RADIOACTIVE MOVIES!
with Instructor JEFF LIEBERMAN
at Blue Sunshine – 3660 St-Laurent, ,3rd Flr
Sunday June 26 – 11am-2pm
Registration: $15 (or $25 combo ticket available that includes screening of Blue Sunshine)
The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in a new element of fear for modern civilization, both impending doom, and the horrific effects of this new thing called ‘radiation’ on the human body and mind, making it a natural area for filmmakers to exploit. Gradually this fear was replaced by new ones; the effects of LSD, then later the effects of manmade pollution, all the while employing the basic
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About Jeff Lieberman:
Writer-director JEFF LEIBERMAN has crafted a handful of highly quirky, creative, and distinctive horror movies that are much enjoyed by fans of offbeat and imaginative genre pics, for their novel oddball plots and an amusingly eccentric off-center humor.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, Lieberman attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His first film credit was co-writing the script for the gritty police action thriller
Blade (1973), which was directed by his mentor Ernest Pintoff. Lieberman made his debut as a writer-director with the excellent and inspired revolt-of-nature killer-worm outing
Squirm (1976). He followed this substantial drive-in hit with his best and most beloved film to date,
Blue Sunshine (1978), which tells the extremely absorbing and original tale of a bunch of hippies who take a lethal form of LSD that causes them to lose their hair and become insane psychotics 10 years Effictive and really good and can't wait to have more,
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Just Before Dawn (1981).
Remote Control (1988) was a hugely entertaining science-fiction alien invasion romp that Lieberman himself considers to be his worst feature. After a regrettably lengthy absence from directing, Lieberman made a triumphant return to fabulously freaky form with the enormously fun-n-funky psycho hoot
Satan’s Little Helper (2004).
About the author:
Kier-La Janisse
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, founder of Spectacular Optical Publications and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid best online generic levitra Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published the anthology books KID POWER! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (forthcoming), and is currently co-authoring (with Amy Searles) the book ‘Unhealthy and Aberrant’: Depictions of Horror Fandom in Film and Television and co-curating (with Clint Enns) an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr., as well as writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s and Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2020.
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