Arthur Magazine Presents Two 93-Minute Films Involving Euphoriants

Monday, Jan 14, 2008 at 8pm
at CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036 / 323-655-2510
www.cinefamily.org

Work Is a 4-Letter Word, about a young man (David Warner) who becomes more interested in his factory job than his new bride (Beatles friend Cilla Black) when he discovers he can grow happiness mushrooms down in the boiler room, has never been screened by this evening’s hosts, but comes highly recommended by rising star mycologist Paul Stamets, which should be recommendation enough.

Taking Off–a lost, gentle Milos Forman film about well-to-do New York runaways and the parents who pursue them — has to be seen in a theater to…well, to be seen. Buck Henry, Ultra Violet, Vincent Schiavelli, a scorching, libidinous nightclub performance by the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, a young Carly Simon singing “Long Term Physical Effects,” a young Kathy Bates singing “Even the Horses Had Wings,” and what is perhaps the most charmingly whimsical getting-high-for-the-first-time scene ever filmed, featuring the Incredible String Band’s classic “Air”: what more do you want? There’s probably a reason neither of these two films are on DVD, but we don’t know what it is.

Smoking is allowed–nay, encouraged–in the patio out back before, during and after this bargain priced double-feature, which will include a deejayed intermission by Arthur contributing editor Daniel Chamberlin and a discussion led by filmmaker Mike Mills, journalist/historian Paul Cullum and Arthur editor Jay Babcock.

Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Dir: Peter Hall, 1968, 35mm, 93 min.

Taking Off
Dir: Milos Forman, 1971, 35mm, 93 min.

Tickets – $10 – buy advance tickets here