Date: Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 8:00PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or info@oddballfilm.com
You Give Me Fever - God, The Devil and Betty Boop - Thur. May 23 - 8PM
Date: Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 8:00PMPlay with your Toys! - Fri. May 24 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents
Play with your Toys! a fun, freewheeling program of vintage short
films celebrating toys. Marvel at the childlike wonder instilled in
artist Alexander Calder as he plays with his kinetic sculptures in Calder’s
Circus (1963). Charles and Ray Eames were huge miniature
and toy enthusiasts and offer up two visually stunning shorts, Tops (1969),
a brilliant childlike anthropological film capturing spinning tops from
different cultures and eras and Toccata For Toy Trains (1957)
a marvelous celebration of antique toys. Grant Munro's Toys (1966) brings
to life your GI Joes, but as it turns out, that's not a good thing.
Everyone's favorite little green buddy, Gumby gets into
shenanigans with toy trucks in the original 1957 short Toy Fun. A little girl's creepy dolls come to life in A Christmas Dream (1954). Watch a toy truck from the factory to the classroom in the gorgeous Technicolor funucational short Toy Telephone Truck (1953). Dolls aren't just for girls and Free To Be You and Me (1974) wants you to know it with the song "William Wants a Doll". Learn to share your toys or be alone with the animated social conditioning primer Most Important Person - Share it with Someone (1972). Plus! Naughty exxxcerpts from stuffed-animal smut and burlesque, vintage
toy commercials and even more surprises!
Date: Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 8:00PM.
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00, limited seating RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or programming@oddballfilm.com
Sugar Shock: Candy, Cavities and Saturday Morning Shenanigans - Fri. May 17 - 8PM
Oddball Films and guest curator Lynn Cursaro present: Sugar Shock: Candy, Cavities and Saturday Morning Shenanigans, a batch of gooey ephemera sure to please sweet tooths and film fans alike. The exquisitely piped icing on a royal wedding cake is one mind-blowing work of Artistry in Sugar (1971), and the confectioner can even make edible dishes. Kids get into the act in At Your Fingertips: Sugar and Spice (1970), a guide to molding sparkling crystals into objets d'arts to treasure! Recently departed practical-special effects legend Ray Harryhausen whips up a yummy puppet version of Hansel and Gretel (1951). Learn all about chocolate along with Woody Allen, Jonathan Winters and pals in Chocolate: What is it? (1971). Lucy and Ethel are up to their eyeballs in hand-dipped vanilla creams in a well-loved episode of I Love Lucy (1952). We included the stunning and psychedelic dental hygiene claymation rock-opera The Munchers (1973). Celebrate sugar’s sacred place in the rituals of Saturday morning with the Banana Splits and Friends (1970s) excerpts and vintage ads for sugary treats! And MORE! As usual, home-baked pie and other complimentary treats from the curator’s kitchen for all! (All films are 16mm unless noted.) |
| Pipe Down! |
Date: Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 8:00PM.
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00, limited seating RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or programming@oddballfilm.com
Strange Sinema 64: Optical Explorations - Thur. May 16 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents Strange
Sinema 64: Optical Explorations, an evening of newly discovered and choice rarities
from the stacks of Oddball Films’ 50,000 reel film archive. This installment of
Strange Sinema features an eclectic combination of films that illuminate the visual
vanguard and optical experimentation. We begin with Rene Claire’s surrealist/dada masterpiece Entr’acte (1924) featuring avant-garde photographer Man Ray and Frances Picabia,
followed by the rare documentary Art
of the Sixties (1967), featuring the eye-popping soft sculptures of
Claes Oldenberg, kinetic artist Len Lye, Les Levine’s early interactive
environments, action painter Jackson Pollock and more. We follow up with West
Coast experimental filmmaker Donald Fox’s exhilaratingly beautiful optical poem Omega
(1970) and Who is Victor Varasely?, (1968) a fascinating documentary about the French/Hungarian father of
Op Art and his cybernetic approach to image creation. Other films include seminal
motion graphics pioneer John Whitney’s short Arabesque (1975), an oscillating color dance to
the music of Persian rhythms created using early computer generated waveforms; Perspectrum (1974), directed by famed Indian animator Ishu Patel,
with Japanese koto soundscore produced for the National Film Board of Canada;
and a sublime work Infinity (1980),
by Bay Area abstract image pioneer Jordan Belson. Plus! Let us play even
more tricks on your eyes with Optical Film
Loops!
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 8:00PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to: 415-558-8117
or info@oddballfilm.com
Czech Please! Animated Wonders from the former Czechoslovakia - Thur. May 9th - 8PM
Oddball Films Presents Czech Please! an evening of mind-blowing animation from the former Czechoslovakia. From cut-outs to puppets to stop-motion; from the adorable to the dark and thought-provoking, this evening will open your eyes to the brilliance, vision and creativity of some of the great Czech animators. Films include Jiri Trnka's exquisite parable of totalitarianism, The Hand (1965). The two-cutest bird friends you may ever see dance to the radio, take pictures of themselves and fight off a hungry cat in the insanely adorable Queer Birds (1967). Recurring cartoon hero The Mole paints his friends in psychedelic colors in The Mole as Painter (1972). Zip off into the future in space in the trippy, zippy Kosmodrome 1999 (1969). Clever cutout animation The Sword (1967) gives a unique take on mortality. The rare and delightful Ferda the Ant(1941), a puppet-animation sporting the first wire-framed creatures on film. A young girl's ears grow and she flies away to start a band with jungle animals in Cecily (1970's). A jungle breaks out in the classroom when two kids steal a magician's top hat in Nature in a Top Hat (1960s). A clown gets upstaged by a fish in The Clowns (1968). Bulbous-nosed inventor Mr. Koumal (1968) deals with a series of amusing calamities following inventing fire, robots and wings. Plus more for the early birds!
