Programming:
Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor trade softcover).
Meeting Location:
Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM
Contact Information:
Send us an email.
All posts by Craig Chrissinger
Jane Lindskold & Wolves Event
Jane Lindskold will appear at Wolf Fest 2012 at the University of New Mexico 10:00 am-2:00 pm at a booth “most likely located in the Dominguez Court near Zimmerman Library” along with her friends from the Wild Spirit Sanctuary. The exact location could change depending on weather.
Lindskold will sign books, and talk about wolves and writing with anyone who stops by.
It’s an all-day event to promote awareness of the plight of the Mexican Gray Wolf – with tons of booths and information, a chance to sign petitions, and to learn about wolves from a variety of sources. It all takes place on the Smith Plaza of UNM 8:00 am-5:00 pm.
John Waters Fest Ends at Guild
John Waters Double Feature at the Guild Cinema
Saturday, March 10 — 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 & 9:00 pm
Female Trouble – 5:00 & 9:00 pm
Hairspray – 3:00 & 7:00 pm
Female Trouble directed by John Waters – 1974 – 98m.
In anticipation of John Waters’ speaking engagement at Popejoy on Sunday March 11!
Female Trouble is a riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore’s “Prince of Puke.” This sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore’s infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is terrific as Dawn’s bratty daughter Taffy, conceived following a romp on a junkyard mattress with a fat derelict in soiled underpants (also played by Divine). Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary co-star as crazed owners of a beauty-parlor who are convinced that “crime equals beauty,” and they take Dawn under their wings, forcing her to mainline liquid eyeliner to enhance her appeal. Edith Massey steals the film as Dawn’s obsessive neighbor, Ida, who wants her nephew to be gay (because heterosexuals lead “sick and boring lives”) and throws acid in Dawn’s face when she marries him. A hilariously appalling film, Female Trouble is just as disgusting and maybe even funnier than Waters’ previous Pink Flamingos.
Hairspray directed by John Waters – 1988 – 92m.
In anticipation of John Waters’ speaking engagement at Popejoy on Sunday March 11 – a double-feature with Female Trouble!
In Hairspray, the Turnblads’ (Divine, Jerry Stiller) plus-size daughter (Ricki Lake) rocks a segregated TV dance show in 1960s Baltimore. Funny as heck and a good message to boot, (!) this is the original 1988 one that includes Sonny Bono and Debra Harry as parents of a rival young girl plus Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora as pot-smoking beatniks.
“Not only Waters’s best movie, but a crossover gesture that expands his appeal without compromising his vision one iota” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
John Waters Double Feature at Guild
John Waters Double Feature at the Guild Cinema
Thursday-Saturday, March 8-10, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 & 9:00 pm
Female Trouble – 5:00 & 9:00 pm
Hairspray – 3:00 & 7:00 pm
Female Trouble directed by John Waters – 1974 – 98m.
In anticipation of John Waters’ speaking engagement at Popejoy on Sunday March 11!
Female Trouble is a riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore’s “Prince of Puke.” This sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore’s infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is terrific as Dawn’s bratty daughter Taffy, conceived following a romp on a junkyard mattress with a fat derelict in soiled underpants (also played by Divine). Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary co-star as crazed owners of a beauty-parlor who are convinced that “crime equals beauty,” and they take Dawn under their wings, forcing her to mainline liquid eyeliner to enhance her appeal. Edith Massey steals the film as Dawn’s obsessive neighbor, Ida, who wants her nephew to be gay (because heterosexuals lead “sick and boring lives”) and throws acid in Dawn’s face when she marries him. A hilariously appalling film, Female Trouble is just as disgusting and maybe even funnier than Waters’ previous Pink Flamingos.
Hairspray directed by John Waters – 1988 – 92m.
In anticipation of John Waters’ speaking engagement at Popejoy on Sunday March 11 – a double-feature with Female Trouble!
In Hairspray, the Turnblads’ (Divine, Jerry Stiller) plus-size daughter (Ricki Lake) rocks a segregated TV dance show in 1960s Baltimore. Funny as heck and a good message to boot, (!) this is the original 1988 one that includes Sonny Bono and Debra Harry as parents of a rival young girl plus Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora as pot-smoking beatniks.
“Not only Waters’s best movie, but a crossover gesture that expands his appeal without compromising his vision one iota” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
Albuq SF Society Auction
Programming:
Time For The Traditional ASFS Auction, hosted by local author Robert Vardeman! VardeBob should update us on his current projects while auctioning off various doodads & mysterious items. Bidding will in be in 50-cent increments up to $6.00, then in whole dollars. Please bring 2-6 items, sci-fi or otherwise, to donate to the cause. (And remember, we can only take payments in cash or check. But we will run tabs until the auction is finished.)
Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted (until we have a clean-up issue), and there is a water fountain in our meeting space.
Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…
DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 PM. Please do not arrive before this time. We have to set up the room ourselves, and straighten/clean-up at the end.
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Meeting Location:
ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, by the gated courtyard)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM
(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)
Club Contacts:
Craig C. at 266-8905 or Kevin H
Albuq SF Society
Programming – A Visit from Santa Fe author Melinda Snodgrass!
ASFS friend/Santa Fe author Melinda Snodgrass will talk about her forthcoming Phillipa Bornikova novels (This Case Is Gonna Kill Me will be released in September 2012), the status of the possible Wild Cards movie, and and other projects/hobbies on which she’s working…
Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted (until we have a clean-up issue), and there is a water fountain in our meeting space.
Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…
DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 PM. Please do not arrive before this time. We have to set up the room ourselves, and straighten/clean-up at the end.
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- Click for PDF version.
Meeting Location:
ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, by the gated courtyard)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM
(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)
Club Contacts:
Craig C. at 266-8905 or Kevin H
Innkeepers at Guild
The Innkeepers at the Guild Cinema
Friday & Saturday, February 3-4, 10:00 pm & Midnight
Directed by Ti West – 2011 – 101m.
All Seats $7.00 – Burning Paradise members $5.00. Cash only.
An Alibi Midnight Movie Madness Presentation.
From director Ti West (The House of the Devil) comes The Innkeepers. Set in the venerable Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is about to shut its doors for good after over a century of service. Believed by many to be one of New England’s “most haunted hotels,” the last remaining employees – Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) – are determined to uncover proof before it shuts down for good. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.
“The American horror industry may not have earned it of late, but it needs more filmmakers like Ti West. The Innkeepers is radiant with inspiration…Genuinely funny…Yielding a refined and sophisticated sense of dread. Ti west does it again.” – Peter Hall, Moviefone
“A low-key, slow-burning supernatural tale in which a vivid, sympathetic female protagonist is progressively menaced in a distinctive locale…This is at heart an old-fashioned ghost story, made the more piquant by Paxton’s sympathetic, funny, vulnerable lead performance…There are several high-impact shocks among the delicate chills. – Kim Newman, Screen Daily
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
Walter Jon Williams Signing
New Mexico award-winning author Walter Jon Williams will be celebrating the release of The Fourth Wall with a talk and signing February 25!
The Fourth Wall is a sequel to This Is Not a Game and Deep State. Other Williams books also will be on hand as well!
Come join Williams 3:00 pm Saturday, February 25, at Page One Bookstore, southwest corner of Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE.
For more information, check out www.page1book.com…
Albuq SF Society
Programming – A Visit from New Mexico author Darynda Jones!
Award-winning urban fantasy/paranormal romance author Darynda Jones will talk about her latest novel, Third Grade Dead Ahead (February 2012), and other projects/hobbies on which she’s working…
Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted (until we have a clean-up issue), and there is a water fountain in our meeting space.
Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…
DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 PM. Please do not arrive before this time. We have to set up the room ourselves, and straighten/clean-up at the end.
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- Click for PDF version.
Meeting Location:
ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, by the gated courtyard)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM
(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)
Club Contacts:
Craig C. at 266-8905 or Kevin H
Droids & Dragons Book Group
Programming:
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (latest printing is trade softcover, but any edition will work).
[This gathering marks the group’s return to the 3rd Monday of each month.]
Meeting Location:
Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM
Contact Information:
Send us an email.
Droids & Dragons Book Group
Programming:
The Bone Key by Sarah Monette (trade softcover).
[Gathering on a Tuesday due to Page One closing early on President’s Day.]
Meeting Location:
Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM
Contact Information:
Send us an email.
Darynda Jones Signing
Join Bubonicon friend and award-winning author Darynda Jones 4:00 pm Saturday, February 11, as she discusses and signs her third novel, Third Grave Dead Ahead.
Third Grave continues the adventures of Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper Extraordinaire, in her supernatural shenanigans. Jones won the 2009 Golden Heart Award for Best Paranormal Romance for the manuscript to her first book, First Grave on the Right, and the 2011 New Mexico Book Award for Romance Fiction. She lives in Portales.
The Jones signing takes place 4:00-5:30 pm at Page One Bookstore, southwest corner of Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE. More info at page1book.com
Gulliver Ends at Guild
The Three Worlds of Gulliver at the Guild Cinema
Last screenings Sunday, January 29, 11:00 am and 1:00 pm
Directed by Jack Sher – 1960 – 100m.
MOM’S MATINEE Continues with the Fantastic Worlds of Ray Harryhausen! All Seats Just $5.00 – cash only.
