Ultimate Double Feature Weekend

What is an “Ultimate Double Feature”? You might ask… Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta… Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when the characters enter a cinema to watch a different film… and then we play the film that they are going to watch… and then we go back to the first film and finish out that story. For instance, imagine if you were watching Annie Hall up until Woody and Diane decide to go and watch The Sorrow and the Pity and then it cut to the entirety of The Sorrow and The Pity, and then it went back to Woody and Diane coming out of the cinema in Annie Hall. (Don’t worry, we’re not doing that one).

For this weekend of extreme cinematic indulgence, we highlight two luminous actresses in legendary roles (VIVRE SA VIE and THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC) and two stone-cold cult classics (DONNIE DARKO and THE EVIL DEAD) as “Ultimate Double Features” (each pair also plays as a traditional double feature). We also highlight Peter Bogdanovich’s instant classic THE LAST PICTURE SHOW in a double bill with the actual last picture show featured in the film: Howard Hawks’ RED RIVER. That one’s a little long for a UDF so we’ll just be playing them both as a traditional double feature on Sunday afternoon.