CineFlavia: Boom! & Valley of the Dolls

zondag, 19 november

CineFlavia: Boom! & Valley of the Dolls

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Boom! @ 19:00

“Beyond bad. It’s the other side of camp. It’s beautiful, atrocious, and it’s perfect. It’s a perfect movie, really, and I never tire of it.” - John Waters describing how he feels about Boom!
 
Considered by many critics one of the worst films ever made and certainly one of the worst in Elizabeth Taylor’s career, Boom! is a perplexing pop culture artefact. A big budget movie directed by Joseph Losey, and adapted from the play "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" by Tennessee Williams, Boom! should have been a high quality work of art. Instead, it is widely regarded as a kitsch curiosity. The production was a disaster. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton often showed up drunk on the set and a trailer that was used as her dressing room came loose from its moorings only a few seconds after she stepped out of it, and "plunged over a 45 meters embankment into the sea". Which is probably the best way to describe the end product. In Boom! Taylor plays the part of Flora 'Sissy' Goforth, a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Her performance is so over the top that she demanded nobody ever mentions the film in her presence. In the words of Roger Ebert: “There are different kinds of bad movies. Some are simply wretchedly bad, like well, you know. Others are bad but fascinating and Boom! is one of these.” Watch the trailer. 
 
Directed by Joseph Losey, 1968, UK, 113 min. 

Valley of the Dolls @ 21:15
 
Most cinephiles know Russ Meyer’s pastiche film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. However, three years before Meyer’s film, the original Valley of the Dolls was released starring Barbara Perkins, Susan Hayward and Sharon Tate in what would be her last film release before the Manson clan brutally murdered her. In Valley of the Dolls, all the women involved face their own downfalls and emotional wrecks (dolls" was the slang term for barbiturate prescription pills at the time). Judy Garland was originally cast for one of the main parts but, in another case of life mirroring fiction, she was fired when she came to work drunk. Sharon Tate’s performance as a pill popping actress was so stunning that it earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. However, Tate’s acting was not enough to save the film from terrible reviews. The movie, widely regarded as “trash” has been described as “the gargantuan saga of three girls and the nasty, cheesy, show-bizzy world they live in.” Truer words have never been spoken! Watch the trailer. 
 
Directed by Mark Robson, 1968, USA, 123 min.
 
Bar opens at 18:30.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

Datum & tijd: 

zondag, 19 november, 2017 - 19:00 tot 23:30

Categorie: 

  • bar/café
  • film

Prijs: 

  • free

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Cinema of the Dam'd at OT301
Overtoom 301
2nd Floor
1054HW Amsterdam
Nederland

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Inside the OT301 arts building, on the 2nd floor. Directly across from the Jan Pieter Heijestraat stop for tram #1.

Squat: 

Former squat, now legalised

Cinema of the Dam’d is a bar, cinema & gathering place, located on the 2nd floor of the OT301 arts collective which is the site of the former film academy.

categories: 

  • bar/café / film

opening times: 

See event listings for opening times.