Retro Picture Show presents ROBOCOP followed by CLASS OF 1999, both screening on 35mm!
Friday, July 7th at 10pm
$18 Members | $22 Public
ROBOCOP (1987) [30th
Anniversary Screening]
PART MAN,
PART MACHINE, ALL COP.
He’s
Robocop. And in the near future, he’s law enforcement’s only hope.
A sadistic
crime wave is sweeping across America. In Old Detroit, the situation is so bad that
a private corporation, Security Concepts, Inc. has assumed control of the
police force.
The
executives at the company think they have the answer – until the enforcement
droid they created kills one of their own. Then an ambitious young executive
seizes the opportunity. He and his research team create the law enforcement
cyborg from the body of a slain officer. They program Robocop to 1) Serve the
public trust. 2) Uphold the law. 3) Protect the innocent.
All goes
well at first. Robocop stops every sleaze ball he encounters with deadly,
piercing, and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street –
and within Security Concepts itself – that will stop at nothing to see this
super cyborg violently eliminated.
Prepare
yourself for non-stop action and adventure in one of the most explosive sci-fi
stories you’ll ever witness: ROBOCOP. (1987, 103 mins, Dir. Paul Verhoeven,
35mm)
CLASS OF 1999 (1990)
STAYING
AFTER SCHOOL CAN BE DEADLY!
The time
is the future and youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some
schools have become “free-fire zones,” into which not even the police will
venture. When Miles Langford (Malcolm McDowell), the principal of Kennedy High
School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr.
Robert Forrest (Stacy Keach) provides “tactical education units.” These are
amazingly humanlike androids that have been programmed to teach and are
supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when
the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow,
they’re going to get a real education… in chemistry, history, and staying
alive! (1990, 96 mins, Dir. Mark Lester, 35mm)