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Pacific
Film Archive Theater:
The
Theater is on 2575 Bancroft Ave. On campus facing Bancroft at Bowditch
St. For movie
tickets, call the PFA box office at
510-642-5249.For the PFA
calendar, please visit http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/filmseries/index.html
Admission Prices:
Single Feature
$4 BAM/PFA members UC Berkeley students
$8 Adults (18-64)
$5 UC Berkeley faculty and staff Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens
(65 & over) Disabled persons Youth (17 & under)
Additional Feature
$2 All patrons
Film Notes:
FRIDAY, MAY 9:
7:30
pm I Walked with a Zombie
Jacques Tourneur (U.S., 1943) Restored Print!
Introduced
by Mikita Brottman
In this hauntingly atmospheric tale set in the West Indies, voodoo
and personal rivalry combine for a devilish double dose of evil. Brought
to a mysterious island to tend the ailing Jessica Holland (Christine
Gordon), nurse Betsy (Frances Dee) finds herself privy to skeletons
in the Holland family closet that mutely walk the earth of their own
accord. Like Irena in Tourneur's more famous Cat People, Jessica is
a kind of receptacle for wickedness: Haiti's uneasy slave relations,
an undercurrent throughout the film, repeat themselves in the unsavory
relationships between men and women at the Holland plantation. But,
unlike Irena, the cat's got Jessica's tongue: in a permanent sleepwalking
trance, she cannot speak of her cataleptic condition. Animal sacrifice,
gloomy rituals, and the ominous appearance of Carre-Four, voodoo god,
along with an eerie ballad sung by the calypso singer Sir Lancelot,
cast a spell more chilling than an open grave.-Judy Bloch, Steve Seid
Produced by Val Lewton. Written by Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, from
a story by Inez Wallace. Photographed by J. Roy Hunt. With James Ellison,
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Christine Gordon. (69 mins, B&W, 35mm)
Preceded by: Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth
Anger, U.S., 1953). An ornately dressed lady walks through a formal
Italian garden while waving her "fan of exorcism." (12:54 mins, B&W
[tinted], 16mm)
9:30pm
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Chu Yuan (Hong Kong, 1972) New Print!
Introduced
by Patrick Macias (Ai Nu).
Chu Yuan is often credited with injecting surrealism and mystery into
the Mandarin martial arts film of the 1970s. Imagine relocating the
martial arts school to a brothel, transposing the martial arts master
to the brothel's madam and the disciple to a prostitute who must be
forcibly drilled in the arts of servicing men. Imagine also that the
madam is a lesbian who abducts virgins to work in her establishment;
that she both exploits and is genuinely in love with her protégée;
and that the protégée only fakes subservience while secretly seeking
bloody revenge. The slain and dismembered are almost all men. "Perversity"
meets swordplay, and the result is, as Tony Rayns called it, "pulp
poetry."-Cheng-Sim Lim, UCLA FIlm and Television Archive Written by
Qiu Gangjian. Photographed by Wu Zhuohua. Martial arts directed by
Xu Erniu. With He Lili (Lily Ho), Yue Hua, Bei Di, Dong Lin. (90 mins,
In Mandarin with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)
SATURDAY, MAY 10:
7:30
pm Raw Force Edward D. Murphy (U.S.,
1982) (a.k.a. Kung Fu Cannibals).
