MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS presents A DOUBLE-TRiPLE BiLL OF AFTER SCHOOL SPECiALS!

MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS presents
A DOUBLE-TRiPLE BiLL OF AFTER SCHOOL SPECiALS

With SF-based Programmer and Film Historian Jesse Ficks live!

Saturday Sept. 3
Doors: 7:15pm / Films: 8:00pm

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8:00pm - "Little Orphan Angries" Triple Bill!

featuring:

NBC's Special Treat: HENRY & THE POLKA DOT KiD (1976)
Directed by Richard Marquand (RETURN OF THE JEDi),16mm, 30min.

A young orphan wins his battle to save the life of an old blind dog by convincing his uncle that there are values far more important than just being practical. Starring Ned "squeal like a pig" Beatty, Estelle Parsons and Chris Barnes.

NBC's Special Treat: LUKE WAS THERE (1976)
Directed by Richard Marquand (RETURN OF THE JEDi),16mm, 30min.

A ghetto-bound youth (Scott Baio!) takes off on a life filled with crime and disillusionment, not understanding the overwhelming forces working against him until until a warm and patient counselor takes the time to work with him so he may realize the potential of his life. Emmy Award winner.

NBC's Special Treat: SNOWBOUND (1978)
Directed by Robert M. Young (RiCH KiDS), 16mm, 30min

- 15min break -

9:45pm - "Alone & Forgotten" Triple Bill!

featuring:

LDS Mormon Made: CiPHER iN THE SNOW (1973)
Directed by Keith J. Atkinson, 16mm, 20min.

CIPHER IN THE SNOW was the CITIZEN KANE of educational films. Made by Brigham Young University, it revolved around a sad pasty boy that everyone ignored until he just ups and dies right before the opening credits. The rest of the film plays in flashbacks as one teacher investigates the dead boy’s life, learning that if he paid attention to the boy’s feelings instead of teaching math, he would still be alive today. (Kindertrauma)

ABC's Afterschool Special: MY MOTHER WAS NEVER A KiD (1981)
Directed by Robert Fuest (THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES), 16mm, 30min

A teenage girl is convinced her mother doesn't understand the younger generation. Through circumstance, she is sent back in time and meets her mother as a teenager.

"National Film Registered": PEEGE (1972)
Directed by Randal Klieser (GREASE), 16mm, 20min.

“Your laugh would always make me happy,” the young man whispers to his aged grandmother, Peege, who, now blind and helpless, seems almost to be awaiting death. This touching, poignant film portrays a family’s Christmas visit to their grandmother, a patient in a nursing home, and their sense of despair and isolation as they struggle vainly to communicate.

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Jesse Hawthorne Ficks teaches Film History at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and curates/hosts the Midnites for Maniacs series at the Castro Movie Theatre.  He writes film reviews for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Film Arts (Release Print) Magazine.

It's also rumored he is the stunt double for Peter Sarsgaard.