Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase. Phone 9517-2010

Thursday 17^th April

The Directors Cut
Masked Avengers and Super Villains Italian Style - 
In a follow up to his successful night of Spaghetti Westerns, Sydney filmmaker Brendan Young,  showcases yet another one of his cinematic guilty pleasures: The Italian Masked Superhero / Master Criminal action film. Forget Batman, Superman, Spiderman and Captain America - bring on the sexy Italian variant: Diabolik, Kriminal, SuperArgo and Satanik. Inspired by the mid 60's explosion of Italian Super hero comics aka "fumetti" and with a distant nod to the Mexican masked wrestling films, the Italian masked super hero movies were a mad mix of sleek, sexy pop art visuals, James Bondian gadgetry, eye popping costumes and over the top action sequences. Often short on logic but filled to the brim with absurd notions of faux mysticism, telekinetic powers and the need to drive E- Type Jaguars at reckless  speeds around the outskirts of Rome -  these films were never dull. The fact that many of the so-called heroes were in fact  master criminals outwitting the law,  gives you an idea how different these films were to their American counterparts. Brendan will give a brief overview of the genre and will show a selection of trailers and clips from such classic as  DANGER: DIABOLIK, THE MARK OF KRIMINAL and THE FANTASTIC ARGOMAN before presenting the night's feature film: 

SUPERARGO Versus DIABOLICUS (1967) starring Italian stunt man turned actor Giovanni Cianfriglia (aka Ken Wood !! )  
Superargo is the kind of fantasy superman who can survive being put in a deep freeze, dive hundreds of feet below the surface while holding his breath for extended periods and have a dagger thrust into his flesh without wounding. This delightful Italian-Spanish co-production provides all the fun gadgetry, specially outfitted sportscars, chases, machine gun battles, underwater action and a happy ending all done up with colorful scope cinematography breathlessly paced by busy Italian genre director Nick Nostro. Even James Bond didn't have a communications device hidden in a fake martini olive! A superhero film is only as good as its villains and the imposing Gerhard Tichy is an effective, sinister Diabolikus while the striking redhead, Loredana Nusciak(she was the hooker-girlfriend of Franco Nero in "Django") makes for a lithe sex kitten with a mean whip. This stylish concoction is gilded with a psychedelic credits sequence and a high powered score.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Friday 18^th April
Freak, Geeks & Almost X-Rated Peeks

Well the formula has finally surfaced to the mainstream and made it on to commercial TV. But that's not going to stop us, it will only make us dig even deeper and go more obscure. All new footage as the archives go for the Guinness book of records ultimate slam dunk title of the short attention span collage. You will laugh cry and scream at some of the weirdest commercials, music clips, television moments, trailers and educational films ever made.

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper

Sunday 20th April Miss Deaths Knitting Group Do you want to learn how to knit, crochet and any other craft? Or you just want to come along for a social? For the new ladies who are coming for the first time bring a friend. Boys are welcome as long as they do a craft or something useful.     Mu-Meson Archives  4PM   Bring a plate

Monday 21st April Chosen Survivors (1974) A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two miles below the surface of the Earth. There they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.    Annandale Hotel  7.30PM   Donation

Tuesday 22nd April   Para(noid) Politics in the Archives Revolution is in the Air A look at two movements that defined the revolutionary spirit of the young and marginalized in the 60's. Excerpts from Berkley in the 60's recounts the alumni of the Berkeley campus as they tell their stories about how the quiet school became the site of massive political activism on the part of students fighting for their right of political expression on campus and then against the Vietnam War. The Murder of Fred Hampton stated out as a profile of the Illinois Black Panther Party and Fred Hampton. What is unique about this doco is that he was shot half way through the filming. In an infamous moment in Chicago history and politics over a dozen police burst into Hampton's apartment while everyone was asleep and brutalizing its occupants and killing Fred and fellow Panther Mark Clark. What followed next was the white washing by the media and the police, but due to the film crew's evidence of the crime scene that they were able to film just a few hours after the incident they were able to contradict the official version    Mu-Meson Archives  Doors 7.30 for 8pm start   $10 with supper

Wednesday 23rd April Marginalised Movies Themroc (1973) Director/writer Claude Faraldo construed this anarchic French fantasy as a radical no-holds-barred attack on bourgeois values. Faraldo almost entirely rejects any dialogue - which is suitable considering the central character's rejection of anything more than primitive verbalisms himself - such that the distributors didn't even need to bother with subtitling or translating the film for English-speaking audiences. After he is questioned for accidentally spying on his boss making love to his secretary, factory worker Themroc suddenly becomes bestial and only communicates in grunts. Back home he takes his sister as his lover, bricks up the apartment and smashes all his possessions in a orgy of destruction. As the authorities are called in to quell his actions, the behavior starts to spread to the neighbors in the apartments across the courtyard.    Mu-Meson Archives  Doors 7.30 for 8pm start   $10 with supper

Friday 25^th April

Sex in Space Double
Cinderella 2000 (1977)
It is a soft ore exploitation picture that borrows heavily from the popular Brother Grimm's fairy tale while injecting a musical component into the mix. It is one of those rare films that can be regarded 'so bad they're good.' The year is 2047, despite the misleading title, and the Controller of this futuristic epoch has publicly declared any sexual act between consenting adults illegal due to the sharp increase in population. Anybody caught engaging in this thoroughly deprave act will tackle the full force of the law. But to make sure that the population at large are adhering to this totalitarian enforcement, the Controller sends a robot to patrol the city, and anybody unluckily caught doing what they shouldn't be doing are immediately arrested with the robot screaming, "Fornication without a sanction! Needless to say, Cinderella wallows in bad music, poor choreography, feeble acting, horrendous costumes, hilarious dialogue, and bizarre sexual scenarios. But it is precisely these defects that have erected Cinderella 2000 to the 'classic' status it has justifiably earned.

2069: A Sex Odyssey (1974)
Blasts into orbit with the kinds of heavenly bodies not found in any solar system.  It blends sexy shenanigans, bare-all seductions and naughty fun for an out of this world experience that will have you seeing stars. Five Venusian aliens have been sent on a mission of grave importance. Seems Venus is an all female planet, and these intergalactic beauties require the services of the earth men to help replenish their declining population. Clad in mouth watering, skin tight silver uniforms, the curvaceous, curious and highly intelligent space babes find themselves in one ultra-erotic situation after another. Though they are completely unaware of the ways, wants and desires of the human male species, these gorgeous aliens quickly learn the language of love. If nudity, sexism and bad taste offends maybe you should find something else to do. 

	Mu-Meson Archives
	Doors 7.30 for 8pm start
	$10 with supper