TAKEOVER

Sat, Sep 27, 9pm—4am
$20 in advance, $25 (cash only) at the door

TAKEOVER returns this fall for a second sleepless night. Four bands, selected by Sufjan Stevens, keep the Opera House full, while four movie marathons screen in the cinemas. DJs spin all night long, setting the beat for a nonstop dance party in BAMcafé, while video art, cheap beer, and endless diversions take you from dusk 'til dawn.

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Bands
Brooklyn Youth Chorus featuring Nico Muhly
St. Vincent
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens
The Budos Band

DJs
King Britt
Vikter Duplaix

Films
Bring Back the Draught!
Featuring Beerfest, Strange Brew, The Saddest Music in the World, and The Fatal Glass of Beer

Up All Night in 1985
Featuring The Last Dragon, Perfect, Fright Night, and more

The Reel World: Brooklyn
Featuring Saturday Night Fever, She's Gotta Have It, and The Warriors

Lars von Trier's The Kingdom: Part I

Rec Room & More
Wii
Guitar Hero
Ping-pong
Lounge
Voter registration

Video Art
Deborah Johnson, CandyStations

Bands

9:30pm—1am

Curated by Sufjan Stevens, the Opera House line-up sounds off until the wee hours of the morn.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus featuring Nico Muhly
The resonant voices of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus bring choral levity to the Opera House, featuring an enchanting composition by indie-pop-classical sensation Nico Muhly among other works.

St. Vincent
Indie-chanteuse St. Vincent, alias Annie Clark, with her stomp-board, laptop, and idiosyncratic frames of reference, creates whimsical and nervy anthems backed by her 6-peice band.

Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens
A gospel queen herself, Naomi Shelton brings some serious soul to Takeover. Her anthem Forty First Street Breakdown is any DJ's secret weapon, and her voice continues to sound from southern Alabama to urban Brooklyn.

The Budos Band
Aptly considered by record label Daptone to be "Instrumental Staten-Island Afro-Soul," the Budos Band's 11 to 13 members are inspired by the rich sounds of Ethiopia and the nostalgia of the American 60s.


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DJs

10pm—4am

Two Philly-born titans of the tables, King Britt and Vikter Duplaix spin local, global, and generally uninhibited tracks all night long, closing out the night with a rare tag-team set.

Vikter Duplaix
Vocalist, DJ, producer, writer, and promoter Vikter Duplaix returns to Takeover, spinning tracks that defy genre all night long in BAMcafé.

King Britt
King Britt, award-winning producer, writer, and founder of Five Six Media, helps set the score through his signature hip-hop, broken beat, nu-jazz, and afro-tech tracks.

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Movie Marathons

Movie marathons screen in every cinema, featuring old favorites and new features.

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Cinema 1: Lars von Trier's The Kingdom

Approx 10pm—3am

The Kingdom: Part 1 (1994)
Directed by Lars von Trier
The first part of Danish mini-series "The Kingdom" will take you from dusk until dawn. The Kingdom is Copenhagen's most technologically advanced medical facility, and still it cannot escape the inevitable hospital paranormal. Overgrown fetuses, phantom ambulances, and sickbay séances put the Hippocratic Oath to the test, and leave the Kingdom's staff grappling with the supernatural and un-diagnosable.

Cinema 2: Up All Night in 1985

Approx 9:15pm—4am

Remember when it didn't matter what was playing, you watched it anyways? This series recollects the 1985 sleepover, when the VCR burned through cassettes faster than you can drink a liter of Orange Crush. The series starts with favorite 1985 trailers, featuring Tango & Cash, Bowie & Jagger, Beatty & Hoffman, plus Gary Coleman, Howard the Duck, Mr. T, Snake Plissken, and the Fat Boys. Then enjoy some old-fashioned fisticuffs, break a sweat with Travolta, and run from your neighbors—they're vampires, or didn't you know?

The Last Dragon (1985)
Directed by Michael Schultz
With Taimak, Vanity
Young Leroy Green may not use contractions while speaking, but his roundhouse kick will knock you out. Seeking the rank of Last Dragon, the highest martial arts accomplishment, Leroy finds himself at odds with Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, and in love with Laura Charles, New York City's most beautiful TV star. His humility and pride betray him when Sho'nuff destroys the family pizzeria, and Leroy realizes he must take action. But does his mystical "glow" come from hate, from love, or from within?

Perfect (1985)
Directed by James Bridges
With John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis
Travolta is a Rolling Stone reporter set on exposing the filthy underbelly of LA's aerobic scene. But his journalistic integrity is appropriately compromised when he falls for Curtis' sexy, flexy aerobics instructor, Jessie. Can private workouts distract him from jazzercize corruption?