Date: Thursday, May 9th, 2013 at 8:00PM.
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or programming@oddballfilm.com
Learn Your Lesson...on Drugs: Shockucational Shorts for the D.A.R.E. Generation - Fri. May 10th - 8PM
Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter present Learn Your Lesson...on Drugs - Shockucational Shorts for the D.A.R.E. Generation, the third in a series of programs highlighting the most ridiculous, insane and camptastic shockucational films and TV specials of the collection. This time, we're taking drugs; that is taking on drugs and the filmic pharmacy is officially open! Melanie and Kathleen are desperate to experiment with drugs in excerpts from Degrassi Jr. High - The Experiment (1987). Creepy double-headed puppets designed by Julie Taymor teach us about intergalactic teens and peer pressure in Deciso 3003 (1982). Benny's the little man on campus and while steroids might make him bigger, they might cost him everything important in Di$ney's Benny and the 'Roids (1988). It might be in Spanish but you won't miss the meaning behind the hilarious cartoon Sex, Booze, Blues and those Pills You Use (1982). McGruff the Crime Dog is back (as a man in a clumsy dog suit and trademark trenchcoat) and he's got a lesson for the kiddies on how to narc on your druggy friends in McGruff's Drug Alert (1987). Sonny Bono gets high (pre-taping) and dons a gold lamé pajama set to tell you all about Marijuana (1968). And because it never gets old, the Oddball favorite The Cat Who Drank... And Used Too Much (1987) will be stopping by. Plus! a multi-projector Celebrity Drug PSA Mash-up featuring Beau Bridges, Paul Newman on PCP, Phil Donahue on crack and Richard Dreyfuss on cocaine! Early birds shall enjoy Narcotics Pit of Despair (1967).
Date: Friday, May 10th, 2013 at 8:00pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117
Solo Cinema - Fri. May 3rd- 8PM
Oddball Films and guest curator Landon Bates bring you Solo Cinema, a program of loners,
drifters and on-screen dreamers with cast comprised
of a band of outsiders. This
collection of films celebrates the solitary, and salutes the secluded. The cinema, after all, is our sanctuary: the
abode of the awkward, shelter for the shy.
And, who better to state this theme than that perpetual wanderer, that
lone wolf, the Tramp? In The
Tramp (1915), Chaplin’s iconic hobo-hero saves a farm girl from a group
of thieves, and, welcomed into her father’s house as a gesture of his
gratitude, Charlie finds the prospect of a new home glittering (mirage-like?)
on the horizon. The Tramp will be
succeeded by two other weary travelers, likewise looking for a place to settle
down: that eponymous duo of Roman Polanski’s brilliant early short, Two
Men and a Wardrobe (1958); undoubtedly influenced by Chaplin’s
slapstick antics. In this melancholic
comedy, our pair of pariah’s, always lugging a beloved wardrobe, just can’t
seem to find their niche in the modern city.
The Balloonatic (1923) is classic Buster Keaton. With gags galore, this film finds Buster bumbling
through each frame, finally whisked away by a rogue hot air balloon and dropped
into the woods to fend for himself. And,
finally, Buster’s balloon gives way to another: The Red Balloon (1956),
wherein a young Parisian boy’s best friend is his big red balloon. Theirs is a tender friendship only a special
sort of child could have, and one that ends up drawing the hostile attention of
humorless adults and envious peers. Before
the actual screening begins, we’ll be running Shy Guy (1947), an
educational film starring Dick York (of TV’s “Bewitched”), designed to bring
the antisocial adolescent out of his basement.
We similarly encourage you to emerge from yours, and enjoy—with us,
together--this evening of longing and laughter, melancholy and mirth.
Date: Friday, May 3rd, 2013 at 8:00pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275
Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited
Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or (415)
558-8117
Jew Ought to be in Pictures: Choice Comedy Rarities from the Chosen People - Thur. May 2nd - 8PM
Oddball Films and Jewish curator Kat Shuchter bring you Jew Ought to be in Pictures: Choice Comedy Rarities from the Chosen People. This program of comedy masters features rare films with Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, The Marx Brothers, Lenny Bruce, Jack Benny, Andy Kaufman, Tom Lehrer and more. All four Marx Brothers bring us ridiculous warfare that includes dozens of costume changes, parliament breaking into song and Harpo Revere in This is War? (1933, excerpts from Duck Soup). From Mel Brooks, we have his Oscar-winning animated short The Critic (1963) and a live performance with Carl Reiner of the 2,000 Year Old Man (1961). Sid Caesar stars as the lord of the underworld trying to lure Ronald Reagan's wife away in GE Theater's The Devil You Say (1961), based on a story by Rosemary's Baby author Ira Levin. Bobby Rydell flusters Jack by impersonating him in a segment of the Jack Benny Program (1961). Song satirist Tom Lehrer's Pollution (1969) gets the montage treatment for one hysterical political statement. Woody Allen's early career and process are revealed in the documentary Woody Allen: An American Comedy (1977). Madeline Kahn stars in her first speaking role in the Bergman spoof De Duva (1968) Plus! Lane Truesdale sings Who's Yehoodi? to a lecherous painting of a hassid, Lenny Bruce's Thank You Mask Man (1968), Rodney Dangerfield peddles Miller Lite, Sammy Davis Jr. sells Alka-Seltzer, film trailers with Peter Sellers and Jerry Lewis, a super-rare interview with Andy Kaufman as Tony Clifton and much much more! So, grab your yarmulke, your tallit and your torah and get ready to laugh your tuchus off!
Date: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 at 8:00PM.
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or programming@oddballfilm.com
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