Date: Friday, April 13, 2012 at 8:00PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117
Featuring:
Eye of the Cat (B+W, 1969)
Dir. David Lowell Rich, screenplay by
Joseph Steffano. Starring Michael
Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker, Tim Henry.
Set in San Francisco with some great location shots, the highly
entertaining “Eye of the Cat” is an offbeat thriller written by Psycho writer
Joseph Steffano about an eccentric old lady who plans to bequeath her fortune
to her colony of cats. Her nephew gets wind of this and plies to re-instate
himself as the sole heir, despite his severe ailurophobia (fear of cats) and
his conspiring brother and auntie’s cosmetologist.
Crazy cats, catfights, mod costuming by the ubiquitous Edith Head
and an eerie score by Lalo Schiffrin (Bullit, Cool Hand Luke, et al.), along
with some over the top dialogue and a strange mix of psychological horror and
melodrama elevate this shindig to camp classic. Still unavailable on DVD…
The Cat’s Meow (Color, 1976)
Engaging, well-shot educational film about alley cats and house
cats was the surprise hit of the original Crazy Cats! program. The deadpan, dry humor of the narration
is a big part of the appeal of this British-made short, but the slow motion
mouse acrobatics had the whole room in stitches.