freaky fridays archive 2008 late night cult
Worship at the temple of cult cinema every Friday at 10pm.
Featuring the enigmatic, the anti-establishment, the quirky and movies so outrageously wrong they're right! Meet your friends at the ACMI Lounge before revelling in our cult picks - and watch for bonus shorts screenings!
Curated by Roberta Ciabarra.
Full $13 Concession $10
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Psychedelic animated musical from 1968 featuring the music of the Beatles.
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Wim Wenders' cult classic neo-western, written by Sam Shepard, soundtrack by Ry Cooder.
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Jeff Stein's anarchic music doco on legendary Brit rockers, The Who.
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Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray in the indie hit by director Wes Anderson.
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Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano stars and directs in this off-the-wall spoof, direct from the Venice and Toronto film festivals.
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Horror stylist Dario Argento directs Anthony Franciosa in his most shocking murder mystery. Imported print!
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See how the Master of Suspense takes to the task of dispatching victims in Frenzy.
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Philip Haas' darkly evocative adaptation of the Paul Auster novel.
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The original 2003 J-Horror film by Takashi Shimuzu.
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Toshio and his grudge-bearing mother are back in Takashi Shimizu's Japanese language sequel.
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Woody Allen's quintessential comedy about love, sex and neurosis in '70s New York.
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Heart-throb crooner Bobby Darin is jazz musician 'Ghost' Wakefield.
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Lee Van Cleef stars in the first and best of the Sabata trilogy with a finale packed with explosions and lightning-fast pistol duels.
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Lynne Ramsay followed her haunting 1999 debut Ratcatcher with this euphoric, hypnotic film adapted from a novel by Alan Warner.
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A painfully inept car salesman has the none-too-brilliant idea to hire a couple of goons to kidnap his wife.
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Charles Aznavour is a revelation as Charlie, a casually fatalistic, low-rent piano player working in a Parisian dive.
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Jean-Pierre Melville's terrifically enjoyable film paid homage to 1940s film noir, and in doing so inspired a whole new generation of genre stylists.
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LA slacker Jeffrey 'the Dude' Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name and finds himself enlisted as a go-between in a kidnap.
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The irrepressible Peter Sellers is cast as bungling actor from New Delhi who ends up on the guest list of an exclusive party.
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Clint Eastwood was at his peak when he directed this thriller, playing a hip West Coast DJ who hooks up with a comely fan - and promptly regrets it.
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David Lynch let Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell loose - to haunting effect - in his surreal 1986 trip through the underbelly of suburbia.
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Margot Kidder in a brilliant turn as a young woman whose self-image splinters after she is surgically separated from her conjoined twin.
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Terry Gilliam was almost destined to step up and adapt Hunter S. Thompson's 'unfilmable' counterculture classic.
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Art Linson and John Kaye gamely appropriated the work of Hunter S. Thompson for a free-wheeling 1980 biopic, starring Bill Murray as Hunter.
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Robert Rodriguez not only shot his endlessly inventive debut feature on a scant budget, he made an instant classic.
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French icons Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot take to the frontier trail in Louis Malle's delirious comic western from 1965.
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This terrific new documentary goes on tour and backstage with Public Enemy, combining live concert footage with interviews from their contemporaries.
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Encore! The funky, revolutionary, and fist-shakingly brilliant 1972 concert film returns.
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The dark, psychosexual undercurrents of the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale.
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Barbra Steisand, Fidel Castro and the Black Panthers - all in the same movie? Holy Yentl, Babs!!
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