Trash Night: 'Steel Dawn'

When:
Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018 7:30p -
10:30p

Where:
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$7

Categories:
Date Idea, Film

Event website:
http://www.brattlefilm.org/2018/03/27/trash-night-23/

WOLVERINES! Ha ha, just kidding, that's the OTHER Swayze vehicle with "Dawn" in the title. This one's the gorgeously-shot, syrup-paced post-apocalyptic crypto-western co-starring Swayze's then-wife and god-tier character actor Brion James.


CRYPTO-WESTERN, you're asking? That's right, this is a spiritual remake of "SHANE," the acclaimed early-50's western, itself the first film to be shown in widescreen AND the beginning (some say) of graphic violence in Hollywood productions. You know what else was a spiritual remake of "Shane?" "LOGAN" WAS. (Y'KNOW. THE ONE WITH WOLVERINE IN IT. JUST like in Red Dawn. Film is a flat circle.)


STEEL DAWN, if you need any more coercion to decide to come, begins with a scintillating ten-minute montage of Swayze high-kicking sand-tunneling mutants in the gob, ends with a well-earned revenge murder, and contains ZERO GUNS. Repeat, this is a FUTURISTIC SWORD-BASED WESTERN. All this AND its recurring spiritual motif is a solemn headstand. Seriously, there's no room here for equivocation, we'll see you on Tuesday.


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TRASH NIGHT is a monthly film series focused on the promotion and weirding of the also-rans and cultural detritus of the VHS era. We screen every third Tuesday at the historic Brattle Theater in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. Doors open at 7PM and shows start at 7:30 or thereabouts. Tickets are $7 at the door and include with price of purchase one 1" pin, whose design is unique to the screening. The Brattle has a lobby snack bar which serves popcorn, candy, beer, wine, and other refreshments. We Will Never Stop Going In

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