Saturday, February 9, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Film Farm presents "DRIVE-OUT THEATER" (5/6)
2.4.08 - "BAD MOVIE NIGHT : The Voyage Home"
DRIVE-OUT THEATER (5/6) presents
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!
(Russ Meyer, 1965) and
SPEED
(Jan de Bont, 1994).

faster, pussycat! kill! kill!

speed
FEBRUARY 4th
6pm (from Ritual Roasters -- 1026 valencia st. SF)
$10.

now say it with a dracula voice!
DRIVE-OUT THEATER (5/6) presents
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!
(Russ Meyer, 1965) and
SPEED
(Jan de Bont, 1994).
faster, pussycat! kill! kill!
speed
FEBRUARY 4th
6pm (from Ritual Roasters -- 1026 valencia st. SF)
$10.
now say it with a dracula voice!
Monday, January 28, 2008
Film Farm presents "DRIVE-OUT THEATER" (4/6)
1.28.08 - "SPY'S BIRTHDAY"
DRIVE-OUT THEATER (4/6) presents
SPACE IS THE PLACE (John Coney, 1974).

space is the place
A Message from Film Farm "Chief of Stuff", Spy
January 28th:
a space-y bus trip featuring SPACE IS THE PLACE with sun ra and his intergalactic arkestra
krobs eyenoise! chicken's driving! my drinks and hyjinx!
2 weeks ago, i had a wrestling fight with a flaming lotus girl. we tore each others panties off... literally.

yup, its that kind of bus trip.
there's limited space, about 40 people, so RSVP if you wanna go. this will be our 4th film farm on the bus, it has been a HUGE success!! this one is special because it's MY BIRTHDAY. get ready to make all sorts of sins... ON WHEELS!! god damn i'm excited. bring whippitts and crackers!
film farm costs $10, a STEAL for alllll the popcorn, bus ride, movies and entertainment you get!!
in addition i sell mixed drinks and snacks... CHEAP @ $2-4.
we meet at ritual coffee on valencia st 6pm we and get home around 12am.
booya.
sidenote from WFMU.
DRIVE-OUT THEATER (4/6) presents
SPACE IS THE PLACE (John Coney, 1974).
space is the place
A Message from Film Farm "Chief of Stuff", Spy
January 28th:
a space-y bus trip featuring SPACE IS THE PLACE with sun ra and his intergalactic arkestra
krobs eyenoise! chicken's driving! my drinks and hyjinx!
2 weeks ago, i had a wrestling fight with a flaming lotus girl. we tore each others panties off... literally.
yup, its that kind of bus trip.
there's limited space, about 40 people, so RSVP if you wanna go. this will be our 4th film farm on the bus, it has been a HUGE success!! this one is special because it's MY BIRTHDAY. get ready to make all sorts of sins... ON WHEELS!! god damn i'm excited. bring whippitts and crackers!
film farm costs $10, a STEAL for alllll the popcorn, bus ride, movies and entertainment you get!!
in addition i sell mixed drinks and snacks... CHEAP @ $2-4.
we meet at ritual coffee on valencia st 6pm we and get home around 12am.
booya.
sidenote from WFMU.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Film Farm presents "DRIVE-OUT THEATER" (3/6)
1.21.08 - "SUPERHERO SKATING"
DRIVE-OUT THEATER (3/6) presents
BRUTALLO'S FAIRY TALE FAVORITES (switched-on grimm version, 2007) and
SPACEDISCO-ONE (Damon Packard, 2007).

FROM THE ASK Dr. HAL WEBSITE: But– what’s going on on Monday nights these days? Pilgrim, I’ll tell you. It’s an amazing event, KrOB’s Film Farm. It’s KrOB showing his movies and edits. It’s free popcorn. It’s KrOB’s patented eyenoise™ and all that goes with it. You get on the bus, you pay $10.00 but that’s to defray the cost of fuel, mainly. Because the bus will be in motion. Each time that old bus will trundle off to a delightful pre-picked secret destination, and en route, while the bus rumbles along with Chicken at the wheel, two projectors will simultaneously present KrOB’s show. Leave the driving to Chicken, the show to KrOB.

Thanks for the plug, Hal.
Say, did you know that northern california is like dennis miller and laughter when it comes to roller skating? ....especially on monday nights? not ONE roller rink has an "open skate" as far as i can throw myself. but, you know, everyone has a price....

