Joe Dante presents The Movie Orgy
Joe Dante presents The Movie Orgy
Restoration World Premiere. Introduction by filmmaker Joe Dante. FREE ADMISSION.
Restoration World Premiere
Introduction by filmmaker Joe Dante.
FREE ADMISSION
Forever fascinated by B-movies, future director of beloved genre classics such as Matinee (1993), Gremlins (1984), and The Howling (1981), Joe Dante, then in his early 20s and studying at the Philadelphia College of Art, poured his filmic obsession into a magnum opus of found footage beginning in 1968. The result, once an ever-morphing supercut of Z-grade science fiction, fantasy, and monster movies from the 1930s to the 1960s, was in some permutations over seven hours long. An early celluloid precedent to YouTube mashups, The Movie Orgy has finally been remastered to its current version by the American Genre Film Archive under the supervision of Dante and the film’s producer, Jon Davison (Airplane!, Top Secret!). A B-Movie B-hemoth to B-hold!
Note by Academy Museum Associate Director, Film Programs K.J. Relth-Miller.
DIRECTED BY: Joe Dante, Jon Davison. 1968. 276 min. USA. B&W, Color. English. DCP. Restored by the American Genre Film Archive.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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