARTY IN SAN FRANCISCO!
SLUMBER PARTY 3! Takashi Miike Madness!
Triple Feature! All 3 Films for $10.00!

FUDOH
The madness begins with this after-school special in which a young man takes on the Yakuza with his band of armed & dangerous 8-year-olds led by the amazing hermaphrodite-vagina-dart-blowing assassin. Non-stop insanely violent action plus so much krazy sex that you'll be acting like Ichi the Killer the rest of the night! Original 35mm print. Japanese with English subtitles. 1996. 		ICHI THE KILLER
The uncut, unrated version!
This could be the most outrageously creative as well as offensive film of all time! Ichi-san has an issue with sex. Every time he is confronted with sex he slices & dices everyone in sight. This movie is a true modern klassik! Unrated version complete with nipple slicing scene! 35mm print! Japanese with English subtitles. 2002.
Warning: Extremely Graphic

VISITOR Q
The Contemporary Japanese Family is deconstructed in Miike's most complex film to date. Incest, necrophilia, parent abuse & breast milk spraying (straight from the source) will leave you completely dazzled! Free milk & cereal for everyone! Shot & screened digitally. Japanese with English subtitles.

 
General admission $7.00.
Advance tickets available at the Theatre Box Office:
4 Star Movie Theatre • Clement @ 23rd Ave • San Francisco • 415.666.3488
Midnites for Maniacs designed & curated by: jesse hawthorne ficks

 

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