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"5 hours of cult 80s sci-fi action at the underused Imax for a £10er! Screens of Matter present radioactive punk classic Repo Man alongside John Carpenter’s touching alien body-snatch romance Starman + the total insanity of Buckaroo Banzai. This is a movie marathon not to be missed."
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A event on Saturday 24th February. The event starts at 10:30.
*tickets on sale until 3pm on Sat 24th*
Join us for three 1984 cult classics. This galactic pilgrimage is for serious sci-fi fans who can take on the challenge of watching almost five hours of film in one day!
This event is produced by Screens of Matter, a community project dedicated to bringing more sci-fi films to Bristol and beyond. There will be printed and digital film notes available, written by the programming team.
**NEW Interval lobby will now showcase sculptures by Harriet Aston**
https://www.harrietaston.com/
Doors 10am CANNON'S RD ENTRANCE
FILM ONE 10.30am: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (rated 15) 1hr 43m.
1 hour interval (you can leave the venue to grab lunch or eat your own in our lobby)
FILM TWO 1.15pm: Starman (rated PG) 1hr 55m.
20 minute interval
FILM THREE 3.30pm: Repo Man (rated 18)
Event ends approx 5.05/5.20
Snacks and packs of nibbles are available from a kiosk on the ground floor in the aquarium.
THE LINE UP
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
From the writer of the 70’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers and John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China comes this description-defying genre mashup starring a pre-Robocop Peter Weller as physicist-neurosurgeon-martial arts master-secret agent-rock star Buckaroo Banzai, battling aliens (the scenery-chewing duo of John Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd) from the 8th dimension. An ahead-of-its-time and of-its-time film which counts filmmakers like Wes Anderson among its fans.
Starman
Halloween director John Carpenter took a strange detour into romantic science fiction territory with Starman, starring Jeff Bridges in a truly oddball performance that earned him an Oscar nomination. When his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin, Starman (Bridges) arrives at the remote cabin of a distraught young widow, Jenny (Karen Allen; Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark), and clones the form of her dead husband. The alien convinces an understandably freaked-out Jenny to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if his mothership doesn't pick him up in three days, he'll die.
Repo Man
British writer-director Alex Cox somehow got this grotty, hardcore punk-infused Reagan-era satire into the lap of major distributor Universal Studios as his debut film. The legendary Harry Dean Stanton stars as a weathered car repossessor in a weirded-out Los Angeles alongside Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk under his wing. The job becomes more than they bargained for when they get involved in repossessing a mysterious Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it and something freaky in the trunk. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties LA punk soundtrack with an earworm Iggy Pop title song.
Approx event timings:
On arrival, you will be issued with a wristband to access all three films. Tickets cannot be purchased for individual films. Tickets are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend and want to transfer your booking to a friend please email us (at least 48 hours before screening). Need a carer ticket? Please buy a ticket for yourself and email us for your carer to be added to the guest list.
For our terms and conditions please visit https://screensofmatter.cargo.site/Ticketing-Terms-Conditions
Entry requirements: 18+
Join us for three 1984 cult classics. This galactic pilgrimage is for serious sci-fi fans who can take on the challenge of watching almost five hours of film in one day!
This event is produced by Screens of Matter, a community project dedicated to bringing more sci-fi films to Bristol and beyond. There will be printed and digital film notes available, written by the programming team.
**NEW Interval lobby will now showcase sculptures by Harriet Aston**
https://www.harrietaston.com/
Doors 10am CANNON'S RD ENTRANCE
FILM ONE 10.30am: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (rated 15) 1hr 43m.
1 hour interval (you can leave the venue to grab lunch or eat your own in our lobby)
FILM TWO 1.15pm: Starman (rated PG) 1hr 55m.
20 minute interval
FILM THREE 3.30pm: Repo Man (rated 18)
Event ends approx 5.05/5.20
Snacks and packs of nibbles are available from a kiosk on the ground floor in the aquarium.
THE LINE UP
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
From the writer of the 70’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers and John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China comes this description-defying genre mashup starring a pre-Robocop Peter Weller as physicist-neurosurgeon-martial arts master-secret agent-rock star Buckaroo Banzai, battling aliens (the scenery-chewing duo of John Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd) from the 8th dimension. An ahead-of-its-time and of-its-time film which counts filmmakers like Wes Anderson among its fans.
Starman
Halloween director John Carpenter took a strange detour into romantic science fiction territory with Starman, starring Jeff Bridges in a truly oddball performance that earned him an Oscar nomination. When his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin, Starman (Bridges) arrives at the remote cabin of a distraught young widow, Jenny (Karen Allen; Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark), and clones the form of her dead husband. The alien convinces an understandably freaked-out Jenny to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if his mothership doesn't pick him up in three days, he'll die.
Repo Man
British writer-director Alex Cox somehow got this grotty, hardcore punk-infused Reagan-era satire into the lap of major distributor Universal Studios as his debut film. The legendary Harry Dean Stanton stars as a weathered car repossessor in a weirded-out Los Angeles alongside Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk under his wing. The job becomes more than they bargained for when they get involved in repossessing a mysterious Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it and something freaky in the trunk. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties LA punk soundtrack with an earworm Iggy Pop title song.
Approx event timings:
On arrival, you will be issued with a wristband to access all three films. Tickets cannot be purchased for individual films. Tickets are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend and want to transfer your booking to a friend please email us (at least 48 hours before screening). Need a carer ticket? Please buy a ticket for yourself and email us for your carer to be added to the guest list.
For our terms and conditions please visit https://screensofmatter.cargo.site/Ticketing-Terms-Conditions
Entry requirements: 18+
