About this Event
Mr Anderson is waking up…the Matrix is humming back to life…the WACHOWSKIS ARE BACK!
As Lana Wachowski returns to cinemas with the latest installment in the trans cyberpunk dystopia of the Matrix Resurrection, Dumpster Raccoon Cinema embarks on its most ambitious retrospective EVER! We are DELIGHTED to invite you to join us for the WINTER OF THE WACHOWSKIS, as we look back on three of their great masterworks on the big screen and bustling crowds where they belong – celebrating camp classics BOUND (1996), SPEED RACER(2008), and JUPITER ASCENDING (2015)!!
From their earliest days in gruff and gritty lesbian noir to post-Matrix candy-coloured kid psychedelia to sprawling goofy space operatics, the Wachowski sisters have never feared risk –carving out a space as Hollywood’s most successful and audacious queer directors and a trove of delightful, much-maligned and much-beloved masterpieces! We present a TRIO of delights!
SPEED RACER (2008) - A RARE opportunity to see this film on a screen BIG ENOUGH for its sensory overload! Following the rollercoaster success of the Matrix trilogy, no budget was too high and no dream too big for studios optioning projects for the Wachowski sisters –and the result was SPEED RACER, a psychedelic rip-roaring car crash as they adapted the classic sixties anime series with an out-of-control budget and an even more out-of-control visual style – a lavish, pulse-pounding, visual spectacle that MUST be seen to be believed!! Join teen hotspur Speed and his team of bouncy family mechanics (John Goodman! Susan Sarandon! Christina Ricci!) as they race around the world – and investigate the mysterious death of his brother, Rex! A masterwork of visual excess – don’t miss it!
Each show prefaced by our INFAMOUS VIDEO PRESHOWS, LIVE PERFORMANCES BY QUEER ARTISTS, and PRE-SHOW COMMENTARY by Toronto’s own dumpster raccoon ANTHONY OLIVEIRA!
As part of the provincial government’s vaccine certificate program, which was announced in September, everyone will be required to show that they received both doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days earlier in order to enter the cinema for this event.
Everyone must bring either their paper vaccine receipt or PDF vaccine receipt available online, along with photo ID to prove that they have been fully immunized.
Regular admission applies. For INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS ($350) and FAMILY MEMBERSHIPS, please email us at [email protected] to get a ticket!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada
CAD 13.00 to CAD 16.00