And the theme for September's Marco Movie Night is...
"TV PARTY TONIGHT!!! TV PARTY TONIGHT!!!"
Friday September 30th at my place
7:30 - 8:00 -- 30 minutes of trailers, interviews, film clips, parodies, etc. inspired by tonight's film selections.
8:00 - 9;30 -- Repo Man (1984) / Dir: Alex Cox
Which 80's comedy has the most quotable lines, the best soundtrack and stars Emilio Estevez? If you answered The Breakfast Club, you're wrong.
"You like music? Listen to this. I was into these dudes before anybody. They asked me to be the manager. I called bullshit on that. Managing a pop group is no job for a man."
The correct answer is 1984's Repo Man; not to be confused with Repo! The Genetic Opera (the sci-fi musical about organ repossession) or Repo Men (the sci-fi movie about organ repossession that has neither musical numbers nor an exclamation point in its title). Repo Man is a grubby postcard from the seediest corners of LA, a brief snapshot of California's emerging punk scene and a firmly extended middle finger to the conformist, consumer society of the Reagan era; courtesy of British born writer/director Alex Cox and beautifully lensed by renowned director of photography Robby Müller (The American Friend, Paris Texas, Mystery Train)
Estevez plays Otto Maddox, a bored suburban punk with no prospects and no future who falls into the intense and ethically dubious world of automobile repossession. When a $20,000 bounty is placed on a '64 Chevy Malibu every repo man in town goes on the alert. Will Otto and his mentor Bud (a spectacularly tweaked Harry Dean Stanton) find it before their rivals do? Did the Mayans invent television? Who is the strange man driving the Malibu and why are the Feds so eager to find him? Are aliens real? Was John Wayne gay? What's that glowing light coming from the Malibu's trunk and why does it incinerate everyone who looks at it? ("It happens. Sometimes people just explode.")
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S"An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink." "Ordinary people. I hate 'em. An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink."
The compilation soundtrack is now considered a classic in its own right and serves as a primer for anyone interested in the early West Coast punk scene. Like the music that inspired it, Repo Man relies more on energy and attitude than coherence but with its absurd running gags, eccentric performances and memorable lines, oddball conspiracy theories, sly satire and surreal sci-fi plot elements it truly has earned its status as a classic cult film. As always, it's BYOB but snacks will be provided so if you want to "eat sushi and not pay" or "suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp" then you're in luck.
Friday September 30th at my place
7:30 - 8:00 -- 30 minutes of trailers, interviews, film clips, parodies, etc. inspired by tonight's film selections.
8:00 - 9;30 -- Repo Man (1984) / Dir: Alex Cox
Which 80's comedy has the most quotable lines, the best soundtrack and stars Emilio Estevez? If you answered The Breakfast Club, you're wrong.
"You like music? Listen to this. I was into these dudes before anybody. They asked me to be the manager. I called bullshit on that. Managing a pop group is no job for a man."
The correct answer is 1984's Repo Man; not to be confused with Repo! The Genetic Opera (the sci-fi musical about organ repossession) or Repo Men (the sci-fi movie about organ repossession that has neither musical numbers nor an exclamation point in its title). Repo Man is a grubby postcard from the seediest corners of LA, a brief snapshot of California's emerging punk scene and a firmly extended middle finger to the conformist, consumer society of the Reagan era; courtesy of British born writer/director Alex Cox and beautifully lensed by renowned director of photography Robby Müller (The American Friend, Paris Texas, Mystery Train)
Estevez plays Otto Maddox, a bored suburban punk with no prospects and no future who falls into the intense and ethically dubious world of automobile repossession. When a $20,000 bounty is placed on a '64 Chevy Malibu every repo man in town goes on the alert. Will Otto and his mentor Bud (a spectacularly tweaked Harry Dean Stanton) find it before their rivals do? Did the Mayans invent television? Who is the strange man driving the Malibu and why are the Feds so eager to find him? Are aliens real? Was John Wayne gay? What's that glowing light coming from the Malibu's trunk and why does it incinerate everyone who looks at it? ("It happens. Sometimes people just explode.")
"An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink.""An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink.""An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink.""An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink.""An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink."
S"An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink." "Ordinary people. I hate 'em. An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting INTO tense situations. Let's go get a drink."
The compilation soundtrack is now considered a classic in its own right and serves as a primer for anyone interested in the early West Coast punk scene. Like the music that inspired it, Repo Man relies more on energy and attitude than coherence but with its absurd running gags, eccentric performances and memorable lines, oddball conspiracy theories, sly satire and surreal sci-fi plot elements it truly has earned its status as a classic cult film. As always, it's BYOB but snacks will be provided so if you want to "eat sushi and not pay" or "suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp" then you're in luck.