FRIDAY JUNE 29th 2001 - 7:00 PM

Opening Night!
Director Val Guest In Person!!

CASINO ROYALE

1967, MGM/UA, 130 min. Dirs. Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath. A classic everything-but-the-kitchen-sink cinematic carnival with a record number of loopy spy film cliches skewering the James Bond mythos, all done up in candy-colored, psychedelic wrapping. A Sixties who's who of old-and-new hip stars appear including Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, Orson Welles, Daliah Lavi and too many others to mention. Featuring Burt Bacharach's loveliest score, highlighted by Dusty Springfield's heavenly "The Look of Love."

Discussion following with director Val Guest.

FRIDAY JUNE 29th 2001 - 9:45 PM

Real Wild Child Double-Header!!

GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE

1968, Euro London Films, 91 min. Director/cinematographer Jack Cardiff adapts the erotic novel, La Motorcyclette, with prototype rich waif Marianne Faithfull as a young French housewife seething with masochistic obsession for sadistic lover Alain Delon. Her sexy, psychedelic daydreams as she travels by motorcycle to visit him - clad head-to-toe in black leather - must be seen to be believed, and serve as punchline to the mind-blowing ultimate climax of the movie.

Marianne Faithfull on a motorcycle

BEAT GIRL

1960, 85 min. Dir. Edmond T. Greville. Released in the U.S. as WILD FOR KICKS, this is one white-hot slab of pre-Mod madness. The lovely Gillian Hills (BLOW UP) is jealous of her new French step-mom and smitten by handsome singer Adam Faith, two things which get her into all kinds of trouble when she starts hanging out at Christopher Lee's swingingly sinister, sleazy nightclub. With Oliver Reed, Shirley Anne Field.

SATURDAY JUNE 30th 2001 - 5:00 PM

BARBARELLA

1968, Paramount, 98 min. Jane Fonda, the final word in comic-strip space heroines, trips the light fantastic in director Roger Vadim's delightfully whacked-out romp in the 41st century, an acid-trip lightshow of a universe populated by blind birdman John Phillip Law, one-eyed dominatrix Anita Pallenberg (Keith Richards' one-time girlfriend!) and galaxy dictator Duran Duran (Milo O'Shea) and his orgasm machine. Ultra-groovy soft-psych soundtrack by Bob Crewe and the Glitterhouse. With David Hemmings, Marcel Marceau.

David Hemmings and Jane Fonda

SATURDAY JUNE 30th 2001 - 8:30 PM

Ultra-Rare 35 mm. Print from the U.K.!!

MODESTY BLAISE

1966, 20th Century Fox, 119 min. Director Joseph Losey's brilliant Pop Art spoof stars gorgeous Monica Vitti as jewel thief/spy-for-hire "Modesty Blaise," with Mod poster-boy Terence Stamp as her catlike cockney sidekick. Dirk Bogarde co-stars as Modesty's nemesis, a villain who always seems to have goldfish swimming in his cocktails. And watch out for Mrs. Fothergill (Rosella Falk) who enjoys strangling men with her thighs! We've brought in the only existing 35 mm. print of the film from England, just for this screening - don't miss it!!

Monica Vitti

SUNDAY JULY 1st 2001 - 5:00 PM

Surf Legend Bruce Brown In-Person!!

THE ENDLESS SUMMER

1965, Bruce Brown, 90 min. Director Bruce Brown treats us to the ultimate Sixties hymn to young, footloose surfers everywhere, as he embarks on a round-the-world odyssey in search of the Perfect Wave! Justly famous for Brown's go-for-broke attitude in recording some of the most spectacular, brain-jangling wave-rides ever captured on celluloid. With a legendary surf-instrumental soundtrack by the Sandells.

Discussion following with filmmaker Bruce Brown.

SUNDAY JULY 1st 2001 - 7:30 PM

I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT'S 'IS NAME

1967, Universal, 99 min. Dir. Michael Winner. One of the great lost films of the Sixties. Commercials director Oliver Reed just can't stomach his job's hypocrisy any longer, so he tries to break away from Machiavellian boss Orson Welles and rediscover his true roots working for a "small literary journal." Unfortunately for him, it's the middle of Swinging 60's London, and he's pursued/distracted by an endless Mod bevy of girlfriends, mistresses and soon-to-be ex-wives, while struggling to figure out just what he wants from life. Co-starring Wendy Craig, Marianne Faithfull and Carol White.

Director Michael Winner

THURSDAY JULY 5th 2001 - 7:30 PM

Lost Psychedelic Rarities Double Header!
Double dose of acid-rock soundtracks!!
Director Richard Crawford In Person!!

