Metro Cinema Society: Graphic Content: A Comic Book Film Series

Graphic Content: A Comic Book Film Series

Graphic Content is a monthly film series that promotes and explores the relationship between film and sequential art. Every month, curators Matt Bowes and Erin Fraser bring a film to the screen that displays comics’ varied content, rich history, and unique style. Alongside, they carefully select a booklist of comic books, graphic novels, and manga that thematically and aesthetically relates to the film. Lists are published on their website prior to the film, and books are available to purchase before and after the main feature. The overall intent of the project is to promote cross-media literacy, to explore comics' content through the lens of film, and to share the love of comics within the communal and shared environment that the cinema imparts. Now in its second season, Graphic Content continues to bring comics' very best to the silver screen including feline pop music, over the top revenge drama, intergalactic space babes, and gangsters both campy and deep! Presented in partnership with Metro Cinema and Warp One Comics and Games. GRAPHICCONTENT.ORG

Graphic Content: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Director: Eric Radomski & Bruce Timm

USA 1993, 76 min, Digital

Sep 18 (2012) @ 7pm

When a new vigilante known as the Phantasm arrives in Gotham City and begins executing underworld figures, Batman (Kevin Conroy) is falsely implicated in the murders. At the same time, Andrea Beaumont (Dana Delany), one of Bruce Wayne's old flames,... view more

Graphic Content: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Director: Guillermo del Toro

USA 2008, 120 min, Digital

Oct 16 (2012) @ 9pm

Hellboy (Ron Perlman), half-demon star agent of the B.P.R.D. (Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense), is once again humanity’s last hope after an ancient prophecy pits the world of man against the world of the Fey. With his comrades in... view more

Graphic Content: Josie and the Pussycats

Director: Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan

USA 2001, 98 min, Digital

Nov 20 (2012) @ 9pm

The Pussycats, Josie McCoy (Rachel Leigh Cook), Melody Valentine (Tara Reid), and Valerie Brown (Rosario Dawson), are struggling musicians in small-town Riverdale. That is until MegaRecords’ executive Wyatt Frame comes to town and signs them to a lucrative deal. Little... view more

Graphic Content: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Japan 1984, 117 min, 35mm

Dec 18 (2012) @ 7pm

In the far future after a devastating calamity known as the “Seven Days of Fire”, the Kingdom of Tolmekia, represented by Kushana (voiced by Uma Thurman) gets its hands on an ancient superweapon, threatening to begin the cycle of violence... view more

Graphic Content: Sin City

Director: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and Frank Miller

USA 2005, 124 min, Digital

Jan 22 @ 7pm

Basin City isn’t quite hell on earth just yet, but it’ll do in a pinch. In this ultraviolent hardboiled pastiche, a motley crew of murderers, prostitutes and thieves go about their business in the most exaggerated ways possible. Three stories... view more

Graphic Content: Point Blank

Director: John Boorman

USA 1967, 92 min, Digital

Feb 19 @ 7pm

When Walker (Lee Marvin) is double-crossed and left to die on Alcatraz Island after a heist gone wrong, he’s understandably angry. He sets out to get revenge against his former gang in a rampage that leaves bodies strewn all over... view more

Graphic Content: Oldboy

Director: Park Chan-wook

South Korea 2003, 120 min, Digital

Mar 19 @ 7pm

As a young man, Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is kidnapped right before his daughter’s birthday and confined in a strange prison-hotel. For 15 years, Dae-su trains his body and his mind for one purpose: payback. When he’s released, Dae-su embarks... view more

Graphic Content: The Fifth Element

Director: Luc Besson

France 1997, 126 min, Digital

Apr 16 @ 7pm

The crowded Earth of the 23rd Century is in grave peril, as a huge “Great Evil” hurtles its way through space on a collision course. An ancient prophecy shows a potential way to halt this calamity, and only war hero-turned-... view more

Graphic Content: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

Director: Luc Besson

France 2010, 107 min, Digital

May 21 @ 6:45pm

When an ancient beast is awakened by a _professeur’s_ experiments in advanced telepathy, who do the terrified citizens of 1910s Paris turn to? Adèle Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) is an author of much renown, whose knowledge of other countries is invaluable... view more