Film
Dark Star
Thu, Feb 12, 2015
- 7:30PM
- 9:30PM
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RUN TIME: 83min
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14
MEMBERS: $9 (Movie Moguls free)
SENIORS/STUDENTS/VETERANS: $10 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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February 2015
Thursday February 12, 2015
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2015
series John Carpenter: Master of Fear
Directed by John Carpenter | 1974
With Dan O'Bannon, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich
"A berserk combination of space opera, intelligent bombs, and beach balls from other worlds."
—Roger Ebert
A group of astronauts is assigned the tedious task of exploding planets to make way for the human colonization of space. Their job gets exciting when an overly self-aware bomb refuses to drop from the bomb bay, threatening to self destruct and blow them all to kingdom come. This very funny sci-fi flick, co-written, starring, and edited by O’Bannon (who went on to write Alien and other horror/sci-fi clasics), features a mischievous alien that looks like a beach ball, a sexy computer, and a bomb with a God complex.
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