Posted by eric ringer in News, Trailers on May 6th, 2008 at 7:07 am

Yes, we are looking forward to Robert Rodriguez’s remake of Barbarella due out later this year. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Barbarella we present a special late night, big screen, 35mm blockbuster presentation of the sexiest sci fi flick of the 20th Century.

Free admission in Barbarella-inspired costume! (June 7 screening only)

“This is eye candy from start to finish– *including* one of the most baroque title sequences ever concocted (long before digital technology made this kind of playful titling standard). It’s Franco-Italian design all the way through, a celebration of petroleum products and the best of the lava lamp aesthetic. Hard to tell if it’s a parody of sci-fi or a parody of porn, or same difference is probably the point. There are some very stylized, sadomasochistic uses of Jane Fonda’s long legs, at the same time that Fonda delivers the wittiest lines, in a very witty screenplay by Terry Southern (of Doctor Strangelove fame): “Decrucify my angel immediately!” (Kids, see if you can spot the Chucky in this 1968 precursor.) Skeptics should stay the course to learn what Duran Duran has to do with Barbarella. And Barbarella with the Black Queen. And the Black Queen with the Rolling Stones. And if you don’t know what camp is, then you have to see Barbarella: even if the film is more sublime than camp, a kind of psychedelic Brechtian fantasia.” Essential Sci Fi, J Skinner

Another Hole In The Head Film Festival runs June 5th-22nd, 2008 at the Roxie Film Center, 3117 Sixteenth Street, in San Francisco.