On January 21st, for SUPERHERO SKATING, KrOB'S Film Farm invites all heroes and villians to skate it out on the boogie rink of destiny (Paradise Skate in Antioch)! what you do, is come in costume, preferably as a superhero or supervillian of your own design--
meet at Ritual Roasters in SF @ 6pm with $10. for the drive-out theater and another $10. for the rink
-- and get on Chicken John's Applause Bus for a night of features from the great BRUTALLO!
No, it's not like Gay Underwear Skating.... nuh-uh.. not at all.
So, anyway....
Our movies include the Fairy Tale Favorites (switched-on grimm edition), trailers for K. Gordon Murray Films and upcoming Film Farm Features,

brutallo's fairy tale favorites
Guided by Christine Metropoulos and Mr. Sloumberfugex of Brutallo.com, we go over the river and down through the dense woods of the fabled imagination of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen. Our fantastic escapade is sonically paced by equally animated electronic musicians: Mad Hatter Hans Grusel falls down the rabbit’s hole with Alice in Wonderland, while the terrific (and sometimes terrifying) twosome Tarantism wreak havoc with Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes. With his eerie soundscapes, audio- and video-editing wizard Loachfillet wolfs down Little Red Riding Hood; KrOB lurks through the forest with Hansel and Gretel ;
Bran(…)Pos rhapsodizes to Rapunzel; and deft soundscapist HeadBoggle crowns King Midas.
On our return trip we'll show Damon Packard Stuff (incl. "Space Rockers"), lots and lots of KrOB EYENOISE, and our main feature, the incomparable "SpaceDisco-One" from Damon Packard.

Here's the Film Farm write-up for the encore SF presentation of SpaceDisco-One.
We got 2 hours of skating time in a rink all to ourselves! We'll have reality manipulation by our very own voiceless ambassadors on wheels, Telepathik Friend and i might even get to play the music if the fledgling owner guy by the dashboard light will let a sith lord in his dj booth... i got a few mind tricks up my skull... we'll see....

spacedisco-one
The lovely Spy will act as your groove-a-delic Stewardess, serving the drinks and making you comfortable. She'll have a new drink made special just for the trip and there'll be a multitude of munchies to rot your teeth and suspend your disbelief as we roll aboard the geek-freaking Odeon Applause Bus! Make yourself comfortable snuggled among delightful company. It’s timed so that there’s a double feature; the first picture plays on the way out, the main feature on the way back. HIghly Recommended!
Meet in front of Ritual Roasters Cafe, 1026 Valencia St. at 6:00 PM for boarding. We recommend that you bring a blanket or sleeping bag / pajamas or SUPERSUIT!
Tally ho!
See you there…
reservations (no more than 40): krob@askdrhal.com

oh yeah....!
ps: get a free box of candy if you answer this week's trivia question correctly.
In what book does this quote appear?:
"We shall meet in the place were there is no darkness."
DRIVE-OUT THEATER (3/6) presents
BRUTALLO'S FAIRY TALE FAVORITES (switched-on grimm version, 2007) and
SPACEDISCO-ONE (Damon Packard, 2007).
FROM THE ASK Dr. HAL WEBSITE: But– what’s going on on Monday nights these days? Pilgrim, I’ll tell you. It’s an amazing event, KrOB’s Film Farm. It’s KrOB showing his movies and edits. It’s free popcorn. It’s KrOB’s patented eyenoise™ and all that goes with it. You get on the bus, you pay $10.00 but that’s to defray the cost of fuel, mainly. Because the bus will be in motion. Each time that old bus will trundle off to a delightful pre-picked secret destination, and en route, while the bus rumbles along with Chicken at the wheel, two projectors will simultaneously present KrOB’s show. Leave the driving to Chicken, the show to KrOB.
Thanks for the plug, Hal.
Say, did you know that northern california is like dennis miller and laughter when it comes to roller skating? ....especially on monday nights? not ONE roller rink has an "open skate" as far as i can throw myself. but, you know, everyone has a price....
On January 21st, for SUPERHERO SKATING, KrOB'S Film Farm invites all heroes and villians to skate it out on the boogie rink of destiny (Paradise Skate in Antioch)! what you do, is come in costume, preferably as a superhero or supervillian of your own design--
meet at Ritual Roasters in SF @ 6pm with $10. for the drive-out theater and another $10. for the rink
-- and get on Chicken John's Applause Bus for a night of features from the great BRUTALLO!
No, it's not like Gay Underwear Skating.... nuh-uh.. not at all.
So, anyway....
Our movies include the Fairy Tale Favorites (switched-on grimm edition), trailers for K. Gordon Murray Films and upcoming Film Farm Features,
brutallo's fairy tale favorites
Guided by Christine Metropoulos and Mr. Sloumberfugex of Brutallo.com, we go over the river and down through the dense woods of the fabled imagination of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen. Our fantastic escapade is sonically paced by equally animated electronic musicians: Mad Hatter Hans Grusel falls down the rabbit’s hole with Alice in Wonderland, while the terrific (and sometimes terrifying) twosome Tarantism wreak havoc with Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes. With his eerie soundscapes, audio- and video-editing wizard Loachfillet wolfs down Little Red Riding Hood; KrOB lurks through the forest with Hansel and Gretel ;
Bran(…)Pos rhapsodizes to Rapunzel; and deft soundscapist HeadBoggle crowns King Midas.
On our return trip we'll show Damon Packard Stuff (incl. "Space Rockers"), lots and lots of KrOB EYENOISE, and our main feature, the incomparable "SpaceDisco-One" from Damon Packard.
Here's the Film Farm write-up for the encore SF presentation of SpaceDisco-One.
We got 2 hours of skating time in a rink all to ourselves! We'll have reality manipulation by our very own voiceless ambassadors on wheels, Telepathik Friend and i might even get to play the music if the fledgling owner guy by the dashboard light will let a sith lord in his dj booth... i got a few mind tricks up my skull... we'll see....
spacedisco-one
The lovely Spy will act as your groove-a-delic Stewardess, serving the drinks and making you comfortable. She'll have a new drink made special just for the trip and there'll be a multitude of munchies to rot your teeth and suspend your disbelief as we roll aboard the geek-freaking Odeon Applause Bus! Make yourself comfortable snuggled among delightful company. It’s timed so that there’s a double feature; the first picture plays on the way out, the main feature on the way back. HIghly Recommended!
Meet in front of Ritual Roasters Cafe, 1026 Valencia St. at 6:00 PM for boarding. We recommend that you bring a blanket or sleeping bag / pajamas or SUPERSUIT!
Tally ho!
See you there…
reservations (no more than 40): krob@askdrhal.com
oh yeah....!
ps: get a free box of candy if you answer this week's trivia question correctly.
In what book does this quote appear?:
"We shall meet in the place were there is no darkness."
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Film Farm presents "DRIVE-OUT THEATER" (2/6)
1.14.08 - WOMEN In TROUBLE
DRIVE-OUT THEATER (2/6) presents
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey, 1962) and
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006).

