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Film
La Nave de Los Monstruos

When

Saturday June 20, 2009 (7:30pm)

Where
Prospect Park Bandshell (Prospect Park W & 9th St, 718.855.7882)
Price
$3 suggested donation
Details
http://www.briconline.org/celebrate/2009/week2.asp#0620

As exotic as its español title, the 1960 Mexican camp fantasy La Nave de Los Monstruos materializes that best-selling saying: Women are from Venus. In this amusing mishmash of science fiction and Westerns, the last man on said planet (poor fellow!) has expired. The ultra-voluptuous rays of hope are Gamma and Beta (two would-be Miss Universes in one-pieces), who go intergalactic trolling for specimen — all space oddities — with their robot Tor, a Gort gone lucha libre. Earth itself is reduced to Chihuahua, where the two sirens come to a plot-altering impasse. Tonight, in lieu of the film's norteño soundtrack, the post-classical string quartet Ethel teams with art rockers Gutbucket for a splendid, long-incubated live score.

Jason Jude Chan