The Southampton Playhouse is celebrating 30 years of legendary indie manufacturing banner Killer Movies, as IndieWire can announce. The historic theater is ready to host Killer Movies co-founders Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler with a particular screening of Todd Haynes’ cult 1998 movie “Velvet Goldmine.” The occasion will shut out Pleasure month, and likewise coincide with the discharge of one other Killer Movies characteristic, Celine Tune’s “Materialists.”
Haynes’ “Velvet Goldmine” facilities on a fictional British journalist Arthur Stuart who’s investigating the profession of a Nineteen Seventies glam famous person. The enduring movie stars Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, and Toni Collette. It was the third characteristic between Haynes and Killer Movies, which was based in 1995.
Along with the “Velvet Goldmine” screening, the Southampton Playhouse has unveiled its full June programming lineup for its inaugural summer time season. Highlights embody a dialog occasion with “Andor” creator Tony Gilroy; a reunion between “When You End Saving the World” director Jesse Eisenberg and star Julianne Moore, who will presents her ebook “Freckleface Strawberry” on the theater; and a automotive membership meet up with Rally Level East to toast to the unique Fan First IMAX premiere of “F1.” For extra particulars, go right here.
“We’re thrilled to launch the season with a spread of unimaginable friends and particular occasions that benefit from our theater and its group,” Southampton Playhouse Inventive Director Eric Kohn stated. “Our June programming epitomizes the highly effective mix of cinema and associated cultural experiences we might be celebrating on the Playhouse all through this summer time and past.”
The Southampton Playhouse additionally just lately unveiled its inaugural annual Gary Cooper Competition. The four-screen theater boasts a state-of-the-art IMAX display, 35mm projection, and a versatile area for events and efficiency arts. The middle moreover has a lounge space and bookstore. The Playhouse first opened in 1932.
“Velvet Goldmine” producer Vachon beforehand instructed IndieWire that the characteristic took years to resonate with large audiences after successful a Particular Jury Award at Cannes. “I don’t know if anybody ever goes right into a film saying, ‘I’m going to make a cult movie,’” she stated when reflecting on the legacy of the characteristic. “When the film got here out and didn’t do terrific, it was proper on the time when the Web was actually beginning to take maintain. I used to be simply beginning to go surfing and search for issues like mentions of my motion pictures and stuff like that. I began to note that ‘Velvet Goldmine’ was being written about and talked about on-line. Todd’s motion pictures have at all times had their fanbase, however they had been at all times very a lot about Todd. The followers that I used to be seeing increase round ‘Velvet Goldmine,’ they didn’t even know who Todd was. They had been all in regards to the film and the characters and which traces got here from the place. The best way they wrote about it and the fan fiction that they wrote; it was actually fairly extraordinary.”