ENTER THE DRAGON                                 

Tuesday Sept 7th, 8th and 10th @ 9:30

The last film completed by Bruce Lee before his untimely death, Enter the Dragon was his entrée into Hollywood. The American-Hong Kong coproduction, shot in Asia by American director Robert Clouse, stars Lee as a British agent sent to infiltrate the criminal empire of bloodthirsty Asian crime lord Han (Shih Kien) through his annual international martial arts tournament. Lee spends his days taking on tournament combatants and nights breaking into the heavily guarded underground fortress, kicking the living tar out of anyone who stands in his way. The mix of kung fu fighting (choreographed by Lee himself) and James Bond intrigue (the plot has more than a passing resemblance to Dr. No) is pulpy by any standard, but the generous budget and talented cast of world-class martial artists puts this film in a category well above Lee's earlier Hong Kong productions. Unfortunately he's off the screen for large chunks of time as American maverick competitors (and champion martial artists) John Saxon and Jim Kelly take center stage, but once the fighting starts Lee takes over. The tournament setting provides an ample display of martial arts mastery of many styles and climaxes with a huge free-for-all, but the highlight is Lee's brutal one-on-one with the claw-fisted Han in the dynamic hall-of-mirrors battle. Lee narrows his eyes and tenses into a wiry force of sinew, speed, and ruthless determination.

ART OPENING AND A MOVIE Sept 8th                                               with the amazing wrestling photos of Brook Hewitt!

Special appearance by wrestlers from Platinum Championship Wrestling!

Art opening at 8:00 movie at 9:30

  ENGINEERING DESTRUCTION                   

Tickets are $10 Suggested Donation.
All proceeds go to support the 9/11 Truth Movement and our Brave and Beloved First Responders!

Engineering Destruction is a multimedia presentation given by Mechanical Engineer and Architects & Engineers representative, Derek Johnson. His presentation explains the forensic science of the 9/11 demolitions for the laymen, that once understood overwhelmingly points to the need for a new and independent investigation of 9/11.

Watch the trailer here.

  THE PLAZA                                                  

Sunday Sept 12th @ 8:00 - Tickets $6    -   World Premiere!

A documentary by Matt Rasnick

The Plaza is a story 70 years in the making. The last neighborhood movie theater in Atlanta Georgia, struggles to survive in a world of multiplexes by offering it's audience many unique and special attractions. Old movies, horror shows with live actors, special screenings, events and parties are all part of the business model that owners Jonathan and Gayle Rej have developed in order to compete with the national chains as they keep the doors open and the audiences entertained in this historic movie palace.

Watch the trailer here.

  A LETTER TO ELIA & VIVA ZAPATA!          

Monday Sept 13th at 7:30 - Double Feature!

LETTERS TO ELIA FILM SERIES - Sponsored by Emory Film Studies and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

4 Films by Elia Kazan + the Atlanta premiere of Scorsese's personal documentary confession: A LETTER TO ELIA  - Monday nights at 7:30

September 13, 7:30 PM DOUBLE FEATURE

A LETTER TO ELIA (dirs. Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones, U.S., 2010, color and b&w, 60 min. digital)
Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones' A Letter to Elia is a heartfelt declaration from one great American filmmaker to another, as Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan.  Utilizing precisely chosen clips from Kazan's signature films, and interview footage of the director himself, Scorsese and Jones recount the director's tumultuous journey from the Group Theatre to the Hollywood A-list to the thicket of the blacklist. But most of all, they make a powerful case for Kazan as a profoundly personal artist working in a famously impersonal industry.

 Followed by:
 VIVA ZAPATA! (dir. Elia Kazan, U.S. , 1952,  b&w, 113 min., 35mm)
Novelist John Steinbeck wrote the screenplay for this biopic of Mexican Revolutionary Emilano Zapata.  Marlon Brando, recognized as Best Actor at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival stars in the title role of the modest but determined hero of the revolution, and Anthony Quinn, who earned a Best Supporting Actor ACADEMY AWARD®, co-stars as Emilano ‘s hard-living brother, Eufemio.  Despite his efforts to give the film authenticity—Kazan reportedly studied Agustin Casasola’s period photographs—the film contains such historical inaccuracies as depicting Zapata as illiterate.

Tickets for the show are $10 ($8 for Plaza members!) Advance tickets are available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/126781

Save 20% with a series pass--$32 for all 4 films: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/126443

Upcoming:

September 20, 7:30 PM A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (LINK: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/127876)

September 27, 7:30 PM GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (LINK: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/127879)

October 4, 7:30 PM WILD RIVER (LINK: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/127880)

  THE BLOB (1988)                                         

Tuesday Sept 14th @ 9:30

Presented by SPLATTER CINEMA!

