Date: Friday, October 7th, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilms.com or (415) 558-8117
Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com
Featuring:
Cask of Amontillado (B+W, 1954)
Based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title about Montresor, an Italian nobleman, who, having been insulted by Fortunato, plots revenge full of terror in the chamber where the prized Amontillado wine is supposed to be. From a short lived series called On Stage with Monty Woolley.
A Discussion of The Fall of the House of Usher (Color, 1975)
Science Fiction superstar Ray Bradbury discusses not only the seminal work by Poe, he also delivers a history of the Gothic novel and illuminates Poe's influence on horror and science fiction to the present.
An unnerving rendition from Jan Svankmajer combining live action, stop-motion and clay animation, but no actors. A dark study in visceral and tactile terror, this is a stark and unsettling experimental horror story from one of the most imaginative auteurs in the world.
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (Color, 1957, excerpt)
The Raven (Color, 1978)
A look at this elegant, experimental animation, directed by Lewis Jacobs, will breathe new life into Poe's classic deathful tale, editing Gustave Dore's 19th century engravings to stunning effect, with brilliant near-psychedelic coloring and an appropriately somber voice-over reading of the poem.
Edgar Allan Poe's tragic love story is recited over the haunting image of a young girl forlornly walking an empty beach. As the words circle back upon themselves, so do the waves, and with deft editing, so do the fragmented images of the ghostly memory of lost love. Directed by Arthur Evans, music by Les Baxter (who also scored Roger Corman's Poe adaptation The Pit and the Pendulum).
Poe-Riffic Trailers!
House of Usher (B+W, 1960)
A teaser trailer for the Vincent Price/Roger Corman classic with some great B-grade special effects.
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (Color, 1954)
For the Early Ravens (Starting at 7:45pm):
Directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Karl Malden and Claude Dauphin. In France in the 1870s, a string of strange murders happen in the Rue Morgue. The authorities are baffled, but they do have one man who may have the answers, Prof. Dupin. When Dupin is approached by the police to help, he agrees. Soon a set of suspects are found, including a sailor named Jacques and a professor named Marais, who is involved in unauthorized (and bizarre) animal experiments.
For the Early Ravens (Starting at 7:45pm):
The Gold Bug (Color, 1979)
A cheesy ABC Weekend Special starring a very young Anthony Michael Hall and directed by Robert Fuest (Abominable Mr. Phibes). A young boy on a supposedly deserted island finds a gold bug and a piece of paper containing a secret code. He encounters a crazed old man and his towering mute servant who are searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure.
Curator’s BiographyKat Shuchter is a graduate of UC Berkeley in Film Studies. She is a filmmaker, artist and esoteric film hoarder. She has helped program shows at the PFA, The Nuart and Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater and was crowned “Found Footage Queen” of Los Angeles, 2009. She has programmed over 250 shows at Oddball on everything from puberty primers to experimental animation.About Oddball Films
Oddball Films is a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like The Nice Guys and Milk, documentaries like The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Silicon Valley, Kurt Cobain: The Montage of Heck, television programs like Transparent and Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.
Our screenings are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educational films, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.
Our screenings are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educational films, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.