2012 Olympia Film Festival Program

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All Freakin' Night Eastside Big Tom, official food sponsor of All Freakin' Night, is not only renting a food truck for the very first time­... he's parking it in front of the Historic Capitol Theater...ALL NIGHT LONG! Proceeds will be donated to the Olympia Film Festival, so eat up! The menu includes burgers, fries, breakfast sandwiches, and more!

Midnight

Santa Sangre

Santa Sangre 1989 / Mexico/Italy / 123 min / 35mm Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Cast: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Sabrina Dennison, Guy Stockwell Print Source: Academy Film Archive From Chilean surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain) and Italian horror producer Claudio Argento (Dawn of the Dead, Suspiria) comes this bizarre tale of love, passion, obsession, and revenge. Hallucinatory, grotesque, beautiful, and musical, the story follows Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky), a boy who grows up in a circus and witnesses the horrible mutilation of his religiously devout mother. After some time in a mental hospital, Fenix is called home to act as his mother’s murderous handyman. A picturesque Mexican setting filled with religious iconography is bolstered by the colorful cast of circus performers, tattooed contortionists, little people, clowns, pimps, magicians, mimes, bodybuilders, druggies, and a very ill elephant. This is what might have happened if Fellini had attempted to make a triumphantly sleazy slasher movie. Yet despite the persistent weirdness and the well-earned NC-17 rating, Santa Sangre remains one of Jodorowsky's most straightforward and accessible films, and is a deft blend of slasher horror, poetic surrealism, melancholy longing, and pitch black humor. Visually stunning and hauntingly scored by composer Simon Boswell, we are proud to open All Freakin’ Night with the only existing uncensored print of this modern masterwork.


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