Reminder: films: Loads of Curt McDowell at the Roxie @ Mon Nov 28 10pm - 11pm (Queer Things)

more details » films: Loads of Curt McDowell at the Roxie http://roxie.com/events/details.cfm?eventID=C631E551-1143-DBB3-C6581A3B43507B9D http://www.sfbg.com/2011/11/22/rare-and-juicy At the Roxie, 3117 16th near Valencia He made movies from 1970 through – this is one of many times Curt gets very complicated - the late 1980s. His most infamous movie was THUNDERCRACK!, which played alongside PINK FLAMINGOS throughout the '70s on college campuses and re-purposed porno houses. If PINK FLAMINGOS was all look-at-me toddler outrageousness, THUNDERCRACK! was all I'll-fuck-everything-that-moves high-art/"high"-"art" adolescent showmanship. Within the director's libidinous body of work, the feature-length THUNDERCRACK! is bracketed by dozens of shorts – some of which will be screening at the Roxie next week – whose united aesthetic could be loosely corralled under the words: funny, dirty, messy, confessional, digressive and deranged. (FULL DISCLOSURE: Curt worked at the Roxie selling tickets, pouring coffee and showing his movies for a major part of our history, which leads us to…) The huge re-discovery of our series is TABOO: THE SINGLE & THE LP (1982). Besides having the best name of any movie of all time, TABOO re-teams the major players of THUNDERCRACK! (George Kuchar, Marion Eaton and Melinda McDowell, as well as visionary composer Marc Ellinger) in a post-punk domestic nightmare, a group eternally damned (alongside Roxie originators/TABOO producers Robert Evans & Anita Monga) to play out the graffiti found inside a restroom stall at the Maritime Museum, ad nausea. Their perpetually-in-heat apartment rubbings are intercut with an interview gentle and unassuming Mission St. bodega employee, Fahed Martha, chatting about race politics and sexual proclivities. The proceeds from this show are going towards preserving Curt's filmography, ensuring that generations to come are scandalized by his work. The shorts program includes SIAMESE TWIN PINHEADS, RONNIE, BOGGY DEPOT and A VISIT TO INDIANA, as well as a 17 min. video by George Kuchar, shot this past summer, about working with Curt. SCHEDULE: Saturday, November 26: TABOO: THE SINGLE & THE LP, 1pm Sunday, November 27: Shorts Program, 1pm Monday, November 28: TABOO: THE SINGLE & THE LP, 10pm When Mon Nov 28 10pm – 11pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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