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"FEMALE
ROLE
REVERSAL"
Triple
Feature playing with... 9:30pm
- Yentl –(1983)
- Directed
by
Barbra
Streisand
11:59pm
- The
Legend
of
Billie
Jean (1985)
MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS programming, hosting & notes by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks. |
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This
legendary
gender
bender
realism/musical
has something
for everyone.
Barbra
Streisand
plays
Yentl
Mendel,
a klutzy
tomboy
who wants
to become
a scholar.
So she
cuts
her hair,
puts
on a
hat & glasses
and voila,
she's
a 17
year-old-boy.
Unexpectedly
though,
she falls
in love
with
Avigdor,
one of
her classmates
(Patinkin),
who also
falls
for her,
except
he thinks
she's
a man.
But let's
not forget
Avigdor's
fiancée
Hadass
(Irving),
who also
falls
for Yentl,
not realizing
she's
a woman.
Got it?
If you've
never
understood
why Barbra
Streisand
changes
people's
lives,
let it
happen
tonite
with
this
sexual
musical
revolution.
132min.
35mm
widescreen.
(NOT
AVAILABLE
ON DVD
at time
of screening.) 
Back
by desperate
demand!
(Why
hasn't
this
been
released
on DVD?!)
A Joan
of Arc
analogy
through
and through
THE LEGEND
OF BILLIE
JEAN
is one
of the
most
overlooked
films
of the
1980's.
Defending
herself
from
being
raped,
17 year-old
Billie
Jean
(Helen
Slater)
cuts
her hair
punk,
rips-up
her girly
clothes
and hits
the road,
bringing
along
her little
brother
(played
by an
unknown
Christian
Slater.)
With
the police
hot on
their
trail,
teenagers
from
every
city
help
hide
the two
runaways
and in
return,
Billie
Jean
inspires
us all
to stand
up and
fight
against
the abusive
adults
of the
world.
You will
be chanting
Pat Benatar's
Invincible-anthem
all the
way home!
Preceded
by a
gang
of radical
trailers.
NOT AVAILABLE
ON DVD
at time
of screening.
93min.
35mm.