Past Fest 2019: The Exorcist with William Friedkin, Halloween III with Tom Atkins, Pure Born Killers with Forged & Extra
Past Fest, the highest-attended style movie pageant within the US, is worked up to announce its slate of 2019 programming, comprised of 39 options together with three world premieres, 2 US premieres and 17 West Coast premieres of cinematic extra. Past Fest returns to Hollywood’s famed Egyptian Theatre for 14 days of cinematic splendor spanning Wednesday, September 25th – Tuesday, October eighth to generate funds for the nonprofit 501c3 American Cinematheque.
With a various slate celebrating cinema from all corners of the globe, Past Fest is proud to open with a double-barrelled-double-bill from LA provocateurs Spectrevision, that includes Shade Out of Area, with director Richard Stanley in particular person, and Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Daniel Is not Actual. Different hotly anticipated titles making their West Coast debuts embody two beautiful social satires; this yr’s transcendent Palme d’Or winner, Parasite, with author/director Bong Joon-Ho in particular person, and Taika Waititi’s brilliantly provocative and well timed story, JoJo Rabbit. Eddie Murphy returns in bombastic vogue in Craig Brewer’s Dolemite is My Title, which is paired with Rudy Ray Moore’s authentic 1975 Blaxploitation traditional Dolemite, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s Sundance sensation, The Lodge, delivers supremely chilling scares, director Ant Timpson can be joined by star Elijah Wooden as he presents his electrifying directorial debut, Come To Daddy, and pageant sensation Little Monsters tears up the large display screen courtesy of Past Fest alumnus Abe Forsythe.
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World premieres additionally take middle stage with Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s journey improbable, Mister America, directed by Eric Notarnicola. Starring Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington as Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, Tim runs for workplace. Each can be current to share tales from the political hotbed of San Bernardino County. One of the iconic durations of style cinema is exhaustively celebrated within the definitive 80’s horror documentary In Search of Darkness, directed by David A. Weiner, and can be accompanied by an epic panel of filmmakers and expertise from the legendary period. Additionally receiving its world debut is the brand new anthology movie Portals from luminaries Gregg Hale, Liam O’Donnell, Eduardo Sánchez, and Timo Tjahjanto.
“Because the world hurtles in direction of its impending demise we’re blissful to as soon as once more have a good time among the most progressive and distinctive filmmaking on the market,” mentioned Past Fest Co-Founder, Christian Parkes. “To share a Palme d’Or winner from a grasp director alongside one thing undiscovered and as exhilarating as The Huge of Night time is every thing that Past Fest believes in.”
Probably the most beloved cult classics are celebrated through a sequence of particular occasion screenings all through the pageant. Main this yr’s repertory slate and shutting out the pageant is a particular 25th-anniversary reunion of Oliver Stone’s incendiary masterpiece, Pure Born Killers, that includes a post-screening Q&A with director Stone, stars Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, and producer Don Murphy in-person. Legendary actor Tom Atkins joins us for a particular triple invoice that includes three of his most beloved and iconic roles in The Fog, Halloween III: Season of the Witch and Night time of the Creeps. Director Karyn Kusama reunites with star Megan Fox for a 10-year anniversary screening of their genre-bending Jennifer’s Physique, Elliott Gould makes a uncommon look to share his tales as Philip Marlowe following Robert Altman’s private print of The Lengthy Goodbye, the grasp William Friedkin joins us to speak about essentially the most terrifying movie ever made, The Exorcist, and we go gonzo with two “How did this get made and why have been they marketed to youngsters?” screenings that includes Stewart Raffill’s hyper-gory-high-school-rom-com-dinosaur-horror Tammy and the T-Rex and the theatrical premiere of Mooch Goes to Hollywood, directed by Richard Erdman and starring Vincent Worth, which is greatest described as Benji meets Midnight Cowboy within the Valley of the Dolls.
LA will get its shine this yr in a sequence of screenings that includes locals Joe Begos, Travis Stevens and UK transplant Bernard Rose. Hesh renegade Begos unleashes his trademark carnage in a double-bill that includes the West Coast premiere of Fangoria Movies’ super-siege VFW and his psychedelic bad-LA-acid-trip, Bliss. Producer turned author/director Travis Stevens casts his artfully disturbed eye upon Lady On The Third Ground with stars Phil Brooks (aka CM Punk) and Elissa Dowling in attendance, and Bernard Rose takes us again to a transitional Japan to discover the collision of honor and tradition in his fantastically composed Samurai Marathon 1855.
