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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