(Boston Area) A Night of Driving Dangerously

[MAXIMUM at WEETAMOO.COM]

This might just be the best excuse since the invention of beer to get some
Boston area listers together (perhaps meeting before?) I'm not even absolutely
sure that I can go, but this sounded too good not to pass on.

See description of "Hell's Highway" and schedule below... anyone interested?

Royal

@ 10:00 - Sneak preview! HELL'S HIGHWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF HIGHWAY SAFETY
FILMS - This informative new documentary on the history of gruesome highway
safety classroom films features interviews with the original filmmakers and
clips of some of the goriest "educational" films ever made, including
"Mechanized Death", "Wheels of Tragedy" and "Highways of Agony". Most of
these films were made in Ohio, USA, where the infamous Highway Safety
Foundation film factory was headquarted. As the years went on and the
company tried to expand (with other safety related titles like "The Child
Molester" and "Plant Pilferage") but scandal and changing times finally
sealed the company's fate.


Coolidge Corner Theatre Schedule Update March 28 - April 3, 2003


Friday and Saturday, it's the return of the FOUND FOOTAGE FILM FESTIVAL. In
the screening room we feature four different shows of bizarre and unreal
clips from lost TV variety shows, Christian scare films, bad 80s movies,
frightening children's programs, and a special sneak preview of the new
documentary on highway safety films, HELL'S HIGHWAY. Then, each night at
midnite, join the A/V GEEKS for two special shows of classic 16mm classroom
films - bizarre yet true glimpses of the past! All seats are only $6 per
show!

And more! This is the final weekend to catch our midnite run of the amazing
modern cult classic DONNIE DARKO.

Saturday, March 29
NOWHERE IN AFRICA [m] - (1:00), (4:00), 7:00#, 9:45#
SPIDER [u] - (1:30), (3:30), 5:30, 10:00
BLIND SPOT:HITLER'S SECRETARY [sr] - (3:40), 5:40
TALK TO HER [u] - 7:30
DONNIE DARKO [m] - midnite
KID'S VARIETY SHOW with MICHAEL LANE TRAUTMAN - 10:30am#
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL:
MOMENTS WITH DORA 2 [sr] - 8:00
HELL'S HIGHWAY [sr] - 10:00
A/V Geeks present: KIDDIE MINDWARP [u] - midnite

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FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL 3
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Prepare yourself for round three of the Coolidge's popular Found Footage
Festival! This year we have an entire weekend filled with collections of
bizarre, unreal, hard-to-believe-that-they-are-true scenes and shorts from
the vaults. You won't believe this stuff exists!
Fri @ 8:00 - MAGIC STAR TRAVELERS - a tribute to disturbing children's
programming that features frightening puppets, creepy cartoons, and some
dirty, dirty birds.
@ 10:00 - WHOOPS, APOCALYPSE! - an unbelievable collection of prophetic
visions of the end of the (Christian) world.
@ midnite - BEST OF A/V GEEKS - a sampling of some of their amazing film
library from "Toothache of a Clown" to "Morality for Youth"
Sat @ 8:00 - MOMENTS WITH DORA (2) - the sequel to last year's popular show
features inexplicable musical moments from movies, television variety, and
of course the peculiar world of cable access

@ 10:00 - Sneak preview! HELL'S HIGHWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF HIGHWAY SAFETY
FILMS - This informative new documentary on the history of gruesome highway
safety classroom films features interviews with the original filmmakers and
clips of some of the goriest "educational" films ever made, including
"Mechanized Death", "Wheels of Tragedy" and "Highways of Agony". Most of
these films were made in Ohio, USA, where the infamous Highway Safety
Foundation film factory was headquarted. As the years went on and the
company tried to expand (with other safety related titles like "The Child
Molester" and "Plant Pilferage") but scandal and changing times finally
sealed the company's fate.
@ midnite - A/V GEEKS: KIDDIE MINDWARP - features "Parents: Who Needs
Them?", "Dirt-Witch Cleans Up" and other films which warp little minds.
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MIDNITE MOVIES
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DONNIE DARKO
The first cult classic of the new millennium! Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal came
to stardom in this mind-bending, time-traveling schizophrenic hallucination
that features a 6-foot rabbit hallucination, ruminations on Smurf sexuality,
and 80s icon Patrick Swayze. A genre busting mix of horror, sci-fi, and teen
angst with a kick-ass 80s soundtrack to boot!
(US, 2000) dir. Richard Kelly w/Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew
Barrymore. Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, James Duval, 1h52m

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"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the
citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why
this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know."
-P.J O'Rourke (1989)