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WATERSHIP DOWN Screens Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli

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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed. All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed. “

'Watership Down' Film - 1978

WATERSHIP DOWN screens midnights this weekend (May 15th and 16th) at The Tivoli Theater as part of their ‘Reel Late at The Tivoli’ Midnight Series.

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Based upon Richard Adam’s famed novel of the same title, the animated feature WATERSHIP DOWN (1978) delves into the surprisingly violent world of a warren of rabbits as they seek to establish a new colony free of tyranny and human intervention.

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Here’s where I usually give you my take on whatever movie is lined up but I’ve never seen WATERSHIP DOWN. However, it was well-reviewed when it was released in 1978:

Richard Schickel at TIME Magazine said that WATERSHIP DOWN is:

“A rare movie that keeps kids on the edge of their chairs without inducing in their parents an overwhelming desire to escape theirs for a smoke in the lobby.”

Richard Luck at Film4 wrote:

“A beautifully realised animation, Watership Down ultimately works because it doesn’t dilute the violence and drama of Adams’ book with a rose-tinted lens.”

Steven D. Greydanus at Decent Films Guide called WATERSHIP DOWN:

“A singular achievement in English-language animation: a thematically and emotionally rich cartoon about talking animals, untouched by sentiment and cutesiness.”

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Sounds good to me! Admission is $8. Hope to see everyone this weekend at The Tivoli!

The Facebook invite for this event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/835805509835112/

The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar in The Loop. Visit Landmark’s The Tivoli’s website HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

Here’s the Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight schedule for the rest of May:

May 22-23           THE THING

 

The Tivoli Announces the ‘Reel Late’ Midnight Line-Up – MAD MAX, THE THING, BLADE RUNNER – Oh My!

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“I am the Nightrider. I’m a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!”

I gotta say – this lineup of midnight movies for the ‘Reel Late at The Tivoli’ may be the best ever! It’s almost like they let me choose them myself (which they did not). It’s a great selection with an unusually cool variety of standards and classics to draw the late night movie buff crowd.

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The awesome line-up of midnight movies begins April 3rd and 4th with THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (usually the series ends with ROCKY in October so we’ll see how it does in April – meaning will it sell out in advance or on the night of?). The roster includes one Miyazaki (attendance insurance), the animated WATERSHIP DOWN (the uneven 1978 version of Richard Adams’ 1972 cult novel about rabbits) and cult comedy nuggets BETTER OFF DEAD and BEETLEJUICE (both recent Tenacious Eats fare!). But it’s a trio of Sci-fi masterpieces showing on the big screen midnights at the Tivoli that’s the real excitement! Hardboiled, uncompromising and totally bad-ass, George Miller’s MAD MAX, which single-handedly boosted the Australian film Industry in 1979 will play midnights May 8th and 9th – the weekend before the belated fourth chapter of the Mad Max saga, MAD MAX FURY ROAD opens. Ridley Scott’s stunning futuristic film noir epic BLADE RUNNER, which I have not seen on the big screen in quite a while, is scheduled for April 24th and 25th.  John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) is his best film – the suspense is heart pounding, the performances uniformly terrific, and Rob Bottin’s monster effects are timelessly terrifying and the star of the film. THE THING is a terrific choice for a midnight movie and should pack ‘em in when it plays May 22nd and 23rd.

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Reel Late at the Tivoli takes place every Friday and Saturday night and We Are Movie Geeks own Tom Stockman (that’s me!) is usually there with custom trivia questions about the films and always has DVDs, posters, and other cool stuff to give away. I can’t wait to write THE THING trivia! Ticket prices are $8 except ROCKY HORROR which is $10. We hope to see everyone late at night in the coming months.

The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar in The Loop. Visit Landmark’s The Tivoli’s website HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

Here’s the newly –announced Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight schedule for April and May:

April 3-4               ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with live cast Samurai Electricians
All seats $10

April 10-11           BEETLEJUICE

April 17-18           HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE  subtitled

April 24-25           BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT

May 1-2                BETTER OFF DEAD

May 8-9                MAD MAX

May 15-16           WATERSHIP DOWN

May 22-23           THE THING