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LATE-NIGHT MOVIES RETURN TO THE OAKS THEATER
AS “MOONLIT MATINEES” SUMMER PROGRAM!
Print it out, post it up! Whatever you do, don't spend your summer without these great flicks! Late-night movies return to The Oaks Theater beginning Saturday, June 7, with the kick-off of a new summer movie program featuring something for EVERYone: 13 late show classics and feature film tie-ins representing a broad range of audience requests and popular alternative films! The series, “Moonlit Matinees,” will screen on SATURDAYS @ Midnight and SUNDAYS @ 10:00pm, with frequent guest appearances, prizes, pre-show activities, and featuring regular interactive discount offers. Regular priced individual tickets to the series are only $4.00 per show, and proof of age (or accompanying adult) is required for all R-rated features. NO advance ticket sales–first come, first serve only–so come early, and come OFTEN!
The schedule, spanning 25 summer nights, is as follows:
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June 7 & 8: “HAIRSPRAY”
(1998, PG, 1hr 45min)
John Waters' 1988 comedy (his first PG-rated movie) stars Debbie Harry, Ricki Lake, Pia Zadora, and the legendary Devine! Hysterically tackling a broad range of real issues (such as racial segregation, celebrity exploitation and teenage pimples), this satiric 1960s period piece inspired the current Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical.
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June 14 only: “RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY”
(1991, R, 1hr 30min)
Incredibly Strange Video presents a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY uncut screening of the Hong Kong comic book-inspired cult classic, a wildly over-the-top martial arts schlock spectacle featuring “the” notorious, hilarious exploding head scene (as seen on Comedy Central's “The Daily Show”).
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June 21 & 22: “HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH”
(2001, R, 1hr 50min)
$1 OFF admission with “Hedwig” City Theatre ticket stub! Plus, FREE PRIZE-One lucky audience member each night will win 2 passes to see the “Hedwig” City Theatre stage production! This overwhelmingly original gender-bending rock musical found a new star in its writer-director title performer, John Cameron Mitchell, and became an instant midnight classic featuring live cast performances (a la “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”). Saturday show will be introduced by “Angry Inch” City Theatre bandmates!
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June 28 & 29: “THE TERMINATOR”
(1984, R, 1hr 50min)
Helmed by cyborg saga creator James Cameron, this 1984 introductory installment is widely regarded as the best entry (so far) in the “Terminator” series, a nonstop action and special effects thrill ride setting up a fascinating scenario about the consequences of synthetic enhancements and the creation of artificial life.
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July 5 & 6: “2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY”
(1968, G, 2hrs 20min)
New 35mm Print! $1 OFF admission with canned food donation! Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterwork is a science-fiction epic that demands the complete theatrical experience. Featuring jaw-dropping CinemaScope cinematography, groundbreaking period special effects, and often times accompanied by the lush musical compositions of Richard Strauss, “2001” is a treasure to behold and the most-requested film in our late-night series.
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July 12 & 13: “BLUE VELVET”
(1986, R, 2hrs)
Archive print! FREE PRIZE-One lucky audience member (21+) each night will win a raffled case of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer! Beautiful and bizarre, David Lynch's subversive “behind closed doors” film encounter unveils what discomforting suburban dramas lurk just beyond the white picket fence-and challenged as many viewers as it charmed upon initial release in 1986. Featuring Isabella Rossellini, “Twin Peaks” star Kyle MacLachlan, and comeback roles for both Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell.
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July 19 & 20: “NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE”
(1978, R, 1hr 40min)
$1 OFF admission when you wear any fraternity apparel! Director John Landis struck gold with this 1978 college wasteland comedy set in a party animal Frat House where John Belushi and Tim Matheson play under-achievers in a living space that has no rules and havoc is bliss.
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July 26 & 27: “BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE”
(1989, PG, 1hr 30min)
Archive print! 2-FOR-1 admission with children's book donation! “Matrix” star Keanu Reeves established his first typecasting prototype in the form of a clueless Van Halen-obsessed California high school student who embarks on a time traveling phone booth with which he can encounter various great historical figures in a beat-the-clock effort to pass class and avoid military school. Helmed by “Men in Black” and “Levity” screenwriter Ed Solomon, and co-starring George Carlin.
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August 2 & 3: “DONNIE DARKO”
(2001, R, 2hrs)
A destined midnight classic, this 1980s-induced science fiction tragedy combines Duran Duran, teen angst, demented rabbits and Stephen Hawking philosophy in a nightmarish suburban drama of banned books, mental hygiene, and the end of the world-troubled circumstances all wearing on the adolescent shoulders of Donnie Darko, the challenging young would-be superhero in disguise. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Katharine Ross and Patrick Swayze.
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Aug. 9 & 10: “ENTER THE DRAGON”
(1973, R, 1hr 45min)
CHINESE FOOD at the concession stand! The 25th Anniversary Version of Bruce Lee's most popular silver screen Kung Fu jaunt contains all the same thrills and breezy plot, enhanced by extended action scenes and a 1998 restored print!
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Aug. 16 & 17: “THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE”
(1987, PG, 1hr 40min)
2-FOR-1 admission with an authentic Garbage Pail Kids card featuring YOUR name (I.D. required)! While beginning as a satiric consumer alternative to the Cabbage Patch Kids doll craze, the “bad” fad developed into this 1987 feature film venture, a “Pandora's Box” oddity about the grotesque youngsters who start out as exploited workers in a fashion sweatshop, then are imprisoned in a state home for the ugly! Mackenzie Astin (son of Patty Duke) plays the one genuinely sympathetic friend these pleasantly unpleasant children have.
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Aug. 23 & 24: “A CLOCKWORK ORANGE”
(1971, R, 2hrs 20min)
Preceded by a LIVE Beethoven piano recital! Our most popular late-night screening ever, it was promised to those aged 16 and younger that Stanley Kubrick's historic ultraviolence motion picture mind game would return to the big screen on an annual basis to welcome those now-legal eager cinephiles who were formerly forbidden entry due to the picture's long-noted controversy, notoriety, and MPAA-imposed R-rating!
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Aug. 30 & 31: “EL MARIACHI”
(1992, R, 1hr 25min)
MEXICAN FOOD at the concession stand! The 1992 predecessor to Robert Rodriquez's “Desperado” and its forthcoming sequel, “Once Upon a Time in Mexico,” “El Mariachi” is a rapid-fire action feast, a case of mistaken identity expanded to feature length with an energy and timely pacing that never lets up. Shot on a legendary $7,000 budget, this brazenly competent chase movie never ceases to amaze.
Someone had better get a car soon because I want to see almost all of those…but with the possible exception of Donnie Darko. I don't really care to see that movie ever again.