CAPTAIN MILKSHAKE

1970, Richard Crawford, 100 min. Director Richard Crawford generated this profoundly-felt protest film about a marine-on-leave (Geoff Gage) falling-in-love with an anti-war militant (Andrea Cagan), in and around real San Diego locations. Things get complicated with conservative relatives, irate hippies and an ill-fated Mexican drug run, all set to the trippy sounds of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe & The Fish, The Steve Miller Band and Kaleidoscope!

REVOLUTION

1969, MGM/UA, 90 min. Dir. Jack O'Connell. A groovy time machine that not only chronicles the hippie street life of 1967 San Francisco, but also includes director O'Connell's late 1980's revisiting of various interviewees, most prominently All-American blonde flower child Today Malone, who subsequently became a suburban single mother in small town New Mexico. With a sterling psychedelic soundtrack by Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mother Earth, The Steve Miller Band and Country Joe & The Fish.

Discussion between films with CAPTAIN MILKSHAKE director Richard Crawford.

FRIDAY JULY 6th 2001 - 7:00 PM

Ultra-Rare 35 mm. Print from the U.K.!!

ZABRISKIE POINT

1969, MGM (Warner Classics), 112 min. Director Michelangelo Antonioni's mind expanding odyssey of two youths (Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin) on the run from the police after a violent student demonstration. Their surreal adventures in the California desert climax in slow motion apocalypse to the strains of Pink Floyd. The film had equally-strange echoes in real life: actor Frechette later robbed a bank, and died mysteriously in prison; co-star Halprin was Frechette's off-screen girlfriend for a short time. Co-written by Sam Shepard, and co-starring Rod Taylor and a very-young Harrison Ford. This almost NEVER screens in 35 mm. - as with MODESTY BLAISE, we've brought in the only available print from England, just for this show!!

Daria Halprin and Mark Frechette

FRIDAY JULY 6th 2001 - 9:30 PM

60's Secret Agent Double-Feature!!
Writer/director Dick Clement and co-writer Ian LaFrenais in person!

OTLEY

1968, Columbia, 91 min. Dir. Dick Clement. Tom Courtenay is a small-time thief and Romy Schneider the seductively-charming spy who draws him into a Mod whirlpool of secret agent shenanigans in this opulent, rarely-seen spoof, co-written by two of Britain's sharpest satirists - Ian LaFrenais and Dick Clement (THE JOKERS, THE COMMITMENTS) - and directed by Clement himself.

SEBASTIAN

1968, Paramount, 100 min. Dir. David Greene. Colorful, pungently witty tale of conservative British code-breaker Dirk Bogarde enlisting hot-tempered, swinging interior decorator Susannah York into his all-female bevy of decoders and getting more than he bargained for, dosed with LSD by ex-girlfriend Janet Munro's Soviet spy friends! Produced by master filmmaker Michael Powell with an all-star cast including Lili Palmer and John Gielgud.

SATURDAY JULY 7th 2001 - 5:00 PM

WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?

1966, Castle Hill/Toho, 80 min. Dir. Senkichi Taniguchi, compiled by Woody Allen. One of Toho Studios' INTERNATIONAL SECRET POLICE series, the already tongue-in-cheek KEY OF KEYS, becomes an even more demented parody of Sixties spy film conventions in the hands of comedian/dubbing director Woody Allen, in this side-splittingly, funny melding of Eastern and Western pop cultures. Who's got that recipe for egg salad?? With music by the Lovin' Spoonful. Starring Tatsuya Mihashi, Akiko Wakabayashi and Mie Hama (note: the latter two were the Bond girls in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE.)

SATURDAY JULY 7th 2001 - 8:30 PM

David Warner Double-Header!!

MORGAN!

1966, Kit Parker, 97 min. Dir. Karel Reisz. Downright amazing, unjustly-forgotten black comedy starring David Warner as Morgan, an emotionally immature young man obsessed with apes, Communism and ex-wife Vanessa Redgrave (in her film debut). His efforts to win her back are punctuated by deranged antics that place him on a trajectory straight for The asylum.

David Warner at work

WORK IS A 4-LETTER WORD

1967, Universal, 93 min. Another true Pop rarity, from stage director turned filmmaker Peter Hall (A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM). David Warner and Beatles songbird pal Cilla Black star in this delightfully-absurd account of a young man on a mission - grow giant psychedelic mushrooms to promote happiness for Britain's overworked masses!! Based on the play Eh?.

SUNDAY JULY 8th 2001 - 5:00 PM

WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?

1965, MGM/UA, 108 min. Dir. Clive Donner. Emotionally frazzled Peter O'Toole goes to analyst Peter Sellers for guidance with his complicated love-life, not counting on Sellers' own hilariously-overheated sex-drive and a merry-go-round of the Sixties most beautiful women, including Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. Co-starring and written by Woody Allen, with another brilliant Pop score by Burt Bacharach, WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? is the ultimate Mod confection.

Peter Sellers and Peter O'Toole