Night Across the Street
Thursday, August 8 at 7pm FULL EXPOSURE Night Across the Street dir. Raul Ruiz, France, 2012, HD, Spanish and French with English subtitles, 110 min.
On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life – a trip to the movies as a young boy with Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted hotel, conversations with a fictional doppelganger of a real writer. Stories hide within stories and the thin line between imagination and reality steadily erodes, opening up a marvelous new world of personal remembrance and fantastic melodrama. In this playfully elegiac film, loosely adapted from the fantastical short stories of Chilean writer Herman del Solar, Raul Ruiz has crafted a final masterwork on his favorite subjects: fiction, history and life itself.
Friday, August 9 at 8pm outdoor screenings: TOTALLY TERRIBLE 80s! Can’ t Stop the Music dir. Nancy Walker, US, 1980, digital, 123 min.
New York City DJ-songwriter Jack Morell( Steve Guttenberg) needs a big break to get his music heard and land a record deal. With the help of his retired supermodel roommate( Valerie Perrine) and an uptight tax attorney( Olympic champion Bruce Jenner), Jack brings together six singing macho men from the Greenwich Village scene in this pseudo-autobiography of the Village People— a fun-filled adventure of fantasy and disco fever!
Can’ t Stop the Music
Can’ t Stop the Music is notorious for being the first winner of the Worst Picture Razzie, for it was a double feature of this and Xanadu that inspired John J. B. Wilson to start the Razzies. The film was the sole feature by Nancy Walker, star of film, television and radio most known for her role is Ida Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, as well as a popular commercial campaign for Bounty paper towels(“ the quicker-picker-upper”) from 1970 to 1990. Producer Allan Carr, wishing to replicate his success as writer-producer of Grease, hoped to score big with this big budget disco musical. However by the time of its release during the summer of 1980, the disco genre had not only peaked in the United States but was experiencing a backlash. The film received scathing reviews and audiences stayed away. At a cost estimated at $ 20 million, the film was a colossal failure financially, bringing in only a tenth of that in gross revenue.
Since its initial failure, the film has gained something of a cult status as a camp film. The film has been screened at gay film festivals, including the 2008 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and is an annual New Year’ s tradition on Australian television.
City Tap House proudly sponsors International House Philadelphia’ s Outdoor Movie Series and offers 10 % off your check every Friday after 5pm all summer long. To redeem, pick up a coupon at an any IHP outdoor screening, or present your IHP ticket stub at City Tap House.
Free screening. Please bring chairs and blankets; rain or shine.
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