Wednesdays get weird when Late Shift at the Grindhouse hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian, and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $4 Pabst Blue Ribbon & Hamm’s tallboys, $4 small popcorn, small soda and candy! $1 off beer/wine/soda/popcorn/candy for FilmScene members. PLUS -- special custom trash trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!
A grungy anarchic fish-out-of-water tale, Jubilee explores a bleak and twisted, punk landscape, painted with the filth and fury of decadent sex, violence and the echo of a blank generation.
"A confusion-fueled UK new wave feminist apocalypse." - Zack Carlson, Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film
"Derek Jarman, whose punkily anti-punk film Jubilee gave many safety-pinned members of the Blank Generation a more effective dose of alienation than their Sex Pistols records." - Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
"The characters in the movie, with very few exceptions, are playing themselves, which gives Jubilee a documentary feel." - Caroline Coon, London Evening News
"Jarman handles the film's militant women, fetishized violence, and punk rhetoric with an iconic brashness somewhat reminiscent of Frank Tashlin." - J. Hoberman & Jonathan Rosenbaum, Midnight Movies
"Jarman really established his visual style here with a striking visual patchwork of Super 8 inserts, stream of consciousness editing, opulent costumes and sets, and abundant but unsettling nudity." - Nathaniel Thompson, DVD Delirium
When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she's transported 400 years to a post-apocalyptic wasteland of roving girl gangs, an all-powerful media mogul, fascistic police, scattered filth, and twisted sex. With Jubilee, legendary British filmmaker Derek Jarman channeled political dissent and artistic daring into a revolutionary blend of history and fantasy, musical and cinematic experimentation, satire and anger, fashion and philosophy. With its uninhibited punk petulance and sloganeering, Jubilee brings together many cultural and musical icons of the time, including Jordan, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell, Jayne County, Adam Ant, and Brian Eno (with his first original film score), to create a genuinely unique, unforgettable vision. Ahead of its time and often frighteningly accurate in its predictions, it is a fascinating historical document and a gorgeous work of film art.
Plus the PansyVision short film: 13 Straights
Directed by Richard Griffin (Before the Night is Over)
PansyVision Takes on the 1960s
Follow our cine-savvy host all the way back to 1962 for the gimmick-filled shocker 13 Straights!
Are you BRAVE enough to sustain all the non-stop terror? Or will you cower under your chair in fear? Well, watch 13 Straights in the modern miracle of "DELUSION-O" and see if it scares you STRAIGHT (We really hope it doesn't.)
Part of Trans Narratives at FilmScene
In this month-long series, artists both behind and in front of the camera show diversity in what it means to be trans. These varied stories give a platform to a group of folks whose right to exist continues to be questioned by patriarchal power structures. At a time when we find ourselves in a heightened period of attempts to erase the very idea of trans-ness from our society—with particularly heinous and pernicious laws here in Iowa—we celebrate Pride Month with a survey of trans narratives across generations, locations, and aesthetics.
