CU:HAUSU All week at the New Beverly – NEW 35mm Print!

Friday – Wednesday March 12 – 17
Exclusive LA Run of a NEW 35mm Print!
House 1977, Japan, 88 minutes
dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, starring Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yôko Minamida, Ai Matsubara, Miki Jinbo

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child: the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his eleven-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation, and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality. Never before released in the United States, and a bona fide cult classic in the making, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.
Run. Wake your neighbor. Slap your children. Eye your cat with suspicion. Every once in a blue-screen moon, a movie will remind even the most jaded of cult-film aficionados that, no, in fact, they have not seen everything.
- Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene
MUST-SEE-NOW – Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone – no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House. – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
FOUR STARS – Like a stream-of-consciousness nightmare sprung from a troubled head resting on a hot-pink pillow.
- Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
THE ULTIMATE MIDNIGHT MOVIE – This phantasmagoric head-trip has to be one of the strangest and most surreal movies ever made. – Matt Singer, IFC.com
Showtimes:
Friday March 12: 7:30 & 9:45
Saturday March 13: 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 & 11:59pm
Sunday March 14: 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 & 9:45
Monday March 15: 7:30 & 9:45
Tuesday March 16: 7:30 & 9:45
Wednesday March 17: 7:30 & 9:45
Please note: As the new 35mm print is still considered a first run release, House will be playing by itself instead of on a double feature.”
http://www.newbevcinema.com/

REVIEWS AND PRESS
“Run. Wake your neighbor. Slap your children. Eye your cat with suspicion. Every once in a blue-screen moon, a movie will remind even the most jaded of cult-film aficionados that, no, in fact, they have not seen everything.” – Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene

“Shot with so much visual panache and mid-70s excess that it comes off like Ringu on a Pixy Stix-fueled hug-a-thon … a brain-rattling delight.” – Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle

“MUST-SEE-NOW – Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone — no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“About as stylistically unique as you can possibly get.” – Cody Stuart, BeatRoute Magazine

“A dangerous amount of fun, best experienced with a crowd of unsuspecting but open-minded cinéastes. Get ready to be bewildered.” – Evan Kindley, notcoming.com

“Insanely entertaining … For connoisseurs of the bizarre, House‘s revival is long overdue.” – Jeff Shannon, The Seattle Times

“FOUR STARS – Like a stream-of-consciousness nightmare sprung from a troubled head resting on a hot-pink pillow.” – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

“Extraordinary … Manages to be both a fantastically amusing self-reflexive trifle (characters’ names, among them Gorgeous, Fantasy, and Kung Fu, telegraph their traits) and a genuinely unsettling bloodbath.” – Benjamin Mercer, The L Magazine

“Truly on its own wavelength … A dark cartoon of unfettered play.” – Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine

“It may be impossible not to be stunned into dumbness by Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House … Gigglers and cultists, pony up.” – Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice

“THREE AND-A-HALF STARS – a ceaselessly entertaining head trip of a movie.” – This Week in New York

“One of the most coveted cult films to emerge from the fantastic realm of Asian cinema.” – David Wilentz, The Brooklyn Rail

“[An] effects-saturated dreamscape … Obayashi crams every scene of House with giddy, gaudy visual excess; it’s like Douglas Sirk on acid.” – Brian Miller, The Seattle Weekly

“Language cannot do [it] justice … You’d have to imagine Pee-wee’s Playhouse with a witch that eats schoolgirls, only amped up by a factor of 100.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine

“THE ULTIMATE MIDNIGHT MOVIE – This phantasmagoric head-trip has to be one of the strangest and most surreal movies ever made.” – Matt Singer, IFC.com

“Deliciously au courant in its mix of lo-fi complexity found at the core of so much art making today … not to be missed.” – Richard J. Goldstein, BOMBLog