carnival of souls

inland empire
THE APPLAUSE BUS DRIVES TO PORT COSTA!

JANUARY 14th
6pm (from Ritual Roasters -- 1026 valencia st. SF)
$10.
Our first outing was alot of fun. a trip to boulevard bowl in petaluma playing our shit on two screens on either side of the bus. Once everyone was nestled, Chicken John rolled through eastern San Francisco and took us north over the Golden Gate. Starting with EYENOISE, an edited version of KINGPIN, a 50's education short called "LET'S GO BOWLING", some BOB and things BOB-related (the answer to the film farm trivia question, by the way, was BOB), and, of course, ending with our feature feature...THE BIG LEBOWSKI! I played some eyenoise as usual and spy melted butter for popcorn and served sugary snacks and white russians! We had a munson, complete with comb-over and a dude, complete with robe and a quart of half-and-half! i bowled a 126 and we all had in-and-out burgers in rohnert park!
yea... it was pretty awesome.
Expect more of the same, only spookier this time around, as we snake around the bay with our movie features of beautiful blondes exceptionally lost.
now it's dark.
We'll have even more drinks and snacks and free popcorn for everyone. Spy will have a drink special for each week.... what will it be this time around? Well whatever it is, it'll be cheap. I think this whole deal is a steal. $10. gets you a cool double feature on a great comfy ride. its win/win! Meet, once again, with any snuggling accessories (favorite pillow, blanket, mind-altering drugs, etc.), at Ritual Roasters at 6pm and when the applause bus rides up... get on!
Save a little for the bar in Port Costa, though. we'll take a bit of a walking tour around the area and check out this stunning historic landmark.
I'd talk for awhile about how i feel about both CARNIVAL of SOULS and INLAND EMPIRE... but the closer a thing is to my heart, the harder it is to articulate it to any satisfactory justice. So, i won't talk about these movies as much as i wish i could... save to say that CARNIVAL of SOULS has always been special to me. Featuring a creepy atonal organ soundtrack i first heard on Babs Bendix' HI-FI LIVING (a girl's show) and a great performance by Candace Hilligoss. Laura Dern, though, fucking rocks in INLAND EMPIRE. She'll probably never get an award for what she did, but she should. yes, David Lynch's new one is definitley one of his best. He's making movies with digital video now and saying goodbye to the expense and time-consumption of film processing. Cheaper and easier, he's making the movies he wants to make... which are the ones i'd rather be watching. We'll park somewhere pretty to watch and/or listen to this incredible movie... the soundtrack, for INLAND EMPIRE, i think, is his silkiest and darkest one to date.

