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Weekend of
November 7th
(B&W) 1936 NEW
It’s Christmas 1940, and Everytown resident John Cabal (Raymond Massey) fears that war is imminent. When it breaks out, the war lasts 30 years, destroying the city and ushering in a new dark age of plagues and petty despots. But there is hope in the form of Wings Over the World, a group of pacifist scientists and thinkers led by Cabal. Their dream is to build a utopian society on the ruins of the old. But first they’ll have to unseat the latest ruling tyrant (Ralph Richardson). The beatniks say the plot of this classic is ripped from today’s headlines!
Weekend of
November 14th
(B&W) 1925
Lana, Spectra, and Theo visit the Shea’s Buffalo Theatre (celebrating 100 years as WNY’s Wonder Theatre) where “The Phantom of the Opera” was shown when it was first released! Aspiring young opera singer Christine Daaé discovers that she has a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead performer. This enigmatic masked presence is Erik, also known as the Phantom, a horribly disfigured recluse who lives underneath the Paris Opera House. When the Phantom takes Christine prisoner and demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, sets out to rescue her.
Weekend of
November 21st
(BW/Color) 1955-26 NEW
The beatniks warm up some TV dinners, complete with Jiffy Pop and some “Uncola” to get ready to squeeze the Charmin for an America 250 Celebration of the brands we know and love! Will YOU remember these classic commercials? It’s a trip back in time when Coke taught the world to sing, and Clara Peller asked the age old question, “Where’s the Beef!?”
Weekend of
November 28th
(Color) 1964 NEW
The beatniks broadcast from The Horror Garage Sale in Western New York to meet some modern day zombies while presenting this kooky classic! This is a 1964 American monster movie produced and directed by Ray Dennis Steckler.Steckler also starred in the film, credited under the pseudonym “Cash Flagg”. In the film, three friends visit a carnival and stumble onto a group of occultists and disfigured monsters. Produced on a $38,000 budget, much of it takes place at The Pike amusement park in Long Beach, California, which resembles Brooklyn’s Coney Island. The film was billed as the first “monster musical,” beating out The Horror of Party Beach by a mere month in release date. Interspersed throughout the film are several song-and-dance performances in the carnival’s nightclub, with songs such as “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” and “Shook Out of Shape”.
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Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout North America on the retroTV Network along with a series of independent stations. Off Beat Cinema promises to show you “the movies that must be shown” – the good, the bad and the foreign (in their original languages, of course!)
Off Beat Cinema began on October 31, 1993 as a diversion from the flood of late night infomercials that seemed to consume the available airwaves of television’s last cool frontier: late night! Once a hip haven for insomniacs, second shifters, beatniks and kids who would sneak back to the TV when their parents were solidly in dreamland, late night television had become a vast wasteland of hucksters hawking everything from cooling systems to spray-on hair in a can.
The show is filmed in the Hungry Ear Coffee House, a whacked-out poetry basement located somewhere in downtown Buffalo, NY. The Hungry Ear Coffee House is a mad pad, Dad… and the kind of place where Boris Karloff could sit with Ed Wood and discuss the transcendence of the ego and how that applies to Moe Howard getting a cream pie in the face. A comfortable pad where former Beatle Pete Best could sit with the Goo Goo Dolls and discuss the merits of 3D giant insect fear films. I think you get the picture.
