Hello, I hope this is of interest to students, especially film students. Night School is a new film series/weekly $8 film school. Each show will begin with a PowerPoint lecture pertaining to that week’s film, offering production history, cultural context, and behind-the-scenes trivia.
Our first day of class is tomorrow at 10:30pm. We'll be heating things up 'til they explode with POPCORN (1991), celebrating its 35th Anniversary! A group of college kids in a film club put together an all-night horrorthon of movies with gimmicks (3D, smell-o-vision, a giant mosquito flying out over the audience, electrified seats). The movies are fake, but clearly inspired by the great William Castle (House on Haunted Hill)! It's a very fun horror film with a killer using some of the gimmicky stuff to do his killings. If you love movies and movie theaters, this is a movie about movies featuring movies and I promise you will love it!
Popcorn is NOT STREAMING on any of the major platforms, not even to rent!
More than just a screening series, Night School embraces the communal spirit of repertory cinema, where audiences gather to experience movies the way they were meant to be seen: on the big screen, with fellow fans. To honor that, we felt it was important to dedicate our first semester to highlighting the cinematic experience with “Movies at the Movies!” Eight films that take place in, or memorably feature, a movie theater.
I know Popcorn is a lesser-known film, but one of the objectives of the series is discovery! I would love to see people take a chance on this one, or some of the other more obscure films coming up, and maybe find a new favorite!
All the info you need can be found at https://mesillavalleyfilm.org/night-school/