Splatter Cinema is the one place in Atlanta you can see human bodies ripped from limb to limb, intestines thrown about like streamers, and eyeballs in your popcorn. Our films are not DVDs we proudly feature ONLY 35mm prints of these splatter classics in a REAL GRINDHOUSE theater!!!!!

Come out early to our monthly showing of cult splatter films at the PLAZA THEATRE and get your photo taken in authentic recreations of some of the most graphic scenes of the film...and the photos are free and available on Flickr!!!

Splatter's official website!

  THE LITTLE DEATH                                    

Wednesday Sept 15th @ 7:30

A film by Bret Wood

also includes screening of THE OTHER HALF (2009)

THE LITTLE DEATH stars Courtney Patterson as a strong-willed reformer who ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront the owner (Daniel May), and liberate a young woman whom she believes is held there in sexual captivity. While the brothel-owner attempts to mesmerize and seduce the would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) and a young prostitute (Christie Vozniak) become tragic pawns in the game of sexual cat-and-mouse that is rapidly unfolding. Based on the play DEATH AND DEVIL by Frank Wedekind (SPRING AWAKENING), integrated with Anton Chekhov's short story A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

Visit the official website here.

  U PEOPLE                                                    

Sunday Sept 19th @ 5:30

Directed by Olive Demetrius & Hanifah Walidah

What do you get when over the course of 2 days in an unassuming brownstone in Brooklyn with 30 women across sexualities and transfolk of color? History.

Watch the trailer here.

  FRIGHT NIGHT                                            

Live from the Plaza Theatre, it's SPLATTERDAY NIGHT LIVE!

Saturday Sept 25th @ 10pm

With the absence of the Silver Scream Spookshow until October, Splatter Cinema steps up to fill the void!
Live from the Plaza Theatre its.... Splatterday Night Live!!
Gorehound Production's newest addition to the Plaza Theatre's amazing line-up of cult movies and events. SPNL will bring a whole new set of laughs and horrors to the Plaza stage. Witness a short horror sketch comedy performance including blood, guts, and more! Followed by a screening of a 35mm horror/exploitation classic to the big screen! BEWARE, for you just may die laughing!

  THE ROOM                                                  

Tuesday September 28th @ 9:30

The film's so-bad-it's-freakin'-awesome vibe has attracted a devout army of aficionados whose membership includes the cream of Hollywood's comedy community. Role Models star Paul Rudd and Arrested Development's David Cross are both fans, as is Jonah Hill, who uses a still from the movie as his MySpace photograph. Heroes star Kristen Bell hosts Room-viewing parties at her house and last year attended the film's monthly Laemmle screening with Rudd, Hill, and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. ''There is a magic about that film that is indescribable,'' she says.

The Room has even infiltrated the halls of cinematic academia. ''It is one of the most important films of the past decade,'' says Ross Morin, an assistant professor of film studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. ''It exposes the fabricated nature of Hollywood. The Room is the Citizen Kane of bad movies.''

If The Room is the Citizen Kane of bad movies, that makes Tommy Wiseau the Orson Welles of crap. Wiseau — who speaks with a thick, Schwarzeneggerian accent — directed, wrote, and produced the film. The muscled auteur also plays the cuckolded Johnny, and, when not exposing his ivory rump in the film's sex scenes, gives a performance that's both heartfelt and berserk. In one scene, a vein-poppingly distraught Wiseau howls the line, ''You are tearing me apart, Lisa!'' The moment — a favorite of Room fans — is reminiscent of both James Dean's ''You're tearing me apart!'' howl in Rebel Without A Cause and Marlon Brando screaming ''Stella!'' in A Streetcar Named Desire. At least it would be, if those actors had chosen to play their parts as deranged Austrians. (Entertainment Weekly)

Click here for the official website of THE ROOM. 

 TALES OF TERROR                                      

presented by the Silver Scream Spook Show!

OCTOBER 23RD. 1pm & 10pm

THE SILVER SCREAM SPOOK SHOW is a 30 minute live stage show filled with magic tricks, dancing girls, jokes, spectacle and frights! We follow it with a classic horror movie on actual 35mm film!

KIDS UNDER 12 FREE AT 1:00 MATINEE! EVERYONE ELSE ONLY $7. ALL TICKETS ARE $10 FOR THE 10:00 SHOW!

Click here for the official Silver Scream Spook Show website