bus reservations: krob@askdrhal.com
rabbits
DRIVE-OUT THEATER (2/6) presents
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey, 1962) and
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006).
carnival of souls
inland empire
THE APPLAUSE BUS DRIVES TO PORT COSTA!
JANUARY 14th
6pm (from Ritual Roasters -- 1026 valencia st. SF)
$10.
Our first outing was alot of fun. a trip to boulevard bowl in petaluma playing our shit on two screens on either side of the bus. Once everyone was nestled, Chicken John rolled through eastern San Francisco and took us north over the Golden Gate. Starting with EYENOISE, an edited version of KINGPIN, a 50's education short called "LET'S GO BOWLING", some BOB and things BOB-related (the answer to the film farm trivia question, by the way, was BOB), and, of course, ending with our feature feature...THE BIG LEBOWSKI! I played some eyenoise as usual and spy melted butter for popcorn and served sugary snacks and white russians! We had a munson, complete with comb-over and a dude, complete with robe and a quart of half-and-half! i bowled a 126 and we all had in-and-out burgers in rohnert park!
yea... it was pretty awesome.
Expect more of the same, only spookier this time around, as we snake around the bay with our movie features of beautiful blondes exceptionally lost.
now it's dark.
We'll have even more drinks and snacks and free popcorn for everyone. Spy will have a drink special for each week.... what will it be this time around? Well whatever it is, it'll be cheap. I think this whole deal is a steal. $10. gets you a cool double feature on a great comfy ride. its win/win! Meet, once again, with any snuggling accessories (favorite pillow, blanket, mind-altering drugs, etc.), at Ritual Roasters at 6pm and when the applause bus rides up... get on!
Save a little for the bar in Port Costa, though. we'll take a bit of a walking tour around the area and check out this stunning historic landmark.
I'd talk for awhile about how i feel about both CARNIVAL of SOULS and INLAND EMPIRE... but the closer a thing is to my heart, the harder it is to articulate it to any satisfactory justice. So, i won't talk about these movies as much as i wish i could... save to say that CARNIVAL of SOULS has always been special to me. Featuring a creepy atonal organ soundtrack i first heard on Babs Bendix' HI-FI LIVING (a girl's show) and a great performance by Candace Hilligoss. Laura Dern, though, fucking rocks in INLAND EMPIRE. She'll probably never get an award for what she did, but she should. yes, David Lynch's new one is definitley one of his best. He's making movies with digital video now and saying goodbye to the expense and time-consumption of film processing. Cheaper and easier, he's making the movies he wants to make... which are the ones i'd rather be watching. We'll park somewhere pretty to watch and/or listen to this incredible movie... the soundtrack, for INLAND EMPIRE, i think, is his silkiest and darkest one to date.
bus reservations: krob@askdrhal.com
rabbits
Monday, December 17, 2007
Film Farm presents "DRIVE-OUT THEATER"
1.07.08

Film Farm takes the show on the road for a six-week movie run on Chicken John's Applause Bus. We roll from Ritual Roasters on Valencia and follow through to the Bowling Alley at 6pm, presenting KINGPIN (bobby and peter farrelly, 1996) and THE BIG LEBOWSKI (joel and ethan coen, 1998). I'll play some BOB, too.
The pillows are big, but the space is limited... reserve your spot now. email me - smquestionmark@yahoo.com
$10.00
Film Farm takes the show on the road for a six-week movie run on Chicken John's Applause Bus. We roll from Ritual Roasters on Valencia and follow through to the Bowling Alley at 6pm, presenting KINGPIN (bobby and peter farrelly, 1996) and THE BIG LEBOWSKI (joel and ethan coen, 1998). I'll play some BOB, too.
The pillows are big, but the space is limited... reserve your spot now. email me - smquestionmark@yahoo.com
$10.00
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Weak Ten @ Chez Poulet: Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein
The last Ask Dr. Hal! show will be trailed by an engagement of KrOB's Film Farm, as is traditional.
Tuesday, October 30th, the very Eve of Hallowe'en, we'll show the immortal Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

Chez Poulet -- 3359 ARMY (Cesar Chavez) St. @ Mission SF
Abbott and Costello were America's preeminent film comedians, translating their popular stage act to several motion pictures and becoming part of the 20th century's pop-culture landscape. And, as it happened, in the late '40s Universal Studios realized they had two very marketable items under their contractual roof, as the duo were building a popular film career not too far away from a legion of legendary movie monsters who had been turning out more and more implausible sequels year after year. 1944's House of Frankenstein, for example, is a (very entertaining) monster rally which is practicallyA & C Meet Frank minus the comedic twosome. And so, in the final, magnificent example of Universal's monster world, in which Lugosi gives his all, throwing himself into the Dracula role for the last time, and John P. Fulton's great special effects still entertain, Bud and Lou make cinematic history-- and the best of any of their own comedies. 'The Boys' don't actually meet Dr. Frankenstein, of course, but they do tangle not only with Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange), on whose unearthly, cadaverous physiognomy the old Don Post Monster Mask was based, not Karloff -- but also Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.). The plot is rather interesting-- this far along in the Universal monster movie cycle we now observe a sinister and clearly defined Conspiracy of the Monsters. The story centers around the undead Count Dracula, who has acquired Frankenstein's creature, but wants to improve it -- with a more suggestible, more docile brain-- Lou Costello's, in fact. Surprisingly funny, genuinely atmospheric, and inventive, it's a movie worth cultivating-- a KrOB Klassic.

