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Thursday, January 26th
7:00pm – Film Trivia
9:00pm – Screening
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$12 General Admission
$10 FACETS Members
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“The rare grindhouse joint that fully lives up to its reputation.” – Rocco T. Thompson, Slant Magazine
“Switchblade Sisters delivers everything you could want from an exploitation film: There are jail cell brawls, graphic depictions of toilet bowl submersion, and knife fights. And that’s all within the first fifteen minutes” – Tyler Doupe, Dread Central
FACETS Film Ed Dept Trivia is back this month bringing our classic brand of infotainment quiz show fun, and following it up with an after trivia screening of Jack Hill’s iconic girl gang hit Switchblade Sisters.
Lace (Robbie Lee), the leader of girl gang The Dagger Debs, meets her match when new girl Maggie (Joanne Nail) moves into the neighborhood. Conflict turns to friendship as the girls end up in juvie together. Meanwhile, The Silver Daggers, the ladies’s male counterparts, have to contend with the arrival of a new gang, led by the villainous Crabs (Chase Newhart). But when the girls get back on the streets, a planned retaliation strike in tandem with The Silver Daggers backfires and puts Lace in hospital. Maggie assumes control, teaming up with Muff (Marlene Clark) and her gang of Black militants to declare all out war. Filled with sharp, clever dialogue and tongue in cheek humor, this Shakespeare-influenced girl gang mash-up is a stone cold 1970s classic.
Jack Hill, USA, 1975, 91 mins, DCP
FILM TRIVIA – 1/26 @ 7pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
FACETS Film Ed Dept. Trivia is a FREE monthly event hosted in FACETS’ Café. Test your film knowledge against your friends & fellow cinephiles for both bragging rights and take-home prizes! Questions from the arthouse to the multiplex. From current cinema news to the nitrate nights of yesteryear. We’re here to push your brain ’til the celluloid snaps.
Come out and have some winter film fun with Mike and Raphael and see if your team of up to 4 people are actually the smartest people in the room!
