Starr Space
108-110 Starr St
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A Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
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Friday Feb 13, 2009 (9pm)
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$7
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Susan Sontag once opined that cinema's wonder was the payoff of a willing abduction. But "to be kidnapped," she maintained, "you have to be in a movie theater, seated in the dark among anonymous strangers." Cinema Sixteen takes this theory to heart, reinventing its reels in the process. Each lively program features silent films keyed to a local band's original musical accompaniment — a modern take on that old communal and multimedia experience. Tonight, the Brooklyn-based Wild Yaks infuse two shorts with their rambunctious, anthemic sound: the Public Theater's leftist, Depression-era satire, Pie in the Sky (1935), and film forefather Edwin S. Porter's dazzling trick film, A Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906).
