Hellzapoppin'HC Potter
USA · 1951 This madcap ’40s comedy, based on a popular Broadway revue, tears down the fourth wall with purely cinematic gags – calling to mind Monty Python more than the Marx Brothers. “Surreal, altogether avant-garde fantasia” – Guardian Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
Brewster McCloudRobert Altman
USA · 1970 Fresh from the success of M*A*S*H, Altman threw his unmistakable directorial flair behind this sharply scripted, avian-themed black comedy about a recluse who dreams of being able to fly. “Entirely singular… a strange yet vivid time capsule” – L Magazine Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
PolyesterJohn Waters
USA · 1981 Baltimore housewife Divine is driven to alcoholism by her cheating husband, promiscuous daughter and foot-fetishist son in this pungent parody of melodramatic delirium. “A pivotal entry in the history of the sordid-suburbia black comedy” – filmlinc.org Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |