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IT'S ONLY A MOVIE: HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1970S AND TODAY

Saturday, June 23

2:00 p.m
THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977)
IT'S ONLY A MOVIE: HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1970S AND TODAY
1977, 89 mins., 35mm. When a vacationing family is stranded in the desert near a nuclear test site, they are confronted by mutant doppelgangers and gradually descend into barbarity. Wes Craven’s cogent, innovative horror film is an attack on pollution and on middle-class American life.

4:00 p.m.
THE HILLS HAVE EYES (2006)
IT'S ONLY A MOVIE: HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1970S AND TODAY
2006, 107 mins., 35mm. On the strength of his film High Tension, Alexandre Aja was selected by Wes Craven to direct this timely and powerful remake. Aja’s visually and thematically startling film expands the original film’s critique of “nuclear” family.

6:30 p.m.
HIGH TENSION
France, 2003, 91 mins., 35mm subtitled print. A woman tries to rescue her girlfriend from a brutal killer in Alexandre Aja's terrifying and gender-bending film. Manohla Dargis (The New York Times) said the 25-year-old Aja “has clearly made a dissertation-level study of classic American horror, specifically 1970's-era slasher flicks.” Preceded by THE SCARY MOVIE (1993, 7 mins. 16mm.) Two young girls act out the tropes of horror movies in Peggy Ahwesh’s experimental short.

Sunday, June 24

2:00 p.m.
THE HOST
South Korea, 2006, 119 mins., 35mm. Bong Joon-ho's hilarious and pointedly topical movie about a rampaging mutant lizard has many satirical targets, including American foreign policy and environmental recklessness. Inspired by Larry Cohen’s films, The Host was Korea’s most successful box office hit ever.

4:30 p.m.
THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE
1970, 98 mins., 35mm. Dario Argento won international acclaim (Variety called him “a garlic flavored Hitchcock”) for this harrowing thriller about an American writer in Rome who tries to solve a string of murders.

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