Wake in Fright + Sub Orbital
Wednesday July 21
9PM DOORS / FREE ADMISSION
Brooklyn Fireproof
119 Ingraham Street
L train to Morgan
Presenting Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT! The film, a recently restored classic of Australian cinema, is a crumby, dry, bleak slice of desert life (hence the earlier title, "OUTBACK"). Gary Bond plays a hapless schoolteacher from the big city who finds himself in dire straits of Tiboonda en route to Sydney. As he gets roped into one masculinity test after another, an unbearable cold sweat descends on the audience....
WAKE IN FRIGHT was considered lost for nearly 40 years until its editor found a print - doomed to be destroyed - in Pitsburgh in 2004. From that print, a new restoration began, and today Kotcheff's film is beginning to take its rightful place as a classic of Australian cinema. It has been called "uniquely unsettling" and "appallingly frank" by Aussie film critics, a more than likely reason why it was met with shrugs by audiences in the 70s.
The movie screens with a classic short by Dave & Max Fleischer, as well as Stephanie Neptune's brand new short SUB-ORBITAL.
109 mins / color / 1971 / digital projection
