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BTP: August Calendar, Ava Lynch’s Programming Pick, and Road Trip Movies
08/02/2025
BTP: August Calendar, Ava Lynch’s Programming Pick, and Road Trip Movies
Balboa Theatre Podcast rides into August 2025 calendar with special guest Ava Lynch talking about her month's pick of DiDi (2024), bringing SF Bay Area community together in art, music and film with organizing the event on August 5th involving local vendors, food, and guest speakers at the Balboa. Main calendar events include several screenings on 35mm (The Departed, Tilt/Joysticks, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 2, Creepshow) 16mm (Triple Bergman: Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, and Persona) and VHS (Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes) via Warped VHS. The 20th anniversary of Brokeback Mountain, David Lynch's Wild at Heart, The Greatful Dead Movie returns from 1977, Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Creepy Koffee Movietime Documentary, Samuari Sunday's 13 Assassins, Kyle Styles presents Tarkovsky's Audrei Rublev, Gallery 3630 presents Iris (2014), Quentin Taratino's Reservoir Dogs in tribute to Michael Madesen RIP, Dune part 1, No Other Land (Oscar Winner for Best Documentary 2024), and so much more! The last segment--Benji gets lost on the open road involved finding Pee Wee's bike at the basement of the Alamo with a movie rant focusing on road trip movies and the rough edges of the road involving B-movies, reflection gangster crime cinema of Reservoir Dogs & Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, endless coming of age movies, deadly desert family trips, historical events that inspired The Hills Have Eyes & The Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 2, the criminal history of The Cotton Club, timely importance of No Other Land, the Pee Wee as Himself documentary on HBO--A must see for all! and how it reflects on cinema similar to the themes of questioning the societal norms in The Taste of Cherry and Brokeback Mountain before landing back to the beginning where the road begins in searching of Pee Wee's bike in the basement of the Alamo. Showtimes and events at Balboa Theatre: Instagram: @balboatheater @avabava13 @onwaverly @lunarbakerysf @warpedVHS Music for this episode from Royality Free Biker Sounds via Youtube.
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