Aqua Books presents: TEENAGE RAMPAGE: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS ON FILM  Curated and Hosted by Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janisse
SATURDAYS in JANUARY – FREE ADMISSION!
DJ + BAR: 3:30pm SCREENING: 4:00pm

Each film is paired with a DJ and a viagra cheap fast shipping reading from JD pulp fiction (and in some cases, non-fiction).

Saturday January 9th
DJ Mod Marty – 3:30pm | Screening 4pm
SCUM (1977, dir. Alan Clarke)
(original BBC version)

TRAILER

The son of a bricklayer who also spent some time cialis cheap delivery as a laborer before studying acting and directing in Canada, Alan Clarke (who died in 1990) got his start at the BBC in the 1960s. By 1977, he had directed his explosive and controversial television feature, Scum, starring Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast) as a survivor at a corrupt and brutal juvenile prison. Harrowing, claustrophobic, and deeply tragic, Scum was banned by the BBC for graphic brutality (and, quite likely, criticism of the justice system), leading Clarke to remake it with Winstone and the same script as a 1979 theatrical release. The version screening here is the original BBC discount cialis without prescription version.

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Saturday January 16th
DJ Travis Cole – 3:30pm | Screening 4pm
OUT OF THE BLUE (1980, dir. Dennis Hopper)

TRAILER

Dennis Hopper has spoken openly about his substance abuse problems, and many regard his survival as miraculous, since throughout the 1960s and 1970s he seemed to be competing for a gold medal in the pharmaceutical Olympics. In this intense, improvisational film, Hopper’s first directorial effort in 11 years, he lays out the consequences of such behavior–in particular, its devastating effect on children. Starring Linda Manz as punkish teenager Cebe Barnes, the film follows her anomic life wandering the streets of Vancouver, occasionally showing up at school and generally evincing a serious attitude problem. She eventually gets picked up by the police and is questioned by the kindly Dr. Brean (Raymond Burr). But her angst isn’t without justification. Her alcoholic father, Don (Hopper), has just been released from prison after serving a five-year hitch for having killed some children by crashing his semi into a school bus. Her waitress mother, Kathy (Sharon Farrell), is a junkie who’s sleeping with both her boss and Don’s best friend, Charlie (Don Gordon). The girl hopes that her parents’ reunion will bring some kind of order to all of their lives. The film is a fascinating slice of dysfunctional life, including a couple of memorably disturbing scenes. Manz and Hopper are excellent, and the film includes some lovely shots of Vancouver.

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Saturday January 23rd
DJ Mod Marty – 3:30pm | Screening 4pm
BLOODY KIDS (1979, dir. Stephen Frears)
(not available on North American DVD!)

Two restless teens (Derrick O’Connor and Gary Holton) from the South End of London go on a Saturday-night spree. When girls and booze lose their appeal, the boys add murder to their itinerary. A surreal, high-energy film about life and death on the streets, the film has some intelligent social criticism, but its ultra-violent subject matter and unusual visual style caused controversy. The most noteworthy aspect of Bloody Kids may well be its treatment upon release. Considered too bloody for British theatrical exposure, the film went directly to television — an intriguing reversal of the American procedure. Bloody Kids was director Stephen Frears’ second feature.

(See an article on BLOODY KIDS’ star Gary Holton HERE)

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Saturday January 30th
DJ RCA – 3:30pm | Screening 4pm
CHRISTIANE F. (1981, dir. Uli Edel)
(original subtitled version – not available on North American DVD!)

TRAILER

Based on a true story about a bored 14-year-old girl who seeks excitement in the seamy drug scene of ’70s Berlin, Christiane F. is one of the most shocking and controversial films of our time. This visually adventurous, gripping story is enhanced by David Bowie’s soundtrack, including a live performance and such Bowie classics as Station to Station, Heroes, Boys Keep Swinging and others. Startling in its honesty, Christiane F. is a powerful, unforgettable look at youth and innocence seduced, and then imprisoned, by modern life’s compelling dark side.The shocking story of an alienated 14-year-old girl who, along with her boyfriend, becomes addicted to heroin and involved in prostitution to support their habit in the German metropolis of Berlin. Based on a true story, this gripping tale features a live performance by David Bowie, who also performs the theme song as well as many of his classic hits. An early effort from the director of Last Exit to Brooklyn and The Baader-Meinhof Complex.

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).