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Labor Day Weekend Comedy-A-Thon
Monday, September 06, 2010
Get ready for a Labor-Day Weekend of side-splitting laughter with Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival's Exclusive screenings of South Florida's own "Porky's" and the Comedy-A-Thon at Cinema Paradiso. FLIFF has packed some of their favorite funny films into a two day event.
Weekend Pass....good for Porky's and all of the Comedy-A-Thon Films:
$10 FLIFF Members | $15 Non-Members
**Just Added**
FREE Pass to the New York Comedy Club in Boca Raton with each Comedy-A-Thon Ticket purchase
20th Century Fox 75th Anniversary of Celebration screening of "PORKY'S"
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival celebrates the 75th Anniversary of 20th Century Fox with an encore screening of the made in Fort Lauderdale movie, Porky's. Join members of the cast from the film at the 7:00 p.m. screening, followed by a Q&A and party directly after the film at Cinema Paradiso.
Porky's was released in the United States in 1982 by 20th Century Fox and became the highest grossing Canadian-produced film in history. It's box-office success led to the production of two sequels which were also filmed in Fort Lauderdale: Porky's II: The Next Day (1983) and Porky's Revenge (1985). Porky's influenced countless numbers of teen genre films including American Pie.
 Packed with practical jokes and eccentric characters, Porky's follows the escapades of four Florida high school kids, in 1954, who are hell-bent on loosing their virginity. They head to a sleezy dive on the outskirts of town called Porky's, as legend has it that the bar owner will arrange a prostitute for a reasonable price. After the bar owner takes their money, and leaves them empty handed in the swamp, the boys set out for revenge. Porky's, written and directed by Bob Clark (Rhinestone, From the Hip), stars Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson and Kim Cattrall.
Schedule:
JUST ADDED - 6pm get a chance to take a picture with the original car from the movie and other vintage automobiles provided by Ross Gagliano Events.
Saturday, September 4
7:00PM Movie | Party
Admission: $5 FLIFF Members | $7 Non-members.
Joining us for the evening will be Pompano Beach's own CHEZ PORKY'S. Named in honor of the film, they will be serving BBQ Pork sliders and Gumbo!
ABOUT CHEZ PORKY'S
Chez Porky's was opened in March of 1984 in Pompano Beach,Florida, but the name was around long before opening day. The proprietors were busy thinking of a name that synthesized the eclectic, Cajun-inspired menu and theme as well as the location of the restaurant they had in mind. Having just seen the movie Porky's, which was released around the time the restaurant was still in concept mode, they knew it was perfect for what they had in mind.
Comedy a Thon
 Director/Comedian Wil Shriner will kick-off each day with a montage collection of some of the great comedy moments in film over the past 90 years. Shriner is an award winning director of some of our favorite sitcoms including Frasier, Becker, Everyone Loves Raymond and the Gilmore Girls. He also directed the film Hoot based on Carl Hiaasen's best selling children's book and filmed in Fort Lauderdale.
Clips from some of the greatest directors and biggest stars from the past century will be presented for a solid education on who made us laugh in the cinema. Actor Kin Shriner (General Hospital) will set up a quick look into the history of the screwball comedies from the 30's and 40's. If you like to laugh, this is a series of films not to be missed.
 The collection of films on both days are a great representation of how comedy films have changed over the years and seeing them with a live audience is a rare treat for any film buff.
Tickets
Weekend Pass....good for all films:
$10 FLIFF Members | $15 Non-Members
Individual Films
General Admission $3 | FLiFF Members $1
Order with each film below
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 12:30pm - Comedy Montage Day 1 - The Ground Breakers: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, W C Fields, Laurel and Hardy ,Abbot and Costello, the Three Stooges and many more!
FREE
 12:45pm - The Palm Beach Story
(Directed by Preston Sturges / 88 min / 1942)
Joel McCrea star as struggling architect Tom Jeffers and his lovely wife Geraldine (Claudette Colbert). The two are at odds because she hates being broke. Exasperation comes to a head when a "Wienie King" slips Gerry $700, and she leaves on a screwball train trip to Palm Beach, Florida for a divorce; Tom follows, determined to reclaim her.
 2:15pm - It Happened One Night
(Directed by Frank Capra / 105 min / 1934)
Two great lovers of the screen, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, star in the grandest of romantic comedies. Rebellious socialite Ellie Andrews marries King Wesley but her wealthy father has it annulled. Tired of her father's control, she runs away by diving off the family yacht in Miami and heading for New York. On the bus she meets street-smart reporter Peter Warne. They end up traveling together as Warne hopes to get a great story, and Ellie needs his worldly help.
