Spectacle

THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE (EL TRIANGULO DE ORO)
aka LA ISLA FANTASMA
dir. Jairo Pinilla, 1984
Colombia. 93 mins
In Spanish with English subtitles.

A BEST OF THE BEST OF SPECTACLE selection

THURSDAY, JULY 9 – 10 PM
MONDAY, JULY 20 – 10 PM

Presented in collaboration with Petroglyph Media, which has been dedicated to preserving and restoring the works of Jairo Pinilla. Anthony Napolitano of Petroglyph will be at the theater for an introduction on July 9th, and Blu-rays of Pinilla’s FUNERAL SINIESTRO—which also contains THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE—will be available for purchase, in anticipation of our screening the restoration of FUNERAL SINIESTRO in August.

An ostensibly straightforward mystery thriller riffing on a bygone generation’s worth of toxic whispers about the Bermuda Triangle, this film (also released as LA ISLA FANTASMA) uses the Panama Canal Zone as a jumping-off point, from whence a young girl and her father vanish out on the high seas. Jack Mendelson, her swollen uncle (who may also be a mercenary/private detective?) decked out in a leather vest and ripped bell-bottom jeans, goes searching for them, with the remaining nephew in tow. Their axes form a puzzle, leading them to a moss-ensconced island housing a mythic miniature pyramid made of solid gold – but the triangle is treacherous, and exposure to it begins to cost Jack his sanity.

Tomorrow! ℍ𝕆𝕃𝕃𝕐𝕎𝕆𝕆𝔻 𝔼ℕ𝕋𝔼ℝ𝕋𝔸𝕀ℕ𝕄𝔼ℕ𝕋 presents…
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AUDIENCE OF ONE ⁣
dir. Mike Jacobs, 2007.⁣
United States. 88 min.⁣
In English.⁣
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THURSDAY, JULY 2 — 7:30 PM ($10)⁣
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“In 1994, at age 40 Pastor Richard Gazowsky saw his first movie. Later that year he received a vision from God.”⁣
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So begins Audience of One, the stunning 2007 documentary story of a Pentacostal congregation’s decade-plus Quixotic cinematic odyssey conjuring tens of millions of dollars from churchgoers and international investors.⁣
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The church’s film, Gravity: Shadow of Joseph, is modestly pitched as “Star Wars meets The Ten Commandments” and the 65mm 60 frames-per-second epic takes its first-time filmmakers from San Francisco to Italy putting their homes, livelihoods, reputations, and the church’s future on the line in the name of Christian Science fiction. Despite a successful and prize-winning festival run, Audience of One is wildly under-seen, currently un-rentable, and has never been available to stream.⁣
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Winner of the 2007 South by Southwest Special Jury Award, come see the strange and true documentary Zoe Ligon called “The Room, Windy City Heat, and Jesus Camp rolled into one” and the New York Times said ‘illustrates how smoothly delusions of show business grandeur can dovetail with religious zealotry.”