Film (Double) Screening: Yor, The Hunter from The Future / Spaced Vision @ Library of Congress
May 13, 2008 by Svetlana 
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| May 16, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
free
details here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pickford/pickford-current.html
Friday, May 16 (7:00pm)
Il Mondo di Yor = Yor, the Hunter from the Future (Diamant Film - RAI, Italy, 1983). Dir Anthony M. Dawson (=Antonio Margheriti). Wrt Dawson, Robert Bailey, from the novel by Juan Zanotto and Ray Collins. With Reb Brown, John Steiner, Corinne Clery, Carole Andre, Alan Collins (=Luciano Pigozzi), Sergio Nicolai. (90 min, color, 35mm, dubbed in English)
with
Tron [Trailer] (1982) (2 min, color, 35mm)
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze [Trailer] (1975) (2 min, color, 35mm)
Black Samurai [Trailer] (1977) (2 min, color, 35mm)
Warlords of the 21st Century [Trailer] (1982) (2 min, color, 35mm)
Creature [Trailer] (1985) (2 min, color, 35mm)
and:
Spaced Vision (ABBA Productions, 1972). (2 min, color, 16mm)
On a strange and distant planet, not unlike a desert in Arizona, there is a peaceful clan of cave people that seem to have invented hair spray, the bikini and rouge, prior to the invention of the wheel. Without warning the clan is attacked in a haze of laser beams from UFOs. Out of the storm comes Yor, who gallantly saves the clan from the barrage! Who is this muscular platinum-blond man who speaks in a Southern Californian accent? Unfortunately, Yor does not seem to know.
The members of the hair-sprayed bikini clan notice the mysterious gold medallion on his waxed chest (it seems that Yor’s clan may have also invented hair waxing). They tell him of a desert goddess who wears the same medallion. Yor decides that he must go on a quest to find her and learn his true identity. Along the way he encounters dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters, half-man half-beast creatures, sex hungry ape-men, an android army, spaceships, and an overacting John Steiner, proving that he has to eat (and eat he does by chewing ever scene that he is in).
A cornerstone of “Il cinema ridicolo” (Cinema Ridiculous), the film is often both intentionally and unintentionally humorous. Part of Italian cinema’s long-running tradition of interpreting American blockbusters, Yor is an absurd take on multiple films and genres. The soundtrack by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis has to be heard to be believed. Seeing this in a theater is rare at best, and the notion of Library of Congress screening a 1980’s film where a caveman uses a pterodactyl as a hang glider is almost as absurd as the film itself!
Preceded by a selection of trailers and an experimental short that has animated images projected off a woman while music from India plays. Hypnotic
