"DIGITAL SEX IN THE 80's" Triple Feature
Friday, AUGUST 25TH, 2006
at The Castro Movie theatre
in San Francisco, CA


7:30pm - HEARTBEEPS –(1981) Directed by Allan Arkush (ROCK N ROLL HIGH SKOOL)
Containing: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Christopher Guest, Paul Bartel, Dick Miller and the voice of Jerry Garcia's guitar!

Andy Kaufman gives the performance of his film career asa Latka-esque robot whoescapes destruction and falls in love with the sexiest android in the factory, played by Peters. Stan Winston's disturbing special effects are a sight to be believed but nothing beats Jerry Garcia's guitar as the voice of the couple's baby robot!! Oh, bring your kleenex, seriously. 79min. 35mm widescreen.

Note: Due to the short length of HEARTBEEPS, the film will be preceeded by a special trailer collection of yr favorite yet not forgotten computerized films.

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9:45pm WEiRD SCIENCE –Directed by John Hughes
Containing: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr., Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Michael Berryman

Freaks, geeks, and tons of twin peaks! This innocently sexist new wave classic is easily one of the best of its kind. Relive those adolescent days when you and your friend put bras on your head and created the ultimate super-woman (LeBrock) by electrocuting a Barbie doll into a super-computer! Watch out though, your bully older brother (Paxton) is making your life a living hell (and stealing the show!) I DARE you to show up wearing your sister's bra... on your head! 1985, 95min. 35mm.

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11:59pm - JOYSTiCKS –(1983)
Directed by Greydon Clark. Containing: Jonathan Gries, Joe Don Baker, Jim Greenleaf, Leif Green, Scott McGinnis, Corrine Bohrer.

This forgotten T&A classic not only has the greatest theme song of the 1980's ("Totally awesome video games!"), it combines everything you loved from that preposterous decade: Valley girls, arcades, nerds, slobs, boobies, left-over hippies and the all time greatest punk gang, The Vidiots (led brilliantly by Jonathan Gries of Napoleon Dynamite fame.) Help save the arcade from being closed down by those evil conservative townsfolk and yeah. Play some games while you're at it! You will not find another movie that genuinely captures the video game craze of the early 80's. 88min SUPER RARE 35MM PRINT. (Not available on DVD.)


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