Movie Mike Hosts Screenings

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Upcoming Shows :

 FRITZ  LANG’S  METROPOLIS!

PAPER BOX 17 MEADOW ST BUSHWICK BROOKLYN

SATURDAY MAY 11 9:00 PM

THIS WILL BE A 1920S-THEMED EVENT WITH LIVE JAZZ                                             BY SVETLANA AND THE DELANCEY FIVE BAND  PLUS SILENT FILM:      

Fritz Lang’s ground-breaking  1927 science-fiction masterpiece, inspired by his visit to New York and vision of our skyline.  The great city, with skyscrapers pierced by highways and topped by landing pads! The horrid underground levels where the workers dwell and toil! Cinema’s first robot, created by a mad scientist!  Class war between the workers and the thinkers!  One of the greatest silent films, it is wonderfully designed and still exciting.

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THE HARRY REEMS MEMORIAL SCREENING!

SPECTACLE THEATER, 124 S. 3RD ST
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
TUESDAY APRIL 16, 8:00 PM

DEEP THROAT (1972)

RIP Harry and his nine-incher: We’ll see it on display in the Original Deep Throat plus extra XXX-rated treats, including vintage stag films and hardcore animation.

Let’s look at the film which led the crossover of hardcore porn into the mainstream market and began the vulgarization of our culture.   If this movie had not introduced the subject of oral sex into the public arena, the press would never have reported what Bill did with Monica. 

Deep Throat is surprisingly mild by today’s standards, and is more interesting as a 60s-styled comedy than as pornography.  Look for psychedelic freeze-frame sequences and multi-screen mosaics that were common to this period of film-making. Directed by Jerry Damiano.

Looking at Deep Throat today reveals it as a golden turkey very nearly as bad as the films of Ed Wood. It’s mostly silent film that has been set to music, and it is bad music. The whole thing is a single dirty joke stretched out to feature length.  But Harry does show some very real talent as a comic actor; too bad he never got a chance to develop this talent to its full potential.