Whammy! is bringing their VHS Swap to the Gardena Cinema this June! Join Whammy! and lots of other VHS vendors bringing their finest, rarest, and wildest tapes to purchase, trade or simply admire. As you enter, CRT video art installations from Danielle Wakin and Thrash Collector will greet you in the lobby, where you can stock up on fine movie-theater popcorn, sweet crushed ice beverages, and share-size candy.
For the duration of the swap, Hollywood Entertainment will have control of the 35ft screen with their own brand of eclectic & rare programming.
The swap is free to attend, and will be followed by a ticketed screening of Jon Moritsugu's TERMINAL U.S.A, recently restored in 2K by the American Genre Film Archive.
6/30 Whammy! VHS Swap
Noon to 4pm
FREE Admission!
6/30 TERMINAL USA
4:30pm
dir. Jon Moritsugu, 1993
60 min
$10
About TERMINAL USA:
""Father Knows Best" meets "Pink Flamingos" ... a post-punk soap opera about an Asian American family that single-handedly shatters the clean-cut, hard-working image of the model minority." - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 1994
SYNOPSIS: Holly (Jenny Woo), Marvin (writer/director Jon Moritsugu), and Katzumi (Moritsugu again) are average Asian-American teenage siblings with not-so-average predilections for backstabbing, kinky sex, and drug-fueled freakouts. Neglected by their parents, the kids turn to outside “help” (including the scene-stealing Amy Davis, Moritsugu’s wife and longtime collaborator) in order to escape their bored existence. Naturally, this leads to gore killings, sex tapes, and the most hilarious phone conversations ever captured on 16mm film. A candy-colored hellscape that feels like an episode of STRANGERS WITH CANDY that was filmed by Dario Argento during a three-day acid bender, Jon Moritsugu's TERMINAL USA is a crucial piece of 1990s alternative cinema—smart, shocking, and one of the most deranged films to ever be funded by American taxpayers. This is the film HEATHERS wished it could be. - AGFA
About Whammy!:
Whammy! is a Los Angeles VHS store and microcinema founded in February of 2022. Open daily, hidden behind 2514 Sunset Blvd with screenings and other events held multiple nights a week. https://www.whammyanalog.com/
About Hollywood Entertainment:
Hollywood Entertainment is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which seeks to entertain and educate filmgoers by screening and preserving eclectic, underseen, non-commercial, rare, and socially beneficial films and film-related artifacts and create fun, exciting, and thought-provoking events that push the boundaries of repertory cinema in Los Angeles and worldwide. https://www.hollywood-entertainment.com/
Event Venue
Gardena Cinema, 14948 Crenshaw Blvd,Gardena,CA,United States