KrOB will also show his marvelous Eye Noise edits, making this the second-to-last iteration of the Film Farm. a don't-miss for this Hallowe'en Season.
With copyright-free popcorn, drinks of all colors, halloween candy, and, of course, spook-tacular SPY antics and appetizers...
KrOB's Film Farm-- Tuesday, OCT. 30th @ 8PM-- FREE
Tuesday, October 30th, the very Eve of Hallowe'en, we'll show the immortal Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

Chez Poulet -- 3359 ARMY (Cesar Chavez) St. @ Mission SF
Abbott and Costello were America's preeminent film comedians, translating their popular stage act to several motion pictures and becoming part of the 20th century's pop-culture landscape. And, as it happened, in the late '40s Universal Studios realized they had two very marketable items under their contractual roof, as the duo were building a popular film career not too far away from a legion of legendary movie monsters who had been turning out more and more implausible sequels year after year. 1944's House of Frankenstein, for example, is a (very entertaining) monster rally which is practicallyA & C Meet Frank minus the comedic twosome. And so, in the final, magnificent example of Universal's monster world, in which Lugosi gives his all, throwing himself into the Dracula role for the last time, and John P. Fulton's great special effects still entertain, Bud and Lou make cinematic history-- and the best of any of their own comedies. 'The Boys' don't actually meet Dr. Frankenstein, of course, but they do tangle not only with Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange), on whose unearthly, cadaverous physiognomy the old Don Post Monster Mask was based, not Karloff -- but also Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.). The plot is rather interesting-- this far along in the Universal monster movie cycle we now observe a sinister and clearly defined Conspiracy of the Monsters. The story centers around the undead Count Dracula, who has acquired Frankenstein's creature, but wants to improve it -- with a more suggestible, more docile brain-- Lou Costello's, in fact. Surprisingly funny, genuinely atmospheric, and inventive, it's a movie worth cultivating-- a KrOB Klassic.
KrOB will also show his marvelous Eye Noise edits, making this the second-to-last iteration of the Film Farm. a don't-miss for this Hallowe'en Season.
With copyright-free popcorn, drinks of all colors, halloween candy, and, of course, spook-tacular SPY antics and appetizers...
KrOB's Film Farm-- Tuesday, OCT. 30th @ 8PM-- FREE
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Weak Nine @ Chez Poulet: Island of Lost Souls
3359 ARMY (cesar chavez) ST. @ MISSION in SAN FRANCISCO
Island of Lost Souls, a masterpiece of '30s horror. Filled with dank jungle settings, dark caves, and huge mutant plants, Island of Lost Souls percolates with a decadent atmosphere that charms while it also horrifies. With genre director Erle C. Kenton at the helm, the island becomes a sinister, vile environment of creeping shadows that infiltrate right into the souls of the characters on screen. When the shipwrecked Edward Parker, (Prendick in the novel) is abandoned on his South Seas island, Moreau (Charles Laughton) doesn't want any prying eyes on his jungle paradise where he conducts medical experiments on animals, but he quickly sees that Parker might serve a useful scientific purpose. Taking a sadistic glee in his enterprise, he eagerly pushes the shipwrecked Parker together with the almost-human panther woman (Kathleen Burke) in hopes that the two might just sire a child. He waits in the shadows, carefully underplaying his part, while watching his plot take form. His eyes take on a sparkling glee. Laughton's performance is one of the great performances in the history of screen horror as he leads Parker around his island, cracking a whip to scare off hulking vaguely-human brutes who leer from the shadows. Meanwhile, agonized screams echo and the creatures cower while bleating "The... House of Pain!" Based on H.G. Wells's tale of horror, Island of Lost Souls boasts a screenplay by Philip Wylie, the marvelous cinematography of Karl Struss, one of the great cinematographers of Hollywood, a wonderful performance by Bela Lugosi as the "Sayer of the Law," meet who chants "What is the Law?" to a goofy, but creepy bunch of barrel-chested "beast men." One of the beasts in one delightfully decadent scene climbs a tree so he can crawl through a window and into her bedroom. The revenge of the animal-men is one of the most frightening scenes ever filmed for any movie. It got the film banned in Britain until some 25 years after its initial release
Monday, October 1, 2007
Weak Eight @ Chez Poulet: Parents

OCTOBER 10
PARENTS
(dir. bob balaban, 1989)23 8pm - The Show Is FREE!

Featuring super-secret SPY specials and fucktons of all-american opening EYENOISE from yours truly, KrOB.
Free, yes, FREE popcorn can be yours simply by reaching for it!
Mouth-watering drinks and bone-decaying snacks will also be available. order a "long island ice tea" from us while simultaneously feigning ignorance, and get the second one FREE!

