So... um.. Sydney people... whaddya doin on 13 June between 7pm – 2am?
Join me for a one-night-only, pyjama-wearing film festival of the best in shoulder-padded 80's flicks at the goddamn Powerhouse Museum. There's big films, small films and of course a celebration of sub-textual homoerotic buddy comedies.
Did I mention that there are prizes for the best PJ's? Cos there are. Tickets are $30, and include entry to three films and to ‘The 80s are Back’ exhibition. Food and drink available to purchase at the cash bar. We're calling it When Coreys Walked The Earth
Screening on the night:
AFTER HOURS
Ever been stuck out on one of those weird nights that just seem to never ever end. Well, unless your night involved a nightclub full of punks trying to mohawk you, all of your cash flying out of a cab window and being cast alive in plaster.... then you got nothing on this. After Hours is a lesser known wonder from Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, The Departed). The performances are deranged and the plot twists hilariously weird. More than anything though - between today's ATMs and mobile phones, you simply couldn't make this movie right now. It's uniquely 80's.
THE LOST BOYS
Before Kiefer Sutherland was an alcoholic counter-terrorist agent who could foil global catastrophes within 24 hours, he was... blond. Really really blond. Also, a Vampire. This tale of an innocent young lad getting pulled into Sutherland's Californian bloodsuckers gang, proved that Vampires and Teenagers were meant to be together. So whack on the Wayfarer Sunnies and journey back in time before Twilight and Buffy to meet The Lost Boys.
BLUE VELVET
Deep inside comfy suburban 1980's America lives a very dark secret. A dismembered ear, a vicious gangster and Issabella Rossellini with a perm: You just know that this won't end well. The master of the sublimely strange David Lynch delivers his unique take on America's heartland. The trick is to turn off your brain, turn on your intuition. Let the amazing visuals, eerie music and bizarre characters wash over you and get lost in his world.
BIG TROUBLE LITTLE CHINA
There are some strange goings on in Chinatown and there's only one mullet-toting man that can solve it. Kurt "Business at the front... Party at the back" Russell. And if he doesn't save us then an army of mildly racists Asian stereotypes will envelope the world with the dodgiest of special effects. There's 'trashy' and then there's "John Carpenter Trashy". When this man directs a movie, he has a way of putting his tongue so firmly in his mouth I'm amazed he hasn't choked on it yet. It's camp, it's crazy and it has Kim Catrall back when she had full control of her facial muscles. Win.
THE BLUES BROTHERS
Dan Ackroyd and Jim Belushi are on a mission from God -- to destroy more cars than in any movie prior and to play a gigantic benefit gig to save their orphanage. Oh, and escape the Illinois Police Department, a white supremacist platoon, a murderous country and western gang and Princess Leia... sorry, Carrie Fisher. Originally based on a sketch from Saturday Night Live, this movie gets more and more epic every time you watch it. Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway and James Brown give thunderous musical performances. The Blues Brothers HAS to be seen on the big screen.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Larger than life characters, a bucket-load of charm and a time travel plot that actually makes sense?? This is the movie that turned young Alex Keaton into Micheal J Fox: Movie Star and created one of the worlds favourite movie trilogies. Can you believe that Disney turned down this script because they thought A guy falling in love with his mum was creepy?
SIXTEEN CANDLES
Imagine waking up to your 16th birthday -- and no one in your family remembered. Well, that's just the beginning of Molly Ringwald's disastrous day. Between the senior she loves and the nerd who loves her this is going to be a very strange ride. Under seen and undersold, Sixteen Candles is one of John Hughes' (Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink) best movies. Not only is the writing spot on but the performances just leap out of the screen.
DIE HARD
It's Christmas Eve in LA. 12 terrorists are holding a skyscraper hostage. Pfft, big deal. the real mistake was that they have Bruce Willis' wife. Just because bad guy Alan Rickman can curdle butter with his droll voice, doesn't mean he's any match for the pure, 80's testosterone of Willis - with his hair! Aside from being the movie that turned Willis into a bona fide action star, Die Hard also presented the rebirth of the blue collar action hero. An ordinary hero who bled, felt fear and had to work for victory against a Forbes-reading suit-wearing bad guy.
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
5 high school strangers locked together in a room on detention. Its heartwarming. its elegant. Its authentic. its quotable. its one of the best films ever made about being an adolescent. I say, smoke it up Johnny, smoke it up.
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5 comments:
PS I like your pjs, movie guy. And that bedroom.
Great line up, too. But where's Ferris Bueller? Ah well, I guess Hughes already has adequate representation...
"Sixteen Candles" is under seen? Why not put Alan Clarke's "Elephant", just to mess with everyone?
Good point.. Where is Bueller???
Totally awesome though!
O for Oarsome!! Do it in Melbourne, Do it in Melbourne!!
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