P3D 3-D FilmFest; Rochester, NY USA; July 10-12, 1998

[Lee Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Dryden Theater at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY
(USA) is having a 3-D film festival during the weekend of 
July 10-12.  All films are $5, $4 for members and students.
The following information was pulled off their web site
(http://www.eastman.org/).

=lee

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Duck, you sucker! A 3-D Filmfest

July 10
FRI. 8 p.m. DIAL M FOR MURDER (Alfred Hitchcock, US 1954, 105 min.) 
Certainly the classiest 3-D feature ever made, Dial M for Murder stars 
Ray Milland as a calculating husband plotting the demise of his rich, 
unfaithful wife (played with precision by Grace Kelly). Hitchcock's 
subtle use of the third dimension is only one of the many pleasures to 
be found in this tale of premeditation and perfect crime, as the deadly 
game of cat and mouse is executed with the director's characteristically 
ingenious use of camera angles and props.

July 11
SAT. 2 p.m. CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (Jack Arnold, US 1954, 79 
min.) Excellent three-dimensional photography distinguishes this tale of 
a prehistoric missing link between man and fish found alive and kicking 
in an Amazonian tributary. Starring Richard Carlson, the unsung Whit 
Bissell, and Julie Adams as the gilled hybrid's love interest, Creature
 is one of the best and most influential horror films of the 1950s, 
spawning two sequels and becoming an indelible pop culture icon. Plus:
 THIRD DIMENSIONAL MURDER (George Sidney, US 1941, 7 min.), an early 3-D 
horror/comedy short featuring a Frankenstein monster and lots of stuff 
thrown at the camera.

8 p.m. FANTASTIC INVASION OF PLANET EARTH (THE BUBBLE, Arch Oboler, US 
1976, 94 min.) Arch Oboler initiated the first 3-D craze when his jungle 
actioner Bwana Devil became one of the most successful films of 1952. 
Almost a quarter of a century later, he was still at it, re-editing a 
version of his 1966 feature The Bubble into "pure" stereoscopic film and 
offering audiences some of the most amazing 3-D effects ever captured on 
celluloid. Michael ("Mod Squad") Cole and Deborah ("Gidget") Walley star 
as a young couple cut off from the outside world by-dare we say 
it?-aliens! Can they survive? Can you avoid the floating tray of beer 
bottles?

July 12
SUN. 2 p.m. STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN (Steve Hahn, US 1985, 98 
min.) Released at the tail end of the 1980s mini-boom, Starchaser was 
the first animated 3-D feature film. The complex, technologically 
advanced stereoscopic effects are truly amazing. The story, which weaves 
together elements of science fiction and myth, is an entertaining cross 
between Star Wars and J. R. R. Tolkien. The quest, the hero, the magic 
sword\Starchaser has all the makings of an epic grafted onto a pulp 
framework of sexy robots, gleaming spaceships, and evil empires.

8 p.m. AMITYVILLE 3-D (Richard Fleischer, US 1983, 93 min.) In the best 
and scariest of the Amityville series, the possessed house this time 
around threatens the lives of an investigative reporter, his family, and 
the psychic researchers who come to their aid. All the ruckus just may 
have something to do with that pesky gateway to hell in the basement! 
Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, and Candy Clark take turns screaming and 
dodging the superbly executed 3-D effects. Look for Meg Ryan in one of 
her first screen roles.


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