Chez Poulet Gallery 3359 Army St @ Mission
We go from Great Guidance (ROBOT MONSTER - 10/26) to Parental Guidance (PARENTS - 10/10) with 2 Meat Scientists and lucid refugees from another local Movie Night. A certain Geekboy, and the classic proud poppa, Dr. Pete Goldie will be in the house preparing STRANGE MEATS (terrestrial oddities you can eat!) for our Feature Presentation. Will we be munchin' on forbidden bi-peds? Who knows?... but fellow carnivores won't be dissapointed as the gourmet mysteries become solved!
Monday, September 17, 2007
Weak Seven @ Chez Poulet: Robot Monster
FILM FARM NOW ON SOME WEDNESDAYS!!
KrOB'S Film Farm presents:
ROBOT MONSTER
(dir. PHIL TUCKER, 1953)

CHEZ POULET - - SEPT. 26th - - 8PM FREE
3359 ARMY (cesar chavez) ST. @ MISSION in SAN FRANCISCO

Every time there's an Ask Dr. Hal! show, there'll be a KrOB's Film Farm two days later. Remember that irreducible maxim. With added features: EYENOISE du JOUR (to be announced) / SUPER-SECRET SPY SPECIALS, FREE HOT BUTTERED POPCORN, DRINKS and those tempting movie theater SNACKS. Mmmmm-- boy!

The Lovely Spy is "Robot Monsterette" - Chief of Stuff for Film Farm
SPY is the Film Farm's October Surprise that came a month early. Yes, after the Exodus (listen to Sal Mineo's version for a complete explanation) of Burning Man and what with the return of ASK Dr. HAL @ 12 Galaxies, KrOB'S Film Farm returns with a wonderful wingman, the lovely SPY. She has recently been promoted to Chief of Stuff because of her startling devotion to detail. How's that?... 3 weaks on the job and, already, she's movin' out of the radiator room? Indeed. For the screening of "Faust", she made chocolate eyeballs dressed like a baltic teenage puritan. For "It's a mad mad mad mad mad world", the super secret SPY special inaugurated the mighty cocktail, by serving up "Old-Fashioneds" the way dear old Dad used to... if Dad had KrOB cNeek as the whisky of choice, that is. and... For "Robot Monster", she appeared as you see her on the cover of Film Farm Magazine, as "Robot Monsterette" and served up Calcinator Death Ale and Ro-Cookies. Mhmm, she's tops!
KrOB'S Film Farm presents:
ROBOT MONSTER
(dir. PHIL TUCKER, 1953)

CHEZ POULET - - SEPT. 26th - - 8PM FREE
3359 ARMY (cesar chavez) ST. @ MISSION in SAN FRANCISCO
Every time there's an Ask Dr. Hal! show, there'll be a KrOB's Film Farm two days later. Remember that irreducible maxim. With added features: EYENOISE du JOUR (to be announced) / SUPER-SECRET SPY SPECIALS, FREE HOT BUTTERED POPCORN, DRINKS and those tempting movie theater SNACKS. Mmmmm-- boy!

The Lovely Spy is "Robot Monsterette" - Chief of Stuff for Film Farm
SPY is the Film Farm's October Surprise that came a month early. Yes, after the Exodus (listen to Sal Mineo's version for a complete explanation) of Burning Man and what with the return of ASK Dr. HAL @ 12 Galaxies, KrOB'S Film Farm returns with a wonderful wingman, the lovely SPY. She has recently been promoted to Chief of Stuff because of her startling devotion to detail. How's that?... 3 weaks on the job and, already, she's movin' out of the radiator room? Indeed. For the screening of "Faust", she made chocolate eyeballs dressed like a baltic teenage puritan. For "It's a mad mad mad mad mad world", the super secret SPY special inaugurated the mighty cocktail, by serving up "Old-Fashioneds" the way dear old Dad used to... if Dad had KrOB cNeek as the whisky of choice, that is. and... For "Robot Monster", she appeared as you see her on the cover of Film Farm Magazine, as "Robot Monsterette" and served up Calcinator Death Ale and Ro-Cookies. Mhmm, she's tops!
Monday, August 20, 2007
Weak Six @ Chez Poulet: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

FREE POPCORN! Cold Drinks! Teeth-Rotting Snacks!
Faith-Based Seating! Double Stuf Stereo Spectrum
Soni-Wave Speaker System!
Just Added -- Just press the button marked BOOZE!
The lovely Spy has joined the Film Farm. She'll be on
hand to serve (KrOB cNeek whisky) Old-Fashioneds at 5
bucks a pop!
opening EYENOISE includes Yo La Tengo's "Sugarcube" Video featuring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross from TV's "Mr. Show" and Lots of Drive-In Theater Concession Stand Ads.