Imaginative special effects by the legendary Ray Harryhausen are the highlights of this adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s classic fantasy novel. Kerwin Mathews, who rose to fame after appearing opposite Harryhausen’s “Superdynamation” effects in The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), stars as the English Dr. Gulliver, whose travels bring him in contact with both the diminutive Lilliputians and the gigantic Brobdingnagians. Featuring a rousing Bernard Herrmann score, too.
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
Harryhausen’s Gulliver at Guild
The Three Worlds of Gulliver at the Guild Cinema
Saturday & Sunday, January 28 & 29, 11:00 am and 1:00 pm
Directed by Jack Sher – 1960 – 100m.
MOM’S MATINEE Continues with the Fantastic Worlds of Ray Harryhausen! All Seats Just $5.00 – cash only.
Imaginative special effects by the legendary Ray Harryhausen are the highlights of this adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s classic fantasy novel. Kerwin Mathews, who rose to fame after appearing opposite Harryhausen’s “Superdynamation” effects in The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), stars as the English Dr. Gulliver, whose travels bring him in contact with both the diminutive Lilliputians and the gigantic Brobdingnagians. Featuring a rousing Bernard Herrmann score, too.
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
Jo Walton Signing
Award-Winning Canadian author Jo Walton will visit the Duke City as part of a cross-country book tour, celebrating the softcover release of Among Others.
Being released early January, Among Others is an urban fantasy. Walton (born December 1964 in Wales) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and SF writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy Award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha’penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award, and her novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award.
Come join Walton 7:00 pm Thursday, January 26, as she talks about Among Others and her other works, and signs various novels at Page One Bookstore, southwest corner of Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE.
Droids & Dragons Book Group
Programming:
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin (mass market paperback).
[Postponed from December 2011 due to bad weather.]
Meeting Location:
Page One Bookstore
Montgomery & Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM
Contact Information:
Send us an email.
Albuq SF Society
Programming – Group Book Discussion: “What We Read in 2011”
Come prepared to tell club members what you read in 2011 and would recommend to others. Choose 2-4 books, and practice keeping remarks short and to the point. You might also consider one or two books that people should avoid!
Club News: We have been approved to meet at St. Andrew for all of 2012…
Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted (until we have a clean-up issue), and there is a water fountain in our meeting space.
Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…
DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 PM. Please do not arrive before this time. We have to set up the room ourselves, and straighten/clean-up at the end.
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- Click for PDF version.
Meeting Location:
ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, by the gated courtyard)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM
(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)
Club Contacts:
Craig C. at 266-8905 or Kevin H
Greg Bear Signing
Award-Winning California author Greg Bear will visit the Duke City as part of a western book tour, celebrating the release of Halo: Primordium – Forerunner Saga 2.
Being released early January, Halo: Primordium is the sequel to Halo: Cryptum. Bear is the author of more than 30 books, spanning thrillers, science fiction, and fantasy, including Blood Music, Eon, The Forge of God, Darwin’s Radio, City at the End of Time, and Hull Zero Three. His books have won numerous international awards.
Come join Bear 7:00 pm Monday, January 9, as he talks about Halo and his original SF works, and signs various novels at Page One Bookstore, southwest corner of Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE.
Meaning of Life at Guild Cinema
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life at the Guild Cinema
Saturday & Sunday, December 31 & January 1, 4:00, 6:15 and 8:30 pm
Directed by Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones – 1983 – 108m.
All Seats $7.00 – cash only.
Chuck out the old year and sneak in the new with the jolly chaps who go by the troupe name of “Monty Python”! Perhaps only the collective brilliant minds of the Monty Python film and television troupe are up to the task of tackling a subject as weighty as the Meaning of Life. Sure, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and their ilk have tried their hands at this puzzler, but only Python has attempted to do so within the commercial motion picture medium. Happily for us all, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life truly explains everything one conceivably needs to know about the perplexities of human existence, from the mysteries of Catholic doctrine to the miracle of reproduction to why one should avoid the salmon mousse to the critical importance of the machine that goes ping! Using fish as a linking device (and what marvelous links those aquatic creatures make), The Meaning of Life is presented as a series of sketches: a musical production number about why seed is sacred; a look at dining in the afterlife; the quest for a missing fish (there they are again); a visit from Mr. Death; the cautionary tale of Mr. Creosote and his rather gluttonous appetite; an unflinching examination of the harsh realities of organ donation, and so on. Sadly, this was the last original Python film, but it’s a beaut. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry (probably because you’re laughing so hard). You may even learn something about the Meaning of Life. Or at least about how fish fit into the grand scheme of things.
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
Year of the Apocalypse Begins
Happy New Year!
