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Mullets, Muppets, and My Birthday
Shake the pillars of heaven with John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China, and more.
Rob Lubow
December 16, 2024
Oh hey, holy crap, I actually sat down and put together a whole ass newsletter!
Thank you friends, acquaintances and fellow cult cinephiles, for subscribing to yet another email. (If you don’t know how you got on this list, talk to Ari.)
Basically I’m just here to give you the rundown of a couple of screenings I’ve got coming up at the Rosendale Theatre, where I’ve been programming for a whopping six months now!
I’ll wax philosophical about that some other time. We’ve all got shit to do, so let’s just get right into it.
December Screenings
12/18: WTF Wednesday: Big Trouble In Little China
‘Tis the season to celebrate JC the Carpenter!
Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."
WTF Wednesday is proud to present John Carpenter’s supernatural, kung-fu, action-comedy, cult classic, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA! Including a pre-movie clip show cut together by yours truly, and a special introduction from Kingston Film Foundation’s Bel Simek.
Check out their writeup of the screening in the most recent Hudson Valley Crucial Viewing Newsletter.
PG-13 | Action/Comedy | 1 Hour 40 Minutes | $10.00 General Admission/$6.00 Members
Wednesday, December 18
Doors & Preshow: 7pm
Screening: 7:30pm
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Kurt Russell plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco’s Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crime lord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman, who is the fiancée to Jack’s best friend. Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit.
Also starring Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong and Victor Wong.
Come early for the Big Trouble In Little China themed preshow starting at 7pm.
Check out the video below for a sneak peek at some of the quality content you can expect to see in the preshow, cut together by yours truly.
12/22: The Muppet Christmas Carol
If you have the opportunity to screen any version of A Christmas Carol, and you pick anything other than the Muppets, there is something very wrong with you.
G | Kids & Family/Holiday/Fantasy | 1 Hour 25 Minutes | $6.00 General Admission/$10.00 Members
Sunday, December 22
Doors: 2:30pm
Screening: 3pm
$10 General/$6 Members
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The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). Other Muppets — Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle — weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spirits of three Christmases — past, present and future. They show him the error of his self-serving ways, but the miserable old man seems to be past any hope of redemption and happiness.
Happy Birthday to Me, Bowie, and Presley
My birthday is coming up on January 8th, and lucky me, it happens to fall on a Wednesday. Also lucky me, I share a birthday with both David Bowie and Elvis Presley, which makes it an extremely easy occasion to program for.
1/8 @ 2pm: Labyrinth
Again, if you have the opportunity to program a movie with Muppets in it, you take it 100% of the time.
PG | Fantasy/Family | 1 Hour 46 Minutes | $10.00 General Admission/$6.00 Members
In honor of David Bowie and on the occasion of what would have been his 78th birthday (as well as a second screening on the 9th anniversary of his death), we proudly present: Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH!
Wednesday, January 8 @ 2pm
Friday, January 10 @ 7pm
$10 General/$6 Members
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Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King (David Bowie). Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers. To get through it in time to save Toby, Sarah befriends the Goblins, in hopes that their loyalty isn’t just another illusion in a place where nothing is as it seems.
1/8 @ 7:30pm: WTF Wednesday: Bubba Ho-Tep
Hail to the kings, baby!
R | Horror/Comedy | 1 Hour 32 Minutes | $10.00 General Admission/$6.00 Members
What better way to celebrate the birthday of the King of Rock and Roll, than with the King of Cult, Bruce Campbell, in a career-best performance as the one and only Elvis Presley?
WTF Wednesday is thrilled to present Don Coscarelli’s cult classic horror-comedy, BUBBA HO-TEP.
Wednesday, January 8
Doors & Preshow: 7pm
Screening: 7:30pm
$10 General/$6 Members
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Elvis and JFK did not die, and today they’re roommates in an East Texas nursing home whose residents are being killed by an ancient Egyptian Soul Sucker named Bubba Ho-Tep. I want to get that on the table at the get-go, so I can deal with the delightful wackiness of this movie, which is endearing and vulgar in about the right proportion.
Based on prolific genre writer Joe R. Lansdale’s novella, and written and directed by Don Coscarelli (PHANTASM, THE BEASTMASTER). Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell, THE EVIL DEAD TRILOGY) and JFK (Ossie Davis, DO THE RIGHT THING) team up to save their nursing home from a mummy. What else is there to say?
Come early for the preshow, featuring clips celebrating Elvis, Bruce Campbell, and birthdays (7pm)!
Thanks for reading. At some point I might zhuzh this up a bit and make this more of a thing, but for now, go get back to your life, and hopefully I’ll see you at the thee-ay-ter.
Xoxo,
Rob
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