Special Events

Dir. Kirby Dick - 2012 - 95m - Presented by Yvette McClelland and Women Veterans of New Mexico

PLEASE NOTE:  ADVANCE TICKETS HOLDERS MUST BE SEATED BY SHOW TIME OR YOUR SEAT WILL BE GIVEN UP TO THE NEXT PERSON IN THE RUSH LINE.

ALSO, THERE SHOULD BE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT OUR BOX OFFICE THE DAY OF THE SCREENINGS STARTING AROUND 3:45pm ON FRIDAY MAY 18.

At the 8pm Friday screening and the Saturday 12:30pm screening - Guest speakers will be Ariana Klay, a former Marine Lt who was stationed at Marine Barracks, Washington, DC; and her husband Ben Klay, a former Marine Capt who resigned his commission to support his wife after rape and during the lawsuit in which she is now involved, Klay v Panetta.

A groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of our country's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within our US military. Today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire with the number of assaults in the last decade alone in the hundreds of thousands.

Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of several young women, the film reveals the systemic cover up of the crimes against them and follows their struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice. THE INVISIBLE WAR features hard-hitting interviews with high-ranking military officials and members of Congress that reveal the perfect storm conditions that exist for rape in the military, its history of cover-up, and what can be done to bring about much needed change.

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Dir. George Dunning - 1968 - 89m - MOM'S MATINEE for 7 days! All seats $6 for this special engagement **additional 10pm & Midnight screenings on Fri. & Sat. as part of ALIBI MIDNIGHT MOVIE MADNESS !

BONUS!  Along with 7 afternoon matinees and 4 late night screenings of this gorgeous re-mastering of perhaps the most colorful film ever made (apologies to The "Wizard of Oz!"), we will be featuring an evolving display of vintage Yellow Submarine memorabilia, original production art, cels and theatrical posters in the lobby, with every patron having the opportunity to win an original piece of film art!  And on Sunday the 27th from 1:30 to 3 O'clock, the Guild will become a virtual Yellow Submarine!  

We invite you to attend the final screening in costume, or drop in afterwards for a deep and bubbly celebration of the magical cultural emanation that is Y.S!  (And why not say "Why, Yes!")  You may be surprised to know what you thought you didn't know you knew about the Fabulous Four's "Steam Punk" omnisub alter ego, and the places it can take you..."It's All in the Mind, You Know!" 

Your host for this Magical Mystery Tour will be Erik Fredrickson, cruiser and muser on all things subliminal, both Yellow and Bluish, plus other surprise Y.S. guests T.B.A....

Once upon a time… or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland, a place where happiness and music reigned supreme. But all that was threatened when the terrible Blue Meanies declared war and sent in their army led by a menacing Flying Glove to destroy all that was good.  Enter John, Paul, George and Ringo to save the day!  Armed with little more than their humour, songs, and of course, their yellow submarine, The Beatles tackle the rough seas ahead in an effort to bring down the evil forces of bluedom.

John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios) writes, “As a fan of animation and as a filmmaker, I tip my hat to the artists of Yellow Submarine, whose revolutionary work helped pave the way for the fantastically diverse world of animation that we all enjoy today.”

Currently out of print, the film has been restored in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Paul Rutan Jr. and his team of specialists at Triage Motion Pictures and Eque Inc. Due to the delicate nature of the hand-drawn original artwork, no automated software was used in the digital clean-up of the film’s restored photochemical elements. This was all done by hand, frame by frame.

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3 1/2 hours - A Steve Verchinski & Friends Presentation of a Rapid Media Production!

Tickets will be $15 in advance at REI Albuquerque and also online to purchase and pick up at the door.  

A showcasing of the world's best paddling films to audiences in Canada, United States and around the world. It presents the world’s best whitewater, sea kayaking, canoeing, SUP and kayak fishing action and lifestyle films of the year on screens in 100 cities across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Europe.  This is the first time this will be shown in Albuquerque and it promises to sell out early! 

All profits from the show will be distributed to three non-profits for support of NM river projects, American Rivers, Wild Earth Guardians, and New Mexico Xtreme Sports. 

There will likely be swag and great prizes in a fund raising raffle as well!

With 34 inspiring paddling films short-listed for the World Tour, including the ten festival category winners, audiences can expect to see stand-up paddle surfing, hairy whitewater action, sea kayakers exploring remote coastlines, headwaters canoe expeditions, international river travel films, motivating environmental documentaries, grueling kayak fishing battles and hilarious short films capturing the lighter side of paddling life. Film trailers found here. 