Time to ring in the last year of the Mayan Calendar – enjoy 2012 while it lasts!
Melancholia Ends at Guild
Melancholia at the Guild Cinema
Friday-Thursday, December 2-8, 3:00, 5:45 & 8:15 pm
In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier.
“Sincere, haunting, powerful cinema.” – Charlie Lyne, Ultra Culture
“STUNNING. A MOVIE THAT LEAVES THE VIEWER IN A STATE OF ECSTACY. A moving masterpiece, marked by an astonishing profundity of vision.” – Lisa Scwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
“A SPECTACLE IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN AWAY FROM. A MONUMENTALLY AMBITIOUS MOVIE. When I left the theatre, I felt light, rejuvenated and unconscionably happy.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
Melancholia at Guild Dec 2-8
Melancholia at the Guild Cinema
Friday-Thursday, December 2-8, 3:00, 5:45 & 8:15 pm
In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier.
“Sincere, haunting, powerful cinema.” – Charlie Lyne, Ultra Culture
“STUNNING. A MOVIE THAT LEAVES THE VIEWER IN A STATE OF ECSTACY. A moving masterpiece, marked by an astonishing profundity of vision.” – Lisa Scwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
“A SPECTACLE IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN AWAY FROM. A MONUMENTALLY AMBITIOUS MOVIE. When I left the theatre, I felt light, rejuvenated and unconscionably happy.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
Harryhausen’s Argonauts at Guild
Jason and the Argonauts at the Guild Cinema
Saturday & Sunday, December 24 & 25, 11:00 am and 1:00 pm
Directed by Don Chaffey – 1963 – 104m.
MOM’S MATINEE Continues with the Fantastic Worlds of Ray Harryhausen! All Seats Just $5.00 – cash only.
One of the most intelligently written film to feature the masterful stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen, Jason and the Argonauts is a colorful adventure that takes full advantage of Harryhausen’s “Dynarama” process. Inspired by the Greek myth, the story begins when the fearless explorer Jason (Todd Armstrong) returns to the kingdom of Thessaly to make his rightful claim to the throne, but the gods proclaim that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. Consulting Hera, the queen of gods, Jason recruits the brave Argonauts to crew his ship, and they embark on their eventful journey. Along the way they encounter a variety of mythic creatures, including the 100-foot bronze god Talos, the batlike Harpies, the seven-headed reptilian Hydra, and an army of skeletons wielding sword and shield. This last sequence remains one of the finest that Harryhausen ever created, and it’s still as thrilling as anything from the age of digital special effects. Harryhausen was the true auteur of his fantasy films, and his brilliant animation evokes a timeless sense of wonder. Jason and the Argonauts is a prime showcase for Harryhausen’s talent — a wondrous product of pure imagination and filmmaking ingenuity
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com
Down These Strange Streets Signing
New Mexico authors Melinda Snodgrass, S.M. Stirling, M.L.N. Hanover (Daniel Abraham) and John Maddox Roberts are celebrating the release of the urban fantasy anthology, Down These Strange Streets, and solo Hanover effort, Killing Rites, as the holiday season starts.
Come join these 4 NM sci-fi authors 1:30 pm Saturday, December 3, as they talk about the anthology, their solo efforts and all matter of things; and sign various books at Page One Bookstore, southwest corner of Montgomery and Juan Tabo NE.
METROPOLIS (with ’80s Music) at Guild
Metropolis – The Giorgio Moroder Scored Re-Release at the Guild Cinema
Friday & Saturday, November 11-12, 11:00 pm only
Directed by Fritz Lang – 1927/1984 – 80m (English subtitles).
PART OF THE GUILD’S EIGHT DAYS OF SCI-FI SOLSTICE !!
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS AT BUBONICON 44 !!
Pat Benatar, Billy Squier, Freddy Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, Adam Ant, Jon Anderson and Loverboy doing music to Fritz Lang’s silent epic?! You betcha! And it’s back in theaters!
In 1981, three-time Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder began a three-year endeavor to restore the science fiction classic, Metropolis. During this process, Moroder made the controversial decision to give the film a new, contemporary score, and added a pop music soundtrack featuring songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era, including Pat Benatar, Billy Squier, Freddy Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, Adam Ant, Jon Anderson and more. In addition to the new score, missing footage was re-edited into the film, intertitles were removed and replaced with subtitles and sound effects and color tinting were added, creating an all new experience…and an all-new film! But for more than a quarter century, this version of Metropolis has remained out of print – until now. A new HD transfer was created from one of the few remaining prints available, and Kino Lorber is presenting the film in the best possible quality – just as it was seen in its original release in August 1984.
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: www.guildcinema.com