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Event Information

Location:
The National Comedy Theater, Mesa

Time:
08/30/2012 - 9:00pm

Price:
$10.00

Details

Like Mystery Science Theater 3000? If you like that, you'll love Bookmans Spoof'n Cinema. Its a little bit MST3K and a little bit Whose Line is it Anyway... but instead of adding our witty japes to the already horrible dialogue and bizarre soundtrack- we get rid of the whole thing. Partnering with the team from The National Comedy Theater in Mesa, together we will provide all new dialogue to go with a new story, complete with foley and soundtrack.

The doors to this live event open at 9 p.m., the show starts at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 30th at the National Comedy Theater. Admission is $10 and tickets are available on the NCT website. This show has a humor rating of no more than PG-13 and the film we've chosen for August is D.O.A. Bookmans will be in the theater to laugh right beside you and even possible, maybe, but most likely have some goofy goodies to give away.

"A faceless figure marches down an endless hallway as dark, driving music underscores his doom. It's stocky, stalwart Edmond O'Brien, who plows through the police detective's office like he's got nothing to lose. "I want to report a murder," he demands, grim and sleepy-eyed. Who was killed? "I was." It's a brilliant opening to a memorable film noir classic. O'Brien is a CPA who flees his dull job and small California town for a wild weekend in San Francisco, only to be poisoned and doomed to certain death. With only days to live, his incredulity morphs into a searing drive to find his killers and stinging regrets for what might have been. O'Brien is a familiar noir face, but he usually plays figures of authority: a cop in White Heat; an investigator in The Killers. He's a little stiff here, but his blunt, unglamorous persona is perfect for the Everyman who is randomly visited by death. Rudolph Maté, a cinematographer turned director, moves from sun-bright day scenes to busy nighttime locations with few visual flourishes, but when he takes the camera into the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco the film is energized with a gritty, restless vigor. It's one of the most relentlessly dark films noir ever made--taut, edgy, and low budget. Watch for the Bradbury building in the film's climax, made famous by its memorable use decades later in the sci-fi noir classic Blade Runner. --Sean Axmaker "

Website:
National Comedy Theater