{"id":4611,"date":"2012-02-22T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:52:30","slug":"love-hurts-at-feb-24-ttc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4611","title":{"rendered":"Love hurts at Feb. 24 TTC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our \u201cway back machine,\u201d the video projector, takes aim at the silvery screen of <strong><a title=\"SoDo Theatre :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sodotheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoDo Theatre<\/a>, 114 S. Neil St., Champaign, IL<\/strong>, this <strong>Friday, February 24<\/strong>, for a second installment of <strong>Psychic Joker\u2019s Time Traveling Cinema<\/strong> presented by <strong>C-U Confidential<\/strong> and <a title=\"The Psychic Joker :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psychicjoker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Psychic Joker Entertainment<\/strong><\/a>! Come downtown and commiserate with us beginning at <strong>10 p.m.<\/strong> as we build a true community micro-cinema in a clean, safe, and fully equipped environment with a paltry $5 cover, snacks costing a miniscule $1 per item, and boundless camaraderie for free!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From the throes of the public domain we embrace a pair of low-budget, eccentric dramas about broken hearts and cruel twists of fate. First up will be <strong>CYRANO DE BERGERAC<\/strong> (1950), a <strong>Hollywood<\/strong> adaptation of the famous stage play starring <strong>Jos\u00e9 Ferrer<\/strong> in his signature, <strong>Oscar<\/strong>-winning role as the poet-swordsman finding himself in a doomed love triangle. Just after the stroke of midnight, <strong>Curtis Harrington<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>NIGHT TIDE<\/strong> (1961) will fashion a strange tale of a young sailor (<strong>Dennis Hopper<\/strong>) on shore leave that falls for a mysterious beauty (<strong>Linda Lawson<\/strong>) who may or may not be a mermaid!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a title=\"Edwin Jahiel, 1925-2010 :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2514\" target=\"_blank\">late <strong>University of Illinois<\/strong> professor <strong>Steven P. Hill<\/strong><\/a> reviewed the latter for <a title=\"Film Quarterly :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.filmquarterly.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Film Quarterly<\/span><\/strong> magazine<\/a>, favorably comparing <strong>NIGHT TIDE<\/strong> to the dreamlike studio genre films of <strong>Val Lewton<\/strong> \u2013 particularly <strong>THE CAT PEOPLE<\/strong> \u2013 from the Forties. Hill summarizes, \u201cThus in some respects Harrington improves on what he inherits from Lewton, while in others \u2026 the writer-director owes nothing to Lewton, and demonstrates that plenty of independent filmic ingenuity went into the making of <strong>NIGHT TIDE<\/strong>, which has its interest apart from all the connections with its illustrious predecessor.\u201d (Vol. 17 No.4, Summer 1964, pp.54-55)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We\u2019ll see everyone on Friday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>p.s.<\/em> Swashbucklers, mermaids, and sailors attending the TTC this month earn our undying gratitude!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Psychic Joker's Time Traveling Cinema (Art: The Psychic Joker)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog%20Art\/cu_timetraveling_block.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-U Confidential teams up with Psychic Joker Entertainment to present the lost movie gems of yesteryear with &#8220;The Psychic Joker&#8217;s Time Traveling Cinema&#8221; at SoDo Theatre in Champaign, Illinois! On February 24, 2012, we get swept up in the poetic words of CYRANO DE BERGERAC and dark undercurrents of NIGHT TIDE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,13],"tags":[909,910,908,573,879,882],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-u-confidential-shows","category-public-events","tag-cyrano-de-bergerac","tag-dennis-hopper","tag-night-tide","tag-steven-p-hill","tag-the-psychc-jokers-time-traveling-cinema","tag-the-psychic-joker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}