Raw
Force begins innocently enough: the Love Boat pushes out from harbor
heading for happier waters. But the captain of this motley tub is
Cameron Mitchell, star of such millstones as Man Eater of Hydra, Viking
Massacre, and Autopsy of a Ghost, so you know it's sailin' towards
a murky grave. And go down it does after being raided by Dr. Speer's
henchmen from the ever-menacing Warrior Island, legendary burial ground
for disgraced martial artists. The survivors wash ashore on, of all
places, the aforementioned island, where they uncover a grisly little
secret: cannibalistic monks are devouring B-girls so they can raise
the dead. Here's where the "raw force" comes in-it's that hi-test,
hoodoo energy sucked from human flesh. This genre-obliterating film's
got it all: Hitler lookalikes, bamboo cages, limb munching, zombie
fu, decapitations, a piranha attack, nudie fu, and, as usual, the
Burbank Karate Club. May the "force" be with you.-Steve Seid Written
by Murphy. Photographed by Frank E. Johnson. With Cameron Mitchell,
Geoffrey Binney, Mike O'Malley, Hope Holiday. (86 mins, Color, 35mm)
9:20
pm Pigkeeper's Daughter Bethel Buckalew
(U.S., 1972)
Introduced
by Amy Abugo Ongiri
We've got a thing for the backwoods: those homey hillbillies, all
bubblin' crude. Our fascination was fed homespun slop like Gator Bait,
Walking Tall, and 2,000 Maniacs. But we hadn't heard the last howls
from the hollers. In the early seventies, a spate of hillbilly sex
comedies wandered out of the boondocks, most produced by the indomitable
Harry Novak: Midnight Plowboy, Tobacco Roody, and the best of the
clan, Pigkeeper's Daughter. This is really silicon implants meet sour
mashers-a hick harem of buxom farm girls who take their clothes off
faster than white lightnin'. The comely cornpone star of Pigkeeper's
Daughter is Moonbeam Swiner (Terry Gibson), who's pushin' nineteen
and hasn't been hitched. Problem is she spends her time with her little
piggly-wiggly Lord Hamilton instead of makin' bacon with the local
hunks. Like the classic hillbilly yarns, Pigkeeper's Daughter has
got horny hayrides, traveling salesmen, a shotgun wedding, and plenty
of tusslin' in the trough.-Steve Seid Produced by Harry Novak. Photographed
by Robert Wilson. With Terry Gibson, Patty Smith, Gina Paluzzi, John
Keith, Peter James. (92 mins, B&W, 35mm)
SUNDAY, MAY 11:
5:00
pm Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine Norman
Taurog (U.S., 1965) New Print!
Introduced
by Tamao Nakahara
Determined to rule the world, loony scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent
Price) invents a contraption that makes robotic bimbos, each vacuum-packed
in a lamé bikini. Goldfoot's comely fembots then set out to seduce
salivating millionaires who can't resist their wetware winks. Filmed
in San Francisco, this AIP extravaganza features teen idol Frankie
Avalon as an inept government agent, Dwayne Hickman as a detoxed Dobie
Gillis, and Susan Hart, who would later star in The Ghost in the Invisible
Bikini, as the perfect No. 11. But Price is the clowning glory, traipsing
around the lab in a collection of fey smoking jackets, programming
his scantily clad squad of platinum playthings. Originally intended
as a musical, Dr. Goldfoot is a thoroughly goofy gambol that includes
a wacked-out chase through the City, a set borrowed from The Pit and
the Pendulum, and opening titles by Art "Gumby" Clokey. A sequel,
Dr. Goldfoot and the Sex Bombs, was released the following year, directed
by Mario Bava!-Steve Seid Written by Elwood Ullman, Robert Kaufman,
from a story by James Hartford. Photographed by Sam Leavitt. Theme
song, "The Bikini Machine," by Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner, sung by
The Supremes. With Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman,
Susan Hart. (90 mins, Color, 35mm)
The conference is free and open to the public. For movie tickets,
call the PFA box office at 510-642-5249.
For more information and special access needs,
please call 510-541-1895
in advance. "Born to Be Bad" is organized
by the Graduate Film Working Group (a Townsend Center Working Group
and an ASUC-sponsored Student Group). The event was made possible
with the generous contributions by the Graduate Assembly, The Townsend
Center, the Chancellor's Student Activities Fund, the Film Studies
Program, the Consortium for the Arts, and
the Italian Studies Dept., and with the cooperation from Steve Seid
and the Pacific Film Archive.
Contact
Information:
Tamao
Nakahara
Department
of Italian Studies
6303
Dwinelle, #2620
University
of California, Berkeley
Berkeley,
CA 94720-2620
phone:
510-541-1895
email:
TAMAO@socrates.berkeley.edu
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