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Johnny the Giant Killer

Featuring live musical accompaniment by Gutbucket

Johnny the Giant Killer
Gutbucket, a contemporary jazz ensemble formed in the spring of 1999 in New York City, have produced three albums (their newest, ‘Sludge Test,’ just came out in March) and have toured throughout the United States as well as Europe. Their performances have include such antics as getting dressed up as muppets, playing glow-in-the-dark, blindfolded, throwing toast and tossing giant beach balls at the audience.

They will be proving the live musical accompaniment for an animated film called "Johnny the Giant Killer," made by Jean Image and Charles Frank in 1950 about a young boy who sets out with a bunch of friends to defeat an evil giant.

It's a truly strange cartoon -- the first half of the movie is incredibly surreal, while the second half of the movie largely deals with Johnny's encounter with a civilization of bees, which he must win over if he has any hope of getting their help to save his friends still trapped in the castle. The animation is unlike anything you might see in a Disney film, making it all the more intriguing. (N. Reed, MovieHabit.com)

Johnny the Giant Killer

Sun October 7, 2007, 7:00 only, The Film Studies Theater in ATLAS 102

France, 1950, Color, 58 min, Unrated, digital projection, 1.33:1

recommend

Tickets

10 films for $60 with punch card
$9 general admission. $7 w/UCB student ID, $7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Cinema Studies students get in free.

Parking

Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.

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International Film Series

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Established 1941 by James Sandoe.

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(Originally called The Experimental Cinema Group)
Established 1955 by Carla Selby, Gladney Oakley, Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage.

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First offered degrees in filmmaking and critical studies in 1989 under the guidance of Virgil Grillo.

Celebrating Stan

Created by Suranjan Ganguly in 2003.

C.U. Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

Established 2017 by Chair Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz.

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