This Week at Facets! July 31 - August 6!

Facets is all about mall culture and cult murders at critical levels this week!

Opening tonight, Friday, July 31st, is an acclaimed doc that hits the mall to uncover the global obsession with the popular (and profitable) enclosed shopping center.

Malls R Us, by director Helene Klodawsky, combines nostalgia, dazzling architecture, pop culture, economics, politics and visits to malls around the world to examine how we confuse the good life with the world of goods.

"A studious, instructive look at the rapacious creep of mall culture" -The Village Voice
"A fascinating, sumptuously filmed investigation...Malls R Us is instant classic" -Vanity Fair
"Dexterously balances seduction and repulsion" -Artforum

Ze trailer:


Malls R Us runs Friday, July 31 - Thursday, August 7. For additional info, showtimes, tickets and more, available here.

And don't forget to join Facets Night School this Saturday, August 1st at midnight for Mystery Play Freakout!: or, What Would Manson Do?, a wild evening devoted to God Told Me To, the epic 1976 thriller by famed cult director Larry Cohen (Q - The Winged Serpent, It's Alive)!

God Told Me To (also released as Demon) blends horror, sci-fi, mystery, cinema verite and '70s police procedural as its follows a religious New York City cop hunting the mysterious cult leader behind a series of bizarre, motiveless murders. Facets staffer Bruce Neal digs into all of the craziness to reveal the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of a film that anticipated The X-Files by 15 years!

Beware, the trailer!


Lecture begins at midnight! Only $5! Admission includes lecture, screening, post-screening discussion, an extensive educational pack on the film, and more. Grindhouse trailers and DVD giveaways round out the experience!

For tickets, additional details on the film and lecturer and more, click here.

Coming Soon: Rumba: "Like an episode of Sesame Street scripted by Luis Buñuel and helmed by Jacques Tati" (Variety), and a Facets Night School devoted to Viva Las Vegas, hosted by Susan Doll, author of the new book, Elvis for Dummies!