Vengeance Fest 2014 – Taxi Driver & More In 35 MM!

Vengeance Fest is an annual mini film festival held in Syracuse, New York at the Palace Theatre and features many films shown in their original 35mm glory!  This year’s event will be held on August 16th beginning at 4:00 PM.  The theme of this year’s Vengeance Fest  will be revenge or revenge related films.  Films will include:

• Taxi Driver – 35mm (Robert De Niro)
• Venus in Furs – 35mm (classic Jess Franco)
• HEADSPACE – 35mm (Udo Kier)
• The Woman – Digital (Brutal revenge flick by Lucky McKee)
• MS. 45 – 35mm (Abel Ferrara)

Vengeance Fest 2014

• Saturday, August 16th, 2014 – 4:00pm
• $15 – Come and go as you please – Tickets at the door evening of movie.
• $13 – Advance sale tickets via PayPal: Use this email address (brewandview@gmail.com) and state that the payment is for “Vengeance Fest”.
• All movies are rated R or Unrated – Extreme Violence, Extreme Adult Situation, Viewers be warned.

Venue

Palace Theatre
2384 James Street
Syracuse, NY 13206
palaceonjames.com

Schedule of Events

• Headspace (2005) – 35mm – 5:00 PM
• Venus In Furs (1969) – 35mm – 6:30 PM
• Taxi Driver (1976) – 35mm – 8:00 PM
• Ms. 45 – 35mm – 10:00 PM
• The Woman (2011) – Digital – 11:30PM

Headspace (2005)

Directed By: Andrew van den Houten
Written By: Steve Klausner, William M. Miller
Stars: Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Sean Young, Christopher Denham

Alex Borden (Christopher Denham) has everything going for him: good looks, charm and smarts. But soon after he meets Harry, a mysterious chess expert and a thoroughly bad influence, Alex’s mental powers inexplicably begin to grow and horrible visions haunt his dreams. It’s not long before people in town begin disappearing, forcing Alex to confront the dark urges and violent repressed memories invading his subconscious.

Venus In Furs (1969)

Director: Jesús Franco (as Jess Franco)
Writers: Milo G. Cuccia, Carlo Fadda,
Stars: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm

A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death.

Taxi Driver (1976)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Paul Schrader
Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel

A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Ms. 45 (1981)

Director: Abel Ferrara
Writers: N.G. St. John
Stars: Zoë Tamerlis Lund

A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York after dark and randomly kills men with a .45 caliber gun.

The Woman (2010)

Directed By: Lucky McKee
Written By: Jack Ketchum, Lucky McKee
Novel By: Jack Ketchum, Lucky McKee

Family man and lawyer Christoper Cleek (Sean Bridgers) must do what he can to protect his family when he comes into contact with a feral woman (Pollyana McIntosh) living in the woods near his isolated country home. Through a series of harrowing encounters Cleek and his family quickly discover there is more to this woman than anyone would suspect and that sometimes the devil wears a handsome face.

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