We Love John Hughes
The Alamo Team was sitting in a meeting yesterday afternoon when the internet exploded with news of John Hughes’ death. Hughes defined a generation of teenagers as rebels and lonely hearts, worked with Steve Martin and John Candy, saved Ferris, and damnit, we’ll miss the guy! The strange thing, though, is that we had already booked two of his films for next month! Master Pancake is mocking THE BREAKFAST CLUB (mocking in the most lovingly way possible, mind you!), and Girlie Night’s September screening is SIXTEEN CANDLES! What better way to celebrate a great director than by watching as many of his films as possible! After some thought, we also decided that we should add a showing of The FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF Quote-Along this month, because we need a more immediate sense of closure. Also, we will have Gummi Bears for your pockets so that they’ll be all soft and warm by the end. So come out to the theater and pay your respects to a great writer, director, and producer, and we’ll all save Ferris together!
FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF QUOTE-ALONG
Saturday, August 15th at the Ritz
What child of the ’80s didn’t want to grow up to become Ferris Bueller? Cool, calm, collected and confident, he was the Ultimate high school idol to look up to, and the cause of many, many truancies ever since the film’s release. Well now we’re offering you the chance to skip out on your own job or school (if you have class or work at night, anyway) and join us for the first ever FERRIS BUELLER QUOTE-ALONG! We’ll be subtitling all of the best lines and having the whole crowd shout them out together, plus we’ll have gummy bears for everyone. Put yours in your pocket at the beginning of the movie, and by the time the credits are rolling they’ll be perfectly warmed and softened and ready to share with any disheveled high school principals you happen to meet on your bus ride home. So get your sweater vest ready and hop a parade float down to the Alamo Ritz. We won’t tell your parents that you aren’t really sick.
MASTER PANCAKE mocks THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Friday, August 28th & Saturday, August 29th
Perhaps the quintessential John Hughes movie, THE BREAKFAST CLUB features poutylipped fireball Molly Ringwald and fellow brat-packers Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy as a quintet of misfits trapped in detention for one fateful afternoon. While there, these five Jungian archetypes of high school life (the geek, the jock, the princess, the thug, and the Cure fan) learn that they are not in fact so very different after all. Originally titled LIBRARY REVOLUTION, THE BREAKFAST CLUB shows that by banding together you CAN overthrow ‘the man’ — or at least your douche-bag principal — played perfectly here by the master of assoholitude, Paul Gleason (TRADING PLACES, DIE HARD). Be our guest for some ‘Simple Minded’ fun as Master Pancake’s John, Joe and company give a unique twist to one of the best/worst teen revolution.
Look for GIRLIE NIGHT presents SIXTEEN CANDLES in the next calendar! Dates TBA!
August 8th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Have to say, I kinda hate that it is a mocking of THE BREAKFAST CLUB instead of a straight screening. Kind of feels like a reason to celebrate the man’s work, not mock it.
August 8th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Agreed but then I’ve never been to a MPT screening so maybe they do do it in a very loving way. If not, maybe do a straight screening now and do the MPT a few months down the line.
August 10th, 2009 at 2:03 am
We scheduled these encore shows of Master Pancake’s BREAKFAST CLUB months ago. After John Hughes passed, we decided to go ahead with them, feeling it was a good way to celebrate the man and the movie. What we do may not be to everyone’s liking, but it is by no means a trashing of the film, and I can assure you that previous audiences – including many hardcore BC fans — have enjoyed our mischievous but loving “remix”of it. They’ve laughed at Ally Sheedy as an unintelligible muskrat creature. They’ve loved shouting “Hook ‘Em” every time Principal Vernon makes his “don’t mess with the bull” hand sign. And on a more personal note, I’ve enjoyed being able to live out my teeenage dream by getting up on stage to kiss Molly Ringwald’s gigantic lips. Can’t speak for John Hughes, but I feel pretty sure that John Bender would appreciate what we do.
August 10th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I really really think if there’s any way you can swing it, we need to have a QT-style John Hughes Film Festival hosted by Kevin Smith. I especially think if you already have 3 movies scheduled, if there’s a way you can pick a night where you’ll have the reels and can rope Mr. Kevin Smith into coming in and yammering into a mic about how wonderful all these movies are it would be just what all of the grieving John Hughes fans really need. I’m sure it’s a pain to hook up, but it would be so worth it. Life moves pretty fast…
August 10th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
More mocking = more affection. I hope friends and family are rolling on the floor in hystarics while discussing my life’s antics and achievements when I take a dirt nap! Do your best Erler! We’ll be in the audience laughing!
August 18th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
John Hughes would have loved a good mocking of one of his films. MPT screenings generally contain good-ribbing, not hate. Harry, go worship District 9 some more and lighten up.