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7月24日 THINK FINK!Bay Area Film Events to Screen Ed “Big Daddy” Roth Documentary! BAFE is proud to present another Bay Area big-screen premier! From the award-winning director of COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL and GRASS comes TALES OF THE RAT FINK, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink". Mann's largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons, Theo Rosnick and The Smothers Brothers. Filmed in Kandy color. Recorded with real 426 hemi engines. Rated F for Fink's everywhere. Finks unite at the Cerrito Speakeasy Theater in El Cerrito, Thursday September 20 at 9:00pm! Director Ron Mann ("Comic Book Confidential") deserves the Academy Weirdo Award for this intriguing, always-off-the-wall biography of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (1932-2001), a true culture rebel who revved up the realm of hot rods in the 1950s with unique costume-car designs. Mann allows the very cars Roth created to do the talking on camera as his alter ego, so Roth's life story metaphorically speeds along a bizarre highway in hilarious bits and pieces. The animated sequences (with voices by such Roth lovers as Matt Groening, Jay Leno, Tom Wolfe, Ann-Margret and the Smothers Brothers) are commingled with photographs, footage lifted from feature films and home movies of real-life events. At Bell High School in Southern California, Roth flunked everything but auto shop and art, yet he was to exceed in both fields as an innovator. He was the first to pin-stripe cars and to paint images on "monster" T-shirts, setting into motion trends that carried the hot rod crowd to a new "kineticism" (Wolfe's word). Roth also revolutionized hot rod designs with his fiberglass creations such as the Outlaw and the Rotar. Hating Mickey Mouse because the squeaky thing symbolized conformity, Roth created and drew Rat Fink, a sharp-toothed, slavering green rodent monster that came to symbolize and satirize the hot rod culture. – John Stanley, SF Chronicle. 7月13日 007 Thrills Audiences at the Castro Theatre!As BAFE celebrates the year of James Bond, 2007, fans flocked to the Castro Theatre for a weekend of thrilling Bond action! Guest Richard "Jaws" Kiel signed photos and books for fans and treated anyone willing to a head crushing photo session! Richard introduced THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and fascinated the audience with stories of his career, covering everything from Bond to THE TWILIGHT ZONE to EEGAH! and other movies and TV series in which he appeared. Antiquities at Pier 39 was on hand with Bond goods and other collectibles. One lucky Bond collector purchased the Cadillac of collectibles from the show, a framed collection of autographed 8x10" stills...one of each of the Bond actors; Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and current Bond Daniel Craig. Apocalypso Now brought their own unique calypso music to the mezzanine and entertained shoppers and minglers alike. Saturday Night's show opened with another amazing stunt show by The Stunt People. This one featuring James Bond, Odd Job and thugs in an exciting fight to the death to save the theater from a doomsday machine provided by jack of all trades Eric Yee. Monday's shows were hosted by Bay Area Film Events' favorite local movie host Cinema Insomnia's Mr. Lobo. And of course there were the movies, what James Bond is all about, DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, GOLDFINGER, THUNDERBALL, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME! Memorial Day weekend was definitely a weekend to remember for Bond fans young and old. Everyone can continue celebrating The Year of Bond, 2007 for a few more months. But, if you missed our Weekend to Thrill, you missed an exciting weekend shaken and stirred! |
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