While Hollywood continues its obsession with New York disaster films (I am Legend and Cloverfield), each Thursday during the month of January 2008, Manhattan theater-goers can pay $6.50 admission to a watch a handful of classic disaster films that, if nothing else, difuse the pain and agony.
On Thursday nights, Clearview Cinemas in Chelsea hosts a unique movie experience it calls Chelsea Classics. The movie theater typically screens a classic Hollywood film; usually, the featured film has a theme that appeals to the gay sensibility of the demographic of theater-goers of that Manhattan neighborhood. For example, a popular film in the Chelsea Classics program is Mommie Dearest, like that.
Before each film is screened, there is a pre-show that you can trust to be hilarious, but I feel the need to share a bit of caution: the campy live show by the personality Hedda Lettuce is inteded for Mature Audiences.
January 2008 Schedule for Chelsea Classics
The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Playing Thursday, January 3rd at 7:00pm & 9:30pm. The cruise ship Poseidon is on its last voyage.
The Towering Inferno (1974). Playing Thursday, January 10th at 7:00pm & 9:30pm. The world's tallest building catches on fire.
Burnt Offerings (1976). Playing Thursday, January 17th at 7:00pm & 9:30pm. A vacationing family rents a sprawling mansion for the summer.
Airport 1975 (1974). Playing Thursday, January 24th at 7:00pm & 9:30pm. In desperation, the head stewardess portrayed by Karen Black takes the controls of a troubled flight.
In This Our Life (1942). Playing Thursday, January 31st at 7:00pm & 9:30pm. A pairing of Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland in a drama approximately 24 years before their reunion for Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
For more information, visit the official website for Chelsea Classics.
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