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Fri Feb 15 - Sat Apr 19 The Late Night Picture Show - Midnight Series $9.50 General, $10.50 21+ shows, $8.50 senior/student Website

Description The Late Night Picture Show is back! The historic Clay Theatre's midnight movie series returns this Spring, again showing the best cult, specialty and forgotten films that have ever graced the silver screen. Every weekend starting February 15 through April 19 the Clay will be burning the midnight oil to showcase cinematic gems, anchored by its wildly successful monthly screenings of the classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, plus unique selections and selections for this season. Highlights include the director of A BOY AND HIS DOG, LQ Jones in person; screenwriter Barry Gifford in attendance for David Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY; a rare reissue of the Masyles’ Rolling Stones documentary GIMME SHELTER; and select 21+ Saturdays with a bar for adult audiences, including a screening of THE PRINCESS BRIDE -- and LEPRECHAUN, on none other than Saint Patrick's Day weekend! See you at the Late Night Picture Show! Special guests listed below are available for interview; please contact us for further details if desired. February 15, 16 & 17: THE PRINCESS BRIDE (extra holiday & matinee shows) Saturday February 16th is Solstice Lounge night at the Clay as they tend bar once again for adult audiences. $10.50 General Admission, 21+ with ID. Enjoy! Friday and Sunday are regular admission. The Late Night Picture Show kicks off its new season right with everyone’s favorite swamp -- ridden, rodent-laden, eel-infested, love conquers all fairy-tale movie– THE PRINCESS BRIDE. There’s something magical in this movie that keeps people watching over and over; and like The Shining from our fall season, you should require no convincing to attend-- so stretch your valentine’s day a little, and bring your sweetheart out at midnight. But wait, there's more! Is midnight just too late for you this week? Want to bring the whole family, but you can't keep half of them up past 9 PM? Well, due to fortuitous scheduling and just general good luck, the theatre is able to present THE PRINCESS BRIDE at an earlier hour as well -- So enjoy our NOON shows on Saturday, Sunday and Monday February 16, 17 & 18! The noon shows are matinee price, $8.00 for everyone. Saturday February 23: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW plays at the Clay the last Saturday of every month, with live cast. By popular demand, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW now plays at the Clay Theatre the last Saturday of every month! Not only does this give you a lot more chances to see it, it also gives you Rocky Regulars out there more chances to keep your audience-participation skills honed. Trust us when we say seeing it at home on video just doesn't cut it. See it with a live cast the way it's meant to be seen! Audiences have been shocked, amazed and sometimes terrified by creator Richard O'Brien's vision -- an ode to sci fi B-pictures, classic rock and sexual transgression -- for over three decades now, and the phenomenon shows no signs of abating. But the best part is, if you live in San Francisco or the South Bay, you don't have to take our word for it! Come see for yourself! February 29 & March 1: A BOY AND HIS DOG Director L.Q. JONES in person BOTH NIGHTS! Director L.Q. Jones' 1975 cult favorite is set in post-World War IV America, where one young scavenger named Vic (Don Johnson of "Miami Vice" and "Nash Bridges" fame, in a key early role) has an advantage on survival through the telepathic bond he has with his dog. However, when they come across a mysterious female (Susanne Benton), their friendship and survival are threatened as Vic chooses to follow her underground, where old society has been preserved. Or has it? Based on a Nebula Award-winning novella by acclaimed author Harlan Ellison. Also starring Jason Robards, Alvy Moore and the voice of Tim McIntire. March 7 & 8: AMERICAN PSYCHO Bret Easton Ellis' social satire 'American Psycho,' perhaps the most controversial and hotly-debated novel of the last decade, tells the terrifying and chilling story of a wealthy Manhattan alpha-male (Christian Bale) who indulges his darkest urges by becoming a serial killer. Brought vividly to life by director Mary Harron (The Notorious Bettie Page). Christian Bale proved himself a star in the title role; The movie is maniacal and over