“There is no better way to see this infinitely delightful, effortlessly inventive film.
It is something to behold.”
– Dave Kehr, The New York Times on THE GANG’S ALL HERE. (Read full review here - registration required)

“A luscious, lysergic double bill of summer camp...
Gang is the apotheosis of fruitiness: a chorus of curvy beauties performing
a near obscene synchronized number with giant bananas...
Cobra Woman boasts Naja’s orgiastic undulating cobra dance.
Jaw-dropping!”
– Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice (Read full review here)

“This Technicolor revival wisely brings together Maria Montez’s snake-shaped throne
and Carmen Miranda’s fruit topped dome.
Its camp currency is priceless. Supreme silliness has never looked brighter!”
– David Fear, Time Out New York

“Two of the campiest movies released during World War II - or perhaps ever.”
– Lou Lumenick, The New York Post (Read full review here - registration required)

(1943, BUSBY BERKELEY) “Some sort of apotheosis in vulgarity” (Time Out, London), as “lady in the tutti-frutti hat” Carmen Miranda, wearing history’s most enormous fruit basket, sashays between lines of chorines manipulating over-size bananas, Alice Faye warbles “A Journey to a Star,” Benny Goodman swings ... and sings (!), Charlotte Greenwood attempts to kick the moon, and Eugene Palette lends his croaky baritone for the star-studded finale. Plot? Who cares! As masterminded by outré visionary Berkeley, perhaps the most outrageously Technicolored Technicolor movie ever made — no drugs needed — seen here in this super-rare dye-transfer Technicolor print (the original color negatives were destroyed in the early 70s). Buy your war bonds at this theater! “So blindingly opulent it defies description.” – San Francisco Examiner. “Filtering Berkeley’s kaleidoscope cuties through the garish mixmaster of 1940s Fox Technicolor is like a male hairdresser’s acid trip... By the time Berkeley’s chorus girls wave huge phallic bananas in rhythmic waves, you’ll swear you’re lost in a giant fruit cocktail.” – The Movie Guide.
3:10, 7:00, 10:20*

(1944, ROBERT SIODMAK) “Gif me the cobra jool!” Romance and fantasy in the South Seas, with two (count ’em) two Maria Montezes for the price of one — we defy you to tell them apart! Maria Montez #1: sarong-clad “good twin” Tollea, who, on the eve of wedding hunk Jon Hall is kidnapped by ... Maria Montez # 2: “evil twin” Naja, high priestess of snake worshippers on Cobra Island, where villagers are routinely tossed into the local volcano. But when evil Maria is suddenly unable to fulfill her duties, can good Maria step in and convincingly perform the orgiastic Cobra Ritual dance? Lush Technicolor fun from film noir master Siodmak (Phantom Lady, The Killers), with all-star B movie cast including Lon Chaney (Jr.) and Sabu. They just don’t make ’em like this anymore! “Among the exotic treats: a rumbling volcano, a pet chimp, ominous gong sounds, forest-glade love scenes, human sacrifices, Naja’s handmaidens in their highheeled pumps, her imperious writhing during what is supposed to be a demonic dance.” – Pauline Kael.
1:20, 5:10, 9:00