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What the F(ilm)?! 11: Mimes, Monkeys, Mr. Bill and More!
Oddball Films presents What the F(ilm)?! 11: Mimes, Monkeys, Mr. Bill and More! an evening of some of the most bizarre, hilarious and insane films from our massive 16mm collection. This compendium of 16mm madness is too strange to be believed and too baffling to be forgotten. This time around, we've got mimes and stilt-walkers protesting nuclear war, chorus lines of CPUs and ladies in cardboard boxes, woodchucks in hula skirts, a 1970s musical spectacular with Isaac Hayes, the misadventures of Mr. Bill, animation from a 12 year-old and so much more! The artistic hippies of Vermont bring us a regional theater performance featuring giant papier-mache masks, mime children, stilt-walkers and more weirdness in the atomically odd Button Button: A Dream of Nuclear War (1982). The grandiose narrator thinks you aren't treating your morning cup of joe with enough respect in the overly-dramatic This is Coffee (1961). Oh No! Mr. Bill (1970s) is back at the hospital, will Mr. Hands ever let the poor play-dough boy live his life? When a little boy wants to know more about his Apple 2E, he dreams up a magic world of silver hair and dancing CPU units in Learning About Computers (1984). Then, to continue with the theme of ladies in boxes, we have the head-scratching sexist Soundie Male Order (1940s), featuring a bevy of mail-order brides that can't seem to dance their way out of their cardboard packaging. This time, we're giving you twice the animal-insanity with the Kodachrome tale of a rescued woodchuck who is forced to wear doll clothes for her dinner in Chucky Lou: Story of a Woodchuck (1948) and monkeys doing all kinds of crazy things like fixing cars and running film cameras in Monkies is the Cwaziest People! (1939). Isaac Hayes and dozens of gold-clad dancers take the stage at the Academy Awards to bring you a spectacular version of the theme from Shaft (1972). When a 12 year-old animates a beloved fairy tale, you end up with grandma living at 23 Skidoo, a basket of Jekyll and Hyde pills, and a bomb in an apple in Little Red Riding Hoodlum (1962). With more surprises in store! Date: Friday, April 3rd, 2015 at 8:00PM. Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco Admission: $10.00, limited seating RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or RSVP@oddballfilm.com Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com