the top, but that’s pretty much what you want when you're going to see something with “psycho” in the title, isn't it? March 14 & 15: LEPRECHAUN Saturday March 15th is Solstice Lounge night (21+ w/ID) with Holiday-appropriate drinks available at the bar! We're not promising they'll be green or anything, but they'll be good. St. Patrick’s Day: the powers that be at The Clay theatre tried to choose a movie that promotes the holiday’s true meaning. There were so many to pick from: Michael Collins – no, too serious. The Wind That Shakes the Barley – nope, too good. My Left Foot – who wants to read subtitles at midnight? Rattle & Hum – we’d sooner shoot ourselves. But suddenly, a true epiphany occurred. St. Patty’s Day! Pots o’ Gold! Rainbows! Four-leaf clovers! The bloodied knuckles of belligerent drunks! What else but Leprechaun! Any movie in which a perpetually rhyming, 600-year old, malevolent green dwarf threatens to make a boot out of someone’s ear unless he gets his gold back is, in our book anyway, meant for the midnight circuit. March 21 & 22: LOST HIGHWAY With BARRY GIFFORD in person Saturday March 22 (see bio below) David Lynch's 1997 film marks a turning point in his work-- the ever-present Lynch menace concealed behind the everyday is there, but so is a willingness to dismantle its own story to pursue a headlong slide into madness. Mullholland Drive and Inland Empire have made this familiar Lynchian territory (is Lynchian a word yet?), but it all starts here. The result is a bloody, noir- tinged nightmare that clings to you long afterwards. LOST HIGHWAY also marks Lynch's second big-screen collaboration with Author Barry Gifford (the first being Wild at Heart)-- and the Clay Theatre is pleased to Have Mr. Gifford as our guest a second time, just as we did when Wild of Heart graced the Clay's big screen in 2006. If you've seen LOST HIGHWAY even once, you have at least one question about it -- and this is your chance to ask the screenwriter himself! Although we have been assured, some questions must go unanswered... April 4 & 5: GIMME SHELTER Filmed over the course of ten days, GIMME SHELTER is the film that catapulted The Maysles Brothers and Charlotte Zwerin to the forefront of "direct cinema" – a term the Maysles' coined and preferred over the highly assumptive cinema vérité. As originally planned, GIMME SHELTER was to be a celebratory document of The Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the U.S. that began with the Thanksgiving show at Madison Square Garden which opens the film, and ended with the free concert given at the Altamont Speedway near San Francisco. What the Maysles, Zwerin and their crew ended up with though, was the celluloid equivalent of an autopsy transcription – the body dissected is the 1960s itself. April 11 & 12: SCARFACE The Late Night Picture Show loves Brian DePalma (at least until about 1987), but audiences absolutely everywhere love SCARFACE. And not without reason. Written by a young Oliver Stone while trying to crawl out from under a self-confessed coke addiction and made by DePalma as the director hit the peak of his brashness (and while NOT trying to do a sleazier version of Hitchcock, a bad habit of his) -- the volume on this thing has only one setting: WAY too loud. But these factors were only enough to get them accused of glorifying crime and shameless racial insensitivity. What simultaneously doomed the film critically -- and makes it one for the ages-- is Pacino's calculatedly unhinged performance in the title role. Spending three hours in a darkened theatre watching the man transform this film into the greatest camp crime epic ever created ends up being days short of the audience's patience for Tony Montana. The character, vile as he is, is easily one of the most memorable (and easily quotable) in the history of cinema. April 18 & 19: CONAN THE BARBARIAN For many sword ‘n’ sandal movie lovers, CONAN THE BARBARIAN is the film that first got them addicted. The never boring revenge-plot, the seemingly futile quest, the evil cult of snakes and its bare-breasted acolytes, the over-sized monster, the steamy and wanton orgy, the fierce black body paint, and of course the scene-stealing glamazon that is Valeria, all make for a wonderfully spent two hours. And of course, there’s the Governator. It's not hard to admit that he has a cinematic presence in CONAN THE BARBARIAN – the film that launched him as a full-fledged movie star.

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