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Weekend of
February 7th
(Color) 1973
All aboard the Trans Siberian Express with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Telly Savalas ( remember him from TV’s “Kojak” – who loves ya baby!?) They confront a zombie making monster, and the caviar hasn’t even been served yet!
Weekend of
February 14th
(B&W) 1953
For Valentine’s Day weekend, the beatniks show the Ed Wood classic that almost plays as an autobiography of the director. Bela Lugosi and Lyle Talbot star in the tale of a troubled cross dresser who reveals his secret to his fiancé. Where will this relationship end up? You have to see it to believe it!
Weekend of
February 21st NEW
(B&W) 1930
First released as a silent film in 1925, this rarely seen classic was remade as a “talkie” in 1930- with the biggest star of the era, Lon Chaney…who died one month after it’s release. The plot involves three sideshow performers who create an unholy trio to commit crime and murder, which even involves a captive ape. This is one whacked out story with twists, turns, and intrigue!
Weekend of
February 28th
(B&W) 1955
Zelda, Bird, and Theo celebrate Black History Month with this rarely seen mix of music with major names like Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Martha Davis, Bill Bailey, and so many more. This revue was filmed in New York when these stars were at their peak!
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ABOUT OBC
Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout North America on the retroTV Network along with a series of independent stations. Off Beat Cinema promises to show you “the movies that must be shown” – the good, the bad and the foreign (in their original languages, of course!)
Off Beat Cinema began on October 31, 1993 as a diversion from the flood of late night infomercials that seemed to consume the available airwaves of television’s last cool frontier: late night! Once a hip haven for insomniacs, second shifters, beatniks and kids who would sneak back to the TV when their parents were solidly in dreamland, late night television had become a vast wasteland of hucksters hawking everything from cooling systems to spray-on hair in a can.
The show is filmed in the Hungry Ear Coffee House, a whacked-out poetry basement located somewhere in downtown Buffalo, NY. The Hungry Ear Coffee House is a mad pad, Dad… and the kind of place where Boris Karloff could sit with Ed Wood and discuss the transcendence of the ego and how that applies to Moe Howard getting a cream pie in the face. A comfortable pad where former Beatle Pete Best could sit with the Goo Goo Dolls and discuss the merits of 3D giant insect fear films. I think you get the picture.