Particular occasions are led by cult legend Joe Bob Briggs as he brings his one man present to the Egyptian’s well-known stage for Joe Bob Presents: How Rednecks Saved Hollywood and award-winning composer Joe LoDuca who can be performing his new rating earlier than the LA premiere of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Useless 4K restoration, offered by Mondo. There’s extra undead motion from Cinematic Void as they current the brand new 4K restoration of Jorge Grau’s ethereal traditional The Residing Useless at Manchester Morgue and are joined by Dying Waltz Recording Co. for a document launch screening of Joe Giannone’s summer season camp slasher Madman. Friday Night time Frights returns for a 30th anniversary screening of the Italian large monster run amok, KIller Crocodile, by Fabrizio De Angelis.
Along with the primary theater, the Egyptian’s 90-seat second display screen will host 13 free screenings together with the US Premiere of David Marmor’s critically-lauded 1BR, a particular screening of the good Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer chiller Mary, directed by Michael Goi, the West Coast Premiere of Andrew Patterson’s Midnight Insanity chosen The Huge of Night time, the US Premiere of David Gregory’s good Al Adamson documentary Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Dying of Al Adamson in a double with Al Adamson’s loopy Dracula vs Frankenstein with an array of particular friends, together with the primary ever public look of the silver display screen’s most elusive Dracula, Zandor Vorkov, the LA Premiere of Alexandre Philippe’s Alien documentary extraordinaire Reminiscence: The Origins of Alien, the West Coast Premiere of Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ unimaginable, genre-defying Swallow, the West Coast Premiere of Mirrah Foulkes’ madcap Sundance standout Judy & Punch, and for the primary time, 4 shorts blocks celebrating bite-sized style brilliance from close to and much.
See beneath for the complete lineup of newly introduced function movie titles for Past Fest 2019. Past Shorts can be introduced shortly. Tickets can be on sale through Brown Paper Tickets on Saturday, September seventh at 10 AM PST.
BEYOND FEST 2019 PROGRAM – EGYPTIAN THEATRE
BLISSDirector: Joe BegosCountry: USARuntime: 80 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director Joe Begos and forged in particular personCOLOR OUT OF SPACEWest Coast PremiereDirector: Richard StanleyCountry: USARuntime: 111 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director Richard Stanley and Elijah Wooden, Daniel Noah, Josh Waller in particular personCOME TO DADDYWest Coast PremiereDirector: Ant TimpsonCountry: Canada | New Zealand | Eire | USARuntime: 93 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director Ant Timpson and Elijah Wooden in particular personDANIEL ISN’T REALWest Coast PremiereDirector: Adam Egypt MortimerCountry: USARuntime: 96 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director Adam Egypt Mortimer and Elijah Wooden, Daniel Noah, Josh Waller in particular personDOLEMITE IS MY NAMEWest Coast PremiereDirector: Craig BrewerCountry: USARuntime: 118 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Writers Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander in particular personOLEMITEDirector: D’Urville MartinCountry: USARuntime: 90 min.Yr: 1975THE EVIL DEAD: REIMAGINED 4K RestorationWest Coast PremiereDirector: Sam RaimiCountry: USARuntime: 85 min.Yr: 1981GUESTS: That includes reside efficiency from Joe LoDucaHE EXORCIST Director’s MinimizeDirector: William FriedkinCountry: USARuntime: 128 min.Yr: 1973GUESTS: Director William Friedkin in particular personTHE FOGDirector: John CarpenterCountry: USARuntime: 89 min.Yr: 1980GUESTS: Tom Atkins in particular personGIRL ON THE THIRD FLOORWest Coast PremiereDirector: Travis StevensCountry: USARuntime: 93 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Author/Director Travis Stevens, Phil Brooks and Elissa Dowling in particular personHALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCHDirector: Tommy Lee WallaceCountry: USARuntime: 98 min.Yr: 1982GUESTS: Tom Atkins in particular personIN SEARCH OF DARKNESSWorld PremiereDirector: David A. WeinerCountry: UKRuntime: 