LAST FREE MOVIE NIGHT AT CHEZ POULET (coming back,
though)
August 20th
8pm
3359 Army St. (cesar chavez) @ Mission
Like "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" for
Halloween or anything with Arch Hall Jr. for
Groundhog's Day, or "It's a Wonderful Life" during
wartime, I think everybody should watch this movie
once a year. Somewhere in the netherworld between
Star Wars and Vaudeville, is the one of the greatest
comedies of all time! Film Farm continues it's
tradition of presenting
"It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"
soon before the Jerry Lewis' Labor Day Telethon, for
the
very 1st time! Oh wait. you probably don't have a time
machine, so that sentence will seem confusing...
(ahem) i've said too much.
Edie Adams as Monica Crump, wife of Melville Crump
Milton Berle as edible seaweed company owner J.
Russell Finch
Sid Caesar as dentist Melville Crump (a role
originally meant for Ernie Kovacs before his death in
a car accident)
Buddy Hackett as gambler Benjy Benjamin
Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus, mother-in-law of J.
Russell Finch and a very cranky woman
Dorothy Provine as Emeline Marcus-Finch, wife of J.
Russell Finch
Mickey Rooney as gambler Dingy 'Ding' Bell
Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus, Mrs. Marcus' son and
Emeline's brother
Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
Spencer Tracy as Captain C.G. Culpepper
Jonathan Winters as truck driver Lennie Pike
Secondary characters:
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson as a cab driver
William Demarest as Santa Rosita's chief of police
(Aloysius)
Jimmy Durante as Smiler Grogan
Peter Falk as a cab driver
Paul Ford as Col. Wilberforce
Cameo appearances by:
Jim Backus as boozy airplane owner Tyler Fitzgerald
Jack Benny as a man who drives by in a Maxwell,
offering to help
Paul Birch as a policeman
Ben Blue as the biplane pilot
Joe E. Brown as the union official
Alan Carney as a police sergeant
Chick Chandler as detective outside of Chinese laundry
Barrie Chase as Sylvester's love interest
John Clarke as helicopter pilot
Stanley Clements as squad room detective
Lloyd Corrigan as the mayor of Santa Rosita
Howard Da Silva as airport official
Andy Devine as the sheriff
Selma Diamond (voice only) as Ginger Culpepper
Minta Durfee as a crowd extra
Roy Engel as patrolman
Norman Fell as a detective
James Flavin as patrolman
Stan Freberg as a deputy sheriff
Nicholas Georgiade as detective
Louise Glenn (voice only) as Billie Sue Culpepper
Leo Gorcey as a cab driver
Don C. Harvey as policeman
Sterling Holloway as the fire chief
Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Dinckler
Allen Jenkins as police officer
Marvin Kaplan as garage man Irwin
Robert Karnes as Officer Simmy
Buster Keaton as Jimmy the Crook (boatman)
Tom Kennedy as the traffic cop
Don Knotts as the nervous motorist
Charles Lane as the airport manager
Harry Lauter as police dispatcher
Ben Lessy as George the steward
Bobo Lewis as pilot's wife
Jerry Lewis as the man who runs over Culpepper's hat
Mike Mazurki as the miner bringing medicine to his
wife
Charles McGraw as Lt. Matthews
Cliff Norton as a reporter
Barbara Pepper as a crowd extra
ZaSu Pitts as the switchboard operator
Carl Reiner as the tower controller
Madlyn Rhue as Secretary Schwartz
Roy Roberts as a policeman
Eddie Ryder as air traffic control tower staffer
Arnold Stang as garage man Ray
Nick Stewart as migrant truck driver
The Three Stooges as airport firemen
Sammee Tong as a laundryman
Doodles Weaver as a hardware store employee
Jesse White as an air traffic controller
So, anyway... Film Farm is taking 3 weeks off. Soon,
the ASK Dr. HAL show will return to the 12 Galaxies
and Film Farm will expand and continue at Chez Poulet
in Mid-September.
arnold stang blog post on wfmu
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/06/you_wanna_make_.html
Monday, August 13, 2007
Weak Five @ Chez Poulet: Faust
A full-length feature from the Czech animation director Jan Svankmajer.