The festival hopes to inspire more people to explore especially their local rivers and lakes, push physical and emotional extremes, and allows one to embrace the lifestyle and appreciate the heritage of the wild places we paddle.

The Festival is produced by Rapid Media. Rapid Media also publishes four leading paddlesports magazines: Rapid-The Whitewater Kayaking and Canoeing Magazine, Adventure Kayak- The Sea and Touring Magazine, Canoeroots and Kayak Angler magazines. Your ticket to a Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour stop includes a free one-year digital edition subscription to one of the above magazines. Special offer details are available in the evening program.   Hosts: Stephen and the teacup wolfhound Misha. 

This event will also feature local information on getting out on these craft for the first time. You will get to meet the great people in New Mexico supporting these activities,  get introductions to the paddling community in this state and learn to work to enhance the access to open waters in the Rio Grande.

Portions of films to be shown - 

In Rescues – Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown

Tracing the Columbia 

In Wildwater

Game On 4 

The Pipedreams Project

Chasing Water 

So Fine

Advanced Classic Solo Canoeing with Becky Mason

Standup 4 Greatbear

Bugs 4 Life

Dir. Charles Vick Duncan - 2012 - 120m total - A N/A CREW PRODUCTION PRESENTATION! All Seats $6.66 ! Cast & Crew in Person!

From the makers of NAZI APOCALYPSE comes a sick and twisted take on an old tale!  Local outlaw cinema overdriver Charles Vick Duncan is back with his newest B-movie mayhem fever dream SKUM QUIXOTE.  

Bonus sneak peak: A short pilot DUNGEON BRIGADE to follow after the SKUM QUIXOTE screening.  

Free dvd raffles & possibly other assorted merch available at the show!

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Dir. Billy Garberina - 2012 - 90m - Cast & Crew in person !! - All Seats $8

From the writer & director team of STIFFED and the director of NECROVILLE !

How well do you know YOUR spouse? Trapped in a dead end job and lukewarm marriage, building inspection engineer Walter Fletcher (Billy Garberina, Gimme Skelter, Feeding The Masses) turns to an old hobby to release tensions; strangling and mutilating prostitutes! Little does he know his blushing bride Liz (international scream queen Raine Brown! Braincell, Psycho Holocaust) has her own secret double life courting scumbag bar flies and making them pay with a pound of flesh for their crimes on womankind.  When an intrepid reporter (Devin O'Leary, Gimme Skelter, The Stink Of Flesh) starts writing in the local paper about the city's rival serial killers, he inadvertently sets off an obsessive blood soaked comedy of errors that leads Walter and Liz's secret selves on a collision course of epic proportions.

This premiere series of screenings is sponsored by ACE, the 2nd annual Albuquerque Comic Expo.  Albuquerque local film maker Billy Garberina is flying back to the Duke City from New York to appear at ACE and present I Heart U.  Cast and crew will be on hand at all screenings.

For all time! - 100m - All Seats $7 / After Intermission (8:20pm) $5

Local packrat (‘scuse us, “media archivist”) DJ Caterwaul - a hero to several of us here at the Cinema! - has curated numerous music documentary & cult film screenings in town over the past few years, and is a tireless scavenger of sub/countercultural detritus of all kinds. This time, Caterwaul is gleaning clips and shorts from his collection of underground, experimental & obscuro video, most less than 5 minutes in length. The Low Life Mixtape is inspired by VHS mixtape pioneers such as Forbidden Transmission, Everything is Terrible!, WFMU's "That's Irritainment!" and Viva VHS, borrowing from mainstream, cult films, independent filmmakers, “WTF cinema”, and a whole lotta music video.

It’s a thick visual braid woven from strands of source material both scary & sublime, stupefying & surreal, mystifying & mindblowing, ridiculous & ROCKIN’ - a cinematic feast for the mind & body. Expect head-scratching oddities, brain-warping experiments, eye-popping animation, jaw-dropping verite’, gut-wrenching tastelessness, footstompin’ music, and oh yes, MUCH MORE.

Local psych-punk band Fando will also provide the live soundtrack to a longer piece about halfway through this two-plus hours cinematic feast. But don’t worry, feel free to drop in or out at any point!

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Dir. Dan Carracino and Kevin Hanlon - 2012 - 104m - All Seats $6

NOTE:  ALSO PLAYING SATURDAY JUNE 23 AND SUNDAY JUNE 24 AT 1:30PM TOO!

