Thursday, July 28 at 7:30 PM

AMATEUR NIGHT AT CITY HALL:
THE STORY OF FRANK L. RIZZO (1978)
Filmmaker Robert Mugge in attendance!

This documentary on Philadelphia’s most polarizing mayor of modern times was filmed throughout 1977 and ran for two weeks at the Walnut Mall Cinemas during the blizzard of early 1978. Although the film was released before Rizzo’s controversial assault on radical group MOVE, it chronicles attacks he ordered on Black Panthers and on young people lounging in Rittenhouse Square, his failed polygraph test, and his routinely tough talk (“I’m gonna make Attila the Hun look like a faggot”). The film’s primary theme is “politics as show business,” and it includes many amateur musical performances from South Philadelphia’s Triangle Tavern. Among the many interviewees are broadcast journalists Andrea Mitchell and Larry Kane and stripper Blaze Starr who discusses her reputed affair with the self-proclaimed family man.

$10 admission
Doors 7, Movie 7:30

Screening as part of PhilaMOCA’s DNCinema series of politically-minded movies.

MONDAY, JULY 25
Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society presents DNCinema, surprise film, free admission
TUESDAY, JULY 26
DNCinema presents EARLY WARNING (1981), free admission!
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
Idiocracy (2006) presented by DNCinema (2006), $10 admission

PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
http://www.philamoca.org/

Source: The Story of Frank L. Rizzo Amateur Night at City Hall filmmaker in attendance

Mike Judge’s modern cult classic, more vital now than ever before! Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. But when a government hibernation experiment goes awry, Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he’s become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it’s up to an average Joe to get human evolution back on track.

$10 admission, no refunds or exchanges
Doors 7:00, Movie 7:30

Screening as part of PhilaMOCA’s DNCinema series of politically-minded movies.

MONDAY, JULY 25
Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society presents DNCinema, surprise film, free admission

TUESDAY, JULY 26
DNCinema presents EARLY WARNING (1981), free admission!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
IDIOCRACY (2006), $10 admission

THURSDAY, JULY 28
The Story of Frank L. Rizzo: Amateur Night at City Hall, filmmaker in attendance, $10 admission

Source: Idiocracy Tickets PhilaMOCA Philadelphia PA July 27th 2016 Ticketfly

Tuesday, July 26 at 7:30 PM

EARLY WARNING (1981)
It wouldn’t be a political film series without a conspiracy film! One of the classics of Christian conspiracy cinema, 1981’s EARLY WARNING concerns the One World Foundation, a Satanic international organization set on ruling the world through bar codes and the suppression of vital resources. A Christian journalist teams up with a non-believer newsman to uncover the truth and are pursued by the Foundation up to a laughably bleak ending that, if anything, illustrates the dangers of committing one’s life to the faith (the opposite of the filmmakers’ intentions, of course). This one is gonna be a ton of fun with a crowd.

Free admission
Doors 7, Movie 7:30

Screening as part of PhilaMOCA’s DNCinema series of politically-minded movies.

MONDAY, JULY 25
The Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society presents a surprise film, free admission
TUESDAY, JULY 26
EARLY WARNING (1981), free admission
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
IDIOCRACY (2006), $10 admission
THURSDAY, JULY 28
The Story of Frank L. Rizzo: Amateur Night at City Hall, filmmaker in attendance, $10 admission

PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
http://www.philamoca.org/

Monday, July 25, 7:30 PM, Free admission!
Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society presents a SURPRISE FILM!
Philly’s craziest monthly screening series presents an insanely strange no-budget effort from a non-filmmaker that tells the story of a George W.-like President who was more powerful than God. Recommended by a member of Everything is Terrible! so that tells you something.

Free admission
Doors 7, Movie 7:30

Screening as part of PhilaMOCA’s DNCinema series of politically-minded movies.

TUESDAY, JULY 26
DNCinema presents EARLY WARNING (1981), free admission!, free admission
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
DNCinema presents IDIOCRACY (2006), $10 admission
THURSDAY, JULY 28
The Story of Frank L. Rizzo: Amateur Night at City Hall, filmmaker in attendance, $10 admission

PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
http://www.philamoca.org/