We are super excited to present an extremely snakey double feature! Why choose between the east and west coast when you can have the best of both worlds at the Roxie Theater?
Join us for these two great movies as well as lots of discussion, prizes, and more. Don’t forget to get there early for the super special 35mm trailers we’ve hand picked for this super special event!
Directed by John Carpenter
Written by John Carpenter
Containing Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Quite simply, one of the best revisionist Westerns i.e. Science Fiction films of the 1980s. The year is 1997 A.D., Kurt Russell plays the cold-blooded, criminal Snake Pliskin who has 24 hours to enter the lawless, bloodthirsty prison island known as “Manhattan”, battle thousands of crazed maniacs (led by a pimped out gang leader Isaac Hayes) and hopefully rescue the nation’s president (Donald Pleasence.) Pertinent politics, decade defining character actors and a soundtrack that changed the world of music. Celebrate the 35th Anniversay widescreen DCP screening, preceded by trailers of some of your favorite post-apocalyptic films!
Directed by John Carpenter
Written by John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Kurt Russell
Containing Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Pam Grier
Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary (and the first Bay Area theatrical screening since its release) of the pitch-perfect sequel to America’s last hope, Snake Plisskin. After a Y2K earthquake has reduced Los Angeles to an isolated island, political satire runs rampant in Carpenter’s rollicking send up on the West Coast’s most surgically challenged city. Capturing the look and feel of the 1990s with such character actors as Steve Buscemi & Bruce Campbell as well Russell fitting flawlessly into his leather jacket, this is a sequel that has only gained even more relevance over the past two decades but as Carpenter said upon its release “is ten times better than the original.” Come on out to make up your own opinion. Widescreen 35mm Print courtesy of Paramount Studios.