(Francis Ford Coppola, US 1992, 123 min.)
Never has there been a more fashionable and elegantly coiffed Dracula than Gary Oldman in Coppola’s version of the oft-told tale, co-starring Winona Ryder as Mina, and Keanu Reeves as her fiancée, Jonathan Harker. Oldman manages to make the Count a sympathetic grieving lover, and visual style pours out of every frame. Anthony Hopkins plays Dracula’s arch-nemesis Van Helsing, and Tom Waits appears as the bug-eating Renfield. Click here to read more about the Vampire film series.
Tonight, Fright Rags will unveil a new, limited edition Bram Stoker’s Dracula t-shirt design, on sale in the Dryden lobby!
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(Guy Maddin, Canada 2002, 75 min.)
Cult Canadian director Maddin has taken a Royal Winnipeg Ballet version of Bram Stoker’s classic with music by Gustav Mahler, and turned it into a black-and-white horror show that resembles no other vampire movie ever made. Maddin, inspired by late silent and early sound era movies, keeps his story moving along with plenty of gothically ornate melodrama, costumes, and production design. Click here to read more about the Vampire film series.
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(Rupert Isaacson & Michael Orion Scott, US 2009, 93 min.)
How far would you travel to heal someone you love? An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing. The filmic companion to co-director Isaacson’s best-selling book of the same name, this ravishing documentary odyssey and festival favorite gives insight into how, in life’s darkest moments, one can find the gateway to joy and wonder. Click here to read more about the disabilities film series.
(George Miller, US 1992, 135 min.)
When their son Lorenzo is diagnosed with the incurable degenerative disease adrenoleukodystrophy, Michaela and Augusto Odone (Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte) face the impossible odds and set out to find a cure. This inspiring and suspenseful true story will keep you riveted thanks to perfect direction from Mad Max and Babe auteur George Miller, a trained physician. Click here to read more about the disabilities film series.
(Lambert Hillyer, US 1936, 70 min.)
then at 9 p.m. DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS
(LES LÈVRES ROUGES, Harry Kümel, Belgium/France/West Germany 1971, 100 min.)
It’s a double feature of lesbian vampire movies! First, Gloria Holden stars as Dracula’s Daughter, who, disavowing her daddy’s evil ways, turns to a doctor to help cure her “in the blood” vampirism. But that can’t stop her from seducing and attacking a young streetwalker. Then, in the cult classic Daughters of Darkness, arthouse legend Delphine Seyrig plays a mysterious and decadent woman who may or may not be Elizabeth Bathory, the countess who murdered scores of virgins for their blood centuries before. For ticket information on all ImageOut films, call (585) 271-2640 or visit www.imageout.org. No Take-10 tickets or passes. Click here to read more about the Vampire film series.
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