The story of William G. Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, a man included in TIME Magazine's "100 Persons of the 20th Century." Interviews, recreations, and rare archival material reveal how Bill Wilson, a hopeless drunk near death from his alcoholism, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. With Bill as its driving force, A.A. grew from a handful of men to a worldwide fellowship of over 2 million men and women – a success that made him an icon within A.A., but also an alcoholic unable to be a member of the very society he had created. A reluctant hero, Bill Wilson lived a life of sacrifice and service, and left a legacy that continues every day, all around the world.

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2012 - 80m - All Seats $7 - DIRECTOR KEVIN EPPS IN PERSON !

The new sequel to the award-winning, groundbreakingfilm of the same name!

Even long-time San Franciscans residents have never spent even 5 minutes in the notorious, conveniently isolated neighborhood known as Hunters Point. Located south-east of Potrero Hill, Bayview Hunter's Point is San Francisco's black ghetto that has for decades been ravaged by devastating violence, drug use and poverty. This is the much anticipated follow up to 2003’s groundbreaking, and widely acclaimed documentary that presented often disturbing, sometimes hilarious, always engaging street-level glimpses of an area most city residents avoid at any cost. In this completely new film Epps reveals anew, with the unrelenting eye of an embedded war journalist, the present state of the community that he still calls home.

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2012 - 90m - All Seats $6

WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD DOC NYC 2011

OFFICIAL SELECTION TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011

WINNER - JURY PRIZE SF INDIEFEST 2011

Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world's most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful of elite scholarships and contracts, practice and discipline are paramount, and nothing short of perfection is expected. Bess Kargman's award-winning documentary, FIRST POSITION, follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all while navigating the drama of adolescence. A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, FIRST POSITION paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted young ballet stars of tomorrow.

"Irresistible. A valentine to the art. Director Kargman triumphs by picking characters who defy expectations." - Mary Pols, TIME Magazine

"You’ll want to dance with joy after seeing ‘First Position." - Redbook

"POIGNANT, HILARIOUS, HEARTBREAKING." - Laura Bleiberg, The Los Angeles Times

"Forget ‘Black Swan’- this is the real deal. Think ‘Hoop Dreams’ in toe shoes." - Arnold Jones, Dallas Voice

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Dir. Kell Kearns - 2011 - 61m - A Heaven On Earth Creations Presentation - Director & Producer in Person! All Seats $8

A New Mexico Premiere!

"If you hope that what’s really going on amidst the fear over 2012, is the rise to oneness and love, Globalized Soul could be the most important film you’ll see this year. Selected as “The Featured Film” of the 2011 UN International Day of Peace, it travels the world in search of an emerging paradigm to see us through our global crises.  What the producers found is that everywhere love’s infinite possibilities pervade a human vanguard. Globalized Soul unfolds as much like an ensemble drama as a documentary, weaving stories of peace-builders around the planet - poignant, joyful stories in which hatred and suffering transform into love and caring.  The Dalai Lama, Sister Joan Chittister, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Roshi Joan Halifax, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari, Mirabai Starr are featured. The ecstatic theme surges on the music of Enya, Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar." - Director Kell Kearns

Producers Kell and Cynthia Lukas will be present to discuss the film.

SCIENCE OF MIND MAGAZINE REVIEW

NEW SPIRIT JOURNAL REVIEW

JOURNAL OF INDIA REVIEW

HOLISTIC LIVING RADIO INTERVIEW

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Dir. Dan Carracino and Kevin Hanlon - 2012 - 104m - All Seats $6

The story of William G. Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, a man included in TIME Magazine's "100 Persons of the 20th Century." Interviews, recreations, and rare archival material reveal how Bill Wilson, a hopeless drunk near death from his alcoholism, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. With Bill as its driving force, A.A. grew from a handful of men to a worldwide fellowship of over 2 million men and women – a success that made him an icon within A.A., but also an alcoholic unable to be a member of the very society he had created. A reluctant hero, Bill Wilson lived a life of sacrifice and service, and left a legacy that continues every day, all around the world.

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Dir. Bill Melendez - 1972 - 81m - MOM'S MATINEE RETURNS WITH MORE OF THE PEANUTS GANG! All Seats $5

Charles Schulz's beloved "Peanuts" characters hit the big screen again in the enjoyable Snoopy, Come Home. This time, everyone's favorite beagle turns the kids' world upside down when he receives a mysterious letter from a girl named Lila and hits the road with best friend Woodstock, evading a sadistic would-be pet owner and other perils along the way. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown is left to wonder: Who is Lila, and will Snoopy ever return?

Made back in the early '70's when the Peanuts Gang were still groovin' to Vince Guaraldi's jazz score!

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