Matthew Barney's CREMASTER CYCLE rare showings & new work at Nuart-LA 6/11-17 June 11, 2010

THE CREMASTER CYCLE
Epic masterwork is not now nor will it ever be available on DVD
All 5 parts, plus premiere of new film by Matthew Barney, DE LAMA LÂMINA.
Presented at Nuart-Los Angeles on Friday, June 11-17, 2010

Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, (310) 281-8223
Tickets are $10.50 for general admission and $8.00 for seniors and children
Program A: ( # 1 & 2)/ Program B: ( # 3)/ Program C ( # 4 & 5, plus De Lama Lamina)
Showtimes (valid 6/11-6/17):
Fri, Sat, & Thu: Program A-1:30, Program B- 4:30, Program C- 8:30
Sun & Tue: Program A- 2:00, Program B- 5:20, Program C- 8:15
Mon & Wed: Program A- 2:30, Program B- 6:30, Program C- 10:00

Advanced tickets at: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets and at each theatre box office.
Official Film Website: http://www.cremaster.net

The acclaimed five-part CREMASTER CYCLE is an evocation of the creative process by sculptor and performance artist Matthew Barney. Although the five films were not created in chronological order, and each one comprises a completely realized work in itself, together and in numerical order they follow a geographical path from west to east and trace a metaphorical path toward fully developed form.

Barney’s celebrated CREMASTER CYCLE is not now, nor will it ever be, available to consumers on DVD. The only place it can be seen is on screen in theaters so don’t miss this rare occasion to see for yourself what the Detroit Free Press calls “A once in a lifetime experience”.

“Barney gives awesome expression to a singularly vivid imagination.” – Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times 2000

“Barney has, in fact, created one of the best artworks, best movies, and certainly the best hybrid of the two (including video art) I’ve seen in a year. I found myself riveted to the screen…” – Doug Harvey, LA Weekly 2000

DE LAMA LÂMINA Premiere!
De Lama Lâmina (From Mud, A Blade) was filmed during Carnival 2004 in Salvador De Bahia, Brazil. A collaboration between Barney and avant-garde musician Arto Lindsay, De Lama Lâmina is a vivid illustration of Barney’s fascination with “biomechanical erotica.” Barney calls the film, “a meditation on the creative process…a way to express a faith in the balances in nature… and through this faith being able to look at the world today without feeling hopeless.”
The film’s running time is 55 minutes.

CREMASTER 1 & 2:
In CREMASTER 1 (1996), a platinum starlet with twin hovering Goodyear blimps builds geometric patterns from red and green grapes, mirrored by Busby Berkeley-style showgirls on the blue Astroturf field below. CREMASTER 2 (1999), a hallucinatory work featuring writer/director Matthew Barney as Western outlaw Gary Gilmore and Norman Mailer as Harry Houdini, is an eclectic mix of gender-bending sexuality and athleticism, obscure historical references, high fashion, remote locations, lush music and a range of category-defying mythopoeic imagery. The film’s running time is 120 minutes. (USA 1995/99)

CREMASTER 3:
An epic journey that infuses Celtic mysticism with 20th century modernism, blockbuster bombast with hermetic aesthetics. Shot at two architectural landmarks–New York’s Chrysler Building and the Guggenheim Museum–along with locales in Ireland, Scotland and upstate New York, CREMASTER 3 follows The Entered Apprentice (Barney) as he endures torture and travails in order to ascend each building. Peopled by ogres and gangsters, chorus girls and freemasons, Barney’s bizarre universe is never less than stunning. Features appearances by sculptor Richard Serra, hardcore bands Agnostic Front and Murphy’s Law, and athlete Aimee Mullins. The film’s running time is 181 minutes. (USA, 2002)

CREMASTER 4 & 5:
In CREMASTER 4, a flame-haired satyr (filmmaker Matthew Barney) slowly taps his way through an eroding floor into the sea, as competing color-coded motorcycle teams set off in opposite directions to circle the Isle of Man.

In CREMASTER 5, Ursula Andress (Dr. No) stars as the Queen of Chain, an audience of one for whom a lush operatic spectacle is performed by the Budapest Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra within a grand 19th century opera house, accompanied by faeries, a magician (Barney), various attendants of unspecified gender and species, and a bevy of live pigeons. The film’s running time is 98 minutes (USA, 1994/97)