The vitals:
7:00 ~ Doors
7:30 ~ CECIL B. DEMENTED

Part of our SUMMER CAMP series!

If I told you there was a movie you probably haven’t seen starring major players such as Melanie Griffith, Michael Shannon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, you’d might be wondering what year you were sleeping when it swept the Oscars. Unfortunately, the Academy blew it that year and gave Best Picture to Gladiator, but real ones know that 2000’s Cecil B. DeMented is one of the great John Waters’ most underappreciated gems.

If you’ve ever seen a big-budget movie that made you feel ill by its very existence, you’ll instantly fall in love with Cecil (Stephen Dorff in a career-best performance) and his sexually-repressed ragtag movie crew, the Sprocket Holes (including Gyllenhaal, Shannon, Alicia Witt, Adrien Grenier, and Jack Noseworthy), and their mission to kidnap superstar Honey Whitlock (Griffith) to make her star in their truly guerrilla production. Cecil has a vision, and that vision involves waging war on the major studios in the name of underground film, from terrorizing theaters showing slop like Patch Adams: The Director’s Cut to wrecking the set of a big-budget sequel to…Well, you’ll have to join us to know just what movie that is. Featuring a slew of appearances from Waters regulars and some utterly hilarious cameos, this is late-era Waters at his best, giving life to the exaggerated idea of what the public may have very well thought his Dreamland crew was really like during the madness of the 70s, while also doubling as a love letter to underground cinema of all kinds. Get your tickets now, and make sure to get a tattoo of your favorite director so we can all compare before showtime. DeMented Forever! —Jackie Stargrove

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