 4:00pm - The Thin Man
(Directed by WS Van Dyke / 91 min / 1934)
William Powell and Myrna Loy team up to solve a murder case in this hilarious who-done-it style comedy-mystery also starring Maureen O'Sullivan.
 6:15pm - A Night At The Opera
(Directed by Sam Wood / 96 min / 1935)
The Marx Brothers - Groucho, Chico and Harpo take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.
 7:55pm - His Girl Friday
(directed by Howard Hawks / 92 min / 1940)
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in the romantic comedy about a newspaper editor that uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
 9:30pm - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(Directed by Stanley Kubrick / 95 min / 1964)
Peter Sellers, in three different roles including Dr. Strangelove and an all-star cast star in one of the best-loved comedies of all time about an insane general who starts the process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
 11:00pm - Raising Arizona
(Directed by the Coen Brothers / 94 min / 1987)
Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter star as a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop. When the two decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives get more complicated than they anticipated.
FREE in the Paradiso Patio Courtyard
 10:00pm - This is Spinal Tap
(Directed by Rob Reiner / 94 min / 1984)
The funniest rock 'n roll movie ever, Rob Reiner stars as Marti DeBergi, a film-maker who decides to make a documentary (a rockumentary actually) about the world's loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group. Also starring Christopher Guest and Michael McKean.
Monday, September 6
Labor Day |
10:00am - Comedy Montage Day 2 - The Comedians and Their Films: Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Albert Brooks, Carl Reiner, Bill Murray plus the great comedy teams like the Marx Brothers, Martin and Lewis, Hope and Crosby, The Coen Brothers and Monty Python!
FREE
 10:15am - Some like it Hot
(Directed by Billy Wilder / 120 min / 1959)
This Oscar winning comedy stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon as two struggling musicians who witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try to get out of Chicago before the mob discovers them. The only job that will pay their way is an all girl band so, the two dress up as women. They meet singer and ukulele player, Sugar Kane Kowalczyk (Marilyn Monroe) and though both men begin to fall for her, they have to keep up the disguise until they're safe.
 12:15pm - What's Up Doc
(Directed by Peter Bogdanovich / 94 min / 1972)
Barbara Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star in this screwball comedy. Howard Bannister (O'Neal) travels to San Francisco with his fiancé to compete for a musicology research grant, when he runs into a wild, unpredictable college drop out (Streisand) who brings havoc and chaos everywhere she goes. Also starring Madeline Kahn and Michael Murphy.
 1:50pm - M*A*S*H*
(Directed by Robert Altman / 116 min / 1970)
This Oscar winner with an all-star cast is one of the greatest comedies of all time and spawned one of the longest running TV series in history. The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Cast of the M.A.S.H. unit included: Donald Sutherland as Haweye Pierce, Elliott Gould as Trapper John McIntyre, Tom Skerrit as Duke Forrest, Sally Kellerman as Hot Lips O'Houlihan, Robert Duval as Major Frank Burns, Roger Bowen as Col. Henry Blake, Rene Auberjonois as Father John Mulcahy, David Arkin as Sgt. Major Vollmer, Jo Ann Pflug as Lt. 'Dish', Gary Burghoff as Corporal 'Radar' O'Reilly, Fred Williamson as Dr. Oliver 'Spearchucker' Jones, and Michael Murphy as 'Me Lai' Marston.
 3:50pm - Young Frankenstein
(Directed by Mel Brooks / 106 min / 1974)
Gene Wilder stars as the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein. After years of living down the family reputation, he inherits granddad's castle and repeats the experiments. Marty Feldman stars as his faithful hunch-backed butler, Igor (who pronounces with a hard I), Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher (who initiates a horse whinny each time she appears on screen), Teri Garr as Swedish assistant Inga, Peter Boyle as the show-stopping monster (with his rendition of 'Putting on The Ritz' that will never be forgotten), Madeline Kahn as Young Frankenstein's fiancé and a host of fun cameos including Gene Hackman and Mel Brooks.
 5:50pm - Manhattan
(Directed by Woody Allen / 96 min / 1979)
In typical Woody Allen fashion, Manhattan is the story of divorced New Yorker, currently dating a high-schooler who brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead. The all-star cast includes Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway and Meryl Streep.
 7:35pm - A Fish Called Wanda
(Directed by Charles Crichton / 108 min / 1988)
A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood this over-the-top comedy about four very different people who team up to commit armed robbery, then try to double-cross each other for the loot, stars John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Tom Georgeson and Michael Palin.
 9:30pm - Monty Python & The Holy Grail
(Directed by Terry Gilliam / 91 min / 1975)
The tag line ... "Makes Ben Hur look like an Epic" ... says its off-wall Python. The theme this time is King Arthur and his knights who embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles. Starring all your favorite Brits ... John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman and others.
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