BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Bijou marks 25 years with films and cake The Bijou Arts Cinemas, the former church and one-time mortuary, is marking 25 years of art films with a celebration on Monday. The movie house will show an array of vintage films in a program designed to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. relief efforts. Admission
is $8, and includes the films, popcorn, a soda and birthday cake.
The films will include Charlie Chaplin's 1916 short `The Rink' (1916); the 1966 French anti-war drama "The King of Hearts," starring Alan Bates Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003) was an English actor. Biography Early life Bates, the eldest of three brothers, was born in Allestree, Derby, the son of Florence Mary (Wheatcroft), a homemaker, and Harold Arthur Bates, an and Genevieve Bujold; the original "Flash Gordon Flash Gordon space-traveling hero. [Am. Comics and Cin.: Halliwell] See : Astronautics " (circa 1936), starring Buster Crabbe; the Beatles 1967 TV special "The Magical Mystery Tour"; and the 1966 Beatles concert film "The Beatles at Budokan." The Bijou is located at 492 E. 13th Ave. It's a celebration of the macabre at the Bijou The Weekend of the Living Dead, a three-night celebration of the "cine-macabre," will begin today at the Bijou Arts Cinemas, 492 E. 13th Ave. Today's program is "Noiseferatu," featuring local musicians Shawn Mediaclast and Warning Broken Machine teaming up with video alchemists An alchemist was a person versed in the art of alchemy, an ancient branch of natural philosophy that eventually evolved into chemistry and pharmacology. Alchemy flourished in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, and then in Europe from the 13th to the 18th centuries. the JiRCs. On Saturday, George Romero's original zombie A computer that has been covertly taken over in order to perform some nefarious task. It is estimated that millions of PCs around the world have been compromised and, under the control of a third party, routinely transmit messages unbeknownst to the user. masterpiece, "Night of the Living Dead" will be screened. The event ends on a humorous note Sunday with Ed Wood's schlock schlock also shlock Slang n. Something, such as merchandise or literature, that is inferior or shoddy. adj. Of inferior quality; cheap or shoddy. classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Events kick off at 11:15 p.m. all three nights. Admission is $4. 'Eating Raoul' will be screened at DIVA The subject of this week's Odd Sunday Film Seminar at DIVA certainly is odd. It's the 1982 cult classic "Eating Raoul." The screening begins at 6 p.m. at the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, 115 W. Broadway, followed by a discussion. Admission is free. - Register-Guard reports |
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