MIDCENTURY MADNESS 2022
FEBRUARY 20 • OCTOBER 23 / ROXIE THEATRE
Presented by Mid-Century Productions
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!"
DON MALCOLM ON SUBSTACK
• The Youthful Panache of Jean-Pierre Mocky
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
“[His] festivals at the Roxie have been among the most important to play in the Bay Area in the last decade. Malcolm has single-handedly put French noir on the map and, in the process, he has transformed how we see American film noir.”
—MICK LA SALLE, SF CHRONICLE
FEBRUARY-APRIL 2022
MONSIEUR LA SOURIS
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
(1942) France
dir. Georges Lacombe
TEMPTATION HARBOUR
(1947) UK
dir. Lance Comfort
PLUNDER ROAD
(1957) USA
dir. Hubert Cornfield
H-8...
(1958) Yugoslavia
dir. Nikola Tanhofer
EPILOG
(1950) West Germany
dir. Helmut Kautner
VIELE KAMAN VORBEI
MANY PASSED BY
(1956) West Germany
dir. Peter Pawas
OLIVIA
(1951) France
dir. Jacqueline Audry
LES PETITS MATINS
HITCH-HIKE
(1962) France
dir. Jacqueline Audry
THE INTRUDER
(1962) USA
dir. Roger Corman
NOTHING BUT A MAN
(1964) USA
dir. Michael Roemer
LA CHATTE
THE FACE OF THE CAT
(1958) France
dir. Henri Decoin
LUCKY JO
(1964) France
dir. Michel Deville
JUNE-JULY 2022
KUROI JÛNIN NO ONNA
TEN DARK WOMEN
(1960) Japan
dir. Kon Ichikawa
ZERO NO SHÔTEN
ZERO FOCUS
(1961) Japan
dir. Yoshitaro Nomura
LES DRAGUEURS
THE CHASERS
(1959) France
dir. Jean-Pierre Mocky
LA GRANDE FROUSSE
THE BIG SCARE
(1964) France
dir. Jean-Pierre Mocky
VAXDOCKAN
THE DOLL
(1962) Sweden
dir. Arne Mattsson
MANNEKÄNG I RÖTT
MANNEQUIN IN RED
(1958) Sweden
dir. Arne Mattsson
DE DØDES TJERN
LAKE OF THE DEAD
(1958) Norway
dir. Kare Bergstrom
NI LIV
NINE LIVES
(1957) Norway
dir. Arne Skouen
KANAL
CANAL
(1957) Poland
dir. Andrzej Wajda
KOCÁR DO VÍDNE
CARRIAGE TO VIENNA
(1966) Czechoslovakia
dir. Karel Kachyna
SWEET LOVE, BITTER
(1967) USA
dir. Herbert Danska
BILLY BUDD
(1959) USA/TV
dir. Robert Mulligan
AUGUST-OCTOBER 2022
THE SWIMMER
(1968) USA
dir. Frank Perry
LAST SUMMER
(1969) USA
dir. Frank Perry
LIFE FOR RUTH
(1962) UK
dir. Basil Dearden
THE QUARE FELLOW
(1962) UK
dir. Arthur Dreifuss
L'ASSASSINO
THE LADY KILLER OF ROME
(1961) Italy
dir. Elio Petri
I GIORNI CONTATI
HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED
(1962) Italy
dir. Elio Petri
LE MAIN DU DIABLE
CARNIVAL OF SINNERS
(1943) France
dir. Maurice Tourneur
LE JOUEUR D'ECHECS
THE DEVIL IS AN EMPRESS
(1938) France
dir. Jean Dreville
THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS
(1960) USA
dir. Delbert Mann
TEN BLOCKS ON THE CAMINO REAL
(1966) USA
dir. Jack Landau
LE GOUT DE LA VIOLENCE
THE TASTE OF VIOLENCE
(1961) France
dir. Robert Hossein
UNE CORDE, UN COLT
THE ROPE AND THE COLT
(1969) France
dir. Robert Hossein
*All screenings begin at 12 noon
San Francisco's
Roxie Theatre is located at 3117 16th St. between Valencia & Guerrero, one block from 16th & Mission BART.
Box Office: 415.863.1087
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decades—the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. We program original festivals and work with organizations and
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