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Sunday, Sep 2, 2018
5 PM (86 mins)
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Friday, Sep 7, 2018
7 PM (86 mins)
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Friday, Sep 14, 2018
5 PM (86 mins)
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BAMPFA
SUBJECTS
The Atomic Cafe
Digital Restoration
In Conversation
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Jayne Loader is a writer and director based in Portola Valley, California.
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Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer, filmmaker, and professor at UC Santa Cruz.
Guests will be in person for the September 7 screening only.
Duck and cover: The Atomic Cafe is back. Released in the age of Ronald “Nuclear Cowboy” Reagan and restored in time for yet another outbreak of atomic anxiety, this found-footage documentary is a blast of nuke nostalgia with a long half-life. It begins with images from the 1945 Trinity test and goes on to trace the decades-long fallout of the Bomb on American culture. Collaging together stark archival evidence with jauntily delusional propaganda about how to survive the coming apocalypse, the film is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
FILM DETAILS
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 86 mins
Source
- Kino Lorber
CINEFILES
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The Atomic Cafe (distributor materials), New Yorker Films, 1989
The Atomic Cafe (review), Village Voice, J. Hoberman, 1983
The Atomic Cafe (program note), Athens International Film and Video Festival, 1983
The Atomic Cafe (review), Variety, Binn., 1982
The Atomic Cafe (postcard), IMAGE Film/Video Center, 1982
White light, white heat (review), Village Voice, J. Hoberman, 1982
Titters and jitters in the Atomic Cafe (review), East Bay Express, Kelly Vance, 1982
The Atomic Cafe (program note), Los Angeles International Film Exposition, Paul Scanlon, 1982
The Atomic Cafe (program note), London Film Festival, 1982
London Film Festival (review), Leveller
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