240 minutesYear: 2019GUESTS: To be introducedJENNIFER’S BODYDirector: Karyn KusamaCountry: USARuntime: 102 min.Yr: 2009GUESTS: Director Karyn Kusama and Megan Fox in Particular personJOE BOB BRIGGS’ “HOW REDNECKS SAVED HOLLYWOOD”Particular EventCountry: USARuntime: 120 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Joe Bob Briggs in Particular personJOJO RABBITWest Coast PremiereDirector: Taika WaititiCountry: Germany | USARuntime: 108 min.Yr: 2019LITTLE MONSTERSWest Coast PremiereDirector: Abe ForsytheCountry: Australia | UK | USARuntime: 94 min.Yr: 2019THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE 4K RestorationWest Coast PremiereDirector: Jorge GrauCountry: Spain | ItalyRuntime: 93 min.Yr: 1974THE LODGEWest Coast PremiereDirector: Severin Fiala, Veronika FranzCountry: UK | USARuntime: 100 min.Yr: 2019THE LONG GOODBYEDirector: Robert AltmanCountry: USARuntime: 113 min.Yr: 1973GUESTS: Elliott Gould in Particular personMISTER AMERICAWorld PremiereDirector: Eric NotarnicolaCountry: USARuntime: 90 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington in particular personNATURAL BORN KILLERS (Closing Night time)Director: Oliver StoneCountry: USARuntime: 118 min.Yr: 1994GUESTS: Director Oliver Stone, Juliette Lewis, Woody Harrelson and Don Murphy in particular personNIGHT OF THE CREEPSDirector: Fred DekkerCountry: USARuntime: 88 min.Yr: 1986GUESTS: Tom Atkins in particular personPARASITEWest Coast PremiereDirector: Bong Joon-hoCountry: South KoreaRuntime: 132 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director Bong Joon-ho in particular personSAMURAI MARATHON 1855West Coast PremiereDirector: Bernard RoseCountry: Japan | UKRuntime: 103 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director Bernard Rose and actor Danny Huston in particular personTAMMY AND THE T-REXWest Coast PremiereDirector: Stewart RaffillCountry: USARuntime: 82 min.Yr: 1994GUESTS: Director Stewart Raffill, producer Diane Kirman and actor John Goff in particular personVFWWest Coast PremiereDirector: Joe BegosCountry: USARuntime: 92 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director Joe Begos, William Sadler and Stephen Lang in particular person
SECOND SCREEN – SPIELBERG THEATRE
1BR (Free Screening)US PremiereDirector: David MarmorCountry: USARuntime: 90 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director David Marmor and Producer Alok MishraBLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE AND GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON (Free Screening)US PremiereDirector: David GregoryCountry: USARuntime: 100 min.Yr: 2019GUESTS: Director David Gregory in particular person, Director of Pictures Jim Kunz and Producer Nicole Mikuzis in particular personDRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (Free Screening)Director: Al AdamsonCountry: USARuntime: 91 min.Yr: 1971GUESTS:Actor Zandor Vorkov, Actor/Producer/Stuntman Gary Kent, Actor/Producer/Stuntman Jon ‘Bud’ Carson, Actor/Producer Ken Osborne and Cinematographer Mike Ferris in particular personJUDY & PUNCH (Free Screening)West Coast PremiereDirector: Mirrah FoulkesCountry: AustraliaRuntime: 105 min.Yr: 2019KILLER CROCODILE (Free Screening)Director: Fabrizio De AngelisCountry: ItalyRuntime: 90 min.Yr: 1989MADMAN (Free Screening)Director: Joe GiannoneCountry: USARuntime: 88 min.Yr: 1981MARY (Free Screening)Particular ScreeningDirector: Michael GoiCountry: USARuntime: 84 min.Yr: 2019MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN (Free Screening)LA PremiereDirector: Alexandre O. PhilippeCountry: USARuntime: 95 min.Yr: 2019MOOCH GOES TO HOLLYWOOD (Free Screening)Theatrical PremiereDirector: Richard ErdmanCountry: USARuntime: 51 min.Yr: 1971PAGANINI HORROR (Free Screening)Director: Luigi CozziCountry: ItalyRuntime: 88 min.Yr: 1989PORTALS (Free Screening)World PremiereDirector: Gregg Hale, Liam O’Donnell, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo TjahjantoCountry: USARuntime: 85 min.Yr: 2019SWALLOW (Free Screening)West Coast PremiereDirector: Carlo Mirabella-DavisCountry: USA | FranceRuntime: 94 min.Yr: 2019THE VAST OF NIGHT (Free Screening)West Coast PremiereDirector: Andrew PattersonCountry: USARuntime: 89 min.Yr: 2019
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