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THE FIRST REPORT OF THE MYSTIC ORDER: THE MOVIE ORGY
1968
Director
Joe Dante
Starring
Runtime
275 minutes
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Calling all acolytes of THE MYSTIC ORDER OF THE BEACON... your presence is requested at THE MOVIE ORGY.
We'll be screening Joe Dante's ultimate mash-up movie all afternoon for anyone in the Mystic Order. And we'll be tapping a special keg of Bizarre Brewing's SEE NOW AND KNOW West Coast Pale Ale for happy hour drinks. First come, first admitted.
Feel free to come through any time and catch just some or all of the orgiastic pleasures on Saturday, 8/30, 4pm-9pm!
What is THE MOVIE ORGY? Before embarking on a career as one of the most inventive and inspired of American cinema’s movie-mad auteurs, Joe Dante expressed his love of B-movies, horror classics, and even more disreputable cultural detritus by assembling a masterwork of pop-cultural excavation: the nearly-five-hour collage film. The mother of all supercuts, THE MOVIE ORGY was created, in collaboration with producer Jon Davison, while Dante was an undergraduate at the Philadelphia College of Art. It initially took the form of ever-morphing, interactive projections for Dante and Davison’s Philadelphia friends, but the two soon found themselves taking it on the road, where it became a hit on the college-campus circuit. THE MOVIE ORGY gradually took on a more fixed shape, before Dante and Davison’s burgeoning filmmaking careers led them to retire the project in the mid-1970s.
In the ensuing decades, the film lapsed into obscurity. But it has slowly come back into circulation and eventually to Dante’s creation of a new (now definitive) version. Comprised of commercials, news reels, clips from feature films, TV bloopers, and much more, THE MOVIE ORGY is both a fascinating cultural artifact and a wild vortex of mashed-up magnificence. Remember in GREMLINS 2 when the gremlins took over the projection booth? This is what they would have gotten up to if they weren't stopped.
"This was like the 50 best times I've ever had at the movies all in a single sitting. After 5 hours I didn't want it to end." - Matt Singer
Calling all acolytes of THE MYSTIC ORDER OF THE BEACON... your presence is requested at THE MOVIE ORGY.
We'll be screening Joe Dante's ultimate mash-up movie all afternoon for anyone in the Mystic Order. And we'll be tapping a special keg of Bizarre Brewing's SEE NOW AND KNOW West Coast Pale Ale for happy hour drinks. First come, first admitted.
Feel free to come through any time and catch just some or all of the orgiastic pleasures on Saturday, 8/30, 4pm-9pm!
What is THE MOVIE ORGY? Before embarking on a career as one of the most inventive and inspired of American cinema’s movie-mad auteurs, Joe Dante expressed his love of B-movies, horror classics, and even more disreputable cultural detritus by assembling a masterwork of pop-cultural excavation: the nearly-five-hour collage film. The mother of all supercuts, THE MOVIE ORGY was created, in collaboration with producer Jon Davison, while Dante was an undergraduate at the Philadelphia College of Art. It initially took the form of ever-morphing, interactive projections for Dante and Davison’s Philadelphia friends, but the two soon found themselves taking it on the road, where it became a hit on the college-campus circuit. THE MOVIE ORGY gradually took on a more fixed shape, before Dante and Davison’s burgeoning filmmaking careers led them to retire the project in the mid-1970s.
In the ensuing decades, the film lapsed into obscurity. But it has slowly come back into circulation and eventually to Dante’s creation of a new (now definitive) version. Comprised of commercials, news reels, clips from feature films, TV bloopers, and much more, THE MOVIE ORGY is both a fascinating cultural artifact and a wild vortex of mashed-up magnificence. Remember in GREMLINS 2 when the gremlins took over the projection booth? This is what they would have gotten up to if they weren't stopped.
"This was like the 50 best times I've ever had at the movies all in a single sitting. After 5 hours I didn't want it to end." - Matt Singer