Fright Night (1985)
Directed by Tom Holland
With Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall
Young Charlie Brewster suspects his new neighbors of unbecoming behavior. Using his horror-movie expertise, Charlie identifies the new men as a vampire and his undead guardian. In order to convince his unbelieving friends and family, he calls on the services of washed-up actor-cum-late-night-horror host Peter Vincent to catch the unneighborly monsters. Too bad Vincent himself hardly believes his own horror-movie shtick.

Cinema 3: Bring Back The Draught!

Approx 10:30pm—4am

Cheap brews and a darkened room proves a reliable formula engaged internationally by the young and old alike. Sip slowly while viewing these classically fermented films that celebrate the popular refreshment. But it's not just beer pong and drinking games; poignant music, family loyalty, and heartfelt forgiveness pour from the screen like so much draft from the tap.

The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Directed by Guy Maddin
With Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini
Legless, loveless, beer baroness Lady Helen Port-Huntley has organized a contest to find the saddest music in the world, in the hopes of raising beer sales in Depression-era Winnipeg. Who should find themselves competing but the man who took Lady Helen’s legs, the man who took Lady Helen’s heart, and the brother she never had. All set to a score of your very favorite Broadway melodies.

Strange Brew (1983)
followed by The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)
Directed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas
With Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Max von Sydow
Get Shakespearean with SCTV greats Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. Playing brothers Bob and Doug, a contemporary and Canadian Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, they are set on freeing beer heiress Pamela and foiling the evil Brewmeister’s plot to take over the world, one frosted glass at a time. A few drunken hockey players might be the ticket to saving the Elsinore brewery, and all of humanity.

The Fatal Glass of Beer
Directed by Clyde Bruckman
With W.C. Fields
This infamous W.C. Fields short film remains contentious even after 75 years. A prodigal, if slightly hung over son returns to the Yukon to face his family after several years in prison. The local Mountie makes the visit his personal business, braving the inclement weather—indeed inviting the weather inside, in a classic and oft-imitated schtick—in this timeless comedy.

Beerfest (2006)
Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar
With Erik Stolhanske, Paul Soter
How better can two brothers restore their family's good name than by practiced and skillful drinking? This underground festival turned hops-and-barley-Olympics may incite a mighty thirst, encourage unseemly behavior, and engage dirty competition, but ultimately the film's message is one of ancestral honor. So raise your glass and toast to family. And aspirin.

Cinema 4: The Reel World: Brooklyn

Approx 10:45pm—4am

Cameras trail any number of Brooklynites tonight during this Brooklyn-centric marathon. The usual cat fights, back-stabbing, and bed swapping isn't all the drama you'll see, though. Gang warfare, suicide jumps, and a few ménage à quatre remind us that there's really no sleep 'til Brooklyn.

Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Directed by John Badham
With John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney
Well, you can tell by the way he uses his walk that disco king Tony Manero doesn't take no for an answer. But when frosty Manhattan-bound Stephanie refuses to couple anywhere but that light-bright dance floor, Tony is forced to look at himself reflected in the many tiny mirrors of his favorite disco ball. Is his Bay Ridge basement enough for this Brooklyn lothario, or will his night fever lead him across the river? Platform shoes, paisley shirts, and a British chorus of three will tell this tale.

She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Directed by Spike Lee
With Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, and Spike Lee
Take a triangle and add a point, and you've got yourself a square, just like Nola Darling's got. Dating three men simultaneously, Nola's love life is reported with varying accuracy by her lovers, and her friends, and herself. Anticipation is palpable as she contemplates as she weighs her options: the civil suit, the hot bod, or the comic relief. This film asks the important questions: can four become one? And if so, who makes the bed the next morning?

The Warriors (1979)
Directed by Walter Hill
With Michael Beck, James Remar
The Boppers, The Hi-Hats, and The Lizzies may not sound intimidating, but these New York City gangs have effective means of intimidation. After false accusations of murder, the Coney Island Warriors find themselves on the run from gangs and brass alike. Can they make it from the Bronx to the Cyclone before getting served? With a little help from Mercy and the Orphans, they just might make it home and clear their good-gang name.

The Rec Room

The Rec Room's got Wii, Guitar Hero, and ping-pong for those who can't get enough action and couches, cushions, beer, and snacks for those who need a breather.

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Video Art

Brooklyn-based video artist Deborah Johnson, who also produces her art under the moniker CandyStations, has provided visual accompaniment for a slew of music groups, including Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, and Calexico. Her vibrant, elegant, and quirky art finds it way into the hidden corners of BAM, charming all viewers.

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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (pasties and all) joins the party again this year.

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