Northwest filmmaker Jon Behrens hosts and curates this new film series that is held once a month at the Vermillion Gallery. Each month a different film program and meal held on the third Sunday of every month. Each of the film programs will have a menu item specifically designed to go with the film. So we would like to invite to down to the Vermillion and enjoy a free movie and have a drink and maybe get something to eat . All the films screened are shown on beautiful 16mm and are from Jon Behrens privet collection of film prints.

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Seattle, WA. 98122

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Sunday Oct 25th: FILMS BY JON BEHRENS AND HEAVY FRIEND'S In addition to being a film collector and programmer all these years I have also been a filmmaker so to kick off this years movies I thought it would fun to put  together a program of some of my latest experimental films along with some films made by  some of my very talented friends Including Steve Demas, Luke Sieczek, Joel  Schlemowitz, and Larry Kless. I wanted to take this opportunity and actually have a screening of my work right here in Seattle for a change.

Sunday November 15th: CC AND COMPANY (1970) C.C. Ryder--an honest grease monkey (played with "aw-shucks" good-naturedness by Joe Namath)--is thrust into the rapacious, swarthy world of hog-riding when he joins hell-bound biker gang "The Heads". Shortly after his induction into the sleazy club, he averts the gang rape of Ann McCalley (Ann-Margaret), a fashion reporter sent to cover a motor sports event. Ann and C.C. are on their way to falling madly in love, much to the chagrin of "Heads" leader, Moon (William Smith). Mayhem and an adrenaline-pumping, high-stakes race across the desert ensue.

Sunday December 20th: THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE SHORT FILM PROGRAM This  feature length program of all kinds of strange little films that are hard to put into any sort of category. Included in the program are strange educational films, Industrial films, promo films clips from TV shows and just a Mariad of images.

 

 

Sunday January 17th : JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER  is a low-budget western/horror hybrid film filmed in 1966, in which a fictionalized version of the real-life western outlaw Jesse James encounters the fictional granddaughter (the movie's title notwithstanding) of the famous Dr. Frankenstein. John Lupton, who plays the part of Jesse James, is actually a bit too old for the role. When the film was made, Lupton was already 38 years old. The real-life Jesse James died before his 35th birthday

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday February 21st : THE JAPANESE DISASTER DOUBLE FEATURE I have paired two classic Japanese films from ToHo studios, these are the people who brought you loads of giant monster movies during the 1950's through the 80's . This time the monsters are mother nature. The first film is GORATH (1962)  The film depicts a runaway star on a collision course with Earth in the then-future decade of the 1980s. Unlike most other impact event stories, in which mankind must abandon the Earth (When Worlds Collide) or destroy the threat (Deep Impact, Armageddon), Gorath sees humanity attempt to avert disaster by disengaging Earth from its own orbit around the Sun. The Second film is Tidal Wave (1974) This is a badly re-edited and "Americanized" version of a popular Japanese disaster movie, The Submersion of Japan (1973). The trouble begins when scientists learn that Japan's islands are sinking and must be evacuated within two years. The story chronicles the ways in which various people react to the decree.

 

 

Sunday March 21st: SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON CLASSICS. The glory days of Saturday morning cartoons were the 1960's thru the early 1970's. These were television shows that you used to wait all week to see. Included in this program are classic Saturday morning shows that ran on network television. Including Groovy Goulies, Josie and the Pussycats, Superman, Fantastic Voyage and many many more. Maybe some of these shows might bring back memories of your childhood.

Sunday April 18th: WESTWORLD (1973) It is sometime in the near future, in a fictional high-tech adult amusement park called Delos. The park is divided into three zones: WesternWorld, MedievalWorld and RomanWorld. The entertainment in all three areas consists primarily of interaction by the guests with androids programmed to act in character (the Old West, medieval Europe, and pre-Christian Rome, respectively). The androids are indistinguishable from human beings, apart from minor flaws in their hands, and guests are encouraged to indulge in any fantasy, including killing the androids. The androids are programmed to respond positively to guest requests, specifically including requests for sex. Delos's guests pay $1,000 a day for the experience. Peter Martin (Benjamin) a first-timer and his friend John Blane (Brolin), who has visited previously, come to the WesternWorld zone, where one of the main attractions is the Gunslinger (Yul Brynner), a robot programmed to start duels. Thanks to its programming, humans can always outdraw the Gunslinger and kill it. The guns issued to the guests also have temperature sensors that prevent them from firing at each other or anything else living but allow them to 'kill' the room-temperature androids. Gradually, the technicians running Delos begin to notice problems with the androids. First, the robots in MedievalWorld begin suffering an inexplicable number of systemic failures. Then, a robot rattlesnake strikes Blane. Against her programming, a female servant android refuses a guest's request for sex. The failures increase until the robotic Black Knight kills a guest in a swordfight in MedievalWorld. The resort's supervisors, in increasing desperation, attempt to regain control by shutting down power to the entire park. Unfortunately, this results in trapping them in the control rooms, unable to turn the power back on again while the robots run amok on stored power. Martin and Blane, who have been passed out drunk after a bar fight in the WesternWorld bordello, wake up unaware that there has been a change for the worse. The two men are confronted by the Gunslinger, who challenges them to a showdown. Blane treats the confrontation like a joke, until the robot shoots and kills him. Martin runs for his life as the robot implacably follows him.

Sunday May 16th: MORE DRUG SCARE PROPAGANDA FILMS 1960 - 1978 This is a program of all those films the used to show us in School about the pit falls of drug addiction. These films were usually produced in a very heavy handed manner, very laughable today. Included in the program are the films Scag - the story of Heroin (1960) A film that blames the heroin problem of the jazz movement.  Marijuana (1968) The late Sony Bono host's this little film about the pro's and con's of pot smoking. Angel Death (1977) this film is hosted by Paul Newman and wife Joanne Woodward, and deals with the PCP epidemic in America . This program is sure to be a real hoot.

Sunday June 20th: SHAFT'S BIG SCORE (1972) This is the second film in the trilogy in which actor Richard Roundtree starred as the private-eye, John Shaft. Gordon Parks again directed, and Ernest Tidyman once more supplied the screenplay. Isaac Hayes was unavailable, so Parks, the director, did the score himself. The budget for the film was $1,978,000 and the film grossed $10 million at the box-office, a bit less than the original film's $12 million gross.  While New York is never at a loss for criminal activity, things seem to be heating up when an underworld crime figure kills John Shaft's partner, only to discover that the money he was going to use to pay off his gambling debts is missing. He makes a deal with the mobster he owes to share his business, but then also makes the same deal with Bumpy (Moses Gunn) another crime boss. The bullets start to fly when the hoods find they've been played against each other and Shaft decides to clean up the mess.

 

 

 

ALL FILM PROGRAMS ARE FREE AND START AT 7:30 PM

1508 11th Ave,
Seattle, WA. 98122