3359 Cesar Chavez (aarmya) @ Mission Street
Thanks to Chicken John, we have our Film Farm back! What once was an Odeon tradition, in it's last years, returns again after a recent run at the 12 Galaxies. The intimate and casually elegant setting of Chez Poulet is ultimately fine for Film Farm, bringing you all the amenities without the bar-time retrograde. The screen is bigger, the sound is better, and you get to sit in pews, which makes every movie a bonafide religious experience. Drinks and snacks will be available, and, of course, the popcorn, topped with real greaseburg butter, is always free.
This Week's EYENOISE will feature The Brothers Quay -- look for Du JOUR postings on EYENOISE details.
One of the great Czech filmmakers, JAN SVANKMAJER was born in 1934 in Prague where he still lives. He trained at the Institute of Applied Arts from 1950 to 1954 and then at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (Department of Puppetry). He soon became involved in the Theatre of Masks and the famous Black Theatre, before entering the Laterna Magika Puppet Theatre where he first encountered film. In 1970 he met his wife, the surrealist painter Eva Svankmajerova, and the late Vratislav Effenberger, the leading theoretician of the Czech Surrealist Group, which Svankmajer joined and of which he still remains a member.
Svankmajer made his first film in 1964 and for over thirty years has made some of the most memorable and unique animated films ever made, gaining a reputation as one of the world's foremost animators, and influencing filmmakers from Tim Burton to The Brothers Quay. His brilliant use of claymation reached its apotheosis with the stunning 1982 film DIMENSIONS OF DIALOGUE. In 1987 Svankmajer completed his first feature film, ALICE, a characteristically witty and subversive adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, and with the ensuing feature film FAUST.....
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A tired Czech citizen is handed a map on the streets of Prague; it leads him to a shabby courtyard, a puppet theatre, and a bruising encounter with the powers of evil. He raises the Devil, only to be confronted by a replica of his own face: a typically bleak hint from Svankmajer that we invent our own temptations-that any of us would make a good Faust. The best introduction to Svankmajer remains his short films; "Faust" is less shocking, more narcotic. Still, with its blend of live action, chattering marionettes, and weird, fleshy stop-motion sequences-not to mention the pitch-black of the humor-it throws you off balance more thoroughly than any other movie in town
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.....Svankmajer has moved further away from his roots in animation towards live-action filmmaking, though his vision remains as strikingly surreal and uncannily inventive as ever.
8PM AUGUST 132323 C H E Z P O U L E T
F A U S T
A D M I S S I O N23 I S 23 F R E E !!!
Monday, August 6, 2007
Weak Four @ Chez Poulet - Shorts
story without end
(vicki bennett, 2005) 6 minutes
stage fright
(steve box, 1998) 12 minutes


thine inward looking eyes
(thad povey, 1993) 2 minutes
the life and death of 9413 - a hollywood extra
(robert florey, slavko vorkapich, 1927) 13 minutes
fast film
(virgil widrich, 2003) 14 minutes
market street
(tomonari nishikawa, 2005) 5 minutes
rubber johnny
(chris cunningham, 2005) 6 minutes
the world of tomorrow
(kerry conran, 2005) 6 minutes
the mysterious geographical explorations of jasper morello
(anthony lucas, 2005) 26 minutes
la jetée
(chris marker, 1962) 28 minutes
AUGUST 623 8PM 23 C H E Z P O U L E T
3359 Cesar Chavez (aarmya) @ Mission Street
A D M I S S I O N23 I S 23 F R E E !!!
Monday, July 23, 2007
Weak Three @ Chez Poulet: Straight to Hell
J U L Y 3 023 8 PM 23 C H E Z P O U L E T
A D M I S S I O N23 I S 23 F R E E !!!
3359 Cesar Chavez (aarmya) @ Mission Street
Maybe not as quotable, but way more twisted than Repo Man. I like it better. Everyone's strung out on money, guns and coffee in the mexican desert ...and check out who: Dennis Hopper and Grace Jones, Jim Jarmusch, Elvis Costello, Courtney Love, The Pogues, Dick Rude, Sy Richardson (badder than shit), Zander Schloss, Fox Harris, Cait o' Riordan, and, of course, Joe Strummer, who i'll be focusing the EYENOISE on in the show's opening hole....
Tonight's EYENOISE du JOUR features clips from Joe Strummer's silent film "HELL W10", a couple of Clash songs performed on british television, "TABLETOPS" (a music video adapted from "Coffee and Cigarettes" with music by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros), Clash on Broadway, some Folgers commercials and more!

Film Farm is pickin up speed...
FREE COFFEE! (from ritual roasters)
FREE POPCORN!
PLENTY OF DRINKS and SNACKS!
Luxury Seating and Quadro-Sonic Sound System!
A D M I S S I O N23 I S 23 F R E E !!!3359 Cesar Chavez (aarmya) @ Mission Street
Maybe not as quotable, but way more twisted than Repo Man. I like it better. Everyone's strung out on money, guns and coffee in the mexican desert ...and check out who: Dennis Hopper and Grace Jones, Jim Jarmusch, Elvis Costello, Courtney Love, The Pogues, Dick Rude, Sy Richardson (badder than shit), Zander Schloss, Fox Harris, Cait o' Riordan, and, of course, Joe Strummer, who i'll be focusing the EYENOISE on in the show's opening hole....
Tonight's EYENOISE du JOUR features clips from Joe Strummer's silent film "HELL W10", a couple of Clash songs performed on british television, "TABLETOPS" (a music video adapted from "Coffee and Cigarettes" with music by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros), Clash on Broadway, some Folgers commercials and more!
Film Farm is pickin up speed...
FREE COFFEE! (from ritual roasters)
FREE POPCORN!
PLENTY OF DRINKS and SNACKS!
Luxury Seating and Quadro-Sonic Sound System!
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