AU REVOIR GABIN, BONJOUR TO MCP MADNESS 2!

Our busy first half of 2022 is now past, with thanks to all who attended GABIN 118 on May 15/16—our seven-film, two-day birthday celebration for the one-and-only Jean Gabin.

But the future is even more intriguing for those who thirst after worthy, impossibly rare mid-century film! Don Malcolm's maniacal brainchild, MIDCENTURY MADNESS, gears up for its second phase beginning June 18 with two highly unusual double bills that delve further into the creative ferment of the 1960s.

Two landmark films from Japan, TEN DARK WOMEN and ZERO FOCUS (with prominent and startling roles for women) kick things off, followed by two early films from idiosyncratic, cranky, controversial director Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929-2019), THE CHASERS and THE BIG SCARE, showing what became a lifelong penchant for the bizarre, offbeat, and stubbornly imponderable. As Don says, "there's a reason we call it MIDCENTURY MADNESS!"

Links to the Roxie Theatre site and tickets will be posted here as they become available. Watch for additional updates on Facebook, Twitter and email blasts. SIgn up for the Midcentury Productions mailing list, and you'll be the first to receive word when tickets become available, as well as more detailed info on the shows.

Take a look at the full schedule below, which extends all the way to October. And yes, there will be a FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT festival again in Novemb er—more on that soon! Come join us at the Roxie Theatre for the unique programming that can only be described as MIDCENTURY MADNESS!

Rare screening features a double-barreled blast of feminist noir from 1961 Japan —G. ALLEN JOHNSON, SF CHRONICLE