Monday March 4 Pandora's Box (1928) accompanied by the music of My Bloody Valentine Director: G.W. Pabst Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer "Louise Brooks?seems to have her own form of sexuality. She?s like a cool, beautiful, innocently deadly cat that people can?t keep their hands off.? – Pauline Kael, New Yorker Striking sexuality and drama with Brooks an unforgettable Lulu.? – Leonard Maltin Originally released in 1928, G.W. Pabst?s erotic adaptation of Frank Wedekind?s ?Lulu? plays was mutilated by censors and reviled by critics of the era. Today?s restoration of Pandora?s Box reveals a masterpiece of the silent era, a momentous meeting of director and star. For the role of Lulu, a destroyer of men who is ultimately destroyed by Jack The Ripper, the German director rejected a young Marlene Dietrich in favor of American actress Louise Brooks, the epitome of the modern woman of the 1920?s. Together they produced a startling sex tragedy and an unorthodox femme fatale who is the true victim – of her own carnality and German upper-class morality. Gazing through the camera, Brooks projects the animal beauty of a woman who sees the world as her sexual playground, unconscious of the havoc she wreaks on the lives of her lovers. Pabst grips the viewer with an almost violent tension, a passion for realism, and an uncompromising treatment of sexual themes. The music of My Bloody Valentine, possibly the most innovative group of the 90's provides an intense, dreamy soundtrack that brings a whole new perspective to the film. 3/4 Monday: 8:00, 10:00 P.M.

Wednesday, March 6--Thursday, March 7 TOD BROWNING DOUBLE FEATURE Freaks (1932) Director: Tod Browning Starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams ?Featuring a cast of real-life oddities, this is a sensitive, powerful horror masterpiece.? – Video Times Among classic horror films, Freaks stands alone as one of the most grotesque and the most controversial. Rarely seen since its 1932 release, and banned in Britain for thirty years, it has achieved cult status as the masterpiece of the macabre. The film features a cast of actual side-show freaks, human beings of every conceivable physical aberration. Yet the film soon reveals that the normal members of the traveling carnival are the true monsters; pitiless, conniving and murderous! When one beautiful trapeze artist discovers one of the freaks has a small fortune, she lures him into marriage. But when she and her strongman lover plot to kill him after the wedding, the enraged freaks defend their friend and take revenge on their betrayers, transforming the aerialist into the most hideous side-show attraction of all. From the acclaimed director of the original Dracula, Tod Browning, Freaks is a fascinating drama of prejudice and injustice with a provocative and timeless moral. 3/6-3/7 Wednesday-Thursday: 10:00 P.M West of Zanzibar (1928) Director: Tod Browning Starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan In this lurid melodrama, Chaney plays Phroso, a magician who loses his wife to ivory-trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore). In a confrontation, Crane leaves Phroso broken and paralyzed. Many years pass and Phroso is now lording over a group of savages in Africa where he conspires to exact the most horrible revenge imaginable on his old adversary. A truly creepy performance by Chaney and Tod Browning?s flair for outrageous subject matter make this their best collaboration. 3/6-3/7 Wednesday-Thursday: 8:00 P.M

Friday, March 8--Monday, March 11 Barbarella (1968) C I N E M A S C O P E Director: Roger Vadim Starring Jane Fonda, James Robertson Justice, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings ?A leading science fiction authority has claimed that if Lewis Carroll were alive today he would inevitably not have written Alice In Wonderland but Lolita. He might perhaps equally well have written Barbarella.? – Jack Ibberson . Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in an uninhibited manner, the handsome men who assist her in the adventure. Whether she is wrestling with Black Guards, the evil Queen or the Angel Pygar, she just can?t seem to avoid losing at least part of her skin tight space suit! IN CINEMASCOPE! 3/8-3/11 Friday: 8:00, 10:00 P.M., 12:00 A.M. Sunday: 2:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 P.M. Monday: 8:00, 10:00 P.M. NO SHOWINGS ON SATURDAY!