SESSION: Thursday 6th October at 7:30pm


Barbarella

(1968, dir. Roger Vadim, w/ Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea)

After an in-flight anti-gravity striptease (masked by the film's opening titles), Barbarella, a 41st century astronaut, lands on the planet Lythion and sets out to find the evil Durand Durand in the city of Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Exessive Machine, a genuine sex organ on which an accomplished artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who, in her dream chamber, can make her fantasies take form, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which, via a poor victim struggling in its glass globe, dispenses Essance of Man. You can't help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what few clothes our heroine seemed to possess. Based on the popular French comic strip. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 2.952.952.95(IMDB rating)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

(1978, dir. Philip Kaufman, w/ Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) will start at approximately 9:34pm, and finish at approximately 11:35pm.

The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement" realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched? (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.73.73.73.7(IMDB rating)