“A veritable grab-bag of cutesy-horror gags and insane low-fi special effects, employed in a truly joyful, free-spirited approach that is astonishing in its sheer inventiveness as well as its bluster … sheer hallucinogenic glee.” – Chris Radcliff, NYC Cine

“THREE AND-A-HALF STARS – Movies as original as this one don’t come along very often, so grab it while you can.” – V.A. Musetto, The New York Post

“Movies are rarely, if ever, as whirringly rich and strange as House … Every little thing about it demands attention.” – Steve Dollar, Paste Magazine

“To call House original is an understatement. ‘Dizzyingly, effervescently insane’ might be more appropriate.” – Molly Young, More Intelligent Life

“Nothing short of insanely brilliant … Hardly a frame is wasted from the very first to the very last.” – Marvin Miranda, Examiner.com

“Beautiful, outlandishly silly, and profoundly disturbing … Its attention to detail and explosive charisma make it fresh and exciting, even 30 years after it was made.” – Evan Bobrick, New Mexico Daily Lobo

http://www.janusfilms.com/house/reviews.html

JANUS THEATRICAL RERELEASE DATES

THEATRICAL PLAYDATES

To inquire about a booking, or suggest a venue, contact booking@janusfilms.com.

Nightly late shows
New York, NY – IFC Center

March 12
Winnipeg, MB – Big Smash! Productions (Digital)

March 12 – March 16
Los Angeles, CA – New Beverly Cinema

March 19 – March 21
Wilmington, DE – Theatre N at Nemours (HD)

March 26 – April 1
Salt Lake City, UT – Salt Lake Film Society

March 26 & 27
Cleveland, OH – Cleveland Cinematheque

April 2 & 3
Columbus, OH – Wexner Center for the Arts

April 9
Williamstown, MA – Images Cinema (Digital)

April 9 & 10
Denver, CO – Denver Film Society

April 9 – April 11
Hartford, CT – Cinestudio

April 13
Boulder, CO – International Film Series

April 15 – April 19
Vancouver, BC – Pacific Cinematheque

April 17
San Francisco, CA – Castro Theatre

April 23 & 24
Ann Arbor, MI – State Theater

April 30 & May 1
Albuquerque, NM – Guild Cinema
Cambridge, MA – Brattle Theatre

May 7
Schenectady, NY – Proctors (Digital)

May 7 & 8
Milwaukee, WI – Union Theatre
San Francisco, CA – Red Vic Movie House

May 13 – May 17
Edmonton, AB – Metro Cinema Society

May 14 & 15
Providence, RI – Cable Car Cinema

May 21 – May 23
Detroit, MI – Burton Theatre

May 22 – May 27
Austin, TX – Alamo Drafthouse

May 28 & 30
Rochester, NY – George Eastman House

June 4 – June 10
Santa Fe, NM – The Screen

June 5
Philadelphia, PA – International House

June 11 – June 13
Webster Groves, MO – Webster University Film Series

June 18 – June 20
Duluth, MN – Zinema 2

June 18 – June 24
Tucson, AZ – The Loft Cinema

June 25
Grand Rapids, MI – Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts

July 2 – July 7
Kansas City, MO – Tivoli Cinemas

July 9 – July 12
Waterville, ME – Railroad Square Cinema

July 13 – July 18
Atlanta, GA – Plaza Theatre

July 23 – July 29
Toronto, ON – Bloor Cinema

July 30 – August 1
Houston, TX – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

August 2 – August 4
Guelph, ON – The Bookshelf

August 6 – August 8
Portland, OR – Cinema 21

August 6 – August 9
Ottawa, ON – ByTowne Cinema

August 12 – August 14
Tempe, AZ – MadCap Theaters

August 12 – August 15
Regina, SK – Regina Public Library Film Theatre

August 20
Saskatoon, SK – Broadway Theatre

August 28
Huntington, NY – Cinema Arts Centre

September 10 – September 16
Keene, NH – Keene State College

October 13
San Diego, CA – ArtPower! at UC San Diego